I installed the new intake and changed the oil again for the second time this week , wow its amazing what a good carburetor does for a engine . The torque from the engine with the solid engine mounts really makes the truck sway with the engine rev . And it looks supper cool , the only thing bad is that I broke the damd thermostat housing ( rookie mistake ) that I seem to do alot , I would rather change a transmission than do a thermostat , I just hate them . But anyway after searching several local stores for a new thermostat housing in stock , i found one in Ithaca NY . My wife is going to pick that and a few other things for me , while I change her tie rod ends on her Taurus and intake gasket , so I better get to it before she gets home and strangles me .

 

lol you better get outside gene =P

im installing my h4 harness and my hands froze up
so i came in for a few mins =P

 

Heck yea its cold , she just called from auto zone and they said they didn't have it , I talked to the guy at auto zone for 30 minutes telling him he did have the part somewhere because I called and had someone there look before I even sent my wife there ( this has happened before ) but finally after 30 minutes he found the part right on the shelf where it was supposed to be . I'm not knocking the guys at auto zone because I know there computers screw them up , but at least I got my part .

 

I have a few more pictures , the blazer runs and drives down the road great right now . I am still waiting on the kit from 4wdfactory for the solid axle conversion . I Now have the new intake and carburetor on and tuned , wow it's awesome .
Heres my choke cable and vacuum hose for the vacuum advance on the distributor

And heres a few pics of the engine


And here the digital gauges in the gauge pod working

 

I had no idea you put a v8 in your blazer sounds pretty cool. lemme know when you want to hit up rausch creek

 

Sounds good , I have a lot of friends who want to go check out rausch creek , I will let you know before we decide to come down , once we do I think we'll become regulars . Yea the v-8 is great , I friggen love it , and I can't wait to get in some mud . Also I'm still waiting to do the solid axle swap , once I get the kit it's going on . And I still have to order the roll cage , it's getting close to race season so I'm starting to feel the pressure . Tomorrow I hope to get the summit ignition box installed and the hood pins also my bosses daughter needs me to change some parts on her car , but its going to be beutiful out tomorrow so it should be a good day in the shop .

 

I made a few more purchases today , I bought a new grill , because we smashed the old one pushing it into the shop with my buddies Geo tracker . And I also bought a rebuild kit for the Dana 30 , and a posi lock to engage the 4x4 . I'll be posting more pictures soon . I am still waiting on the kit from 4wdfactory , and there is no phone number to contact them , I have no clue what is going on . I hate having that kind of money out there and no way to contact the person , its a little scary . They are in Texas so it probably will take awhile to get here though .

 

Plan on selling the posi-lok when you do the sas?

 

The posi-lok is for the Dana 30 axle , I should go down to auto zone and get new wheel bearings for the s10 while there still under warranty , but I'm ready right now to do the SAS , I'm just waiting for parts . I did go purchase the G20 van that I have been talking about , and washed it and made a parts list for the tune up . For a van this thing is bad , one night on the way home from work we stopped at the bar and when we left my Buddie stays floor this b***h so I got right in the center of the road and held the brakes and matted it , it started walking sideways down the road , we left a nice duel tire burn out for about 75 ft .

UPS just showed up with this

 

Sweet the sas kit is here