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RickieBlue

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I wonder if anyone has experience with GM 292 straight 6 engines. I have a chance to pick up an older Chev 1 ton cab and chassis with 292 and 4 speed. I have had 250's before and they were a decent engine. I believe some combines used 250's and 292's..............just wondering your thoughts...Thanks.......Rick
 
Heck of a good motor. I had one in a 68 Chevy pickup and in a New Idea 701 Uni Harvester.
I'm thinking that was what was in Walt's Gleaner F combine too.
 
Old should chime in soon.
They are tough engines with lots of torque. They are a little thirsty if you work them hard.
Richard in NW SC
 
Pretty good engines for sure. A good friend of mine had a 1951 Chevy grain truck with a 292 and running it to the Anderson's in Maumee the Fords would sometimes pass it on the level but in the little hills it was all the Chevy's ballgame. Lot'sa torque.
 
I worked with a fellow that hauled tombstones with a single axle chev.-27000 gw. Had several 292's with 150 to 200 thousand miles and had no problems. Good power.
 
I drove one in a '62 C60 cattle truck. then I bought an 82 three quarter new from the show room. The engine was the only thing good. I think the later 292 was made in Mexico.
 
Had a Good Wrench 292 out of a Gleaner that I put into my 4400 combine. The 292 was made in Mexico. Had ports in the manifold for emissions air.
 
I have one sitting behind me in this room right now. They made a good strong pulling engine and got for what they where pretty good MPG. The one I have here is being built as a hot rod type engine to go into a 1951 Chev pick up. I have had a lot of stuff done to it to make it bark when it is all done
 
Now why should I chime in??? Is it because I have one sitting right here behind me that I am building for my sons hot rod truck. Bored 60 over performance cam as in 204/208 Head has been milled a bit, and all that type of stuff. When all said and done the boy will have over $3000 just in the engine but he will also have an old school power house for and engine
 
We had some serious hours on our old Gleaner F with a 292. 10 years of hard duty with minimal maintenance and it still fired up the day it was sold - even though the rest of the combine was on its last legs.

Seems comparible to the Ford 300 I6 for durability if not torque.
 
Where do you think the Corvette would be if they had stayed with the infamous "Blue Flame Six"
Why were 99 % of the 50's hotrods Fords?When and why did Chevrolet become THE perfromance car of the 50's? 1955 Chev small block V8. How many makes models made in last 40 years with an i6? Maybe 1 %. Not talking diesels.
 
Old. Knew I could count on you. The Chevy straight 6 engines are some of the toughest engines ever made. Two local fertilizer companies used to pick up at the same place in Augusta, GA. The one with the 6 Chevy with the same load would always leave the Ford V8 way behind. I drove the Chevy one time and could not believe the pulling power.
Richard
 
As I recall, a friend of mine once had a Massey Ferguson combine with a Chevy 292 engine in it. (From the factory, not a transplant).
 
Very true on the SBC but some people dont want to do it the easy way..They want to be different..
 
Had a Chevy low cab forward, "80" series with a 20 ft grain box, a 5 and a 2 with a 292. It was a real working truck , would pull out of a soft field , fully loaded. Roll down the Interstate at 65 with a load of grain. clint
 
Had a '69 K20 Chevy with Dana 70's front and back, several broken teeth on one of the gears in the transfer case filled with STP, and a dual disc clutch that would launch your knee into your jawbone when you tried to ease the peddle out. Factory dual disk clutch. It was powered by a 292. 1st gear, GRANNY would top out at about 10 MPH, and it could climb a tree. A 292 geared right will climb a tree. Won't win any drag races, but don't try to drag race one. They were created for one purpose and one purpose only, slow moving like snails, but geared to tow houses down the road, when they weren't climbing trees in K20s.

Incidentally, I saw one this past Saturday that just about made me do a U-turn to go after it. A '69 or '70 K30 dually. That, was a truck and I'm certain that I will see it out and about again.

Mark
 
Thanks everyone...it sounds as good or better than the 250's I have had.........I am gonna pursue getting this truck....
 
RickieBlue,I have had a bunch of 250 GMs a 292 in all tenses is a Stroked and Boarded 250! Head is Identical to a 250 Just as tuff as can be! basically.... Bullet Proof! Those of Massey Combines had 292 I6 or 327 V8 GMs
Most 292 had 4:10 behind them in the 1/2 or 3/4 pickups but a high speed gears behind it and it will do tons of stuff like in the Video below!
Get that truck gathered up!
Later,
John A.
 
I have several, one in a combine, one in a pickup.

They are a strong reliable old motor. They have a tall deck block, so they can run a much stronger barrel skirt piston, compared to the weaker slipper skirt piston of the 230-250.
They are a bit more than a 4 inch stroke, so are a high torque engine.
 
