Hey all, im gonna be rebuild my V8 in my engines class in college and was wondering if you had any tips or tricks to offer. And I was also was wondering if you could give info on where I could get a rebuild kit I looked at ebay only found 1 and it was kinda of expensive.

 

Try summitracing.com or jegs.com or truck performane.com they all have kits The easy way is to buy the small stuff high performance spark pugs wires coil cap. You can buy a larger throttle body, or a Mopar performance computer. or get a jet chip plug in programer. You can get higher output injectors. larger exhast with headers. Better air filters and cold air intake. You can put on eletric fans get rid of the stock engine drivin Fan. You can buy higher cams larger intake man. you can bore out the cyl. walls you can mill down the block as well as the heads also known as decking. For the 5.2 you can get a 5.9 mag. heads and put them on you stock 5.2 block they will increase performance. you can change the rear end gears and that will give you more power to the wheels. Lots of stuff have fun.

 

Crazy, do you have any experience with the plug in chips? I wan not aware they were available for the 1st gens. Do they work well?

 

Ya I bought one. There okay. It plugs inbetween your wireing harness connector and your computer. Easy install. Go to http://store.summitracing.com/egnsea...761+115+400201
There is 2 stages. 1 is for stock. 2 is for modified. Go with stage 2. Try perforemance coil and wires first tho.

 

Ya I got the K&N cold air intake and a flowmaster 40 series saving my money to try and get some gibson headers. So you can take 5.9 cylinder heads and put them on the 5.2 block? And is 4:10 the best gear set to get?

 

ya the heads will fit. It depends on your tire size and if you want more power but u sacrifice high way speeds somewhat. check out http://www.4lo.com/calc/geartable.htm they that a chart that will show you what gear raio and tire size would be best for fuel economy or power and so on. thecommen rule is if you have stock tires go 1 level down. check on raios that is avalibe and goto the nextlower (numericly higher)raiothan yours. go 2 or more if you want to realy step up performance.

 

welcome to DF... both of you newbies...

couple of things to mention, the heads suck, they tend to crack between the valve seats. if yours are not cracked, when you put them back together, slap a 180 deg t-stat in there (do it regardless). You can also cut the runners down on your intake manifold when you have the plenum plate off, 1.5" for a 5.9 & I think 1.0" for the 5.2 (research it). this will allow your motor to breath better in the upper rpms. you wont loose much if anything down low (torque). other than that... bolt ons... crower 1.7 roller rockers, gibson headers, 50 or 52mm TB, K&N fipk are good places to start.

keep the exhaust to a single 3" or dual 2.25" and you wont loose any low end torque.

 

sweet[sm=drooldude.gif] thx for the info all let u guys know how it goes