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After I finish the engine project I currently have, that is replacing the bad engine in our 2000 Sienna and getting it back on the road, my wife will love me forever when I do that, I have wanted to do an engine build just for kicks and giggles. I don't have any idea what I will do with the engine but I just enjoy building engines. I have been thinking about building a 383 stroker, you know take a 350 block, install a 400 crank and go from there. After reading more on this site and other sites about the 60 deg. v6 I think I might want to do one of those instead of the v8. I am inclined to stick to a pushrod engine for simplicities sake. I am old school too and prefer pushrod motors anyway.
I am thinking a 3.4L Camaro engine would be my choice, I could always drop it in my 88 GMC S15 4WD pick-up or ...........who knows. Being old school I am thinking about converting it to be a carbureted engine. I would also like to simplify the ignition and try to eliminate any need for any ECM.
I would also try to make it have that sweet V8 sound, not just at an idle but all the way through the RPM range. Back in the day it was the thing to do if you wanted your inline 6 to sound like a V8 to pull off the exhaust manifold and cut it in half, weld up both ends at the cut then weld a second header on the half that didn't have the stock one and run dual exhaust. We called that a "split manifold" and they did sound great, that is until you hit the throttle then everyone knew it was really an inline 6 under your hood.
My idea is to design an exhaust so that one side is four cylinders and the other will have just two, that way a person might get the proper resonation from the exhaust to get that sweet V8 sound. I don't remember ever seeing it done that way before, even on an inline 6 with a split manifold. I guess nobody ever came up with the idea or perhaps someone did and it just does not work. I just might have to try it to see. Has anyone ever seen it done that way?
I am thinking a 3.4L Camaro engine would be my choice, I could always drop it in my 88 GMC S15 4WD pick-up or ...........who knows. Being old school I am thinking about converting it to be a carbureted engine. I would also like to simplify the ignition and try to eliminate any need for any ECM.
I would also try to make it have that sweet V8 sound, not just at an idle but all the way through the RPM range. Back in the day it was the thing to do if you wanted your inline 6 to sound like a V8 to pull off the exhaust manifold and cut it in half, weld up both ends at the cut then weld a second header on the half that didn't have the stock one and run dual exhaust. We called that a "split manifold" and they did sound great, that is until you hit the throttle then everyone knew it was really an inline 6 under your hood.
My idea is to design an exhaust so that one side is four cylinders and the other will have just two, that way a person might get the proper resonation from the exhaust to get that sweet V8 sound. I don't remember ever seeing it done that way before, even on an inline 6 with a split manifold. I guess nobody ever came up with the idea or perhaps someone did and it just does not work. I just might have to try it to see. Has anyone ever seen it done that way?
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