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Yes... YOUR description (read; oppinion, as you are entitled to have) but not nessasarily true in this context... Are you saying he should keep the stock Z motor rather than put in a 'boat anchor' 305?!?!? The post started with the point that he HAS a 305 already... it is a good runing engine... Perhaps he doesn't have an extra $2-500 in the budget to go out and 'buy a 350' with? Or maybe he's already spending that cash on another important part of the car.. This isn't a question of which is the BEST choice, given the choice. (if you can swing it, more displacment is always better. :flamedevil: ) This is a guy using what he's got at his disposal, and I think that's great. It's still going to work, it's still going to be cool, and I doubt most folks on here would give him a hassle just for using a 305 instead of a 350. When I was driving my 305 powered rx7, I NEVER had anyone put it down for being a crapy 305.. rather, they looked at the little car with a big V8 and said "Cool!!" and yes, I told anyone who asked it was in fact a 305. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bent out of shape over this.. I'm actually kind of laughing as I type this.. but it seams the topic is being kicked like a dead horse, and is getting away from the 'spirit' of Hybridz in a sense.. hell, I wouldn't put a rotary engine in a Z either... but wait.. didn't someone here do that?!?!? Meh, no skin of my nose what anyone thinks really.. Just two more cents....

I dissagree... beides, he's already stated he's going to go ahead with the 305.. My self, well.. I've done 305's in the past cause they were good runners and found cheep. There seams to be this stigma attached to a '350' and it tends to drive the price up, regardless of the actual condition of the motor (I'm talking about used motors here) in my exp. That said, I would not put a lot of $$$ INTO a 305, or bother doing a full build on one... but a simple drop in and run, why not?!? Like I said, a V8 is a V8 and in all likelyhood (regardless of displacement) WILL be more powerfull than the stock Z motor.. My .02$

Thanks Davy. I had it out yesterday for the first time in a long time. The dang thing has turned into a garge queen. For a fairly stock '91 305 tpi with a WCT5 on 3.54 rear gears turning a pair of 305/50/15's it still gets rubber in the first three gears. Bags of fun! The last two years, '91 & '92, for the 305 in the f-body cars were the most powerful. Nearly as strong as the 350 of that day. And it's such a cool looking motor. Good fun on a budget.

The 305" engine is or was used in a sprint car series. Hardly any fun to watch cause they didn't have the power compared to the 360" or the 410" motor cars. And they actually weren't cheap to build either.