GM 270 ci Engines

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

Chevrolet elected for the G.M.C. 270 engine made in Pontiac, Michigan, with the Chevrolet Gray* Iron foundry in Saginaw, Michigan, casting the cylinder blocks and probably the heads: Pontiac was busy with the demand for GMC trucks and also the Canadian contracts, and so Flint Motor Plant co-produced the engines with Pontiac and each plant machined blocks that were delivered to them with minor differences. The two 270 units, Right and Left, produced 97 b.h.p. at 3,000 r.p.m., but with 24 volt ignition and not 6-volt and with fluid couplings to a common transfer case [model 3670164] which, with the axles [front Chevrolet 3670077 with Bendix-Weiss drive ends and rear Chevrolet 3670075], were made by Chevrolet, with steering gear [Saginaw 580-DH-3] made by the Saginaw Steering Gear Division Plant in Saginaw, Michigan, though transmissions were built by the Detroit Transmission Division in Livonia, Michigan. The Handbrakes were mechanical, actuating on the transmission, and the chassis was equipped with 14.00 x 20-inch tyres all round.

Whether Pontiac, MI and Flint Motor Plant, MI produced handed engines I have no idea though it strikes me as being very unlikely.

*I am sure it is in fact spelt G-R-A-Y and not G-R-E-Y...how do you Canadian friends spell the colour?