Hello my name is Carl and i from Davison,Mi. Have a 59 2 door Biscayne i am restoring. car was in great shape with no rust! Car came with 6 cyl three on the tree. Put a 350/35o hp engine and th350 turbo in last year.
Freind of mine has a 348 high torque engine he took out of a running1965 farm truck a few years ago,it only had 56k miles on it! He was gonna build it up to a 427 stoker but lost interest in his project. Engine is not froze up, in fact when we picked it up a ton of green antifreeze came out of it.
So should i be affraid of buying a truck engine? If not what needs to be done next,i don't think i just want to clean the exterior and paint it up and slap it in do i?Don't want to have a super high hp engine but don't want it to be a dog either!Any and all advice as to where to go from here would be appreciated!
Freind of mine has a 348 high torque engine he took out of a running1965 farm truck a few years ago,it only had 56k miles on it! He was gonna build it up to a 427 stoker but lost interest in his project. Engine is not froze up, in fact when we picked it up a ton of green antifreeze came out of it.
So should i be affraid of buying a truck engine? If not what needs to be done next,i don't think i just want to clean the exterior and paint it up and slap it in do i?Don't want to have a super high hp engine but don't want it to be a dog either!Any and all advice as to where to go from here would be appreciated!
First welcome to the site
bang Alot of Knowledge lies here. Pull some numbers off the block and heads and post and people will jump up and give opinions and or advice.
I have a '64 truck 348 in my old '57 Chev drag car and I am very happy with the install.I did a stock rebuild on it and put an Edelbrock durashine 600cfm ?(I'm not sure) on a '61 409 winters manifold . Hope you have as much satisfaction with yours as I have with mine. It is still an ongoing project converting an old barnstorming gasser from the '70s to a street car.
