Introduction and pics

[Bob D]

Hi Longhorn,

The flex fan will go eventually. The truck had a 4 blade paddle on it with no clutch and was a huge drag on the engine. I plan on getting a stock fan and clutch. The truck was a 6 cyl, but one of the PO's put in the SBC with a th350. I tore it apart last year and discovered that it is a 350 bored 30 over with the deck shaved so it has no numbers. Heads are stock of 1979-85 vintage, and it had a 2bbl intake. It had 1 OEM ramshorn exhaust manifold and one chinese one with a crack in it. Only good thing was that they did put an HEI on it. About this time last year one of the lifters blew apart on me, so I tore it down and put in Summit lifters, push rods and cam, edelbrock timing chain & gears, 2nd hand performer intake and carb, Headman headers with Summit turbos an H pipe and brought the exhaust out in front of the rear tires. It runs really well, but only about 8 mpg with the 3.73 rear end

Bob