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  1. Gene King

    Where to buy a replacement Y-pipe from

    Hello, I need a new exhaust y-pipe and I can't find any places that have a direct replacement in stock. After checking the usual suspects I clicked down the links on the first two pages of google without finding any random websites that have it. I'm after a 4wd SBC y-pipe, Walker #40412 or AP...
  2. Gene King

    Show your daily driver

    Props I thought this thread would be like 95% yuppy plastic but it's probably less than 50%
  3. Gene King

    Any squarebody van guys? Got a odd question.

    cool photos. I wanna say mine's a Starcraft or Starline or something..could be wrong though. It's a lot like that except it doesn't have the bulkhead behind the bed and it had a removable table between the 2nd row seats. & yeah it's kind of a long story but he hit driver's side rear corner then...
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    Any squarebody van guys? Got a odd question.

    I've got an '83 G20 in the yard. I forget what they call it but it's got upgrades done to it by an aftermarket company sort of like Shelby. Was a sweet rig, shag carpet, suede swivel seats and a sleeping bed. Then a drunk killed himself rear ending it
  5. Gene King

    1987 Chevrolet 350 tbi high idle

    I don't have much advice but I sympathize with you mate. I think if I had 37 forum pages worth of problems with my truck I'd destroy it out of spite
  6. Gene King

    New from NH

    Good lookin' truck, I'd trade ya. Welcome
  7. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    you can put a carb on them but you need the computer to do ignition, they have no distributor hole. There's an ~$800 kit to make a distrib mount in the timing cover but that's rich for my blood. The auto trans that came with them have computers too. Here's a couple pages out of a book I have...
  8. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Is that a security cam? lol pretty cool. There she is, is an '89. Car's from Georgia so it hasn't been destroyed by salt. Went all the way down to Pennsylvania about 10 years ago to get it as a young whipper right out of high school. Has treated me really well considering, I've put 50k miles on...
  9. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    heh must have been all that LS wiring that has made you bitter and angry. We're all car guys here, treat people with some respect even though they have different opinions than you. It's embarrassing to the whole community
  10. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Heh yea true Reckless. The town I grew up in had a liquor store, gas station, tackle shop, bar and nothing else. Hunting, fishing, dirt bikes, frog gigging, clamming, trapping, crabbing, raised cows&chickens, pretty much every redneck activity you can think of, we were into it. We'd buy wood...
  11. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    @SquareRoot to drive, it's just what I like working on, or more like able to tolerate lol. I don't want to make it a debate but I like the self contained ignition and fueling systems. I've got half a dozen small block size carbs and HEI distribs kicking around. I've had enough bad luck with...
  12. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Totally agree on the turning to dust bit, look what the salt has done to my poor square. I lost a cell phone out the holes in the floorboard on the highway one time. Exhaust is so leaky it sounds like it doesn't have one
  13. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Was just bullshitting with my dad, he's got an old 327 with questionable bores and 10:1 heads but with sunk valves. Not sure that helps me yet but it wouldn't cost me anything to get
  14. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Hi guys, thanks for all the replies, I'll do some research on these guys you recommended @RecklessWOT & @Rickf, I live 10 mins from Foxwoods. I appreciate the offer Rick but no thank you. This is actually for my Iroc that had a swapped smogger 305 before I blew it up and it was always anemic...
  15. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Could you recommend some good rebuilders with warranties? All the crates on Summit from a decent name are at least 3.5k For wrecking yards, I've called every place in a 30 minute drive and nobody saves over 20 years old, to my knowledge every 350 that came in a vehicle is at least 20 years old...
  16. Gene King

    Pricing on Engines

    Hello, I'm in need of a 350, and junkyards around here don't keep things older than 20 years so I've been looking at stuff on Craigslist and Facebook for a while and just saw a listing that listing that caught my eye but I'd like to get others opinions because I don't know how to value used...
  17. Gene King

    Starter runs w/o solenoid in truck, not on ground

    @SirRobyn0 I fixed it actually, you gave me the idea, the power wire wasn't wrapping around to hit the signal wire, it was wrapping around to hit the contact that runs the motor on the bottom. This was it after I fixed it, I saw that heavy duty insulation and didn't think about it I guess Anyway...
  18. Gene King

    Starter runs w/o solenoid in truck, not on ground

    @bucket jumper cables and a push button @SirRobyn0 If that was the case the pinion would be engaging the flywheel I'll go out and take some pics soon, cold in the northeast the last couple days
  19. Gene King

    Starter runs w/o solenoid in truck, not on ground

    Hello I've got a problem that's got me stumped. My starter will work perfectly normal testing it on a table, but you put it in the truck and even without the signal wire connected, just the main power connected, as soon as you reconnect the ground the motor wants to run. It's not even engaging...
  20. Gene King

    Edelbrock 1406 running rich

    You say it's the first time you messed with a carb..did you let it get up to temp before you judged it was running good the first time?
  21. Gene King

    What non 73/87 parts have you swapped into your squarebody?

    I've got the plastic fuel tank from a 12 foot jonboat, does that count
  22. Gene King

    Stolen Squarebodies to be on the look out for.

    The trick I use is leaving the truck so dilapidated and ugly that nobody else would be caught dead in it. I'm definitely not just lazy
  23. Gene King

    What happened to all the S10's

    Was thinking earlier, 10 or 15 years ago those little S10 pickups were everywhere, people would 350 swap them all the time. Then it's like they all vanished from the roads and marketplaces and I see 10 square bodies for every S10 now. Did they have a lot of spots to catch road junk and rust out...
  24. Gene King

    HEI distrib problem under load

    Heh I bamboozled you guys a little bit, wasn't actually my square body you were helpin' me fix, attached a photo. I cut the pig tail off a parts van and butt connector'd it on, should be good.
  25. Gene King

    HEI distrib problem under load

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