New Daily Driver

[2nd_wnd]

Well I changed daily drivers finally.

I bought a 94 cavalier last sept. for $300. put a new head on it and have been driving it since.
Here's the good part:

Two weeks ago I was at a buddies and he asked if I wanted to trade my car for one of his ole chevy's.

Sure who wouldn't I picked this:




it's a 1972 GMC with factory a/c, 3:73 posi and originally came with 350/350.

He said all he wanteds was the 400 sb out of it, sure no problem, he was even willing to give me an engine to replace it if i will change it.

Great!

we spent the next 2 weekends swapping it out, it had a 700r4 i gave it back to him and put in one of my th350 instead.

Finally get it running and take it to the tag office to register it with my brand new 1972 plate i picked up at the swap meet.

Get almost there and it blows the entire contents(i think) of oil all over the road somewhere between stops. I have a buddy bring me some heavier weight oil thinking it must have just burned all the oil, didnt know it was leaking at this time. I start cranking it up and you can literally watch the oil run out of the back of the engine. so we tow it home.

The engine was out of a newer pickup, 86 or newer it had the one-piece rear seal and stupid passenger side dipstick.


Well now time to build a new engine.


well there's my intro to my nw truck and rant all in one.


Here's the strat of the new heartbeat.
Freshly bored .030 350 the heads are stock 72-73 heads and going in with flat-top pistons.







Will start a build thread in the engine/drivetrain area