just bought a 153 4 cy chevy ll motor complete from carb to pan with dist and plug wires at a estate sale for 250 . just wanting to know if was it a good deal or not, i do not have anything to put it in. so it needs a new home or a i need a truck project
How did the Iron Duke get in here, the thread is about the 153 cubic inch Chevy II engine. They are very different. Charlie Stephens
If you have no use for it, then it was not a very good deal....now you have to figure out what to do with it. I saw one in a Volvo 122 years ago....looked like a nice swap..
OG poster and Charlie Stevens are right. Iron duke is a metric sort of version at 151 inches. Looks similar but that is where it ends. The Chevy II engine is a cubic inches engine...no one ever refers to it as a liter anything.
heh...I thought about how someone would misinterpret that because the words were in the wrong order. But only someone who doesn't expect the number 122 after the word Volvo.
Oh, I got it.........I am familiar with the Volvo lineup from way back.......just thought it was humorous, certainly no offense or disrespect intended. Ray
283 bore, 327 stroke and half the pistons! Good for about 140 hp there are some goodies out there but most of what you find is old dirt track stuff from the early 60's. Same bellhousing bolt pattern as a sbc minus the top center so any trans adapters or trans for a sbc should work just fine. Will live fine at higher revs than an older 4 and some that came industrial applications had up to 10:1 compression stock. I've got one in my model A and it looks like it grew there. So far I'm a fan
That would be an 8 port head.....First ones would be Ansens others followed. An Arias/Fontana would be nice but since it's not a cross flow not quite as pretty.
How about a 183 cu in chev marine engine. This one makes 321 horse power would make any street rod fly.
My AVATAR has one of these engines. The be exact mine is the 181 cubic inch version. They have the same bolt pattern in the rear of the engine as the SBC V8 so it was an easy swap in terms of transmission adapters to an early Ford transmission. Charlie Stephens
The Just got my head back. Lump ported on L stock on R. Thinking about doing a Fronty valve cover like the photo if it will clear the roller rockers
I had a .060" over 153 in my '26 track roadster pickup, 10:1 forged pistons , a pretty big cam that Sig Edson did for me a long time ago. Ran a pair of DCOE 40 sidedrafts on it. It ran strong and pulled 2200 pounds effortlessly. Drive ability with the Webern was a continuing bugaboo....it had a stumble I never got tuned out. I ended up putting an aluminum small 4 barrel intake with a 500 Holley 2 barrel on it and gave up a little horsepower but it was much sweeter throughout the rev range. Some days I wish I still had it.
How did you handle the bolt that goes through the intake port? Is it recessed in the bottom of the port? Charlie Stephens
When I was in HS many moons ago there was a kid that spent way too many 1968 $ building the 153 in his Chevy ll. He coulda and shoulda put a sbc in it way cheaper. We always razed him that if he took it to the drag races they would have to time it with a sun dial He got the last laugh at us though, his next ride was a Yenco Nova!!
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