alright well I talked about the 91 z28 i wanted to buy with a 350 5spd, well I also have an old truck that no longer runs due to some wires, alternator, starter, no battery issues. The engine is good and has 70,000 miles on it, its a ford f150, 1977 400 engine, could I use this truck engine to rebuild the z28 engine? or would it just hurt performanc?

 

you want to use parts from a ford 400M to rebuild a 350?

 

you can't put Ford parts on a Chevy, for one there totally incompatible, and it's just WRONG!!!

you may not win many friends of the purest out there but, in true hot rod fashion you could use what you got and but the 400 in the Camaro but that would be a lot of fabricating and you don't seem to have the skill for such a thing, and having some do that would be more than find another GM engine

 

There are certain parts that are interchangeable. However you *really* need to know what you're doing. I have heard about ford rods being used in a GM engine, to build a really oddball stroker combination. I don't remember now what precisely was used however...
A 350 5 sp '91 Camaro Z28 has either a swapped in engine, or transmission, but either way, if running right should be plenty fun and fast.

 

lol alright well I just wanted to see if it was cheaper or easier, im 16, no job, and am lookin forward to tackling a project car, hope to have it done by the time I graduate. the car i wanna get needs a fuel pump, and the head gaskets replaced, and maybe a new clutch, the clutch is hard?

 

what if I wanted to build the 350 into a 383 stroker? or is that a completely different engine? how much money we talkin also?

cheaper to just rebuild part of the engine or just make it a 383 stroker? I could only do so much as raising the car on jackstands, no hoists to pull the engine out, i plan on learning a lot more before I try too.

 

I think you may be getting in over your head. As long as you are willing to read and learn, you will be ok. Be prepared to spend money on tools.

Before you buy this car, I would make sure that you in fact have a 350. Get the numbers off the block. There is a pad behind the drivers side head that will have some numbers on it. Write them down and come back and post them. There is a good chance you are buying a car with a 305. Just a heads up, when it comes to people selling chevys, every 305 is a 350 and every 350 came from a corvetter. More corvette 350s than corvettes ever built.