Hot Rods Can anyone identify this Chevy motor?

I'm guessing it is a 348-inch motor, but more than that I have no idea. Were the triple carbs a GM option, or did the English oval modified builder set up the intake? Photo taken in 1964. I may have posted this in the past, but cannot trace it in HAMB.

It was used in short-oval racing, where a few brave souls used to plug the water stubs and run short races with what was in the block. Or maybe it was being worked on.

 

Holy crap!
That's a "W" engine. Most likely 348 because we can't see a dipstick.
Yes they came with 3x2 carb set up
Awesome motor mounts and steering

 

Probably 348 as three ducks was only available on 348. Also which side the dipstick is on, don't remember which side was 348 and 409. Someone will know.

 

Motor mounts? Hell, they made that thing a stressed-member in the frame!

 

Here's why they liked solid motor mounts --- two such modifieds, 30 years apart. Full-contact racing!

 

Mega HP bumper cars.
I should get one for my niece

 

Don't forget the awesome exhaust!

 

409 has dip stick on passenger side, 348 drivers side.

 

Flexible for full contact racing

 

Motor mounts nuthin' check out that crazy steering linkage from the firewall to the box!
KK

 

.......All designed for many miles of carefree driving.

 

That's true but It's not the engines - it is the oil pans.
And the oil pans swap.
OEM factory 409 oil pan has dipstick on the passenger side.
OEM factory 348 oil pan has the dipstick on the drivers side.

Swap the drivers side pan onto your 409 and race a different class- hustle your buddies with 60 extra cubes.
Swap the passenger side pan onto your 348 and bullshit your buddies or sell it for big money to the dipstick hunter.

 

Proving flex exhaust tubing is traditional.

 

I think some of the trucks used the opposite-side dipstick thing too so that's not always a tell between the 348 and 409.

Motor mounts like a truss bridge, steering linkage like a rummage-sale Erector set. The fuel log looks like my grampa would have built it using only the stuff he kept in the coffee can on his workbench. (My dad still has that can, and we still use it too!)

 

That'll make your willie wobble!

 

But the parts are interchangeable because they are the same motor with the same displacement so it's impossible to tell.

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Check out the whacky steering linkage.

 

I had a 58 Chevy Impala with the 3 deuces on a 348, so I'm pretty sure it's a 348.

 

Nothing weird about the joints in the steering linkage! Boyd Coddington O.K.'d 'U' joints in steering masts long ago, and the Goodguise now require them.

 

Plenty of the 348 tri power setups made it onto the larger 409 engines. When this stuff was plentiful, folks weren't so concerned about ports matching on the ''bigger'' heads.

 

Just was Looking at the angles.

 

Here in the US we have a mininum weight in the UK they have a rule on the maximum weight. Full contact and they race in the rain. Well I guess because it rains all the time. Now most every one has a big block chevy for a power plant.

 

A couple more photos; these guys are not Goodwood / Pebble Beach gentlemen; their motto is
GO HARD OR GO HOME!

 

The 3 deuce intakes will bolt right to the small port 409 and the ports match. Gary

 

Not exactly the Race of Gentlemen