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| 77.1 | | TINCUP::MFORBES | This Space Intentionally Left Blank | Fri Oct 04 1991 09:03 | 6 |
| Jim,
Don Hardy Race Cars, Inc. in Floydada, Texas sells V-8 kits for bith the Luv
and S10. I use a Don Hardy kit in my Vega.
Mark
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| 77.2 | | WLDWST::BROGDEN | | Mon Jan 20 1992 16:00 | 21 |
| I bought a chev luv with a 400 ci small block in it. The kit contained
a radiator, short nosed water pump, mounting brackets for the engine
and I believe for the automatic tranny, and headers. The tranny looked
like a straight bolt in using original cross memebe, but not sure. The rear
ends in these things are so low 4.56:1 or even lower that you need to
consider this when doing a swap. I tried unsuccessfully to obtain
different gears at the dealer or even a different housing unit...no
luck. I finally obtained a complete rearend from a 79 ford granada that
was the correct (real close) width as the original unit. I has a welder
remove the brackets from the original unit and weld them on the granada
rearend. It worked beautiful. The new ratio was 2.79:1. With a 400 ci
engine this was perfect. I got 17 mpg no matter what I did. High rise
headers, other than that it was stock.
I had to make a new drive shaft which was no big deal. The nice thing
was you could hardly even hear the V8.
They run hot in a small compartment. Better get the thickest and
biggest radiator you can get under the hood. Cut metal if you have to!
The ones with the kits are marginal to undersized.
Bruce
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| 77.3 | Just stirring the antifreeze pot | WFOV12::KOEHLER | Host for the Unoffical Confab | Tue Jan 21 1992 05:17 | 6 |
| Bruce, did your Luv have a shut off valve for the heater?
:-)
The Mad Weldor....Jim
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| 77.4 | Yes It Did! | WLDWST::BROGDEN | | Tue Jan 21 1992 16:03 | 9 |
| Ha ha! Yes, Jim it did! It's a foreign truck remember? :-) 1972
It's all metric with a GM motor! The shut off valve didn't work
(probably frozen from corrosion *big smile*), I had to replace it with
one from a shelf of an auto supply store. They let me go look at them
until I could find one the I could "modify" or "scab" into the truck. I
have no idea what it originally went on! :-)
Bruce :-)
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| 77.5 | | HSOMAI::FISHER | | Wed Jan 22 1992 09:28 | 10 |
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RE. The Shut off valve debacle:
Jeeeesssuussssss,
I haven't seen such a note file Farce since the "Help - I put brake
fluid in every orifice" note in V4 of carbuffoons. Anyone remember
that beauty?
Tom
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| 77.6 | Knock It Off Jim :-) | WLDWST::BROGDEN | | Wed Jan 22 1992 09:37 | 4 |
| Yeah Jim......Knock it off! We aren't talking that stuff anywhere
anymore!! :-)
Bruce
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| 77.7 | yuk, yuk....... | WFOV11::KOEHLER | Host for the Unoffical Confab | Wed Jan 22 1992 10:59 | 3 |
| Ok......
The Mad Weldor....Jim
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