Pt. 1: How to Install a Chevy 350 in a Ford Thunderbird : How to Install a Torque Converter

[musclekid13]

I beg to differ. I've built up plenty of SBC's and have never ran a warm idle speed of that much. The cam break in process is at 2000 RPM. Thats fairly high. A V8 typically only revs to about 5000. Go to any hot rod show. I promise none of those guys are running an idle that high.

[musclekid13]

@TestECull Sound like shit under 2500??? I'm sorry you don't enjoy the sound of a big thumping cam.

[TestECull]

@musclekid13 I heard a 305 in a '79 Caprice, which had about 350,000 miles and was clearly barely running, make the SAME EXACT SOUND!

Setting one's idle to 600-800RPM with a big cam just makes it sound like the engine's flying apart. Turn the idle up already.

[musclekid13]

@TestECull If you understood engine mechanics, thats the sound you want to hear!! 600-800 is normal operating idle speed no matter what the car. Look under the hood, there is a sticker, it tells you normal idle speed for your car. Usually it doesn't go over 1100 RPM. It doesn't matter what the cam size is, your tachometer will still read right. It doesn't matter the miles on the engine either.

[TestECull]

@musclekid13 Engines are not supposed to sound like they're about to fail. The 305 did because it was about to fail, one with a huge bump stick set to idle at 600-800RPM does because of the valve overlap causing it to misfire.

Also, that sticker is just the setting for the stock engine with a fuckton of smog gear. It's there for emissions reasons only. When you install a hot cam you're supposed to ignore that entirely and set the engine at a speed it likes instead, which is usually 1400.

[88Lbody]

As will i, my car is practically a gokart, it loves corners.

But my Ranger has a 3500 stall, and it isnt so bad.

But it plays in the mud.

[jayguy173]

they do have racing torque converters and automatics and preformance based automatic upgrades like they use for gto and corvette

[TestECull]

Automatic in a Corvette?

That's even more blasphemous than putting a Chev engine in a Ford chassis...

[jayguy173]

very advanced and many ppl cant drive stick

[TestECull]

Wow. So many things wrong with this.

1: Ford engine = ford chassis. Chev engine = chev chasis. Get it through your head before you ruin any more vehicles with blasphemous hybrids.

2: Automatic? Hotrod? Do you not have a pair of testicles? Automatics are for city cars and crippled folk, not for performance vehicles. IF you can't drive a manual, and you have four working limbs, learn. You aren't a car guy unless you can drive a manual well.

[88Lbody]

Well, i know several people running 9's with built autos, most of what ive seen autos at times can yield as much as .5 on e/t's if not more.

People have been putting Chevy motors in Ford's for as long as you've been alive, shit alot longer.

Built Ford tough with Chevy stuff ;-)

stop flaming things you dont understand,

looks to me this guy has more experience in his left pinky finger than you do in your whole body.

Theres nothing blasphemous about it.

[88Lbody]

Put an F23 in there, that would be blaspemous.

[jayguy173]

people put chevy engines in fords all the time

[adfasdfasdfluy]

theres really only one way to go fast in a ford. and thats putting a chevy engine in it

[TestECull]

Fast way to a junkyard when that thing tears free of it's motor mounts, or throws a crankshaft, or other such nonsense it wouldn't do if it were in a Chevy chassis.

[slimguy379]

:55 to :57... thats what she said

[thug0gr3]

that torque converter looks tight! and tha shiny gear box...:)