Pontiac OHC 6

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Anyone know much about the pontiac OHC 6's. I have heard bits about them but never found much on them. I heard they were some of the best performing 6's of their day, and maybe even today since there is not much interest in 6's in the USA since that time.
 
They were a high performance factory inline six. I believe the 4 barrel version was rated at 250 hp. Overhead cam, forged crank, factory header, around 10.5:1 compression from memory. Freind of mine had one in a 67 firebird with a 2 speed automatic. The thing would wind up like a banshee.

They had cam troubles if the break in proceedure wasn't followed very carefully. Available for a very few years, I'd supposed in the 60's horsepower wars with 427's, 440's, 396's and the like that no one got too excited about a souped up pip-sqeak. Too bad.
 
I know where a 4bbl one is sitting. Maybe! It was there 6 years ago!
 
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