:::RHMT::: Real Home Made Turbo
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: biscuit on August 30, 2009, 10:36:37 PM
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Just picked up this beast yesterday. It is a 1985 C10 with only 80,000 miles. Body is in excellent shape except for some minor rust and a dent on the rear quarter panel. The 305 is missing a little when i accelerate. Going to tune it up next weekend. Got it for $600.
I removed the running boards today and gave it a good pressure washing. This thing is a beast...
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Looks pretty clean! Congrats!
Plan to turbo it?
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Looks pretty clean! Congrats!
Plan to turbo it?
I don't know. Random Strike's twin turbo sbc had me interested but I'll have to do some more reasearch... :noel:
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That's a nice truck, I love those. Sounds like you got a hell of a deal.
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Nice score. Turbo it and that will be one bitchin truck.
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Nothing better then a shit brown truck :mexi:
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If it's TBI, turboing it's not difficult from a tuning standpoint. You could probably get away with a 454 TBI and low boost on a T3/T04E. A lot of the later TBI ECUs were also used for the TPI (MPFI) stuff, so a TPI intake and a set of injectors and you're good to go.
I'm pretty certain you're carby, though.
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Johnny will be proud
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This thing is a worthless pile of fuck.
+1
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I'm pretty certain you're carby, though.
should be in 85.
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all those body style are carb'd.
nice quadrajet i bet
get a square bore mech secondary holly and manifold and boost it
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all those body style are carb'd.
not all.
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Nice score and if its got a miss i bet its got a flat cam. Put in a roller cam and through a single turbo with 6 or 10 psi boodt you will love it.
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all those body style are carb'd.
not all.
Correct.
Johnny, do not argue with the Grand Wizard about EFI. I am rarely wrong, and if I were to be then you'd all have to witness the awkward embarrassment of watching a grown man cry. No one wants to see that.
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i've never seen one that was tbi. i guess thats cool if some of the 86 and 87 were
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Back way the hell down, son, I'm beginning to tear up. :'(
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If it's TBI, turboing it's not difficult from a tuning standpoint. You could probably get away with a 454 TBI and low boost on a T3/T04E. A lot of the later TBI ECUs were also used for the TPI (MPFI) stuff, so a TPI intake and a set of injectors and you're good to go.
I'm pretty certain you're carby, though.
Yeah it's carbed...
I wonder if it could spool single HX40? Might have to go to a 35...
I'm going to get some old bushings replaced and get the suspension sorted out. Then start working on the engine. Everybody is saying that the 305 is a paperweight and that i should get a 350... This whole V8 shit is new to me ;D
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LOL that things had 80,000 on it a few times over. it only has a five digit odometer so it just rolls back to zero.
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If it's TBI, turboing it's not difficult from a tuning standpoint. You could probably get away with a 454 TBI and low boost on a T3/T04E. A lot of the later TBI ECUs were also used for the TPI (MPFI) stuff, so a TPI intake and a set of injectors and you're good to go.
I'm pretty certain you're carby, though.
Yeah it's carbed...
I wonder if it could spool single HX40? Might have to go to a 35...
I'm going to get some old bushings replaced and get the suspension sorted out. Then start working on the engine. Everybody is saying that the 305 is a paperweight and that i should get a 350... This whole V8 shit is new to me ;D
HX-40 is only a 60mm charger, it will spool fine.
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HMMMMM the new v8 in the turbo truck is a 305 does it sound like a paperweight?
If it's TBI, turboing it's not difficult from a tuning standpoint. You could probably get away with a 454 TBI and low boost on a T3/T04E. A lot of the later TBI ECUs were also used for the TPI (MPFI) stuff, so a TPI intake and a set of injectors and you're good to go.
I'm pretty certain you're carby, though.
Yeah it's carbed...
I wonder if it could spool single HX40? Might have to go to a 35...
I'm going to get some old bushings replaced and get the suspension sorted out. Then start working on the engine. Everybody is saying that the 305 is a paperweight and that i should get a 350... This whole V8 shit is new to me ;D
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I had an 85 silverado with a 305 in it that missed out. Come to find out it was more than a miss. Couple cam lobes were worn flat.
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HMMMMM the new v8 in the turbo truck is a 305 does it sound like a paperweight?
I asked you in your build thread why you used a station wagon engine and you ignored me.
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HMMMMM the new v8 in the turbo truck is a 305 does it sound like a paperweight?
I asked you in your build thread why you used a station wagon engine and you ignored me.
Sorry i miss read the question i thought it was based towards the poster a few responses above yours. I did the build for 2 reasons. First one is the 305 with smaller pistons is can and will do rpms easier and the second is that i like being different and the 305 is the same as the 350 except the piston size. Oh and i got a sreaming deal on the pistons so i did up a roller cam 305 to run 20 psi or more just to show what the staition wagon engine can do and theres a lot of them out there. ;D Even my machinist guy scoffed at me and said why you doing that and i said exactly as i chuckled.
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Small bore is more volatile. I'd rather have the bore than the rpm, but I guess in a streetcar it doesn't matter.
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I got a sweet HEI dizzy with a DEI super coil in it, fresh 0 mile 8 mm accells on it. lemme know if you want it, it needs a good home.
in fact i might have an edlebrock rpm performer intake and a 650 edlebrokc carb too. lemme know if you are interested and ill go look.