Chevy High Performance – October 2019

64 CHEVY HIGH PERFORMANCE II OCTOBER 2019

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Chevrolet Performance offers high-revving small-block

engine options to get you back on the road in a weekend

✜ TEXT: Jim Smart | PHOTOS: Nick Licata AND Jim Smart

In those days, we drove to the

salvage yard with a toolbox, found a

cast-iron hopeful tucked between the

fenders of a smashed-up Chevelle,

and hauled it home in hopes it

was void of unpleasant noises and

excessive oil consumption. Few things

were more deflating than a weekend

spent installing a junkyard engine only

to discover it was worse than what

you pulled out.

Today, we live in an age where it

has never been easier to get right

back into power with a warranty

thanks to the SP350/385 Turn-Key

small-block 350ci V-8 package from

Chevrolet Performance.

As incredible as it may seem,

the legendary small-block Chevy

has been in continuous production

for more than 62 years, the longest

engine production run in American

automotive history. Why? Because

we love the Gen I small-block Chevy

V-8 in all its many forms and are

still willing to buy new ones from

anyone willing to manufacture them.

Chevrolet Performance continues to

offer the small-block Chevy because

these engines are as viable as they

ever were and still engineered to

make a lot of power for the money.

The SP350/385 Turn-Key crate

engine employs new fast-burn

aluminum cylinder heads equipped

with LS-style beehive valvesprings

for greater high-rpm performance.

The lightweight aluminum cylinder

head casting is based on the

proven Fast Burn chamber design,

with large intake runners and

2.000/1.550-inch valves.

These fast-burn heads allow the

SP350/385 to rev higher to make

I

f you’ve been into Chevrolet performance for any time at all and sport graying
temples you understand the way it used to be. We once lived in an era
without options. You just couldn’t go out and buy a precision-built crate engine
for your Chevelle, Camaro, or Nova. You had engine failure or the darned thing
was just plum worn out. There was the need for a quick solution and there
wasn’t one to be found anywhere short of a gambling journey to the local
salvage yard or a rebuilt engine from Pep Boys or a nearby Sears Automotive
Store back in the day (yes, you used to be able to buy engines from Sears).

WRENCH