View Single Post
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 12-03-2007, 10:51 AM
CobraEd's Avatar
CobraEd CobraEd is offline
CC Member
Visit my Photo Gallery

 
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Northern VA, VA
Cobra Make, Engine: Classic Roadsters
Posts: 2,765
Not Ranked     
Default

A 409 is a completely different engine from the typical chevy smallblock and bigblock. It is called the "W" head engine because the heads/valvecovers form a "W". It is a bigblock but was made before the bigblock we now all know. This engine started out as a 348 ci engine in 1958, and was then upped to a 409. They stopped making them after 1963. The highest hp 409 was 425 hp with dual 4s and a solid lifter cam.
__________________
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WORRY ABOUT GOOD GAS MILEAGE
________
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
________
Reply With Quote