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save yourself some time and $$, buy a good hammer and dolly set and work the damaged area. Cutting and welding will just leave you with more bodywork to do.

If I was building a daily driver truck I build or have built the 700r4 so that it'll stand up to the max torque I expect out of the engine. If I was going to work the truck hard I'd go with the 400. The 400 is a stout trans, but it also takes a lot of power to run it when compared to the 350 or 700r4. I don't remember the numbers but I saw a chart once that listed the spread between the GM transmissions and the 400 was say 50-60 hp where the 350 was 30-40 hp. If your set on going with after market heads, 450hp is a pretty simple goal to hit. Note: when you get into this hp/torque range the work needed to keep the 700r4 alive will cost a bit, not crazy numbers, but not cheap.

is this a gen V motor or a gen IV? is the motor going back into the truck, and is the truck going to be used as a truck? I'm running a gen IV in a 86 GMC 4x4 ton truck with the peanut port heads. it's true the motor does not make much HP, but it does make a mountain of torque. so if your planning on using the truck as a truck I'd stick with the stock heads and build the motor accordinly. I built mine as follows: std bore 454, dished pistons (I'd guess 7.5-8.0 CR) stock peanut port heads with stainless valves performer cam and manifold, jet q-jet carb pertronix HEI dist. headers into 2.25" pipes into dual inlet sinlge 3" outlet flowmaster muffler. I've never dyno'd the thing of course, but dynosim tells me I'm around 320hp at 4500rpm and 460+ ft lbs of torque at 3500rpm. I still need to tune the carb, it's pretty new to the truck, but as it sits I figure I get 8-9 mpg with it (short runs around town). Plowing snow it must be around 4 mpg.

The hardest job I ever had in my youth was delivering sheet rock. We had a boom truck, but more than half the work was by hand, and there were a lot of stairs (big apartment boom in the area at the time). I made it about 2 weeks before fate smiled on me and I found something better. Good thing too, cause my hands were like hamburger and I had trouble standing up straight.

Im in maine datsunlover, and fuel prices are rising quickly. the killer is a lot of our fuel I'm told comes from north of the border in CA, not from the south.

Many of the stories are a mix of sadness and frustration to me. Stories of people crawling into the attic as the water rises into the house. I feel so sorry for them, likely they were scared out of their wits, but crawling into an enclosed overhead space while the water rises below you..... such a bad move, hence my frustration. These bodies in the attics, are going to make cleanup helllish once the water is pumped out. The looters, there has been some video on Fox News of cops dealing with them. One thing I noticed was the cops managing to keep their cool while dealing with those scum. There was some shotguns being pointed at the looters and some rough pushing, etc, but the cops were keeping their cool. I don't think I could. Also reported, some police "borrowed" a car off a car lot 'cause their cruiser flooded out. This was after they ran off some people trying to steal cars. There was a shoot out between the cops and bad guys. The looter heading into a store to get food/water or a pair of shoes or something needed is ok in my book, but the fools pushing rafts with boxes of shoes and stereos, etc should just be shot on sight. People who take advantage of others during such a tragedy should be given no quarter. They are evil. What do they think they're going with the stuff anyway, the damn city is dead.

The stories and video out of the south are as sad as it gets and I pray for those people not yet in a safe place. It hit me last night watching the news that most all of the cars and trucks in just New Orleans alone are totaled. The salvage yards down there may be filled to the sky with rebuildable cars, core motors and such in a month or two. For those of you who live in areas that have floods/hurricanes, do they make it to the salvage yards or are they turned into scrap straight away? Newer cars must have the salvage values lowered a bunch if it gets flooded do to the electronics.

"R200V Short nose, 300ZX NA, 6 Bolt ouput shafts Ratios 3.90 LSD Viscous" It's my understanding that the early 90's 300zx n/a cars have a 4.09 gear, and the one I have is a 5 bolt output.

I was planning on welding the parts together to make a one peice rear bumper, and to fab a mounting system on the inside of the bumpers so there was no need for a bolt. Then fill in all the holes and send them off to the chrome shop. The chrome work is not going to be cheap, but a perfect set of bumper is pretty pricey, so I figure it'll be a wash.

