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Here is some pics and info for those wanting to do chev conversions to early commodores.
Ill start by pointing out this is a budget job and by no means intended as show standard or the likes.
I started with the purchase of my 79 vb sl/e, at the time of purchase it had a pretty tired 253 trimatic combo and i soon got sick of replacing fouled plugs and only getting 180-200k out of a tank of fuel so its time for an engine upgrade.
pics of when i got it apart from the grill i changed that to protect the mint vb grill from damage.
Now comes the fun parts, my dad had a 283 in his datto and went to a bigger 350 so we decided the 283 would look good in the vb as it was less then 10,000k old and better than the 253. The 350 came with a turbo 400 so we where intending on using that aswell but as it turns out we managed to pick up a good th700r4 for cheap so now thats the box of choice.
Ill start by pointing out this is a budget job and by no means intended as show standard or the likes.
I started with the purchase of my 79 vb sl/e, at the time of purchase it had a pretty tired 253 trimatic combo and i soon got sick of replacing fouled plugs and only getting 180-200k out of a tank of fuel so its time for an engine upgrade.
pics of when i got it apart from the grill i changed that to protect the mint vb grill from damage.
Now comes the fun parts, my dad had a 283 in his datto and went to a bigger 350 so we decided the 283 would look good in the vb as it was less then 10,000k old and better than the 253. The 350 came with a turbo 400 so we where intending on using that aswell but as it turns out we managed to pick up a good th700r4 for cheap so now thats the box of choice.
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