i just read in a thread that i could buy a 350 good wrench crate engine for 1200 bucks and id just have to take every thing off my engine liek intake and such and throw it on it. is this true or am i missing something that seems liek a good price to me. get back to me on the details of this engine and what i actualy get for 1200$

 

You will get good value for your money, just DO NOT expect this 350
to be a PERFORMANCE ENGINE right out of the crate.

 

whats teh web site to the company that sells them.

 

Scoggin Dickeys got em..

www.sdpc2000.com

 

i definatley no what im buying this summer.
i just looked at the specs on the engine.
so all i have to do is use the intake and exaust off of my 305 and put it on teh crate engine.

ive got
hooker competition headers (very good shape)
Cater AFB competition series carburater (brand new)
weihin stealth intake. (good condition)
excell spark plug wires (brand new)
Crane Cam

it ses on the web site that the engine puts out 249hp and 304
foot pounds of torque if i throw on the performance goodeys do u think that that it would make even more then 249???

Engine Name: 350 LM1
Horsepower: 249 HP @ 5,000 RPM RPM
Torque: 304 Ft/Lbs @ 3,500 RPM
Compression Ratio: 8.50 to 1
Block: 4 – Bolt, 2 Piece Rear Seal, 4.000” Bore
Crankshaft: Cast Nodular 3.480” Stroke
Heads: Cast Iron, 72cc
Valves: 1.940” / 1.600”
Camshaft lift: 0.390” / 0.410” Hydraulic
Duration @ 0.050”: 195° / 202°
Intake: Not Included

 

It might make a little more than that at the crank. I wouldn't try racing any stock L98s. That motor is a truck motor. It's got sh*t heads, a sh*t cam, and very low compression.

 

Ever see a phone company van run? That's basically what that is.... it's a replacement motor for people who want something as cheap as possible, for large fleets and such. A truck that pushes itself around will make more money for its owner than one sitting in the vehicle maintenance lot. Look at your your local utility company and how they treat their trucks, one that runs is better than one that doesn't; and it doesn't matter how fast or how slow it is to them, as long as it runs, it's all the same.

It puts out about 185-190 HP and 275 ft-lbs once it's installed in a chassis. About the same as a mid-late 70s smogger, from the depths of the smog era, since it's built out of the same parts.

Of course it's a 350, so it has potential from that point of view. But it is the absolute bottom of the barrel 350. It will barely outrun a stock LG4 as it comes; and as long as it keeps the dished pistons and the "Hecho en Mexico" smogger heads, it will never be much more than it is as it comes. It will require major surgery and $$$$ even to just run with a stock 350 from one of these cars, let alone run with something that actually has some power.

You kind of get what you pay for. Pay the least, get the least.

On the other hand, if your car doesn't run now, then I guess it would be just about perfect;

 

There is one here in Ca. w/TPI that runs 14.40 @ 95 mph

 

Hi,

I too had one of these " PRIZE" crate engines, IT was Junk,
burned oil to the tune of 1 litre to 300 km or aprox 150 miles
my dealer rebuilt it 2 times under warrenty it was still junk
I finally solved my troubled with a CRATE engine the
300 hp "special performance" engine it is now called the 330 hp
engine W/ vortec cylinder heads, it is a great engine Great power
and NO oil burning at all, you will always get what you pay for,
ALWAYS, maybe i just had bad luck, who knows good luck to you
I hope your experience with the goodwrench 350 is better than mine was..... later GTA..........