With all the assistance and help from you folks, I have had a come to Jesus moment with my old truck. My plans were to drive it the next few years with the 262 and then switch to a 522 stroker biased on the 429 in my garage. I have a c6 trans and a 9 inch next to it. But now with your help the 262 has applied perma-grin to my face every time I drive it. I have made the decision to stay 6 cylinder and have more fun than should be allowed.
This is where I ask for yet more sage advice. I am going to have the motor freshened up this winter and think now is the time for reasonable head work to be done also.I installed Clifford header to it a month ago due to a cracked exhaust manifold and am thinking of adding the intake and duel webber system also. I didn't do it earlier because in my mind without good head work it couldn't take advantage of the intake upgrade. Could a machine shop in the midwest be recommended who can do proper work for the head and motor freshen? Would you have ideas of a torque cam?
I am also going the way of a t5 trans swap with mummert's help . I'm not looking to race, just a dailey driver with good reliable preformance to pull a slide in camper on special occasions. Think grunt from idel to 3500rpm. When not on camper duty it will be going to shows, mabey a walleye trip to Canada, and I'd love to go check out the desert southwest sometime , head back down to Oklahoma for my yearly hog hunt to fill the freezer.
I feel I'm going to get one chance for the right machine shop as 262's don't seem to be falling out of the trees. I thought about going 300, and that would be the smart thing, but the 262 just feels like the right thing to do. Not the smart thing , but the right thing for the truck and for me. After all, it was the truck I learned to drive in, and the good lord willing it will be the truck that hauls my casket to my final resting place.
Thank you in advance.
Rick
This is where I ask for yet more sage advice. I am going to have the motor freshened up this winter and think now is the time for reasonable head work to be done also.I installed Clifford header to it a month ago due to a cracked exhaust manifold and am thinking of adding the intake and duel webber system also. I didn't do it earlier because in my mind without good head work it couldn't take advantage of the intake upgrade. Could a machine shop in the midwest be recommended who can do proper work for the head and motor freshen? Would you have ideas of a torque cam?
I am also going the way of a t5 trans swap with mummert's help . I'm not looking to race, just a dailey driver with good reliable preformance to pull a slide in camper on special occasions. Think grunt from idel to 3500rpm. When not on camper duty it will be going to shows, mabey a walleye trip to Canada, and I'd love to go check out the desert southwest sometime , head back down to Oklahoma for my yearly hog hunt to fill the freezer.
I feel I'm going to get one chance for the right machine shop as 262's don't seem to be falling out of the trees. I thought about going 300, and that would be the smart thing, but the 262 just feels like the right thing to do. Not the smart thing , but the right thing for the truck and for me. After all, it was the truck I learned to drive in, and the good lord willing it will be the truck that hauls my casket to my final resting place.
Thank you in advance.
Rick