The 350 Chevy motor has been stripped, and is in need of some specialist work - it basically looks good, but need a lot of new moving parts. When I have some spare cash the block and heads will go out for a clean and inspection.
In short term as least, the plan is to keep the 253 in the car and run with it. Why? Because the engineering cost for the replacement motor is more than I will wind up spending on the motor itself. The blue 253 with HEI ignition and the Quadrajet is a top motor, and still runs really well, so there's no hurry to replace it.
As a result, I've decided to make some changes. I've removed the dual fuel system. There are a number of reasons - clean up the engine bay, the tank is years out of date, and I can get it tuned to run properly on petrol.
As you can see from the photo above, there are still some items to remove, and the plumbing and wiring will be cleaned up further when the manual fuel pump goes on - removing a lot of the crap associated with the electric fuel pump.
The other change will be some new seats going into the van.
These seats have come from a VZ Berlina (Commodore). Should look good when installed - no, they don't bolt right in, I need to make up some brackets.
I'll post another entry when the seats are fitted.
Cheers!
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