New Member with Engine Swap

[sunrunner]

Hi All, New Member, Brandon / 30 / Louisiana

I am fixing to do a 350 swap on my '84 2500 HD because I looked into rebuilding it and found I could replace it cheaper than I wanted to rebuild it, and will get an amazing warranty on the swap motor.

I work at an Advance Auto Parts so the sky is the limit as far as options go. My plans so far include a rebuilt 350 with 150,000 mile warranty, MSD 6AL ignition, Edelbrock Torker II intake with Holley Street Avenger II 850 cfm carb, Dynomax Headers, Geared Timing, and an Autometer Instrument Cluster.

As soon as the warranty is up on the block, I plan on replacing the stock heads with some nice new Edelbrock or Holley competition heads, a new Stall Converter and a shift kit on the old TH 400, and a good cam with a lot of lope. I'm even thinking of stroking the rebuilt 350, but that's only on the drawing board right now.

Couple quick questions:

I hear people mention replacing the V-Belt setup with a new serpentine belt system, but I can't find any information on who makes a replacement kit, obviously AAP doesn't sell one, or I'd already own it. Who makes a V to Serp replacement pulley system?

And the other one, I know I'm going to attempt to sqeeze every last horse out of the 350 once the warranty is up, but I am going to want to cruise around in it as well, and on pump gas definately. Where does it stop? What's the limit I could push it to on horsepower / street use without getting away from pump gas? I know nascar can push these things to 750 horses and right up to the 9500s on revs but you couldn't even crank them on 92 octane. Recon motors will take the 350 and bore / stroke it to close to 430 c.i.d. and squeeze 520 hp and 575 lb/ft torque out of it with a 75,000 mile warranty for right at $3000, but without boring it, what can I do?

Thanks Guys,

Brandon