- Remove the front clip.
- Remove the radiator.
- Remove engine and transmission.
- Remove everything from the firewall.
- Clean, clean, clean.
- "adjust" firewall and frame to make room for
- Primer everything.
- Paint everything.
- Build motor mounts. I created the motor
- Set engine and transmission in place, make note of tight
- "adjust" areas that were tight
- Repeat steps 10 & 11 until engine and transmission fits
- The lip on the bottom of the firewall (especially in the
transmission tunnel).
- The bottom portion of the firewall on the
passenger side.
- The frame next to the fuel pump. This needed quite a bit of
adjusting to give the fuel pump enough clearance.
- The cross member on the passenger side to make room for the
starter. I used a gear reduction starter but I don't think it
gained me much clearance.
- Adjust the transmission cross member by enlarging the hole for the
- Set engine and transmission in place and bolt it in.
- Install steering shaft (shorten plastic cover if you are using headman
- Try to bend shift linkage so it fits.
- Give up on old shift linkage after a hours of failed attempts.
- Build new shift linkage from a rod that bends easier.
- Cut the air conditioning radiator support to
- Construct brackets to hold the radiator and
- Installed radiator support, radiator and
- Wire up fans. I used a 210 degree
- Connect the radiator to the engine.
- Re-bend the transmission coolant lines to fit the new
- Grind down shaft on power steering pump to make room for the
- Start it up and take it for a drive with open headers!
the 350 (I used a wood splitting maul for this).
mounts from the plans supplied in the conversion book from Jags
That Run. A mill came in real hand for this when creating the
slots in the mounts so it could be mounted in different positions.
Luckily I talked my dad in to purchasing a mill from Harbor
Freight Tools.
spots, remove engine and transmission.
nicely.
Areas that I needed to adjust:
transmission mounting bolt lengthways. On which end you lengthen
probably depends on where you position the engine.
headers).
fit the new radiator (I installed an aluminum single row radiator for a
corvette). The support is double walled on top and bottom. If
you remove inner layer from the top an bottom it should give you enough room
for the radiator. I also cut out a section all the way through the
support to make room for the filler cap, this way I don't need to remove the
upper radiator supports and tip the radiator back to get at the filler
cap. Pictures: One and two.
electric fans. The fans I used were out of a early to mid 90's Toyota Camry
with air conditioning. I basically used 1" square tubing to make
the brackets. You partially see the top bracket here.
I used two existing holes from to old fan shroud to mount the bracket.
I also build to upper brackets that wrapped over the radiator. The old
rubber radiator supports were used as cushions. On the main bracket I
used foam weather stripping to eliminate any metal to metal contact with the
radiator.
fans.
thermo fan switch in the intake which I believe was for a Corvette.
This was hooked up to a 30 amp relay which turns on the fans.
This part was fun because I couldn't find any radiator hoses that
worked. Out of pure luck I was able to use my old upper radiator hose
by flipping it end for end, cutting and rotating and splicing it back
together in the middle. A lot of this depends on the radiator you use
and the thermostat housing used on the intake (my thermostat housing was a
chrome Summit Racing housing). I ended up using to different hoses for
the lower. The problem here is that I had to go down two sizes from
the water pump to the radiator. In this case I had my dad make an
aluminum coupler in the middle to do one of the size reductions (the other
reduction was in one of the hoses).
radiator. I believe the hookups on the transmission were in the same
location as my old 700R4.
drivers side fan. I welded the pulley back on.
Reconnect and reassemble everything else. Throw away
anything that isn't needed by the 350. I also rerouted all of the
wiring to clean up the engine compartment.