JoeDust451
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Which would you preffer, i can get either a 95 360 Magnum, or a 70s 360, both were supposidely rebuilt with low miles, there both around 400.00 for either one.
It also depends if you want it to look stock or not. The LA can be dressed to look stock or like a 340 if you want, the magnums just never looked right to me with the different valve covers. If you don't care about originality, I suppose the magnums can make more power with the proper mods.
Will you be installing as is or will you modify first? If you're going to just drop one in, what compression were each built for?
You can bolt LA valve covers to Magnum heads and nobody would ever know the difference. 5 of the 10 bolt holes are in the exact same place as the LA heads.
You can bolt LA valve covers to Magnum heads and nobody would ever know the difference. 5 of the 10 bolt holes are in the exact same place as the LA heads.
There close enough at least....but they are not better heads so I don't see the point.jmo
You can't use the 318 pan on the Magnum. You need a 360 pan.
You can use your front cover from the 318 on the magnum if you want to keep the mechanical fuel pump. BUT you have to go with the stock accessories if you do this.
Id use the stock Magnum flexplate and have a neutral balanced converter.
Does the balancer have the integrated serpentine pulley?
I'll most likely run an elec. pump, not in a hurry to change cams just yet, unless the truck cam is total junk, i'm just looking for a cruiser with alittle kick, the converter will be mild, so will the gears, most likely 3.55s.
There is a seperate pulley on the balancer (serpentine), the balancer looks like the old style in the 70s, no counterweight, so i can use the flexplate?
So if i use an elec. pump, can i keep the magnum timing cover & still hook up all my old pulleys/WP, all that stuff?
From what i've heard before doing this was, it wasn't a bad swap at all, ralatively easy, i've also heard from a few that parts were a nightmare to change on my 97 Z28 like installing longtube headers/Opti spark changes/clutches, i found it to be fairly easy, just time consumeing, it all work out pretty good, even installing the 9" rearend, piece of cake, i'm not in a hurry to do this, i still have a roof to fix.
What might seem hard to some, isn't that bad for others, i'm that other lol.