Cheap-ish 360 mods

318willrun said
From what I've read, the budget is more than a Strict Budget, sounds like it has to run off of pennies.... --- and working with a '91 - LA with roller cam and 308 heads.

Roller cam should have the snout for a mechanical fuel pump, and timing cover should have the block-off plate. My '89 did. Just use that cam, leave it in there, buy a mechanical fuel pump - 22 bucks.

It will have a TBI intake you'll need to replace. Get a factory cast intake, and the later years with EGR valve are cheap, like 20-30 bucks. you'll need a 18 dollar intake gasket set.

Swap oil pan/pickup tube. Can very in price, but should not spend more than 75 bucks total. then you'll need a 17 dollar pan gasket.

Timing chain will already be a double roller, just use it.

Your at the bare minimum of about 160 bucks (unless you have a friend to donate the intake, pan&pick up tube), and you'll need a carb.

Well that's kind of what I was getting at I wasn't sure about the cam thing but at some point so it's going to have to spend some money. And if the cam was a $79 option and with the post being cheap upgrades? Geez what was I supposed to think? everybody knows how much this is going to cost and time and gaskets to do at a later date for a again I can't get my mind off the title cheap upgrade?
At this point I'm not even recommend putting a cam in or ananythin. and that's another thing I know in those years I wasn't sure if a regular manifold could be put on from an LA motor for dirt cheap or one has to be purchased for the Magnum swap but I assume it's not a magnum yet I'm not sure on those intermediate years.