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Chevy350 problems
Hey guys I'm a senior in high school and have a 72 GMC truck I'm restoring after it burned up. Anyways I scored a sweet 500 HP Corvette Motor for it. It was built in a race shop in Texas. Obviously I didn't buy it new. I bough it from a buddy I have done business with before he had it in a mudding jeep. he said he hasn't put many miles on it. Anyways I went to start it for the first time and its really trying to run but only header tubes 2 and 4 are getting hot. It has a dual plane intake so I don't think its fuel as its sucking gas and air from both sides of the carb for 2 and 4 to run. Another important detail is he told me to follow the firing order on the distributor cap. Its not the typical Chevy firing order.
1 8 4 3 6 5 7 2 is the good ol typical Chevy firing order. 1 8 6 2 7 3 4 5 is what the cap said and he told me to use now if its supposed to use the traditional firing order one would think 2 and 4 would line up but as you can see they don't. I'm running a MSD 6AL rev limiter/spark controller. I'm really lost here any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks! |
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Re: Chevy350 problems
Hmmm... pretty familiar with the first firing order you have listed there.
The second one I haven't seen. Later model LS engines are different from small blocks. But the second firing order doesn't match that either. Cadillac northstar engines were different also but they weren't really chevy small blocks. GM small block V8 engines are 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2. GM LS V8 engines are 1-8-7-2-6-5-4-3 I suppose it's possible, but I haven't seen any other firing orders. To change the firing order you would have to change the crank and the cam (and a few other things).
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Re: Chevy350 problems
its not an LS motor. its from a 80-90's vette probably LT1. Sorry, I probably should have specified.
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they make special cams to eliminate cylinders 5and 7 from firing next to each other. its supposed to be easer on the bearings. Its rare to find an engine with one of those cams though. but yea I was going to try it with the traditional firing order. Thanks for the reply!
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Re: Chevy350 problems
Now if it is an LT motor you would notice the water pump is Not driven by a belt. Normally where the w/p pulley is you would have a flat plate. No the firing order change type cams it is just two that are swapped or so I thought.
I would try to wire it in a traditional fashion and crank the timing up a bit it sounds low. Good luck keep at it you can get it running. Jim |
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Do you have a photo of this engine? The LT1 is going to look different than anything else.
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Re: Chevy350 problems
You are referring to a 4-7 swap cam. 18736542
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Also those firing order change cams use to be real expensive and at one time only super serious guys had them. Like pro stock guys and such
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Re: Chevy350 problems
Easy to check your firing order using the compression test.
Pull all the spark plugs and the dizzy cap. Put your thumb over the plug hole on #1. When you feel compression then you know #1 is just about ready to fire. The rotor should be pointing at #1 on the cap. Then follow the firing order, checking each cylinder in turn. Watch the rotor while you do each one. |
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I fixed it! firing order was 180 out and one plug off. She Runs great now! thanks to all who commented. And yes it was the traditional 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 firing order. The guy I got it from is just not the brightest bulb I guess.
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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! Good Job! Glad you got it running.
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Re: Chevy350 problems
Your firing order is wrong , imposable for the engine to fire 3 times on the same bank 8-6-2 will not fire in that order
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