ogles824
10-12-2010, 04:10 PM
My son and I have a 1988 K5 Blazer 4x4 that has been full restored. We bought it off of EBay a while back and did a little work to it and started showing at the local car shows. We've come home with a couple of first place trophies. My son drives it to high school and has been driving it regularly since August. Since he started driving it, it has developed a small rear main seal leak. I want to fix that leak and was thinking of pulling the engine to do it. While we had it out I was thinking of doing some mods but I wondering just how far I should go (Not to worry, even though the motor is correct, it is not numbers matching) The motor is a 350 with TBI fuel injection which according to the tags under the hood, is the correct set up for this Blazer. I was thinking that while I had it our I would do a chrome dress up package, but me being a hot rodder I can't stop there. I'm thinking of a new cam and valve train, something in the High Energy line up from Comp Cams, prolly a 268. I also want to install a set of the Magnum roller rocker arms - 1:6 ratio, a duel roller timing set dialed up 4 degrees for more bottom end, and if I can find one that will except all the emissions stuff, an after market aluminum intake; oh yes, and set of long tube headers that will except the AIR emissions tubes. It all ready has duel exhaust with cats, aluminized pipe, stainless steel glass pack mufflers, and a cross over tube. Sounds kind of wimpy, not very loud the cats need to go but then you get into emissions laws. From what I saw on the WWW this motor in it present form is only making around 220 horsepower, that's kind of weak by today's standards, got to have more. Here's the biggy, the rub........ If I can pull off all of these mods, can I get the computer that controls it all to like them too?????