Pontiac guys

Is there any die hard Pontiac guys on here? I have a few ?'s

Maybe

You know anything about the Pontiac 350?

Well what i have is a 68 firebird with a 350 HO, and a 72 Formula with a 400 in it and i was wondering which one i should dump some money into? and don't tell me to buy a SBC id rather stab myself in the eye.

domestic killer wrote:

and don't tell me to buy a SBC id rather stab myself in the eye.

4.8 or 5.3 ls motor

Ow now my eye really hurts

domestic killer wrote:

Ow now my eye really hurts

ha ha ha, i was jk

domestic killer wrote:

Well what i have is a 68 firebird with a 350 HO, and a 72 Formula with a 400 in it and i was wondering which one i should dump some money into? and don't tell me to buy a SBC id rather stab myself in the eye.

Well first, what do you mean by "dumping money into"? Are you trying to go fast or something or just a rebuild or what?

If you are not a memeber of a Pontiac become one, like http://hardcorepontiacs.com/forum/ or whatever. Places like this will be able to give you more info than a general forum.

Call fullboar enterprises in dodgeville. Ask for Jason. He is a pontiac nut. They know what they are doing.

I thought you just had to paint the valve covers gold and they were fast?

408 4 Eye wrote:

I thought you just had to paint the valve covers gold and they were fast?

You are thinking of mopars

Do not procharge a pontiac whatever u do.

^ truth...it doesn't work worth a shit.

Yeah! everyone knows turbos are waaaay bettter than superchargers!

N204LIFE

mtperformance wrote:

N204LIFE

LT1's and nitrous, hardly runs without it, barely moves with it (note Byron track day of this year)

Terminator wrote:

Do not procharge a pontiac whatever u do.

Prochargers work well on reskinned chevy's though.

Actually it doesn't matter. If memory serves me the 350 and 400 are the same blocks. The only difference is stroke. If it was me and it was built for power. I would go with the 400. More cubes. I would get a solid built bottom end, custom grind cam and a decent set of edelbrock aluminum heads. If your a stickler for original and don't want to buy aluminum heads, the pontiac stage IV heads are the hot ticket.

Mike

I like that Mikey can say things like its the hot ticket and its not weird.

other wise i have a 79 smokey with the 403 olds, bought it with rod out of the oil pan... not quite sure what is in it for internals but it did have a dual 4bbl setup on it.

Does the smokey have a fuel cell in it?

NO

overblown wrote:

I like that Mikey can say things like its the hot ticket and its not weird.

Lol, age has some small benefit!

Mike

Both the 400 and the 350 have a 3.75 stroke.

No you can't bore a 350 to a 400, but you can turn a 350 into a 383.

http://www.highperformancepontiac.com/tech/hppp_0712_small_bore_pontiac_engine_build/index.html

Don't do anything with a 403. Its a smog motor that makes no HP. Guys on gbodyforum.com brag up there "built" 403s that have 200 hp.