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Originally Posted by shelby987
TP, did you want to say "you can't BEAT an inliner for truck duty"???
Either way, replacing a 454 with an INLINE.....one word, AWESOME......and do you have a link to the cast headers?
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Yeah, that is what I ment to say
For what I am using my trucks for, SBC or BBC's don't work well enough to suit me. I searched for a long time for a SBC powered 3/4 ton...............Thought it would be the ticket for pulling. Got a nice one bought and we started using it on the farm. Now, we had a little '69 C-10 with a 250/3spd we used for years on most of these jobs and it took all the abuse we could throw at it and came back for more..............One day I was hauling hay wagons to a farm we were renting about 4 miles away..........It was on top of a mountain and all up hill from our home place. I left with one wagon(These were kicker wagons that look like a big wooden cage on wheels).............My brother had the C-10 with another wagon and he left not long after I did...........I got on the hill and my C-20 had a 3spd behind the 350, just like we had behind the 250............While those wagons aren't heavy at all, they drag alot of wind like trying to hold a piece of 4x8 plywood in a 50 mph wind, so I couldn't run 3rd, I didn't have the low end for it, I tried believe me...........So I was down in 2nd with that SBC just screaming contemplating why I wanted this engine so bad
.......All of a sudden I hear this roaring, looked in my mirror, here's my brother in the C-10, pulling out from behind me and he goes by like I was standing still while my big bad 350 is running its guts out. Now, let me tell you, if you have driven semi at all or know anyone who does.............Getting passed on a hill is the ULTIMATE slap in the face
So I went back to what I know works. Alot of my friends said I should have put a cam, heads, etc, etc on the BB and left it in the truck...........Well, one thing I learned farm stock tractor pulling and driving OTR, short stroke and high rpm doesn't get you anywhere unless you have a 2 stroke Diesel Jimmy and alot of gears
That same 250 that was in the C-10 is what the K is getting