Thread: Another newbie needing SBC 350 build help

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Originally Posted by Camojimmy

I'm a newb on this stuff so you may have to explain it to me like I'm 5.

Jimmy, between the main group of fellows and gals on this board who regularly chime in, there is probably a thousand years of hot rod experience. I know I contribute over 60 years myself. (I'm 74 and began at age 13). Most of us are delighted to teach new people what to do and what not to do. The only thing that we require is that you listen up and pay attention, while answering our questions and posting your replies in a timely manner. If you don't say something every few days, we lose interest. I welcome questions from you about why I suggested one thing or another, that's the way you will learn how to do things for yourself.

Personally, I have little interest in adding onto parts that you already have, unless they will contribute to the end product in a manner that I would do on a project myself. Let's begin with the block. Is it absolutely carved in stone that you have to use a 305? If we're going to build a motor from a bare block, then it makes a lot more sense to start with a 350 block. I mean, it's not like they're expensive or anything. Hell, you can find them laying around in vacant lots or you can trade someone out of a block with something that you don't need anymore that the fellow might like to have. I traded a Polaroid Land Camera for a complete 1958 Chrysler Imperial one time. I used the 392 hemi out of it for an MGA roadster project and sent the rest of it to the boneyard.

I have also been known to give fellows my cellphone number on PM, so that if they get stuck, we can talk it out. I'm glad to do that for a fellow who is really into their project and pays attention. Robert Dobbs was the last fellow on this board that I did that for. He's building a 383 Camaro for drag racing. Shall we begin?

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