350 swap

[amdrules770]

How much do you think I should pay for a TBI 88-95 chevy 350 v8? I want to swap out my 4.3l V6 and put in a 5.7l V8 so my truck might have some sort of acceleration above 50.

Also, I'm strippiing every pound from my truck, LOL.

Tailgate = 50 pounds
Exhaust to behind rear wheel = 25 pounds.

An other ideas of things that weigh a lot but aren't needed.
Thinking spare tire is a big one, and taking that out makes it 10000000 times easier to run a dual exhaust to under the bumper.

My truck is such a POS, I need to take some more recent pictures of it with my sexy blue MSD plug wires.

[WesM63]

Hey M8,
How much of the motor are you looking for will change cost drastically. If your looking for a complete TBI (Bad, get TPI) engine your gonna pay Close to a $1,000 including wireing harness etc, if needed.

I would suggest peiceing together an engine. Grab a 350 Block, then get a set of rods, pistons, crank, cam, heads. Find a decent intaked and then the TBI unit it's self. I'm sure the Wireing harness can be found pretty cheap.

Either that or just pick up a shortblock and throw Holly's TBI unit on there.

Anyway I think your looking at $600-$1000 for a running or non running motor.

Godd Luck thou ;)

[Synthohol]

plus the added cost of new suspension, possibly steering parts and different brakes.
too much $$ imho.
keep in mind the GrandNational's engine is only a 6cyl 4.3!
perhaps that route would be better?

[amdrules770]

WES: Well, since all my gauges and everything are run by the TBI's ecm, I kinda want to stick with TBI. I should probably just get a block and heads, since I was planning on doing a performance rebuild including new pistons and rods before I put the engine in my truck. I was also planning on geting a new intake anyways since the heads I am going to use require a different intake. So all I'll really need to get (EFI/electrical whise) is a new throttle body and injectors since all the sensors should be reusable.

Synth: The actual engine swap itself should be a piece of cake since the 4.3l and 5.7 are pretty much the same engine, just the 350 is like 5" longer, and weighs a little more. I shouldn't have any steering problems, and if the front sags, guess I won't need to worry about lowering the front. Also, no problems with depth since I right now have about 15" between my radiator and the water pump.

BTW: the grand national was a turbo 3.8l (which is a V6 ver. of the 305), the syclone and typhoon were turbo 4.3l (which is a V6 ver. of the 350). I thought about turboing my 6, but find it more practical to do the almost bolt in swap to a 350. (remember, a 350 was a factory option in my truck, so it has all the holes and mounts for it).

[Synthohol]

cool! My whoops on the GN sorry:)
you have torsion bars or front coils? new coils are only about 60.00.
just check steering box clearance ya never know :)

[amdrules770]

NP on the GN thing man. I should double check though that I have enough slack in all the wiring and fuel lines since 350 is a littler longer. And also check the power steering lines :D

[amdrules770]

what I mean about not having to lower the front, is eventually I plan on lowering the back a bit and putting on 20s.

[WesM63]

Sounds good M8. Hope it works well.

I wonder how a syclone motor (4.3L turbo) in a full sized truck would do? My bosses syclone runs high to mid 12's, while he's slowing down ;)

[zugdud]

Put this in your truck, you would be the man.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33615&item=2431878483

With the compression ratio and forged internals its just begging for some sort of forced induction!

[amdrules770]

Ooooooooh, wish I had the money to put that in and put a big azz blower on it. Would haul some major *** in my truck.

But my parents say I can't put in a V8, so I'm either going to put in a Syclone engine/rebuild my 6 and turbo it, or one weekend swap in a v8 at someone elses house.