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Yeah, stock a 350 sucks but I know that it has a lot of potential. So when ever I can finance bringing my beast back from the dead you all can expect tons of questions on what to do to make a 350 breath fire. :smile:Quote:
Originally posted by dennis6@Nov 24 2003, 02:33 AM
A regular 350 can easily outpower a LS1 with just heads, cam, and rockers if you know what you are doing.
Cheapest way to make a 350 breathe fire is... SDPC2000.com modified vortec heads, 1.6 roller rockers, comp XE 268-274 cam, and a decent induction system. You are looking at over 400 hp.
For a more fuel injection friendly engine making more power. Pro Lightning heads from shaver racing (about $700 for an assembled pair) LT4 hot cam, and 1.6 roller rockers. This enigne will eat LS1's for lunch.
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LOL, damn near couldn't even find my own thread... Thank god for the search function!!! Anyways, not like you guys care at all, but the woman found a sorta decent job, so I got a little free change again. And I just took some of that and added it to my tax returns to make my first cash installment on my babies resurection! When the guy doing the work gets enough cash he is going to start work on it. So who knows, my overgrown paperweight might just be rolling under its own power sometime before 2005! :laugh:
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Yea just to add the 350 produces peak torque at like 2xxx rpm where the newer ls1 based engines get peak torque at 4xxx... the 350 is better for offroading plus being cheaper. there was some guy on zr2.com who put a 350 in his 97 zr2... i forget his name... might want to pm him.
That RPM thing can be a two edged sword. Yeah it can be damn nice to have balls down low for crawl'n. But having too much power down low will eat your drivetrain alive off-road.
As for the guy on the site. There was a guy that put a 305 in but I don't trust him. There is also a guy WITH a 350 in his but he didn't put it in. He bought it that way.
Either way it shouldn't be that hard. Some custom motor mounts, custom headers, slightly tweaked wiring, and a beefed up cooling system. :burnout:
If you have to go emissions legal, LT1 is out of the question since the LT1 went out in 1998 with the release of the LS1 in the f-body platform(LS1 was introduced into the y-body corvettes in 1997). Next choice would be do you go 4.8, 5.3, 6.0 or balls to the wall and get the 8.1 with all the down low power a person could ever want. Buying the truck platform drive train will make it easy to get all the accessories to match up with your 2000 model truck. Sounds like fun in the works to me! Hopefully your drive train will hold up to the extra torque.
We are talking Vortec 350, not LT1 350, so I will be able to get one that is new enough to pass emissions. As for the drivetrain... ahhh hell no it ain't going to survive. It is a close call on which will go first. My 4L60E has been beefed up so it might handle it. But the front diff is probably going to split wide open... that is if the eaton in the rear doesn't explode. Not that I care, cuz when that happens I get to upgrade to bigger parts!! :jump:
They made the vortec from 96-00 I think half the 2000 year. Anyways check with your local DMV, I think some states dont care while others are anal about it! I would check into it before I bought anything.