Ok, I have a 267 cid in my 79 Malibu and wanted to know if putting a stock 305 cam in it would pep it up. Yes, I know its only a 267 and it's horrible and blah blah blah. It is the only complete enigne that I have right now and I have a extra 305 cam. I'm looking to do something to "pep-up" the 267 for free!!! Any sugguestion would be greatly appriecated!!
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I would save up and find even a 305 personally, but that being said, a friend of mine a few years ago was trying to do the same thing with his 267 bu while in college so funds were not really available. A few of us donated parts and helped him put something together. We came up with a stock 267 bottom end with a 327- 300hp cam (.390/.410lift), a set of 416 casting 305 heads from a mid 80's h.o 305 with 1.84/1.5 valves and did very mild port work, basically gasket matched the intake side and cleaned up and matched the exhaust ports, a performer intake (also gasket matched) a 600 holley vac secondary, jetted down a bit, and headers.
Started out with a recurved stock hei and an accel super coil and added an msd box later.
We took the stock 2.29 gears out and put in a set of 3.73's from a junk yard s10 diff with a gov-bomb carrier. It worked quite well and was fairly quick, for what it was.
It worked even better with the 1800-2200 stall $99 converter we added later. Then we swapped to 4.56 gears. Was lots of fun around town but definately not a hiway car anymore.
If you can get your hands on donated parts, I say why not see what you can do?
But i wouldnt waste money on it otherwise.
As for your 305 cam, it depends which one it is, its most likely not much of an upgrade if any.
Started out with a recurved stock hei and an accel super coil and added an msd box later.
We took the stock 2.29 gears out and put in a set of 3.73's from a junk yard s10 diff with a gov-bomb carrier. It worked quite well and was fairly quick, for what it was.
It worked even better with the 1800-2200 stall $99 converter we added later. Then we swapped to 4.56 gears. Was lots of fun around town but definately not a hiway car anymore.
If you can get your hands on donated parts, I say why not see what you can do?
But i wouldnt waste money on it otherwise.
As for your 305 cam, it depends which one it is, its most likely not much of an upgrade if any.
I doubt it'd be worth your time...
I loved the 267 in my '79 wagon. With 225K miles on it, it still got 20 mpg and ran like a top.
My buddy that built my 455 told me about a fellow he knew that would build 267's with a custom grind cam and some re-worked heads, and would get almost 30 mpg out of them...
I loved the 267 in my '79 wagon. With 225K miles on it, it still got 20 mpg and ran like a top.
My buddy that built my 455 told me about a fellow he knew that would build 267's with a custom grind cam and some re-worked heads, and would get almost 30 mpg out of them...
What 305 is it out of?Years ago a budy of mine put a 305 HO cam(monte ss) in his 267 it gave it a little more pep.
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