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

I should give a general report, so heres an update;

Everything seems to be working well. There's only a few issues;

- Front Springs have sagged, buggar, so anyone have a recommendation, we are all ears, winch, winch bar, they did last a good 6 months.

- It does get hot under the bonnet, long term, probably put vents on the bonnets. We run the old style horn exhaust manifolds, was going to upgrade to extractors but I think this will increase under bonnet temps

- Everything else has been solid. nothing has broken, we do drive it with cuation. We let the torque of the engine do all the work. BUT its hard not to give it a boot full and watch (listen) to all 4 tyres scream in pain.


Cheers Nat

Hi Nat,

I'm still using the same springs all round that were installed with the 350 by a previous owner in 1991............. Pedders 2" lift HD. No sag at all.

Someone posted some time ago that Pedders actually make their own springs.

Extractors do increase engine bay temps, with no real benefit.

DL

Originally Posted by nat p

hay,

Not yet, atm looking at maybe ford focus vents, but the cars got parked for a while yep got lazy

Good idea! Let us know how you go with the vents