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LT7A · 03-05-2022, 07:47 PM

Great progress. Glad to see that McGuire's number 7 working so well for you. I had been looking for a product like that for a long time myself and was glad to find it. Just a thought, buy a spare engine stand, degrease that 307 and paint it up. That way you've got the original engine from your grandfather's truck. You can rebuild it if you get nostalgic and the 305 needs replacing. The 307s can do all right I think if you let them breathe. The 305 is designed more as a torque motor and so its potential is limited in the upper rpms.

03-05-2022, 07:47 PM	#36
LT7A Registered User Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: PNW Posts: 3,513	Re: Bringing my Grandfather's 1972 Longbed Stepside C10 back to life Great progress. Glad to see that McGuire's number 7 working so well for you. I had been looking for a product like that for a long time myself and was glad to find it. Just a thought, buy a spare engine stand, degrease that 307 and paint it up. That way you've got the original engine from your grandfather's truck. You can rebuild it if you get nostalgic and the 305 needs replacing. The 307s can do all right I think if you let them breathe. The 305 is designed more as a torque motor and so its potential is limited in the upper rpms.