Posted by: briankmizell

06/17/2008 09:29PM

I noticed on another site you mentioned doing a v8 swap, My suggestions are to go with the Vortec 4.3L from chevy, get you an aluminum intake to put an edelbrock or holly carb on it. and a cam & headers. make sure your cam is matched to your intake manifold. Edelbrock is good, and my preference for cams are lunati. but thats just me.

put 2.5 or 3" exhaust on it and a 2 in 2 out flowmaster muffler.

I did a 350 V8 swap over a decade ago, the V8 is more horsepower than you can stick to the ground unless you narrow the rear end and put some 10" or wider rims and tires on it to get traction.

Also you will need to get a walker aluminum radiator or equivilant to cool a V8.

As for Gas mileage, my V8 was only putting out 325 horses and it took 50 USD a week to drive 34 miles aday 5 days a week. That was 9 years ago. Gas was much much cheaper then.

Stick with the 4.3 Vortec or hop up the 2.0 or 2.2L F2 engine.

Posted by: castro0ne

09/04/2007 06:32PM

nice truck doc i have a similar i lov it this trucks for the old school style

Posted by: laidbackbseries

08/13/2007 08:42PM

Nice truck. You got a good deal for 200 bucks.

Posted by: i1drunkmunke

02/15/2007 11:23AM

I like the sun roof. the subie seats only cost me 10$ per seat. got lucky. they are a little big. and don't sit qiut right, they don't go back to be confortable. I still have to weld a bolt in to bolt them down. as long as i have my seat belt on they dont' move. I am thinking of seats from a porshe 914, or maybe a geo metro, they are a little smaller.

Posted by: i1drunkmunke

12/27/2006 02:41PM

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