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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: Robbins]
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06/01/13 09:55 PM
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I would not do that.......period.  That motor wouldn't be hard to sell and you could buy lots of Mopar options........as far as used motors go.
Sell the Chevy and pickup a Magnum for cheap, more power and it will drop right in. Carb intakes are cheap for the magnum motors.
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: gdonovan]
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06/02/13 01:04 AM
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Only the people on this forum will give you a hard time about it. Most folks wouldn't care, or would think it an improvement. It has been done a lot, typical hot rod stuff, and the usual way to install a different make motor is to put on the stock mounts set the deal into the bay get it lined up and weld it in. of course this is over simplified. Speaking of simple, the advice to sell the crate and get a Mopar motor is the easiest way to go.
Myself, I wouldn't bother changing brands.
I have mechanical Aptitude.
I can screw up anything.
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: CrAlt]
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06/02/13 01:02 PM
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In 1983 I bought a 1980 Chevy shortbed with a Ford 460 and C6 in it. Was a pretty decent Scotsdale swb. But the 460 was a tired puppy, skipping and smoked, running most of the time on about 6 cyl. Only 3 years old truck ... but I had this fresh 454/T400 ... 
It takes gasoline to interest me.
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: NITROUSN]
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06/02/13 04:05 PM
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For your viewing pleasure--or unpleasure....BBC in a Dodge--actually fits real well and a small block gets lost in there. Gobs and gobs of room. BUT... Not worth it for a cheap swap, as you are finding out. You have to really want it to do it. You can pick up a lower mileage 318 or 360 (prefered in my eyes for what your doing) for around $500 and it would basically bolt in. Get a carbed intake and your there---done, and I am not biased either way for this deal. I am sure you could get a $1,000 for the crate and you'd have every bit of the dollars you need to put a magnum 360 in and make it run. That is doing it cheap AND fast. 
Outcast Dodge guy.
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: rnch]
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06/02/13 05:10 PM
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you guys may not know but there is a mopar 904 tranny that bolts up to a chevy 350----these trannys were specd into postal jeeps powered by an iron duke 4 cylinder---then were made famous by Butch Brooks of loveland colorado who took these 904's filled them with 998/999 internals and sold them to offroad jeep racing teams that were running those hot corvette motors---he told me that he sold probably 200 of them over the years---another thing about butch ---he is a living legend in the western US among the offroad racers and some drag racers---a couple years ago at the rock crawling world championship in moab his trannys placed 1st,2nd,3rd and 5th---he offered the 4th place guy with a manual a free rebuild anytime----butch is down to his last chev/904 core and doesnt think he will ever find another since they have been out of production so long....bob
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: savoy64]
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06/02/13 07:27 PM
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I've run across a few sweptline era Dodges with 350s in them. They usually have a GM transmission as well. One guy actually built a 71 D100 show truck with a 454.
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: pinkduster]
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06/03/13 12:06 AM
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There is a guy running around my town with a early 2000s Cummings truck converted to a GM 350, but he used a GM trans as well. Could I do? NO, but at the same time I had little reserve on swapping a 318 in a Chevy truck to replace a tired 350 once.  Probably would have gotten a better response from a Chevy board then a Mopar board. Bottom line, its your truck, if cheap is the goal, buying a turbo 350 is probably cheaper then buying an adapter, and you could sell your rebuilt 727. Gene
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: poorboy]
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06/12/13 02:44 AM
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There is a guy running around my town with a early 2000s Cummings truck converted to a GM 350, but he used a GM trans as well.
What's a Cummings?
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: dodgeboy11]
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06/12/13 02:59 PM
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There is a guy running around my town with a early 2000s Cummings truck converted to a GM 350, but he used a GM trans as well.
What's a Cummings?
That was the way spell check corrected it. Had to give you something to feel important about.
I used to be the publisher of a club newsletter, If there was not some mistake someplace in a news letter, some people feel somehow useless. They have to have something to point out that was incorrect to feel useful and important. I do my best to make everyone feel useful and important. Misspelled words, incorrect punctuation, and incorrect grammar are there for your benefit.  Gene
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: CrAlt]
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06/13/13 01:15 AM
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I once saw a buick v6 in a dodge farm truck once...so nothing will shock me.
Seeing as to how it's not the easiest/cheapest swap, why not just go to some shops and see what you'll get...
...or even better, call some scrap yards and see if they'll trade their best, lowest mileage magnum 360.
Having had pretty much a bone stock 360 magnum in my LRT, it was very very nice. Pushed me to 15.1's in the 1/4 and towed my buddy's Buick GSX like a champ (once spinning the tires through an intersection). Got 17 mpg unladen and idled w/ 24 inches of vacuum. Great engine...
1979 Dodge Lil' Red Express - 360 rwhp, 13.2 @ 103mph
1968 Coronet: 318, 2.76, 15.2 @ 92mph! (SOLD)
1976 Valiant: 360, 3.90, 12.90 @ 106 (SOLD)
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: Prince_Valiant]
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06/13/13 02:23 PM
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I once saw a buick v6 in a dodge farm truck once...so nothing will shock me.
Seeing as to how it's not the easiest/cheapest swap, why not just go to some shops and see what you'll get...
...or even better, call some scrap yards and see if they'll trade their best, lowest mileage magnum 360.
Having had pretty much a bone stock 360 magnum in my LRT, it was very very nice. Pushed me to 15.1's in the 1/4 and towed my buddy's Buick GSX like a champ (once spinning the tires through an intersection). Got 17 mpg unladen and idled w/ 24 inches of vacuum. Great engine...
This, Magnum 360 with a 4bbl and electronic ignition. Sell the 350, if it is waht you say it is you should have no problem getting decent money for it and you wont have to search for the little parts to "make it work"
you can swim upstream if you want to or you can go with the flow but cheap and easy sounds a whole lot better than: Will it work?
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Re: Dont hate.. Chevy 350 in a D150?
[Re: CrAlt]
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06/13/13 05:36 PM
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I think a decent used 318 would be cheaper and less hassle than the parts to make the change.
Robert
Well i found out the adapter plate is going to run me almost $500 so getting the truck repowered cheaply with what i got isnt going to happen this way.
Oh well
then just get a junkyard turbo 350 , it'll last 500k more miles than a rebuilt 727 
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