CORRECT ANSWER: When talking about automobiles, Left and right is your view while sitting in the drivers seat. Right hand side is the passenger side and the left hand side will be the drivers side. The answer to your qestion will be the passenger side of the engine will be the right side.
right below the heads
front left drivers side is correct.
the weight of my 427 Chevy big block. Which is the same as the 396, 454. This is a bare block we are speaking about. the total weight of a bare block Is right at 200 pounds.
When the center exhaust valves are side by side (siamese), it's a small block (EIIEEIIE). Big blocks are symmetrical (EIEIEIEI).
Pass., side front.
A small or big block Chevy have a casting number on the top of the block behind the driver side head. MorTec has Chevy casting numbers listed online.
The 400 Chevy is a small block engine. The 400 BIG BLOCK Chevy does not exist! 402 big block Chevy does. it seems in the early 70s Chevy put 402s in their pick ups and they had 400 badges. this opened the can of worms known as the non-existant big block 400.
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Small block Chevy v-8 engines usually have 2 freeze plugs per side but early 400 blocks have 3 per side. Later 400 engines had two per side. All big block Chevy v-8 engines have 3 per side. NEW ANSWER : He is right on all the above but I think the question was HOW MANY does it have. Most V-8 had 8 freeze plugs in the intire block.
1,8,4,3,6,5,7,2 all small block and big block firing patterns are 1,8,4,3,6,5,7,2 for Chevy