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Best Value Crate Engine??

Not anywhere near enough to hall around a 6k lbs beast
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Well, that's not accurate at all. It's even less accurate given proper gearing.

I would venture to say that the majority of guys on here are near 200 net horses. there's plenty of folks running TBI 350s which were rated at 210hp from the factory. I am personally right around the 200hp mark with a turbocharged 6.2L diesel, and it does just dandy.
 
Again, think in terms of torque, not HP. How often do you have your truck above 4k RPM anyway? My TBI 350 does fine with 300 ftlbs (when it was new).
 
Although my eyes were wide looking at the HP figures, I do have to say that even with the stock 350 (and unknown mods done to it by previous owner) with 170k miles, 33s, and 3.08s, the truck hauled ass pretty good. I was surprised since Ive never had gearing that high that it still pulled well. So Ill be happy with a rebuild and getting it back to stock numbers. My first vehicle ever was an '87 K5 with a 350 and manual 4 speed, 3.73s and 33s, and it HAULED ASS...and I was a young dumb stupid punk the way I beat on it, and that thing was a tough truck and I never worried about power wheeling or on the highway.

I was just being a dreamer that having some souped up motor would be sweet. At this point, I just want a running truck back and be able to pay my bills.
 
longbedder said:
Well, that's not accurate at all. It's even less accurate given proper gearing.

I would venture to say that the majority of guys on here are near 200 net horses. there's plenty of folks running TBI 350s which were rated at 210hp from the factory. I am personally right around the 200hp mark with a turbocharged 6.2L diesel, and it does just dandy.
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Well not anywhere near enough power for me even with proper gearing. Mine has 35" tires 4.56 gears and a fresh engine rebuild.

A turbo charged diesel might be nice but we are talking about the TBI gasoline engine here. Damn thing is a turtle with the stock motor and struggles to tow my boat. My 190hp V6 Tacoma out pulled my Blazer LOL. Although my Tacoma probably weighed less and was a stick so had somewhat of an advantage.
 
Diesel, 200HP, and probably 450FTLBs torque............... yeah, I could live with that!

Your Taco maybe be able to out pull your Blazer, but lets put a Toyota truck of the same vintage up against it and see who wins. These things may not be too impressive by todays standards, but they were the standard when they were made. They are built like a brick **** house and as reliable as day break and will be around long after the injection molded cars of today are beer cans and washing machines. Hell, they may end up as K5 re-pop panels from LMC.

Mine has a Kragens long block in it for 16K miles with no issues and hauls plenty of ass. Even better then when I took you for a ride now that its all fixed! HP is one thing, but for our trucks, torque is what matters. I think you will be happy with a bone stock rebuild to be honest. It will be an improvement over what's coming out. As long as the bottom end is built stout, you could always later add better heads, cam, manifold and headers, TBI chip as money comes. That my plan.
 
new crate engine

I am getting the pre vortec head crate engine, adding a comp cams 12-304-4 cam, should get a little more performance, I am using the stock tbi. Will post stats after I get it done. My GM tech at the store says about 250 horse and great torque
 
the difference is the cam. it is the gen 1 engine pre vortec heads, its all about the cam size. And they dictate it by the carb headers and the cam, you can look in the performance cata log for gm and it will show some cams.The bigger the caM THE MORE HP
 
HOLEY last years thread finders Bat Man:D
Add all the trucks tq numbers together in this thread and its prob little more than my 1109 RWTQ @ 2k rpm:haha:
Heh resident tool here :rolleyes:
 
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