The Oldsmobile 455 V8 made its way to the public a couple of years before the Pontiac 455. Nicknamed the Rocket 455, this engine was the next step in Oldsmobile's big block line of V8s, a ...

Muscle cars are as American as baseball and apple pie. Over the last 60 years several Asian and European automakers have ...

The engine in question was Pontiac's largest displacement V8, the 455-ci (7.5-liter), which debuted a year earlier in standard and HO (High Output) forms.

This was still a very serviceable muscle car engine. The 455 HO Pontiac V8 from 1971 was listed from the factory jetting a (probably underrated) 335 gross horsepower and 480 lb-ft (651 N⋅m) of ...

Pontiac V8 Engines - Photographing Legends. ... It was with the 287ci engine that the dreams of many HPP readers were founded, as the basic design grew to 455 ci by '70, ...

The Buick 455 V8 still holds significant status in the history books of American muscle. ... Oldsmobile was first with its Rocket 455 engine, and Pontiac and Buick both followed suit in 1970.

The Olds and Pontiac V8 engines are completely different designs. ... On a 455 or other big-block Olds, there would also be deck-height differences to contend with. See All 3 Photos.

Big Chief’s Pontiac GTO during one of the Fast N’ Loud vs. Street Outlaws Mega ... They will be driving a Pontiac 1976 Firebird Trans Am with a 455 Pontiac V8 engine and BorgWarner ...

CI big-block V8s in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one each from Oldsmobile and Pontiac. But how did these two engines ...