Setanta wrote on Oct 29
th, 2014 at 11:58pm:
Kat wrote on Oct 29
th, 2014 at 11:51pm:
Setanta wrote on Oct 29
th, 2014 at 8:05pm:
Kat, just sayin' that ain't a Holden 149 red motor sectioned in the OP. I hope the tech mechs didn't tell you it was. Have fun with motors!
It is. I just checked.
The capacity cast into the block is in cubic centimetres rather than cubic inches.
Means it's a later build than the 'original' 149 engines (probably mid-seventies
or newer), but the capacity is the same.
It's not a Holden motor, grey or red. Look at the ports on the head, reds had square siamesed ports until the black fuel injected, the fuel pump is on the wrong side, grey motor had one side plate to access lifters, red had two, that has three. No holden motors had the fuel pump on the same side as the manifolds. Holden motors before we went metric had the CI cast onto the block except the 179 steel crank HP block which had HP on the block. If it was a 149 it would have 149 cast on to block. It's not a 149 Holden but I'd like to know what it is.
In the early seventies they did not have 149's, they did build a 138(same ci as the second grey motor) only in Toranas as far as I know. The 149 died with the EH.
I was busily editing my post to encompass new info.
As you'll see if you go back and re-read it. It's a shame that posts aren't 'suspended' when being
edited, so people can't comment on a post that, in all likelihood, will be completely different (as
this one was).
I don't need a lecture on the history of early Holden engines, I'm well aware of it, and was initially
doubtful of the idea that it was Holden, it was certainly not an early one but I don't know the later
ones well. I commented based on what I was told. not my fault it was wrong info.
And yes, I'd be curious to know what it actually is. No point going back and asking them, if they
didn't know in the first place.
I'm leaning towards something GM-based, tho.