turbojimmy
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Hi all,
A guy here at work has approached me after hearing that I know things about cars.
The 305 in his '88 Silverado P/U died and he wanted a 350. So he paid the dealer to install a new Goodwrench 350. He says it's down on power (less than his 305) and won't run when it's cold. He has to sit in it with his foot on the gas until it gets up to operating temp before he can drive it.
It turns out all they really did was bolt the 305 parts to the 350 engine. He's been fixing things a little at at time, like upgrading the cooling system, swapped out the 305 injectors for the 350 injectors, etc. It's a TBI engine and the dealer's contention is that the ECM and chip are the same for the 350 as the 305. I find that hard to believe, especially after they acknowledged that the injectors are different. There's no way to cross reference the 350 because a 350 wasn't available in whatever model he has in 1988.
So this thing is all f'd up and he's got $5k invested in it. I'd like to help him out but am coming up empty handed with decent web resources. Anyone know of someone he can talk to or somewhere on the web he can look?
TIA,
Jim
A guy here at work has approached me after hearing that I know things about cars.
The 305 in his '88 Silverado P/U died and he wanted a 350. So he paid the dealer to install a new Goodwrench 350. He says it's down on power (less than his 305) and won't run when it's cold. He has to sit in it with his foot on the gas until it gets up to operating temp before he can drive it.
It turns out all they really did was bolt the 305 parts to the 350 engine. He's been fixing things a little at at time, like upgrading the cooling system, swapped out the 305 injectors for the 350 injectors, etc. It's a TBI engine and the dealer's contention is that the ECM and chip are the same for the 350 as the 305. I find that hard to believe, especially after they acknowledged that the injectors are different. There's no way to cross reference the 350 because a 350 wasn't available in whatever model he has in 1988.
So this thing is all f'd up and he's got $5k invested in it. I'd like to help him out but am coming up empty handed with decent web resources. Anyone know of someone he can talk to or somewhere on the web he can look?
TIA,
Jim