87draggta

After finally getting my car back together I decided to take it to the track this past weekend and it wasn't pretty. My transmission slipped through all 3 gears until the third pass when I completely lost 3rd gear and coasted to a best of the night run of 9.35 at 67 mph with a 1.93 60ft. since my tranny is bad and i'm going to have to replace it anyway do you think I would be any better off running a turbo 350 instead of a 400?

BlueBeast

I would stay with the 400 that way if you go up in HP later down the road you wont have to replace the 350 when that blows.

87draggta

I was thinking that would be the route to go, I am in the process of building a 421 as well. I'm having fuel pump problems as well which helped with the spectacular times.

BlueBeast

Whats the fuel pump problems?

87draggta

When I turn the key off all the fuel gets sucked out of the filter and while it is running there is air bubbles visible in the filter. I need a higher capacity fuel pump anyway the one I am using is a stock piece that I pulled off my 80 impala with a 305 so I'm sure at 6500 the pressure isn't optimal anyway

WheelsUp84z

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How can you see bubbles in the fuel filter? please tell you you dont run those ghetto inline clear plastic ones! Also you might want to upgrade to a better pump before racing it again, no sense in running out of fuel and breaking things.

87draggta

Yeah, I've got a clear plastic inline one, but I just used it because I had it lying around, I have a real filter in the fuel line though, my plastic one is there just because i like having two. I'll probably put a new pump on, but my priority is to get a transmission with more than 1 forward gear.