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

Install a new torque converter when installing a new engine on a car, lining it up with the spines in two different steps; learn how in this free auto-remodeling video.

Expert: Doug Jenkins
Bio: Doug, of Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable.
Filmmaker: Ross Safronoff

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• engine
• replace
• motor
• mechanic
• transfer
• exchange
• chevy
• chevrolet
• ford

[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.

[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.

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

[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.

[adfasdfasdfluy]

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

[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]

very advanced and many ppl cant drive stick

[TestECull]

Automatic in a Corvette?

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