Good deal??

[GMC69]

Well I was chatting with some guys at work and one of them mentioned that he has a 700r4 tranny that was built in 2004 but never installed in anything. It hasn't even been filled with fluid yet. It was built with corvette parts as it was intended for a street rod. He wants 650$ for it but I am sure I can get it for less.

He then mentions he was going to use that tranny along with an engine another guy at work has.

I talked to the other guy and he has a 350 engine out of a 74 Lemans, only a 2 bolt main with a mild cam, and under 70,000 original miles. Only thing is that is has been sitting for years, but every month or so he turns it over by hand and a few times a year he sprays lubricant in there and turns it over again by hand. He wants 150$


So my new build ( basically just a frame) might be able to get an engine and tranny for 800$.

Do you guys think this is a good deal? I think it's pretty decent seeing that you can't find a 350 around here if your life depended on it. And I am sure that a 700r4 goes for more than 650$

[Srubydo1986]

i say go for it. 650 700r4 with covette parst is awesome deal for even 650 and a 350 that turn for 150 is also a nice price.

[Blackstone]

I'm assuming that the 350 isn't original to the '74 LeMans, or it would be the much different Pontiac 350. The Pontiac version is okay, but a bit out of place in your truck and replacement/performance parts are 3-4 times more than Chevy. Mounts and transmission bolt patterns are different as well.

[GMC69]

If I got the block number, I'm sure I could have it checked to see what it really is, a Chevy or Pontiac engine. I will ask him tomorrow to get me the number on the block. Now being that it is a Canadian model, it may have been a Chevy engine. They did funny things up here with some vehicles.

[GMC69]

Was doing a bit of searching online and found this on one of the websites

Pontiac engines were not available in Canada, however, but were replaced with Chevrolet engines of similar size and power, resulting in such interesting and unusual (at least to American car fans) models as the 396 GTO.

[Pyrotechnic]

I'd do it. Beefed 700R4's seem to run about $1200-$1400 US dollars.

[streetstar]

Does "built with Corvette parts" mean that its a three quarter race tranny?

Just kidding -- just making fun of all the people who try to sell a truck by saying - "Its got a vette motor in there". I think vette motors outnumber the cars themselves 3 to 1

In all serious - it doesn't sound like you are getting hurt buying all that for $800. 6 or 700 is about the going rate for a rebuilt 700r4 in Oklahoma, but i understand the exchange rate is skewed a little

[Blackstone]

Originally Posted by GMC69

Was doing a bit of searching online and found this on one of the websites

Pontiac engines were not available in Canada, however, but were replaced with Chevrolet engines of similar size and power, resulting in such interesting and unusual (at least to American car fans) models as the 396 GTO.

That would explain a 409-equipped 1964 Catalina I once came across.

[69BBsuburban]

Originally Posted by streetstar

Just kidding -- just making fun of all the people who try to sell a truck by saying - "Its got a vette motor in there". I think vette motors outnumber the cars themselves 3 to 1

Hahaha.....somewhere there is a wrecking yard FULL of Vettes with no motors!!!

Corvette trans parts don't mean sh*t.....IMO the trans price is too high, esp. since it's been sitting for 3 years....who rebuilt it? is what I'd be asking....

[GMC69]

The tranny was build buy someone that works at a tranny shop. he gets the cores as they come in, buys the parts at his cost and sells them on the side.

As for the engine, it looks like a chevy, but I am about to go look up the block number. I did get a couple of pics with my cell phone, so I may post them later.

[GMC69]

ok well I got a casting ID off that block and was searching online and found this

Casting : #3970010
CID :327
Main Caps:2
Comments: none


Casting : #3970010
CID :350 185 370
Main Caps:2 or 4
Comments: car, truck, Vette

Sooooo it looks like it is a chevy engine, and it is possibly a 4 bolt main. But even if it is a 2 bolt main, I don't really care. I was talking to the guy that is selling the engine and he found that after he installed that cam ( still in the engine) it woke up the engine and he finds it is better than the 350 he currently has in his truck ( a 47 chevy pickup if I am not mistaken). The only reason he swapped the motors is that this one in the truck he got for 400 already rebuilt.


really needs to be cleaned and repainted but for 150$ I can't complain much.





As for that comment earlier that people try to sell vehicles that have vette engines, I bet they did the same thing as I did. Look at the casting ID and see, ooh vette, and completely ignore the rest of the information.