Is it a bbc 427, or a stroker sbc? There is no need to do anything radical to install either (assuming you have a solid car to start with). The bbc is a bit taller than the sbc so hood clearance is an issue. You'll want to mock it up with the oil pan, intake/carb and dist. setup you plan to use to get the motor as low and as far back as practical.

did you have the shafts hardened after they were cut and worked?

Is the internal swap of the vlsd pretty straight forward? I have a complete r200 out of a 93z and 4 axles and I'd been thinking of something like this for a while.

That car is not dead, IMHO. Assuming the chassis is straight and some one wants to do the work to fix it. If the car is otherwise solid (I.E. Rust), see if you can find a buyer for it before you send it to the scrap yard.

I've been thinking of going the other way. Off and on I've been thinking of going with a bb 400 mopar setup with a stroker crank bumping it to 451. I could go the easy way out and just use a rb 440, but I'm thinking the bb block would make fitting headers easier. It's also lighter than the rb block, and the std bbc. Do you have an idea of the room available for fab'n headers with a tall deck bbc grumpy?

As I understand it, the 2004r is a sweet trans when built right. good ratio spread, small size, etc, but a factory stock trans is not the best bet if your making much torque. I'd recommend you look at TCI or the other aftermarket trans builders.

Thanks. So I did a quicky DynoSim build using those flow numbers. 355cid 9.0:1 cr new vortec heads edelbrock perf rpm cam edelbrock perf rpm airgap intake 600 cfm carb small tube headers with mufflers I would call this a mild motor, not at all radical as far the cam goes. I ended up with 425 hp at 5500 rpm and 440 lbs ft at 4500 rpm. The motor makes over 340 lbs ft of torque from 2500 rpm to the 440 peak. I've alway planned on a big block in my 280z, but every day it gets easier and easier to build a stout torquey motor with a small block. So other than the cool factor of a massive 454 under the hood, the big block seems like less and less of a good thing to me.

Hey grumpy (or anyone who knows), any idea where one may find flow numbers? I'd love to plug this into dynosim and compare the numbers to the std vortec.

So have you seen any street prices on these grumpy? The std gm vortecs are a nice head for the price. If these come in at or under the cost of working over the std vortecs for bigger cam lifts they'll be a sweet deal.

I've got a fresh 454 in my 86 1 ton dually 4x4 (6-8 months old now). It's a pretty mild motor, 8.0:1 cr, peanut port truck heads and a performer cam/manifold kit. Headers, duals, etc. I'll never dyno the thing to know for sure, but DynoSim tells me it's good for around 325hp @ 4000rpm and 490pf of torque at 2500rpm. I use it as a work truck and plow truck, and it will push a mountain of snow up my 800' of driveway. The big downer, like you 65-70 has this motor spinning 3500-3800 on the hiway, which I hate. I'd like to do some 3:55 gears in place of the 4:10's, or the coolest would be to swap the th400 for a 4l80e.

does the eastwood stuff work as well on tube headers as it does on cast iron?

Anyone have a pair the want to part with?

when I was younger I worked at a car lot that sold muscle cars, vettes and high end euro cars. At some point a sbc v-8 914 made it's way onto the lot. The car was a beater, and for some reason it would eat clutches (the lot wrench put in two over that summer), but it is/was the fastest street car I've ever driven. I'm not talking measured speed, just seat of the pants feeling. Being 4-6 inches off the ground likely had a lot to do with that feeling. We would use that car daily to make the lunch run, or pick up lot employees. I beat the piss out of that ride. Hell, working there I got to beat the piss out of a lot of cars I could never have afforded to own then. Ah, fond memories of youth.

The center part, around the latch looks to be in good shape. I'll post a pic or two of what's in good shape later today.

Maine. The zip code is 04605.

I have a very rusty 73 240, the car is pretty much rusted to the belt line, but the front windshield channel is in good shape, the roof is good, the hatch is good and the channel the hatch sits in is good. I'm going to take the sawsall to the car and send it off to the scrap yard. If anyone needs any of the above bits of sheet metal, or someother sheetmetal off a 73 let me know. It's all going away next weekend. The parts are free, other than shipping. I'm in Maine.