I'm in teh planning stages of putting a 400ci pontiac engine (no idea what year etc yet) in my 82 TA, and I'm just trying to gather as much info as possible. What kind of cooling concerns, if any, will I have doing this swap? I plan on building the engie to put out a good amount of hp, so a high volume water pump etc would be in order, and I would also use a electric fan of some kind. I assume that most of the usual rules about cooling would apply, but is putting a engine thats that much bigger than the current engine going to cause any particular problems? thanks guys

 

i think a combo of a factory dual electric fan setup, a decent temp stat, and a decent size aluminum radiator i think you would have a pretty cool cooling system

i think the original 82 cooling would have a problem, but a cooling setup for like a facotry 350 tpi thirdgen with a 180 stat would keep your engine cool hopefully

of coarse you would want the fans to come on a tad earlier, maybe with manual switches..

 

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