Thread: Crate 350

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my dad just put a GM 350/ 260 HP in his '72 C10 and used all the parts from his old 350 that the crate motor did not come with ( manifold, water pump ect... ). plenty of power with a 3/50 warranty and no core charge. the motor was about $1,500 crated and freighted to the door, he bought it from Jegs. it is a 3/50 warranty as long as you put the engine in a 1970-1986 GM vehicle originally equipped with a V8, all other cases it's a 12 month parts only warranty.

The one crate 350 I bought was for some guy who had me install it in his vette. I never work on someone elses car because if I screw something up on one of mine, oh well, but on somebody elses, it's more like "oh s***." But this guy kept coming to see me at work because he knew I build hot rods. At first he wanted me to rebuild his old engine, but that was not going to happen. Really a lot to go wrong there. So then he offered to buy a crate longblock if I would install that.

I mainly did it because I wanted to see how one of these would work out, and I have to say it was the best install I have ever done. Nice clean block and heads to start with, all I had to do was pull his engine, clean up the engine bay and also his old/ reused parts like intake, etc. and put it back in. It fired up on the first few cranks and ran like a clock. Everytime he came into my work after that I was thinking "oh oh, did something go wrong", but he was only coming in to tell me it was still running great.

Like I said, if I didn't like building my own engines, these Goodwrench crate engines are hard to beat. Looks like Jegs and some others are able to discount them further than even the local Chevy garage, from what Matt167 just posted. Probably they buy so many of them.............


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