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Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

Well my head swap has taken a day longer than I was hoping due to me not having another vehicle at the house right now and murpy's law leading me to require multiple visits to the local part store. I have the intake installed now but it's late, and dark outside and I still want to give everything a good once over before attempting to fire it up.

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject:

ohhh shiney!

What heads did you go with again? Did you just put a 383 in?

Sorry if I am getting peoples projects mixed up.

-Schultzy

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

This is just my lil 305. They're Trick Flow 175's

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

Nice heads. What cam did you go with?

-Schultzy

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

Comp Cams 08-501-8. I didn't really want to go too much bigger as it will ultimately be restricted by the tpi intake and this is still my driver.

Dewey316 · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:49 pm Post subject:

I think that is a pretty good 305 cam. That is one of the cams I was looking to go with, but ended up with an UltraDyne instead of the comp.

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

On a somewhat related note. I was messing with my AC harness and the hard black plastic line that supplies vacuum to the damper controls popped off and I can't see where it goes to. I've been looking in the factory service manual and I can't find where the connector on the interior is.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 10:49 pm Post subject:

It turns purple somewhere in the harness IIRC, and goes into the back of the HVAC selector.

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

Sweet. I guess I'll trace the purple line to it's end and plug it in. Thanks!

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

So I got it running today and drove it to my mother in laws house in bothell and now either I have a serious short somewhere or my charging system isn't working. I'm going to have to wait till morning to figure out what it is.

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

New alternator and it's fixed. Taking her to Leavenworth today and see how the thing works.

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

So I got it to Leavenworth just fine. The only issues I have is it like to surge under low load and low rpm and speed and it runs a bit rough under medium load starting at about 2500. I think cyl 4 plug wire might be bad it looks like it may have been cooked.

RSFreak · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:17 pm Post subject:

What size valves do those heads have?

iansane · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:17 pm Post subject:

Awesome to hear the initial voyage went well! Good luck on figuring out the drivability quirks, that's always fun. Laughing

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

I believe the intakes are 1.94 and exhaust are 1.50

Hopefully it doesn't take much. It is still plenty fun to drive.