My current hobby is my van, its an old 1986 chevy g20 day van, its got a 5.7 350 in it, it's been sat on the drive for the last 2 years and I've often looked at it and thought about doing some work on it but I've finally pulled my finger out and decided to rebuild the engine.
I have stripped the engine back to just block and crank and am replacing pistons, camshaft, followers etc, I'm upgrading the majority of it so it should pull quite well when done, parts are as follows:
Flat top pistons to increase compression
450/450 high lift camshaft
weiand performance intake
felpro 1094 thin head gaskets
full set of clevite bearings
hiflo headers
heads being ported and polished with back cut valves
I have just finished rebuilding the original qjet carb and I must say that wasn't fun being the first time I've had one apart, just waiting for a few bits to arrive from the USA and I can crack on and get it rebuilt, I'm going to give the block and ancillaries a nice coat of paint and once the engines finished I will prep and paint the body, it's been a long time since I've heard it run so I'm looking forward to firing her up and breaking the new cam in, 2000rpm minimum with short blasts for the first 20 minutes! I will post some more pics of the state the engine was/is in later, I'm really surprised it ran at all! I will also keep this thread updated as I go to show my progress for anyone who's interested.
I have stripped the engine back to just block and crank and am replacing pistons, camshaft, followers etc, I'm upgrading the majority of it so it should pull quite well when done, parts are as follows:
Flat top pistons to increase compression
450/450 high lift camshaft
weiand performance intake
felpro 1094 thin head gaskets
full set of clevite bearings
hiflo headers
heads being ported and polished with back cut valves
I have just finished rebuilding the original qjet carb and I must say that wasn't fun being the first time I've had one apart, just waiting for a few bits to arrive from the USA and I can crack on and get it rebuilt, I'm going to give the block and ancillaries a nice coat of paint and once the engines finished I will prep and paint the body, it's been a long time since I've heard it run so I'm looking forward to firing her up and breaking the new cam in, 2000rpm minimum with short blasts for the first 20 minutes! I will post some more pics of the state the engine was/is in later, I'm really surprised it ran at all! I will also keep this thread updated as I go to show my progress for anyone who's interested.