Thread: Putting a chev 350 in a rangie, documenting it all!

Great work! I am planning a small block chev / LS1 install on my engineless 90 sometime next year. I will definately re-visit this thread when I do!

Hay all,
Yep I know its been ages but the car is finally up and running and now driving. This only happened a couple of nights ago. Well... to a level that we are happy with.

This next installment was finishing off the auto cooler, and kick down. The kick down is pretty simple. I used the standard disco cable. This is the standard ZF cable. We used a fancy bracket which we bought off teh net, which we were able to utilize the disco accel cable and the kick down cable.

We fitted the oil cooler and flushed the trans and put a new filter in it. Pretty exciting stuff.

WARNING!!!: DO NOT do to a smaller diameter pipe. I was very surprised how much flow. When we were flushing it, I could not believe how much and the rate it did.


OK The fittings we used were;
The pipes are 1/2" the fittings are 1/2" BSP. , the gearbox and cooler adapters are 16mm >1/2"BSP see a pick of the new adapter installed in the auto (this is not my car, I found this on the net, just to show you.

So in a nutshell we removed the original adapters and fitted the ones we wanted to use.

We went with a 10 by 11 inch B and M cooler. with speed flow fittings on this end and I had the Enzed men crimp the other for a clean fittings.

Cheers NAT

more pics,

as you can see theres not much space there, so YOU have to get the correct adapters OR they hit the auto body. SO its ALOT easier to do this with the auto out of the car, BUT we did it in the car, We used a 7/8 socket to remove them and brought them with us.

Cheers NAT P

We ran the lines down the side, We trimmed,tapped the inner guards to make sure there's no way of cutting. They look fancy!! AND there's enough left over for the engine oil cooler!! - another night.

hay all,

Well first proper drive around the block and up a slight hill...
ok the issues that arose were;

Flat battery - reason - not revving enough, Alt is bot kicking on. will have to adjust reg so it kicks in earlier.

thermo Fans stay on ALOT after car is turned of - reason - heat soak, will cut some vents in bonnet to release some of the heat build up.

Exhaust leaks between manifold and pipe - Us being lazy not seting them well enough. Not a great set up BUT will do for the moment.

Auto temp - reason - nothing!! PERFECT after flushing it and the new cooler, it runs cool, shifts better, smoother, etc etc - Used Penrite X5. good stuff!

Temp gauge, went dead - reason - no idea... have to work at this one!

Cheers NAT

The small driver around the block and up the street...

Hi NAT P

Hows everything going with the 350chev install. Is she all sorted and running well?. What is the fuel usage like compared to the old motor?

cheers

Geeman

This is a great thread. Thanks for sharing this with us all. Very keen to see how it ends up.