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Originally Posted by rawhide
Greg,
Charles Kettering worked for GM during the 1940's and designed the Cadillac engine that was originally produced in 331 cubic inch size and used in the 1949 models which was the first overhead valve engine used by Cadillac. This series of engines were made in 365, 390 and 429 sizes in later years. It was replaced in 1968 by a new design of 472 and 500 inch engines. I have not worked on any of these but have seen them in machine shops and they did not look like the motor I had in my Studebaker Silver Hawk.
thanks, Roland
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My brother and I had a friend in high school who had a '60 Studebaker Lark VIII with a 259V8 and a 3 speed stick. He rebuilt it and got a NOS Avanti cam ,hogged out the flange on the intake and put a Holley 500 cfm 2 barrel on it,and hot rodded around with it. It was painted orange and had American mags on it, and actually was a fun car. We found a 390 Cadillac intake with an AFB on it, and with a very little work, it replaced the two barrel. All three of these engines had an open valley with a stamped valley cover, the distributor in the rear, and more similarities than differences.Wonder whatever he did with that car?