[quote]elano wrote:
DoubleDuce wrote:
Get a good temp gage, keep an eye on it breaking it in (you shouldn�??t be running it to hard anyway at this point), spend the money on cooling upgrades if it is getting to hot. Just my 2 cents.
Props on ditching the 305 boat anchor.
Yeah I was tired of getting beat by 1.8ltr hondas. Plus the old 305 leaks a little bit of everything out of everywhere lol.
I think ill just buy a good tranny cooler and run that alone. If i find that I need a new radiator, ill do what i have to.
Thanks a lot everyone![/quote]
lol @ the 1.8 honda guys
I am also an import guy and I have a 2004 toyota corolla that is my daily driver with a couple bolt ons including turbo,stand alone fuel managment,boost controller and custom axles.
I get to 120mph easy and run low 13s in the quarter mile (limited by my suspension) and on a recent trip to families house up north I ran on the freeway doing between 35-40mpg the whole way
I ran 216 miles on half a tank before stopping and topping off and its a 10 gallon tank so thats how I figured
some of these smaller enginges can be quite impressive. but they are a pita with all the computers and electronics and close tollerences
glad to see you are opting out for the cooler.
I dont think any choice really in either direction you take it would have been a bad one.
kind of which one you want to do first i guess.
Yeah TBI’s suck compared to the TPI, but its still better than the CC Quadrajets like what came on my IROC. I had an 88 305 TBI firebird that ran pretty well. I heard alot of them have problems with the throttle bodies tho.
The 305 is a joke. I wish they would have only had one v8 option, the 350 and no v6… Personally…
I can respect any body’s ride as long as they have some serious parts to go along with their decals, sticker, wheels, and wings… I can appreciate somebody dumping 10g in a echo if it runs fast. I would drive it just to whoop up on these mustang guys who think their hot stuff…