I just installed a 3.31 open rearend in my 67 el camino. Id like a posi for it eventually. Well I may have come across a 4.10 posi for the thing. I ran a 4.10 gearset in my nova with a m21. Not really a economical setup., but a fun aroind town driver. I know Ill get tired of it eventually but if the deal goes through I know Ill be putting it in. Jim
ever do a swap on your car you know is wrong but still do it?
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I just installed a 3.31 open rearend in my 67 el camino. Id like a posi for it eventually. Well I may have come across a 4.10 posi for the thing. I ran a 4.10 gearset in my nova with a m21. Not really a economical setup., but a fun aroind town driver. I know Ill get tired of it eventually but if the deal goes through I know Ill be putting it in. Jim
Giving some serious thought to removing the power brake booster from my 59
car don't stop for beans and going full manual (4-wheel Disc) might help it stop.
7" booster is useless but a larger one will not fit.
But I have a line on a hydroboost for free----all I need to do is locate a PS
pump with 2 returns that will bolt into the GM serpentine system that is in the car.
car don't stop for beans and going full manual (4-wheel Disc) might help it stop.
7" booster is useless but a larger one will not fit.
But I have a line on a hydroboost for free----all I need to do is locate a PS
pump with 2 returns that will bolt into the GM serpentine system that is in the car.
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My 05 2500HD has the hydroboost setup. A new AC Delco pump for it at Rockauto is aout $100.
I've done a few... I put in 4.10s when the original 3.73s grenaded... But a few years later I swapped the M21 for a fresh M20... The M20/4.10 combo was fun for a while, but got old quickly...
I also once picked up a "O"style "12-bolt" posi rearend for $100... After I found it wasn't the Chevy rear, and that it was something like 2.73 ratio (I forget, but "Highway" friendly), I swapped it anyway... IIRC, I might have still had the Powerglide in the car then... lackluster performance off-the-line...
I also once picked up a "O"style "12-bolt" posi rearend for $100... After I found it wasn't the Chevy rear, and that it was something like 2.73 ratio (I forget, but "Highway" friendly), I swapped it anyway... IIRC, I might have still had the Powerglide in the car then... lackluster performance off-the-line...
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Both PS hoses for a mid 80's Olds 88 diesel should fit the hydro post set up if you orient the hydro lost with the nitrogen canister toward the fender. Definitely use 2 return hoses back to the pump - the pump from a mid 90's 3/4 ton pickup or van should have that setup.
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The Hydratech Hydraboost Kit I installed on my Malibu came with a T fitting. They give specific instructions on how to plumb it. Works just fine.
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Back in 2000 I had a 700-R tranny put in.
The 3.07 1st is way to low behind a big Rat, and the gap between 1st and 2d is so big that you think a plug wire fell off when you shift. I should have went with a beefed up 200-R.
Now, the TCI 6x has solved all of that.
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Not my swap, but a buddy at work is retrofitting a Chevy Corvair (yes I said Corvair) with a blown MOPAR big block!! Don't hit me! I'm just a messenger!!
I've tried a couple different masters---pretty much the same result.
That little 7" booster just don't get it, besides, silly engine does not really want to produce any vacuum.
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You should be able to use the pump from any of the 87 up trucks with serpentine drive and hydroboost. Just look up 2500-3500 series trucks, probably best if they are around the same years as your serpentine setup.
Try to guess the year?
My buddy asked me to check out a '71 Cuda he was looking to buy. From a half block away, it looked pretty bitchin'. Metallic midnight blue, all jacked up with bigassed tires out back and skinnies up front, on centerlines. Two velocity stacks sticking through the hood. You know, typical white trash Hot Rod of the era.
Every foot we got closer, he got more excited and I felt.... well, violated, for lack of a better word. While I wanted to turn around and leave, he was absolutely giddy. Already out of my car and poking his head into every open hole in the Cuda... and there were a lot of them. Holes in the hood, holes in the roof (dual flip-up sunroof), holes in the holes (louvres everywhere).
The hood itself was an abortion of the highest standard. Purely speculative on my part, but imagine three different owners.
The first owner was obviously handicapped, maybe a hook for a hand, but he somehow managed to graft an L88 scoop to a stock hood of questionable integrity.
Soon traded for livestock to an inbred cousin. The apparent owner of a louvre press.
One industrial accident later, inherited by the gimps twin brother, who come from Louisiana with a big block on his knee (freshly plucked out of the family fan boat). What's two more holes? Big un's, for the shiney air funnels on top.
Wallah, a finely buffed turd for all to behold. Minus the buffing. Possibly painted with a roller. The kind for popcorn ceilings.
Oh, forgot to mention, the big block was a 460.... As in.... Ford. And the rims weren't Centerlines either, rather Keystones from Big O.
Despite my every objection, my idiot friend bought that car.
Still see that friend practically every day of my life, but can't say that I ever mentioned that car again. Might have seen it twice in my entire life. I should ask him what happened to that thing.
Nah, some things are better left unknown.
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my 84 T Type came from the factory with hydraboost, and it only has one line going back into the pump.
I primered my 71 el camino with rustoleum enamel primer with a roller. We were taking it to the track that night and it was four different colors so I made it one color, grey. But i wont cut a sunroof or lojvers or drop anything but a chevy motor in it. Eventually a 454. Jim
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