I had a gutless 350 in a 78 GMC "Heavy Half" pick-up truck. At 125K miles I pulled the engine, dismantled it, Machine shop steamed it out, verified cylinders in standard, block was 4 bolt mains, heads had the big valves and stems (2.02s?), push rods were big ones too. Re-worked the heads, milled .010 to true 'um up. Went back with 10.5-1 pistons, shimmed the valve springs, new cam and lifters from Chet Hebert, high volume oil pump, Carter Thermo-Quad Carb, headers, 2" exhaust, new style electric transmission with locking torque converter. Made one strong truck out of it and won a few races, too. Got decent mileage, if I could keep my foot out of it...
This post was edited by Hay_Man at 16:37:37 12/24/12.
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