what a great day it has been! earlier this week i was cruising CL and noticed a 350/350 combo for sale for $500. emailed the guy and he took forever to get back to me to say that he had someone already on the way to buy it. didn't really see anything else on CL that i could actually afford so i posted a quick "hey i'm looking for an engine, as complete as possible" on the facebook page Northwest C10s. that blew way up and i got an engine the very next day! (literally last night!) got a sweet looking 60's 327 (as far as i can tell from google and the numbers on the block) and a turbo 350 for $500!
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AND another guy had a nice cammed short block for free because he thought it was complete when he initially went to sell it to me so i came home with 2 engines!
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i got up early this morning and hit the local NAPA/westbay and got engine mounts and some hardware (and great advice from the counter dude, love that place) and got straight to work. i built a very quick and honestly really sketchy gantry when i started this project, before i could do anything this morning i had to bust out my welder and make some reinforcements for one side. luckily i had some scraps laying around that fit the bill perfectly
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that done i lifted the block up, and installed the started from the other block on it, since the 327 didn't come with one. then removed the manual bell housing and clutch plate and got the automatic flex plate installed. then i put the new motor mounts on which required me to take the header off on the driver side to get to it. that also meant removing the strange looking cobbled together alternator set up on there, so i gotta go buy another one of those soon.
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got the block installed on the frame, never done that before so that was a real adventure for me
https://imgur.com/ZWpBN14
the transmission went on pretty well too. i did have to drill a hole for the mount though, it was slightly off, i think i may not have the right transmission cross-member. anyone got a clear picture of the one meant for the turbo350?
https://imgur.com/Csh1uYY
that didn't take too long to type out, but man this was a whole day for me. lotta firsts for me. i'm really happy with how it went.
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here's the whole image album if you want!
https://imgur.com/a/z6Q16