Inliners International Forums General Discussion Vortec 4200 New Forum dedicated to the Vortec/Atlas 4200

Welcome to the new Vortec 4200 Forum on the Inliners International club site.

For those visiting from the now decommissioned vortec4200.com site – we welcome you to gather here in order to keep the discussions and ideas flowing. For veteran inliners.org users who would like to have discussion threads moved here – just bump them with a new posting “please move to Vortec 4200” and one of the moderators will gladly relocate it . . .

For those who are thinking that the vortec4200.com content is gone for good . . . well I have good news and bad news.

First the good news. The world wide web has a pesky habit of caching things – especially when it comes to speeding up things like searching and cataloging.

The next time you are on google try these search criteria “site:vortec4200.com Atlas injectors” Look closely at the search results – in particular the URLs in green. If there is a down arrow to the right of the green URL then google has a cached a version of some of the content . . . click the down arrow and choose ‘Cached’

Now the bad news. Google doesn’t cache everything – and dynamic pages like ‘php’ built forum discussion pages are rarely cached though readily cataloged by google.

Which brings us to a more obscure treasure trove of cached content – The The Wayback Machine. This is a hoarder’s paradise . . .

The site is organized by crawl date – i.e. the date when the wayback bots crawled and cached the content.

I was able to snag the image of a turbo-charged Atlas engine from the vortec4200.com home page. It was cached in March of this year. I used it to create the new Forum’s avatar image.

Most static content from the old site will be found in the wayback archives – indexed by the date when it was cached – like this PDF about the “Lost Foam Casting Process” from July of ’17: https://web.archive.org/web/20170722135413/http://vortec4200.com:80/index_htm_files/vortec4200.pdf. Feed that URL to the wayback and it will return the pdf file :-)

Be aware that the wayback site is very resource constrained – with frequent Server 803 errors when overloaded. Be patient. When you get an 803 error just hit the browser ‘Back Button’ and try the link of interest again.

Even with the resource constraints - the wayback machine is much more user friendly then the google cache. Wayback tries to recreate the site as closely as possible - using the most recently cached pages.

Unfortunately, the actual discussion threads are not cached on the wayback - only forum listings of topics active on a particular day :-(

Regards,
stock49

stock49-

Thanks so much for your efforts.

Will

Thanks guys - I'll spread the word - inliners in open to atlas (GM's name for the inline 4/5/6 vortecs's) engines.

This is great! Thanks so much for getting the 4200 conversation off and running!

Hopfully see some good action here!

Thanks very much stock 49.
As a member who has a Vortec 4200 in my '52 Chev, I am very happy to come back to Inliners for for some good discussion on 4200's
Al

Perhaps you've started a trend. Last December's Hemmings Motor News featured a '50 with a 4200 transplant. It's a sweet ride . . .

the engine fits nicely.

Any chance someone with experience is willing to do a little walk through as to what it takes to get one of those motors into a vintage car or truck?

Some Atlas data on my page here: http://victorylibrary.com/mopar/m-table-c.htm#Atlas

Just a heads up on some weekend housekeeping. I did some searches through various Forums to identify Topics that were entirely 4200 focused - roughly ~40 Topics ~600 Posts. All have been relocated here.

regards,
stock49

One guy pulling this website out of the weeds one weekend at a time.

Thanks!!!

This is great, got plans to put one in my 46 chevy coupe!