woody80z28
I'm Awesome
In 2009 I bought my truck as basically a rust-free beater from NC. 220k on it with a 350 TBI and 4l60e.
Had to get rid of the god damn chrome. So I started with 95+ mirrors and a new grille since the old one was busted anyway.
Had no balls at all so I put a new exhaust on from the cat back and did the TBI & injector spacer and it was still pathetic...
Had trans issues when it was warm too. Fine cold, slipping warm. Ended up being the EGR wire plugged in to the 4LO switch by the PO...so it was calling the low range shift tables whenever the EGR should have been activated...hitting OD by 12mph! Didnt figure that out until I hooked it up to my laptop for a datalog. Once I fixed that the trans functioned correctly, but still wasn't quite right...so I knew I'd be replacing it some day.
Bought some Cragar Soft-8 wheels and used Goodyear MT/R 285s and the painted the bumpers. Put the Sport bowtie on too.
Then I beat on it for a year playing in the snow & mud and hauling drywall for the garage, etc.
So I cleaned it up before winter and shot it with some 2-part U-Pol Raptor liner at 70psi...that stuff is thick!
Trans died in the spring, so I yanked the drivetrain out. Tore down the engine and found out the 350 had been recently rebuilt with 305 heads and ash tray pistons. So I put some 12cc KB pistons in it with Vortec heads, Edelbrock intake and an LT1 roller cam conversion. So now it's a 9.7:1 Vortec 357 TBI.
Found a 94 K3500 parts truck, so I'm swapping in the NV4500/5spd and BW tcase along with the hydroboost 8600 calipers, etc.
And that's where I'm at right now. Just need to install the tcase, driveshaft and weld up exhaust between the headers and the new 3" I put in two years ago.
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Had to get rid of the god damn chrome. So I started with 95+ mirrors and a new grille since the old one was busted anyway.
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Had no balls at all so I put a new exhaust on from the cat back and did the TBI & injector spacer and it was still pathetic...
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Had trans issues when it was warm too. Fine cold, slipping warm. Ended up being the EGR wire plugged in to the 4LO switch by the PO...so it was calling the low range shift tables whenever the EGR should have been activated...hitting OD by 12mph! Didnt figure that out until I hooked it up to my laptop for a datalog. Once I fixed that the trans functioned correctly, but still wasn't quite right...so I knew I'd be replacing it some day.
Bought some Cragar Soft-8 wheels and used Goodyear MT/R 285s and the painted the bumpers. Put the Sport bowtie on too.
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Then I beat on it for a year playing in the snow & mud and hauling drywall for the garage, etc.
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So I cleaned it up before winter and shot it with some 2-part U-Pol Raptor liner at 70psi...that stuff is thick!
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Trans died in the spring, so I yanked the drivetrain out. Tore down the engine and found out the 350 had been recently rebuilt with 305 heads and ash tray pistons. So I put some 12cc KB pistons in it with Vortec heads, Edelbrock intake and an LT1 roller cam conversion. So now it's a 9.7:1 Vortec 357 TBI.
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Found a 94 K3500 parts truck, so I'm swapping in the NV4500/5spd and BW tcase along with the hydroboost 8600 calipers, etc.
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And that's where I'm at right now. Just need to install the tcase, driveshaft and weld up exhaust between the headers and the new 3" I put in two years ago.