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has anyone ever tested this? because i am doing a similar setup but with only the su intake and j30 throttlebodys have to find room for injectors before the flange, and removing this would help. Thanks for any answers givin. Thomas Gribble

This is awsome, I came up with an idea similar to this one last friday at applebees. I started looking to see if someone has done something similar and here i am, and better idea then my idea I might add. Im glad someone is doing it so i can find out how it works out, very clean set up xnke. I might do something similar to this instead of weld in injector bungs and hope for the best. Good work, and i hope you figure out your problems and get this thing running, id love to see a video of you driving it and mashing on it. Your idle in that one video sounded cool. Thomas Gribble

I dont know about the whole snap on is ment for hundreds of hours of use per month, all we use at my work is snap on and their taps are over priced junk, id rather use a carbide tap then a hhs only real problem you could face with carbide is droping it, or getting a feed wrong in a mill or lathe but seeing as you would be doing this by hand you shouldnt have a problem if you do it by hand. the only good thing about snap on is once you buy it you can get it replaced by snap on for free as long as it says snap on.

may i ask what your rough angle is from your throttle body to port 1(cylender one) this is similar to me and my roommates plans for my intake. Thomas Gribble

they look nice but look kinda small no offence, but very beautiful car :]

yea the 283 chevy my bad i got confused for a minute. would it be worth it for a runner for the car? 800 bucks for a running motor?

hey grumpyvette, would an unknown spec running 289 freshly rebuilt be worth 800 bucks? like i said unknown specs but it was built for a ss malibu, and it apparetly "hauls" in the malibu. wasnt engine dynoed or anything just seat of the pants tested. But the guy said 800 bucks for everything but the intake and carb. i asked my friend to askem what the actual specs are and he could take me overthere to talk to him in person. What do you think?

doesnt look twisted enogh to be a twin screw so im thinking its a roots should be 3 blades or w/e on each side if it was twin screw itd be like 5 on 3 if i remember right or some wierd set up. i hurd roots have a tendency for the manifold presure to get to high and it starts leaking backwards threw the blower, but i think if it uses that teflon strips it doesnt let the manifold pressure back out of the blower when it becomes to great but im not sure. I not a genious and such, just going off random stuff i learn from my work and internet reading, ya know? should stll be a good fun to run set up. I was personaly thinking about doing a set up similar but i didnt want to owe my boss money for a blower and all that jazz and knowing my luck id end up wraping my 240 around a light pole or something.

what kinda supercharger is it? looks like some type of variation of a whipple but we dont use teflon strips as a sealer. Is it a roots style or a twin screw? i honostly cant see much from your pics, im not a "master" about it or nothign or wanna come off as one, but id say have a certified person rebuild it, new bearing teflon strips, and gears, but you prolly already know that much. while its appart you could probably get it polished or powdercoated whatever your poisen is. edit; does it say b&m on there? and looks like a roots style to me

hey Grumpyvette I took forever to actually get it done but i finaly pulled the motor appart mostly looks like a simple rehone and new pistons will make it good but my co workers telling me to go .0030 just to have it .0030 over, what is your opinion on this? I was also relooking at cams and i was wondering would this cam me a little beefier they stock ,CCA-CL12-224-4, i was going to have the motor carbed and was thinking about a single plane intake with a 800 or a 825 (i think it was 825) cfm carb. Also, would that be a big enough carb for that cam? i know thats alot of questions with not alot of info, the car will be used for daily use im not really going to worry about gas mialage i mean hey, it's a 350. The car will also be used for crusing and what not. thanks for any and all advice you give me. Thomas Gribble

I think you have to build your own custom mounts for a ls1 but im not 100% sure on that ya know? The ls1 forums the gen 3/4 forum, they could most likely help you better then here

Is that 2 glasspacks on there? How does that sound? i was thinking about doing just a set of 23 inch purple hornys and no muffs. Hows your setup sound?

