2004 Last year for the 350 cu / 5.7L?

melbertbloosfan · December 9, 2004

Anyway, just struck me yesterday that no GM car/lt truck that I know of will have the venerable 5.7L / 350 cu pushrod V-8 under the hood.

Does anybody know how many consecutive years GM has had a product with this engine powering it (be it carbed or injected)? Just curious and I know some of you dudes will have a quick answer for this one.

Wingnut · December 9, 2004

What does the Vette have in it?

I was just assuming it still had the 5.7...But I may be off by about .3 or .4 liters.

MS3DALE · December 9, 2004

The new C6 Corvette along with the SSR and GTO for '05 Have the 6-liter LS2 Gen III V8

The SPEEDY · December 9, 2004

There hasn't been a 350 since 98 I believe. The 98 trucks were the last to have 350's. The ls1 that came out in 97 in the vette and was later put in f-bods and is now in the 04 GTO is a 346. So there won't be a 346 anymore.

Wingnut · December 9, 2004

Yup...I was off

MS3DALE · December 9, 2004

No, the 350's were in the old-body-style trucks up to 2000. And the C5 Corvettes were 350's up to this year. So Wingnut you were not off!

CMNTMXR81 · December 9, 2004

The current gen SBC V8 in 5.7L trim, I.E. the LS1, is 346 cubic inches.

I thought the old school 5.7's last production year was 2000 and was sold in commercial/fleet vehicles.

It couldn't meet ever stringent emissions and C.A.F.E. requirements so that's why it's been phased out.

5.7L has a few cubic inch range, so that's where the confusion comes in. But there is a nearly 4 C.I.D difference.

GM-Tech · December 9, 2004

Here's a good page with info on just about every engine GM ever built, going back to the early 1900's.

GM ENGINES

Larry · December 10, 2004

Actually, you’re all wrong…

The 350 5.7L small block that was introduced in 1969 (which was based in the 1954 265 small block architecture) was last used in a GM vehicle in the 2002 Chevrolet Express Van and GMC Savana. The engine architecture went through a few updates but still the same basic engine as the 1954 265.

Workhorse Custom Chassis (Step-Van strip chassis: such as Frito-Lay trucks, USPS trucks, etc) continued to produce chassis with the 350 through September 2003. The last chassis rolled of the assembly line with a 350 on September 24, 2003 and exported to a Saudi Arabian company with a Grumman-Olson body on it…along with 9 others built the same day.

To my knowledge the Romulus, MI plant where the US version of the 350 was made has been fully converted over to the Gen III. The Mexican, Australian and Brazilian plants have also been closed or converted as well. Somewhere, but not sure where, still builds brand new 350's but only for service parts....not production vehicles.

Wingnut · December 10, 2004

Actually, you’re all wrong…

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Yeah...But at least I admitted it.

MS3DALE · December 10, 2004

D@#m!,I forgot about the full-size vans offering the 350's. Guess thats because I keep up with the trucks and Corvettes and not vans.

Wingnut · December 10, 2004

Guess thats because I keep up with the trucks and Corvettes and not vans.

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Wow You can keep up with Corvettes? That's impressive!

Makes me want to go buy a Volant

CMNTMXR81 · December 10, 2004

The only thing I was wrong on was the last year they were sold. I know we sold them in fleet/commercial in 2000, but that's when I left so I didn't know if they still soldiered on into '01.

The previous generation SBC that Larry is talking about shares nothing with the current generation SBC other than the fact that it has 8 cylinders and indentical bore centerlines. Otherwise, it was a clean sheet design in the early to mid 90's that was introduced in 97 in the Vette then '98 in the F-Body's and '99 as a cast iron version in the trucks with varying displacement sizes.

The previous gen SBC was a genuine 5.7L, 350 cubic inch V8. The LS1/6 series motor is ALSO 5.7L but a smaller 5.7L. It displaces 346 cubic inches.

The range for 5.7 goes from 345 - 350 cubes roughly