RE: Swap 2000 engine into '91 ???
 

Ha! An answer to my question was already posted in this thread...

RE: Swap 2000 engine into '91 ???
 

I was totally wrong. When asking someone on the phone about the engine, I was told it was carburated. And that's after someone I know looked at it and said they that it had a carburator. DORK! I should have done my OWN research and gone w/ my gut...See the treatment I get for being a woman? And that is meant in a funny way (not a victim sort of way)(which I hate)...

RE: Swap 2000 engine into '91 ???
 

Don't fret, it happens. It looks just like a 2 barrel carburator with the big round filter houseing on top. Only way to tell for sure is to take the air filter housing off. Unless you know about the history of the engine. Once the air filter housing is off, then you see the injectors.


Yea, the Vin W engine is different. Guessing it was the first attempt at a new design, and only ran for 2 years. I have a TBI 4.3L from a fullsize truck with 88,000 miles on it sitting in my gagare to swap in place of the '93 in the truck. Had it all summer, finding time has been the issue for me. Hopefully I can swap the intake over and all the sensors, most of which are in the intake. Hopefully I don't have to swap the heads also. Then swap all the accessories over. Then I think I will get the original engine rebuilt and swap it back in. Then take the fullsize truck 4.3L rebuild it and then...... '87 4wheeling toy, tube buggy, spare????? I have another bare block someone gave me sitting on the garage floor too. I haven't even looked at it yet, still in the plastic bag.

RE: Swap 2000 engine into '91 ???
 

I'm still thinking that the block and heads would be the same between the vin W & vin Z... The cam and intake up might be different, but I really don't think that they would have changed the crank or heads all that much.

Hanr3, you sound like me, only all of the spare engines I've got laying around are all 4-bolt main 350's (3 total sitting under my dad's barn). I really don't have a plan for them, but when my dad was junking old farm trucks, I asked to keep the engines. Pulled them myself and popped everything apart and put a fine coating of diesel fuel & gear oil over everything. All 3 sit on a pallet with a tarp over them right next to my Chevelle under his barn. Plus, the motor in the Chevelle right now is a 350 4-bolt bored 0.030 over that I built when I was 14. Strong ass motor!!!

RE: Swap 2000 engine into '91 ???
 

Does anyone ever nag at you guys for having all this car stuff all over? My step-mom makes my dad keep everything in the large polebarn behind the house. But nothing is allowed to sit outside it. Says she doesn't want the yard to look like they're from Alabama or something....Don't have a garage where I live, which really sucks as far as working on this project. So I've gotta do it before it gets too cold. Plus I bought a motrcycle this summer and haven't even thought of where I'm going to put that...crap! I rode it once, dumped it 3 times. Maybe I should just sell it before winter...Ooh, and that could pay for my engine stuff! Man, this forum-therapy really makes me problem-solve (laughing)!!

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YES, my wife does. She refuses to let me use the tree over the driveway to pull engines. Yea, I got a dog and guns too. Jeff Foxworthy joke in there. Right now I have a gas tank in the back yard and it annoys her everytime she sees it. So far she has been parking her car in the driveway, however once it gets cold out, she'll want her spot back in the garage. Which is going to be tough, I bought some big tools this past summer. Engine hoist, 3 1/2 ton floor jack, engine stand, 4 33" tires, and a few other things. I do have some stuff I can get rid of to make space. Then paly the big juggleing game to get everything to fit again.

Here is a pic of my 2 1/2 half car garage after I rebuilt the tranny last summer. We just pulled the truck out. This is tpyically how it looks while I work on a project. :D
http://offroadworld.tenmagazines.com...nr3/129237.jpg

Whats not in the pic is a roll around tool box, the engien stand with engien on it, engine hoist, extra blcok, 3 1/2 ton floor jack, and the 33" tires. All those things suck up space quick. looking like I'dd be in the driveway again this year.:D

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I wish I had a pole barn. I also wish I had one of those 350.'s I'll give ya $50 for one of em. [&:]
Ironically, the last 350 I had was also in a Chevelle. It was my DD back in highschool. Paid like $400 for the car. This was back in the late 70's. Muscle cars were going for cheap. Gas prices were going up so people were dumping them cheap. Wish I would have keept my Chevelle, or even the Olds 442. Both were sweet cars and fast. Really fast. In fact last time I pulled an engine was back in high school. Been getting back into it now that the kids are old enough to drive.

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Well... I don't think I can let them go for $50... All of them are in near perfect condition. One may need an overbore, but the other 2 are still very nice and straight cylinders with next to no lip on the top. I'm planning on building the engines back up and then putting them up on ebay. I should be able to rebuild them for around $300-400 and should be able to get $800-$1,000 out of them. I'm going to keep the original engine from my chevelle as it is, and probably screw around with either a decent sized blower (4-71 or 6-71) for one of them and possibly do a twin turbo on the other. It's either that or sell all 3 of them after they get rebuild and use that money towards a nice 502 or (dreaming) 572 big blocks. I'd have to go with the RamJet 502 if I were to go that route. I think I could get the same grunt out of a well setup, forced induction small block for less money than a crate engine.

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You need to go on one of those shows like "Clean Sweep" or "Burn it down and start over" (I just made that one up) How about building a shop? That's what my sister wants to do. She already has a 4 car garage and it's not big enough. I figure it's kind of like me w/ a purse, the bigger it is the more stuff I'm gonna put in there-even if I don't need it-because I can.:D