Heart Transplant
| Not having anymore 67-72 trucks and still liking them, I decided to go shopping. I wanted something original and somewhat stock looking. I really like rally wheels. So I found an Orange and white 71 long bed two wheeler in good shape. I drove it and it seemed solid...so I bought it. Not soon after I decided it needed more power so the quest was on. What was the best bang for the buck. After looking at several places and spending quite a bit of time on the forum...I decided a 502 would do the trick. Not to summarize the whole story, but I finally got everything put together. Though I am still working through some gremlins, the ZZ502 rocks. | ||
A pic of the interior after I bought the
truck...I replaced the seatcovers and installed a tach .
It came with an in dash CD player and 6.5" components installed in
custom lower door panels. |
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The
day my ZZ502 arrived...in it's true crate form!
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The truck as I bought it...with rally wheels
and the tired, and stock 350. |
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I decided to run the tailpipes out the back
under the bumper...I found the tips at Midas. However, I went to an all
new 3" exhaust with hidden pipes after my ZZ install.
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 And
the finished product sitting nicely in the engine compartment. Below is a
parts list of what I neededto do the conversion. It went very smooth, just
had to shorten the driveline. |
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 A
pic of the ZZ fresh out of the crate...(nice Shelby...not mine)...carb to
pan complete with starter. We are almost there. |
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For those looking to know what all had to be done to install this into s small block truck..here is the list: |
Other changes I made to the truck: |
| Big Block Towers, rubbers and mounts | Rebuilt 10SI internally regulated alternator with parts from Alternator Parts. They have a good informative site about the different alternators and I recieved great service from them. |
| Big Block power steering pump, brackets and pulley's | I also used a conversion plug to elikinate the external regulator...I purchased it from M&H |
| Electric fuel pump, regulator and filter with dual feed line (Holley Blue pump) | The truck came with 15X8 and 15X10 rally wheels but I wanted chrome so I went to the folks at Wheel Vintiques and ordered a new set. You can see them on the wheel and tire page. |
| New radiator, mounts and rubbers (with dual electric fans of course)..all BeCool components from Summit Racing. | With the addition of my new motor, I also needed a tachometer. I found one from Sun that has a shift light and fit perfectly in the stock tach opening in the dash. After some modification of the cluster I had installed and working. |
| Headers (which of course means new exhaust) | New seat covers (for the short term) were in order and found these to be inexpensive and very comfortable. |
| Shortened driveline | |
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Here is a pic of it lowered via Photoshop thanks kindly to Alexis at the 67-72 Forum. |
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| Exhaust clip with 2.5" pipes and 40 series Flowmaster | |
| Motor Specs |
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