I got a call from the dealer....

Out of the blue, a salesdroidette called from the local Jeep
dealership asking if I would want to buy a new Jeep soon. I told her
that when DCX made a vehicle with a Chevy engine and a nine inch Ford
rear end, give me a call.

As Nancy and Lee said, "How does that grab you, darlin'?"

 

Interesting, especially since neither has been in production for
quite a long time.

 

That isn't exactly true. The Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana full sized vans
had a Chevy small block 350 available through 2003, (vortec 5700 L3)
and GM still produces Chevy 350's for the aftermarket in the Toluca
Mexico plant. This engine is also used in non-automotive applications,
Generac uses it in some of their natural gas fired generators for example.

Ted

 

and merc gets them for inboards outboards from gm

 

That isn't exactly true. The Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana full sized vans
had a Chevy small block 350 available through 2003, (vortec 5700 L3)
and GM still produces Chevy 350's for the aftermarket in the Toluca
Mexico plant. This engine is also used in non-automotive applications,
Generac uses it in some of their natural gas fired generators for example.[/QUOTE]

That engine and its predecessors ceased being a "Chevy" engine
when GM decided to slap a 'Olds Rocket' label on it back in
1977...

There are no "Chevy" engines anymore, there are no "Pontiac"
engines anymore, here are no "Oldsmobile" engines anymore, just
GM corporate engines.

 

example.

That engine and its predecessors ceased being a "Chevy" engine
when GM decided to slap a 'Olds Rocket' label on it back in
1977...

There are no "Chevy" engines anymore, there are no "Pontiac"
engines anymore, here are no "Oldsmobile" engines anymore, just
GM corporate engines.[/QUOTE]

No, not true - GM got sued because of trying to do this. And lost. Paid a
lot of
money for it too. Millios of dollars in fact. The courts agreed that there
was indeed
such a thing as a "chevy engine" and an "old engine" and the two were
separate engines,
not "GM corporate engines"

And later on in the 80's they had the "buick 3.8L" and the "chevy 3.8L"
engine.
Distributors on opposite sides of the engine. And a lot of other
differences too.

Ted

 

But I think that was only true at that time because they were
advertising the heck out of the "Olds Rocket V-8" as something
special/different. Now, however many years later, I don't think they
advertise a distinction, so might they not interchange them - and might
there now only be one version of a given engine used across divisions?

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

But I think that was only true at that time because they were
advertising the heck out of the "Olds Rocket V-8" as something
special/different. Now, however many years later, I don't think they
advertise a distinction, so might they not interchange them - and might
there now only be one version of a given engine used across divisions?[/QUOTE]

Exactly!

 

The question is more does GM have different gasoline engine designs of the
same displacement?

 

Well, thats a given, surely, since almost every GM V6, for instance,
is made at the Vauxhall Engline plant in EllesMere Port, north west
England.