Blame it on Buick

Cathedral Ports are tall and narrow like cathedral windows.

The port design is to increase low RPM velosity to enhance low-end torque, while maintaining large ports for high RPM HP.

Best pics I could find on short notice, but you can get the idea.

Buick 350 -- LS1 -- Chevy 350

 

This is exactaly why it was stupid of GM to brand the LS1ou:

All they did was alienate brand loyalists from the best engine they've made in decades:spank:

And brand loyalists are very important to auto companys because they are the ones that give their brand first shot at a new car buy.

So why would GM go out of their way to pi$$ them off?

Like I said, if your going to have only ''corporate'' drivetrains, why on earth would you ''brand'' your best engine:spank:


Especially if it has almost nothing in common with any engine that brand has ever built.

 

Using Components from other divisions began back in the beginning, and helped Gm grow.
A lot of the Canadian Models were actually just other division cars in different trim.

1908 The industry’s first example of using common components and engineering to create distinctive vehicle models. Durant’s answer to Oldsmobile’s woes was to incorporate Buick engine technology and stretch the Buick body to make it a completely different car in the customer’s eye, The Model 20 went into production in a matter of months and Oldsmobile was again profitable within a year.

 

There was a production V8 earlier than the Caddy's..

 

Not so sure that's really the case.

GM felt giving some style to Chevrolet by making it seem somewhat more prestigious was the way to go. This has been somewhat typical for cheap brands forever. It wasn't badge-engineering in the least.

(I also think the '41 Chevy looks more like a '40 Buick than anything else.)

From another previous comment comparing the '57 Chevy to the Roadmaster: I believe they were built on different platforms, with the Bow Tie on the A-platform and the Roadmaster on the C-platform. At the very least, it would have been more appropriate to use the Special as a comparison.

 

They are giving out goverment grants to develop this new device
http://www.derby.ac.uk/news/in-car-...-first-joint-research-grant-by-transport-inet

I seem to remember reading something about ON Star, alerting drivers about speed too -

I have the
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Not sure when it first came out
The 57 Buicks had the speedo buzzer called speed minder, everyone else did in 58, plus lights and other stuff.
1948 the Speed Minder Co in Chicago, had spring device speed minder that added resistance to the pedal at a set speed.
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anyone got a good date

 

Maybe you should mention the one-year revival of the Buick Limited for 1958? And wasn't that the year they stopped the portholes?

On another note, I believe the Apollo/Vetta Ventura had the Buick V-8, which may be worth mentioning.

 

Kind of like push button starters. Or headlights that follow the road.
All old ideas marketed to appear as new and revolutionary ideas.

Though incorporating today's technology, they are still old ideas.

 

Thanks. I KNEW the intake port design had something to do with the low-RPM torque.