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My old man hotrod/dd

Nope, 79 engine 454 in a 85 C20. I assumed the manifolds were factory for the 85 but idk. Still not sure the back story. My buddy gave me the truck if I would pull and return the th400. He thought is was all factory. The blue paint and thermostatic choke clued me in to the fact that it wasn't stock. The engine code lists it as a 79 10-20 LF-9 (like 190hp?). When cleaning it up I could see it had one stock steel shim gasket and one composite. Had and crane energizer cam but stock chain. I installed a pink HV pump spring in the stock oil pump and added a erson 228/235 cam, new chain, 3/8 pushrods/guide plates and hosed it out. Actually looked good inside for the most part it. I have about $1000 in the swap including all the engine parts, new headers, exhaust, converter, regear and posi rebuild. I will run it for awhile and beat it like a rented mule possibly even putting it on the bottle. I have plans to build a 505-510 someday but this will be fun for awhile.

Supposedly they were installed by the factory for a small run in mid 80's 454 trucks when GM was having troubles with cast BBC manifolds. Once they figured that out they went back to cast, that's the story I read anyway. They came on all the RV's though, usually referred to as p30 tubular manifolds. I'm running them on my truck since they fit nice and tight to engine.

I've seen them on ebay selling for $250+
 
I guess it is good I kept them. I thought about putting them on the K30 and building a large single exhaust down the drivers side. I pretty much hate my headers and crappy duals it has.
 
Put the ps pump on yesterday. Plan on lots of stuff today. Cleaning up the BBC AC brackets Marty got me so I can keep the ac working. Does appear the bracket over the valve cover may not fit. Going pretty slow just to make sure Any modifications are as close to stock looking as possible.
 
w tin covers it would look factory!
 
Too bad I mashed them pulling it out because of a twisted chain and doing most of it alone. When the next engine is built it will probably get those stock looking chrome ones that are 3/4" taller and possibly all painted orange. I want it to look as stock as possible
 
Tires spin on the jack stands. Found I put a hole in the oil filter with a engine stand bolt. 1/2 quart of oil makes a big mess.
I had a torque converter bolt come out on my truck back in high school and hit the oil filter on its way out of the bellhousing. Same thing, tiny little hole and lots of mess.
 
No pics but last night I went for a drive. Open 2.73 means instant tire spin and lots of smoke. Carb is pretty fat, one header keeps leaking, ran 200 but fan clutch is junk. I will keep working on it. Converter is pretty loose but I am sure the 2.73s don't help. Hoping the 3.23s and posi I get installed next week help control the spin some and tighten the converter.
 
The axle remain the 8.5 10 bolt gm installed in 1974, the eaton posi is from my highshool 81 camaro and the gears are from the front of some weirdly optioned 3/4 that Marty had in the tree line. The disks of the rear you gave me will either be used on my 74 or on my wifes 74 2 door that she recently asked if we could fix up so she could drive it in the summers.
 
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