My dad had a lot of 2 1/2 ton range trucks, which he regularly overloaded to 50,000 and all were in the 1948 to 1958 vintage. He worked in the Ford plant building war time machines and was always a die hard Ford man..........until he got pizzed at cracked block between valves flatheads. Got his first Chevy & never turned back. Several of the old 292's and they were pullers! He kept the old Fords, but transplanted IH Black diamonds & GM engines in all of them eventually.. Family did eventually venture back to a few Fords with his youngest grandson....a 460 warmed over with a little nitros & wedged into a F150........it kicked several Ferraries in the quarter..... talk about a 'sleeper' at the street races!!! Nobody puts their money on a plain jane Ford 150 with a camper shell on it up against a gleaming red Ferrari...........but they should have!
 
I could/can tell you stories of the old Nascar car 1/4 mile track thing form the 60s and how many of the old V-8 guy came crying to the nascar officials and how the straight 6 engines where eating the v-8 guys alive and how the V-8 guys said hey this has to stop so the end of the straight 6 was said and done in the 60s. The old 6 could and would flat out leave any V-8 on the line and have them begging but due to that Nascar said hey from now on we have 2 classes since the 6 was so much faster off the line the n the V-8 so we no loner here of building a 6 but I do remember and I am building one old school
 
Best you go back to school fool . Nascar changed the rules as for V-8s and straight 6s due to the fact the 6s where eating the V-8s alive and spitting them out. Back in the 60s the 6 cylinders where leaving the V-8 in the dust but that was when Nascar changed the rules so the 6 and V-8s ran in 2 different classes. Sorry btdt and KNOW 1000% how it was. One of the very few I will answer to you
 
Could not go there but yes few understand what could be dine to a straight 6 that would make a V-8 look like a peddle car. But few also know what Nascar did as for 6 and V-8s in the 60 and that is what hurt the 6 cylinders big time. I am still looking for an extended intake for a 292 6 for my sons engine I am building
 
I had a "73 Chevy C20 with a 292 and Hydromatic with 4.10 rear. It would blow the doors off V8 pickups.

A little older but similar displacement engine was the GMC 270, that was a pulling SOB.
 
Sir you are talking apples and oranges. A Jimmy 292 is not made for what a 265 Chev V8 was made for back in 1955. Like the man said, it had a 4" stroke whereas the 265 ran 2". Former made for lugging and tugging, latter for hot rod rap em up tight and quick hot rods.

Mark
 
Ever hear a 292 with a split exhaust manifold and Smitty brand
glass pack mufflers rack out in second gear?

Was a guy at high school that built a mil and had one and every
time he pulled in the parking lot he would give it a little show
and get plenty of attention.

Realizing it wasn't a dragster and couldn't compete with some
shorter strokes like Fords at the time, it still had a very unique
sound.

Mark
 
The 292 is a great engine. My grandpa use to own a service station with a fuel and oil delivery business.

All his trucks were 292s. I was young then, but I guess those tanks were probably 1500-2000 gallons. Those trucks got along fine, not speed demons for sure.

You can hop up a 292 to get a little more HP and torque without breaking the bank and have a nice driver. Or, as the video in this thread shows, you can also spend $30K and go real fast with one.

I have been wanting to put a 292 in my Model A with a 6-71 supercharger on it, but that might be a project after I get my kids through college.

Rick
 
John,You have to realize Old was all of 10 Yrs.old or less at that time.The washtub Hudsons were the only 6Cyls.(about the time or before Old was born)that even did any good back then and they went out of business.
 
the 292s are a good motor for torque and will live a long time but they arent a speed demon.I dont believe for a second that they were run inthe 60s in NASCAR as they wouldnt stand a chance against the big blocks of the era.
 
I still have one of those, and know that dual exhaust sound well.
I have an 80 GMC K35 crewcab with a warmed up 292.
It's bored 60 OS, has a ported and polished head with oversize valves, a cliffords aluminum 4 bbl intake and dual fuel gas / lp setup and headers with dual glasspacks.

These mods make a pullin fool out of an old 292.
As much power as a decent stock 350 and way more lugging power.
 
John and Brian, I also remember when the sixes were beating the V-8s on dirt tracks all over the northeast in the 60s. what i saw was the ohv sixes running the ford flathead V-8s. the only flathead that could run with the sixs was hilborn injected, nascar runs the dirt tracks to. Chuck
 
I have to agree id take a larger cubic inch inline six over a flathead v8 anyday, but not over the 427 fords that they were running in 62.
 
Ive never denied 6s were being used. I was questioning the way old told the story, since as mentioned, he was only like 10, and Im sure the whole world of Nascar revolved(s) around what old says.
 
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