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World Products 427 Small Block?
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6th Gear
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World Products 427 Small Block?
Has anyone put the World Products 427 (400, 415 or 454) Small Block in their mid 70's Corvette? Its offered in Cast Iron or Aluminum - and looks like a great solution for my old, beefed up 350 ... thoughts?
I'm thinking of a 700R4 beefed up to handle 750HP,... 3.55 gears ...
I'm thinking of a 700R4 beefed up to handle 750HP,... 3.55 gears ...
Burning Brakes
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Shaffiroff racing has a couple of nice 434 buildups you might look at as well if your looking into a crate motor. I just did a 427 sbc locally, have it in but still trying to get the EFI to work right.
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Has anyone put the World Products 427 (400, 415 or 454) Small Block in their mid 70's Corvette? Its offered in Cast Iron or Aluminum - and looks like a great solution for my old, beefed up 350 ... thoughts?
I'm thinking of a 700R4 beefed up to handle 750HP,... 3.55 gears ...
I'm thinking of a 700R4 beefed up to handle 750HP,... 3.55 gears ...
a 434 small block and 5 speed manuals works fine.
Drifting
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Do a few searches here and at www.chevelles.com. There are at least as many folks with bad experiences with World stuff as good. Customer service seems to leave a lot to be desired, quality is questionable as well.
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Last edited by L88Plus; Aug 17, 2007 at 10:38 AM.
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6th Gear
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I have TH350 today - but would like 5 speed manual, but how hard to change? Weld bracket for clutch or what?
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The Keisler TKO 600 kits have everything you need for the conversion. The clutch cross shaft frame mounting bracket has to be welded on top of the frame rail.
Drifting
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I can't seem to get the link to work.
It would really be worth your time to visit the Chevelles site and do a couple of searches. I don't have anything personal against World, but I've seen and read enough from folks that have bought their engines to know that quality is marginal and customer service is worse. I hate to see folks spend hard earned money on stuff that's not up to par. There was a World employee that actually responded to a couple of complaints on the Chevelles site, then just disappeared.
I agree with gkull - buy parts and either build it yourself or have a trusted builder assemble one for you.
It would really be worth your time to visit the Chevelles site and do a couple of searches. I don't have anything personal against World, but I've seen and read enough from folks that have bought their engines to know that quality is marginal and customer service is worse. I hate to see folks spend hard earned money on stuff that's not up to par. There was a World employee that actually responded to a couple of complaints on the Chevelles site, then just disappeared.
I agree with gkull - buy parts and either build it yourself or have a trusted builder assemble one for you.
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I think you will have to do what ever search you did, then select one of the topics and actually go into the thread. Do it untill the word "searchid=" is no longer in the web page address. Then copy that link.
Drifting
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...huh it worked a couple of times. Oh well, I did a search and found lots of unhappy replies.. ouch!
