hi guys, i recently bought an 85 z28 w/ 305 and 5 spd. well i was woundering iwould a 350 swap be pretty straight forward? both motors are/would be carbed.

 

Welcome aboard thirdgen.org.

How straight forward it would be depends upon the vintage of your 350. Do you know what you have, exactly? Head and block casting #'s would be good to know.

 

It can't be any more straight forward. Just get rid of all the crap you don't need under the hood. You should have a v belt system so deleting stuff should be easy and if you don't live in a smog state you shouldn't have to worry about being hassled. Just as long as all your brackets fit on the 350 you won't have a problem.

 

Actually, brackets are the least of the concerns. Dipstick location, rear main seal type, intake mount bolt pattern, and the like, are why I asked.

There isn't much "smog stuff" to be removed.

 

sorry it took me awhile to reply, what year would you guys recomend to get, im also going to be using an m-22 with the swap. the car will not have a/c,power steering, or smog. on the ignition will i have to change any thing besides the distributor, and also i have a rebuilt holley q-jet with the tps and m/c solenoid, could i use that on it without any problems to save some money for a while.
thanks for any and all help

 

I wouldn't worry too much about the year of the engine. Whatever you get, you can overcome any of the small issues that exist. Later roller lifter one-piece-rear mains seal blocks seem to be of better quality than older engines.

 

thanks for your help this seems like it could be done pretty easy. cant wait for it to warmer out

 

good luck! I'm tearing into my camaro now to replace the tbi 305 with a carbed 383.... Will be my first motor swap of many I'm sure...