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i don't know about unique.. but turned my old stereo delete pocket into a gauge housing for my air gauges and tach
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I went through chopping out the heat riser flap too, then later discovered that there are some OEM units without it. I pulled this one off a '95 C2500 extended cab longbed work truck, 5.7/4L80E, no heat riser - slimy grimy in this pic, hadn't cleaned it up to install yet:I picked up a Hypertech Power Charger to complement the Ultimate TBI mods I did.
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Complete 88-94 to 95-98 interior swap has been done on my 90. Everything works as factory, including HVAC, gauges, power windows and locks and steering column. Most folks seem to get started on these swaps and give up, or just talk about doing them.
4L80E is nice; I wouldn't mind having a 4L80E in my '94, but when the 4L60E blew up at 158K I had it swapped with a rebuild from the only builder in this entire world that I truly trust. Guy's been doing transmissions for me since 1988, starting with my second car, a '69 Chevelle ex-strip car that had a TH400 swapped in. Anyway he built my 4L60E with the good stuff and his warranty is top-notch, so I've got no worries. I'm sure if I keep the truck long enough I'll blow it up again, but...oh well!4L60e to 4L80e swap. It might be more common-place in the online forum world, but everyone in my city that I talked to had never seen it done. I'll have some pics in my thread today. Just got it running right yesterday.
The Whipple supercharger is somewhat unique (in a world obsessed with LS Swaps), and the Edelbrock MPFI setup I have sitting here is also not common.
Neither is the 14-bolt SF axle from a 454ss. Not many 2wd trucks running around with that rear diff.
I picked up a Hypertech Power Charger to complement the Ultimate TBI mods I did.
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Then I got to looking at my air cleaner and realized that it wasnt going to work like it was. The stock TBI air cleaner has a heat riser valve in the snorkle. I have yet to see it hooked up to a heat source. So, by and large, that valve remains closed on most TBI trucks. That means that youre attempting to breathe through a hole that is maybe 1 1/4" in diameter-and its all engine compartment air. So that tube going over the the fender, supposedly supplying cold air, isnt most of the time. This is looking into the end of the snorkle.
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The other thing I noticed was that the Power Charger had quite a large opening at the top, whereas my air cleaner had a relatively small opening at the bottom. So, with the two problems mentioned above, I got out my tin snips, and grinder. First thing I did is make the hole in the bottom bigger.
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Then I drilled out the rivets on the heat riser and removed it, took the blade out of the snorkle and cut off all the linkage and stuff, cut off the stove pipe and ground it all smooth.
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Then I took the blade and flattened it a bit and laid it over the hole left buy the removal of the heat riser.
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It fit just fine so I drilled the two holes that matched the rivet holes already there, and drilled one new one and riveted it to the air claeaner.
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Then I painted it all up and let it dry.
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No more hot air diluting my intake charge, and I'm getting full flow from my fenderwell.