Deaddog Saloon
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AndrewGS
Ultimo Hombre
Picked up a new toy today
'85, '86 or '87?
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
ChrisJ
Active member
I assume that's the same 210HP 350 that my 92 pickup had?
If so, the TBI worked fine, just a little slow in regards to responsiveness. Forget revving it, mine revved like a dog which was part from the TBI and part from the heavy flywheel.
But I know damn well when you revved it, the IAC valve was held open keeping the rpm's from dropping. That annoyed the hell out of me as my vehicle before that was a 305 with quadrajet and that was super snappy.
I've heard that when it comes to power TBI is perfectly fine, it just can't emissions \ MPG requirements anymore.
AndrewGS
Ultimo Hombre
That shouldn't exist unless they swapped in a later 350. TBI started in '87 and that year saw the return of the 350 to 1/2-ton trucks.
That's for the ol' 4BBL in light 3/4-ton trucks. TBI 350s were 210HP/300LB-FT.
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
I know the door tag says 86, it's to faded to read a month.
Tail gate has a fuel injected badge on it, so it may be a early 87.
AndrewGS
Ultimo Hombre
Can you get to the SPID in the glove box? If so, get a pic. It's probably an early '87 like you said.
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
It's an '87 built in Janesville, Wisconsin. It does, indeed, have the 210HP L05 TBI 350 with a 3.42 open diff. No A/C though. Yikes!
No a/c does not bother me. Windows down to hear to duals [emoji51].
I know the truck will run but it's not the factory motor, had a create motor put in back in the 90's. Same engine just newer.
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ChrisJ
Active member
First off,
You're a sick bastard for not caring about A/C. I lasted until June before I rebuilt the A/C in my truck. I couldn't even last one summer.
My truck had a wye pipe connecting the manifolds that went into a single 3" that fed a pellet cat and then a muffler which split into dual 1 1/4".
I replaced the cat with a highflow honeycomb type and did 3" into a flowmaster 40 into dual 1 1/4" like stock. I left it that way until i got tired of hearing it and then did a flowmaster 70 with a single 3" exit.
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
The only vehicle a/c works good in is the silver honda.
Both the wagon and sonic's ac sucks. Sonics is partly my fault. The cooling fan has not working in a year, so it will be cold ish till you stock then it gets warm.
So I can take or leave a/c
