Slowly but surely
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Slowly but surely
First of all I want to tell everybody Hi. I have a 350 out of a 1991 caprice.This will be a .30 overbore motor.I had been planning on porting the tbi heads. The block will be decked.The crank checked out very good!I will be using the cam that I believe came out the ramjet motor. All I want is torque.It seems like a very slow process but I guess it is better that way than hurrying things up.I don"t know why I picked an astro van to do this but I guess you don"t see this very often.I used to have an 1997 trans am ws6 That was modded fairly good.I guess I want something like "silent but deadly".But also I want to tell everybody that this is a very good site for alot of information.
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Re: Slowly but surely
That was the same setup I had. A Caprice roller cam 350 with the Ramjet\383 cam. Lots of torque. Died around 4500 rpm but was great down low.
Current:
01 AWD - Stock
98 AWD - Stock
Past:
93 4WD - 305 V8 - 5" lift - 31" tires
98 4WD DHC - 10" lift - 33" tires - Onboard air and Hydraulics - Snowplow
92 RWD - 350 V8 - lowered - 97 front clip
92 RWD - 350 V8 - converted to AWD - V6
91 AWD - 350 V8 - conversion van
94 RWD - 350 V8 - sons van
92 RWD - stock - sons van
93 RWD Shorty - project
89 RWD Shorty - parts van
01 AWD - Stock
98 AWD - Stock
Past:
93 4WD - 305 V8 - 5" lift - 31" tires
98 4WD DHC - 10" lift - 33" tires - Onboard air and Hydraulics - Snowplow
92 RWD - 350 V8 - lowered - 97 front clip
92 RWD - 350 V8 - converted to AWD - V6
91 AWD - 350 V8 - conversion van
94 RWD - 350 V8 - sons van
92 RWD - stock - sons van
93 RWD Shorty - project
89 RWD Shorty - parts van
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Re: Slowly but surely
Yeah, that engine ran well. 'Till he unloaded the lemon on some poor sucker who's on this site.... ![Nasty :butthead:](./images/smilies/icon_butt.gif)
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97' 4wd Safari
ZZ 502 Ramjet
4"L"80E/NP241C
Ford 9"
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Perverted is using the whole chicken.
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97' 4wd Safari
ZZ 502 Ramjet
4"L"80E/NP241C
Ford 9"
Kinky is using a feather.
Perverted is using the whole chicken.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes".
- Thomas Jefferson
Re: Slowly but surely
Don't listen to peter !!!!!! That set up runs damn nice , i know because i run it !!!!!. Its got a nice smoothe idle & all the power you need when you step on the gas . make sure you build up your tranny to hold that power , a stock tranny won't last long behind it . what we did after the first tranny took a dump was Bill (lockdoc ) got a v8 700R4 from a chevy pickup from the junkyard , he rebuilt it , then after i got it home ( i bought the v8 van from bill ) i took it to a good local tranny shop & had the shift kit put in . now it handles the power of the v8 with no probs , shifts nice & responds very well when you stompon the accelerator with no slipping at all .
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