stol wrote:
1- There is ALOT more aftermarket speed parts available for the Chevy
then the Buick, unless your name is Menard. G
2- The Chevy is a more compact package then the Buick, fits in more
cowlings...
3- BeltedAir makes a nice redrive for the Chevy, I don't know if
anyone has one for a Buick V-6.
4- If you built up a Buick for a plane it would really be your "fathers
buick". G


I haven't followed the market recently but there used to be a LOT of
V6 Buick stuff. Smokey Yunick was the big V6 Buick guy.

The Buick is shorter, is it any wider?

The old "father's Buick" was a reliable old beast and I have many fond
memories of the old ones. I never owned one but I did have a Chevy
pickup with a 455 Buick engine. I got it cheap because "it never ran
right". The fuel filters were plugged, and I finally figured out the
tank had some weird growths and it had plugged everything up. My fix? I
converted the truck to propane. That was in the late eighties. It's
still running and still on propane but the next owner pulled the Buick
when it needed a valve job and put in a talldeck 427 Chevy truck engine.