Square body crew

[Clutch]

I have a Weiand Team G with a Dominator flange if you want it.🤣

I think that's just a bit much lol

 

[Clutch]

Dad had a 76 Suburban with a 454, turbo 400 and a 4.11 posi. It was the 'trailering special'. Nothing feels like a BBC. It was thirsty though. 11 mpg without the A/C and 10 mpg with it. That was when the speed limits were 60 mph and that was driving it with restraint.

That would be the perfect parts truck for me

 

[MonteMan79]

Now That it drives nice I'm toying with the idea that it needs a different motor. Like a stump pulling 454. It is attainable I do have one in my shed among other things but I don't have a good set of heads for it nor do I know anything about big block Chevy heads like which ones I should use. The big block I have is a 90 454 fuel injected motor from the dump truck that I parted earlier in this thread obviously I'm not going fuel injection with it so I'll need an intake an intake manifold an RV Towing camshaft and a set of heads because if I remember correctly it had two burned intake valves and about 6 tulip exhaust valves. She was an oil burner! As far as a rebuild kit I'll probably do an eBay cheap outset. So what are your thoughts what direction do you think I should take with this motor? Does anybody have a cheap set of heads?

Hello Clutch, I do have a nice set of BBC heads, 781 castings completely rebuilt ready to go. Bought the heads for a BBC build to put in my monte but the crank was cracked and haven't touched them. Where are you located? I'm in Milwaukee

 

[DRIVEN]

It wants a 455 Olds.

 

[Texas82GP]

It wants a 455 Olds.

Nooooooooooo!!!!!

 

[DRIVEN]

Hey, he said he wanted torque.

 

[Clutch]

Hello Clutch, I do have a nice set of BBC heads, 781 castings completely rebuilt ready to go. Bought the heads for a BBC build to put in my monte but the crank was cracked and haven't touched them. Where are you located? I'm in Milwaukee

The dirty Jersey shore

 

[Clutch]

It wants a 455 Olds.

As I've said before I would love to but but I don't have one ready to go I've got a 70 455 in pieces and a badly built 73 on stands in the garage but bolth need to be gone threw and I'm missing some key components. I would need 403 t/a mounts or truck 5.7 diesel mounts a 5.7 diesel power steering pump and pay someone to chang the output shaft in one of my bop th400s that are in unknown condition (so rebuild) time and money I don't really have. Although the idea of making it an REO bravada W-30 is cool in my opinion I just can't pull it off at the moment. I'm not even sure if I can pull off the 454 financially right now but it should certainly be cheeper

 

[Clutch]

The other thing is sometime in the next 2 months I need to go to Texas to meet with the manufacturer of the equipment I'm buying and it may be more economical for me to buy a pos wile I'm there and tow the equipment home with it myself hmm maybe I can find a BBC Suburban or beat down old 2wd rack body for a Donner??? Idk I need to get financed first and just keep plugging btw the warmer it is out the better that little 350 seems to run

 

[DRIVEN]

Buy a BBC donor in Texas? Good plan. No rust to deal with.