Thread: 1966 Impala wagon 396 with build sheet
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Old 10-30-2020, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RALLY View Post
This wagon uses the 396-325 HP engine with 4 bbl carb. The 396-265 HP engine with 2 BBL was used in the 69 Impala cars and police vehicles also that year. The 265 HP 2 bbl engine was a torque engine basically and could move a heavy vehicle like the Impala, trucks also.
----Funny part of the 2-barrel set-up was that the 2-barrel got worse mileage than the Quadrajet under normal driving. Quadrajet primaries being so much smaller than the two-barrel helped!......Bill S
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