darn thats depressing, not really woulda been cool to use a ls1 type intake they look soo cool but i dont have the money for a ls1 haha. It helps, as i always tell Grumpy when i ask him weird questions. My job is extreamly boring and so is my life so all i do is think think think. Then before i know it im thinking of ideas that end up not workable or so you know what i mean? Thomas ps thanks again for the help

Theres a guy in the gen III and IV chevys putting a ls1 intake on a block with vortec heads i think and i was wondering if i use vortecs could i use a ls1 tpi intake or am i understanding it wrong? do they have the same bolt pattern or whatever? or am i totally off my rocker in thinking this? I like the way the ls 1 intakes look better then the tpi ones, and i just thought of something while typing this. If my blocks a 80-84 block can i still use vortec style heads and tpi manifold if i cant use a ls1 intake? Does what im asking make sence? Thomas

yea i thought about that. Half the people i know are like "you dont need to spend that much on heads" im like.... stock heads dont flow good past like .420 lift i hurd. I dont know about stock vortecs tho, i will probably end up getting heads like those tho.

Thanks, i couldnt find it in the book i got it only talked about bowties and didnt help. i havent torn it down yet been waiting to have time to might get it donw this weekend. if i use some vortec heads off a truck could i use a aftermarket tpi intake mani? might go tpi instead of carbed. thanks again Thomas

sorry, my mom was rushing me off MY computer to do w/e she wanted. Its a sbc 350 i bought from a friends friend who had it ina garage at a friends for storage, they couldnt remember the year was an 80 something camaro they said.

ok so ive beennlooking for kits and such for building my motor like basic rebuild kits. cept ive come onto the problem of what year is my block. my casting number is 14010207 i think enless what the guy i bought it from showered me the wrong thing. could you tell me the year based off the casting number?

okies thanks again

Grumpy, i know im a pain but whats the bolt size and thred count or w/e for the trany on the back of a 350? i need to buy some bolts to put my block on astand so i can tear it down. but no one will tell me a straight answer it is quite lame.

i honostly dont know the diff but i "think" the 280z one is bigger or longer on one side. i read it somewhere on here i just dont remember where, try looking in the fuel forum or the 240/260/280 forum, im sorry im not much help as my memory is horrible hope you find what your looking for. Thomas

Sweet thats what i was basicly wondering, thanks. Was just a random thought i had and wanted to find out if it was worth it ya know? Nothing but polishing at work and its borign so all i do is think all day causes ideas and the like to accur so then i gatta ask. Thomas

oops i lost ya somewhere, or i miss typed my question. I was asking if you think running just and alt off the crank and an electric waterpump would be more "efficient". Then running one off the crank and and alternator, or would the cost of the electric waterpump outwiegh its worth compaired to the stock? I hope that makes more sence, im talking on a daily drivin car with an alt, the story about my coworkers nova was what gave me the idea. Thomas

Grumpyvette One of my coworkers friend drag races his nova with out a alt because thats all he does is drag races it, i was told its because it causes less drag on the motor. now a couple days ago i was thinking while i was preping a supercharger case at work (its where i get most of my thinking done) if less drag was wanted why not use an electric water pump and only have the crankpully to the alt. Does that make sence? instead of having the belt go crank to alt to waterpump (or whatever order) just have crank to alt. or would that cause just as much drag? i was thinking just run a bigger alt, like a 150 amp one or something as aposed to a 80 or something. Sorry that i jump around a lot with my questions, i just randomly have thoughts and wonder/ponder. Thomas Gribble

will do i need to get my friends motor stand or something because theres oil in the pan and some of its on my garage floor haha, so when i think of how to drain the oil i can tear it appart and see if it was a rod knock or something else. there is just about no ledge in the cylender so if anything im ganna have it rehoned atleast to be safe. he told me to have my friend call him before i buy anything so he can see if any one of his friends have it cheaper, or can find it cheaper.