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by **RoadmenWA** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:16 am

ok so i have been asking questions for about a month and working slowly at getting my swap done and heres some progress i'll post some pics tomorow but heres some text...

its an 85 2dr 2wd transplanting a 68 327 and th350 trans with holley 650 dual feed double pump with torquer2 manifold and hedman s10 conversion headers.

i got the engine installed, tried to build my own custome mounts using 68 camaro frame side mounts and failed miseribly. so i finaly broke down and used the carshop inc ones i had. fought with the damn thing for days trying to move the engine all the way back. but with help from a comealong got it moved back. installed hedman s10 conversion headers awith alot of persuading on the pass side of the fire wall. had a driveline mad at aukeen in kent. that old man does a bitchen job!!!!!
got it all put togeter on sunday and went to fire it up and the floats and the main body on the carb were all skrewed up and leaky so now i'm stuck rebuilding the dual feed double pumper i have.

by **WIKD** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:39 am

Cards that have been sitting for a while tend to do that...still it sounds like a sweet little set up... lets see some pics...

by **midnight86** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:07 pm

pics please :lol:

by **RoadmenWA** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:16 am

i'm workin on pics bear with me here i work all day and it gets so dark so fast out here its not even funny but i should be able to get them taken tonight......if i get home in time .. lol! i hate the autumn and winter months :evil:

by **RoadmenWA** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:38 pm

ok so heres some pics i'll have to wait till the weekend to get some full body shots and underside pics

so what do ya think sorry the carbs not there dut i'm rebuilding it at the moment

by **RoadmenWA** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:49 pm

oh real quick anybody else usin a mallory dual point? i need to know what to set the points gap at?

by **Mr.Selfdestruct** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:56 pm

Ya i noticed you were using points .

Sorry i'm not much help with that, but the truck looks good engine is pretty clean .

by **RoadmenWA** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:06 pm

yea man bought the thing for $500 in january it came dropped and ready to go all i had to do was drive it about a year till the bolts fell out of the flex plate and wedged in the starter then it was time to dump the 2.8 boat anchor and to do my swap.

i picked up the engine and trans off my buddies dad for $250, it was in a 71 nova but ran the casting # and it actualy came in a 68 -69 camaro.

onlyy thing is i don't know how it will run. its supposed to have a mild cam in it but i have never heard it run.

by **WIKD** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:07 pm

Did your friends dad promise you it will run??? i woulda made him lol... that is a nice set up... as far as you ac box being open I'm going to mold some fiberglass units that will allow you to keep the ac but gove you a lot more room to get the headers in and out... once i get em going i will post a how to on it for everyone to make their own...

by **Rickracer** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:13 pm

Beware of that Flex-a-lite plastic fan if you have less than 1" of clearance, it might flex forward and get into the radiator. :shock:

by **RoadmenWA** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:20 pm

i will keep that in mind i am actualy going to machine about .150" off the spacer and i still have to finish the rad support to move the rad farther forward... hey rick in the future what fan should i use?
like a metal flex fan? yes yes i know the best idea would be to use an electric fan set up with a bitchen thermostatic on off set up....

by **Gibsonhighperformance** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:19 am

you can use a electric fan but I have a 14" Metal 10k RPM flex fan on my S10 and don't have any problem with them. You might just need to move your motor back on the mounts if possible

The blazer looks great

by **Rickracer** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:44 am

As a rule, I prefer a 18" stainless flex fan, usually the 10,000 rpm rating gets you a pretty good one. I do use that plastic Flex-a-lite on lots of stuff, but S10s wind up with too little clearance. I trashed a radiator with one one time, at 7000 it flexes just a bit too much. I made an aluminum stiffener for it, (went in front, kept the blades from flexing forward too much), ran it for a while like that, then it lost a blade, stuck this little chincy aluminum one on it and it ran cool with that one so I left it. I am gonna stick a Taurus fan in front of my 4.3 and see how I like it though, (testing for the fan control unit ya know, :wink:

), if it works out well I may keep it in there for the V8 swap. The 4.3 needs all the help it can get, but I don't want to sink any real money in motor mods.

by **RoadmenWA** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:03 pm

heres some more pics for you guys tell me what ya think

by **RoadmenWA** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 11:14 am

got it fired up last night had a mishap with the dual point tho the bushings are shot so i had to unhook one puint set sna d need to get bushing kit but the thing purs like a kitten found out its only got an RV cam in wich is nice so i'll get a little better fuel milage but the trade off is the huge carb i have on it lol :lol:

but other than that i just have to do throttle and shift linkege and shorten up the fan spacer and i'm set... :twisted:

by **Mr.Selfdestruct** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 1:59 pm

Ya it looks good, it's got some good parts on it . You got airbag suspension in the back, thats pretty cool .

by **85s10tpi** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:58 pm

you are going to innialate those pizza cutters on the back haha
nice truck and yet another VERY clean first gen blaze (i have yet to seen one around here)

by **Gibsonhighperformance** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:14 am

looks good. Whats a set of those bags cost? I want a set lol. What exhaust you running? Duals or single

by **RoadmenWA** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:14 am

lol i had bought those bags to put on my 54' plymouth but they wouldn't work cause the leafs are mounted different i think with the air lift ride right sure set pump and stuff i spent just a little under $600 thats with a $50 tank from ridetech and the air over leaf mounts. but you can get all of the parts from summit for the same or a little cheaper too. but if you want fancy stuff you have to go with ride tech, or stuff from like airbagit.com. they have some really nice plug and play systems

by **RoadmenWA** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:34 pm

drove her tonight man that was fun bu i have to check float level and jets and stuff i have no snap when i get on it i thing ts floatlevel but i don't know

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