1955 Chevy V8 Engine. Motor Transmission Mount Kit for Bel Air 55-57 235 265 Engine - Automatic Fits. Main Caps is the number of bolts holding the capA two-bolt main or a four-bolt main.
1955 Chevrolet 265 V8 - TRUE - ENGINE blockcrankrods pistons all together Crank and pistons in block. In 1955 Chevrolet decided to fit its new car with an overhead valve V8 engine design which was similar to the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 V8 engine which was an earlier GM success. The first group of.
Initially the trucks were much the same as in 54 but at mid-year the company introduced a new generation featuring updated lines with a scalloped hood wraparound windshield hooded headlights and other changes.
Chevys new 265-cubic-inch overhead valve V8 was designed to be smaller lighter and more powerful than previous V8s in the auto industry and would come to be. The Chevy 283 V8 was introduced in 1957 and used up through 1961. The little engine that could was heralded with the usual corporate fanfare but few expected it to be the unmitigated success it became. GM developed the engine by increasing the bore of the Chevy 265 V8 which was first produced in 1955.
