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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: Engine Swap - 73 Chevy
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:36:53 GMT
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- In article <3403.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- >
- >-> I drive a 1973 Chevy Malibu and I'm planning on doing an engine
- >-> swap in the near future. It currently has the 250 inline 6 in it
- >-> with a turbo 350 trans. What I'm looking for is suggestions as
- >-> toward what size engine I should look to. I love the idea of putting
- >
- > The '73 is a big honker car. Why not an appropriate engine, like a
- >454?
-
- My dad had a '73 or '74 Malibu about 8 or 10 years ago. It had a
- 350, and he always said that it was too light in the back end, so
- he would fish-tail a little if the road was a little wet. A 350
- with a 4-bll and dual exhaust will give that car more muscle than
- 99% of the cars on the road now.
- (That Malibu is a NORMAL size car. It's todays cars that are too small).
-