so nothing toooooo crazy...yet
I agree 100% that a stock or near stock engine is hard to beat if it already makes good power. A little better air inflow and exhuast, and some good healthy maintanance are more than welcome. My 89 350TBI seems to be getting every bit of it's stock power, and great mialeage to boot. But, it was a "mom-mobile" before I got it, so I doubt it was ever abused.. and I have the records that show it had plenty of service done at the dealerjekbrown said:
As of now the entire engine system/exhaust is 100% bone stock. I'd say the power it puts out feels almost, but not quite, as good as my DD 97 350 vortec's.
2.73-3.08 stock vs. 5.13... you will see roughly double the torque.davesanrn said:
Because when you are in mud you need to spin your tires at a high rate of speed in order to get them to "clean out" the lugs so they can take another bite at the mud on their next revolution or you will just be spinning a big slick tire packed full of mud.With very low gearing your engine will be spinning very high RPM's.If you need to gear down in order to have the available torque to spin big tires you'll be through your reasonable(read:livable)RPM ceiling and into the parts store real quick.78Suburban said:why would that not be fine for mud???
. im keeping the 10b open for sure, its only going in mud, no such thing as rocks in northern va. most people usually break the 10b on rocks tho correct? i dont really see how i could break it unless it starts bouncing or something. the 14b is getting a full detroit, so hopefully that will give me some "power" to get through the mud haha. since it is my dd, i dont wanna lose the reliablility, was just hoping i could get by with intake, headers, true duals with welded flanges so i can easily go from running just headers when offroad to full exhuast, what ever those things are called. are there any other "cheap" mods that would increase hp/tq?
