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The one with the biggest carb and the most compression in the smallest car! Now will somebody please build something!

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What is the '86 1/2 ton 305" Q Jet pick up rated at?

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305s not in the guide.

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Then, the guide is wrong. They were 305"s, there were millions of them.

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305, 350, 035 530... same three numbers?

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The guide is just incomplete, combo never submitted or approved.

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MikeMoller,go to guide for 1986 truck engine blueprints specifications, looks like it was approved on 4-19-11 in yellow 350 165hp. Tom

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The 350 in the guide is a dish piston low compression motor not a flat top motor.

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FrankB, same piston as my 1978 malibu wagon 287 hp if i raced my wagon with a 350 motor. Tom

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The truck motor is a 8.2 to 1 motor the car motor is 10.3 to 1 . The deck height is different on the 2 motors.

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Frank B. if 2 points of compression is worth 122hp. sign me up lol !!!!

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:D I hear you compression shouldn't hurt it at all. I was just saying that the 2 engines are just a little different. Wish I had 5 or 6 of the dime rockets hanging around. I don't think I would have trouble selling them:D

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Anybody that can't make that one run about a day under needs to find another hobby.

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FrankB, The truck motor gets to use a bigger cam .430-.430 cam. Tom

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Look at the 86 blueprint. 165hp is a 305.
Dan

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That makes more sense, and is what I think is actually correct.

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Truck blueprints are below the car listings. Same heads with more cc's and different piston. Still the ultimate dime rocket (for now).

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There's a 305 AND a 350. For whatever reason, the blueprint specs for car and truck motors are separated.

If you look at the 1986 Chevrolet blueprint specs...you'll see the 305/165.
If you look at the 1986 Chevrolet TRUCK blueprint specs you'll see the 350/165.

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If the guide shows an '86 1/2 ton pick up with a 350" but no 305", the guide is wrong. Somebody writing the guide transposed two numbers. I have worked on easily a couple hundred 1986 1/2 ton 305"s, they are as common as dirt. I have never seem a factory 1/2 ton 350". This is Oklahoma, all these cowboys around here have at least one pick up. I have had a couple of pick ups through my shop. LOL

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Could just be a paper truck or just build for Ca you never know.

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Just for the record, we did not get the 350 combo approved. But who ever did, THANK YOU!

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I owned an 86 that I bought near new from a family member that purchased it new and it WAS a 350. Having said that I do live in Canada and perhaps it was a Canada only thing. See! We really must be special. Wink wink nudge nudge

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You were the first ones I thought of when I first discovered this combo. I wonder who it really was and why it took so long for one to surface?

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I think every one can read this it shows a 350 ci 165 hp.

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Rick Schilling, the truck 350 uses the same piston as 350 in camaro and malibu wagon 287hp,look under NHRA accepted products list for 1986 truck.

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You are correct Tom. I was refering only to the 1986 model year.

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ya'll build one and
1. ill be there for your first class race just for giggles
2. i will bet $500 the caddy outruns it and ill give you 2 races to sort it out...

captain jack

p.s. love a good u/sa shootout :)

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Jack, I talk to Bob about this truck in U/SA, he think`s the truck would run 2.5 seconds under. Tom

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With all due respect, I say closer to 3.00 under..
Takes about 375 hp to do it...
Seeing a decent 305 will make that......

Somebody plug in the values...Remember, .430 lift cam

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You sure about that Jack? The $500 will pay for 1/2 the engine.

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500 wont pay for the pistons if you want to go 2.5 under.

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If you want to go 2.5 or more under with this combo you will have about 900.00 in pistons 600.00 in rings another 1500.00 in valves and springs about 500.00 in cam and lifters if you do that cheap plus all the rest, and last i checked this type of truck isn't that cheap as a core. So a decent one could be built for about 12 to 15k if you did alot of your own labor witch by todays dollars would be about the best bang for the buck out there!!

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Ed Wright is correct. The only 8 cyl. you could get in a '86 1/2 ton was a Q-jet 305. Cast iron intake. Same exact motor thats in a '82-84 Camaro rated at 243 hp except you can use a bigger cam in the truck. I bought one new (short bed, step side). It was either that or a 4.3 V6.

After being absent for several years, 1987 was the first year you could get a 350 back in a 1/2 ton. And it was a TBI.

With a 3/4 ton or bigger, it was a whole different ball game.

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wasn't some of the V-8 california monzas built with 350's for emmisions reasons?
could it be the same sorta deal for the trucks?

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hmmm, i've sure rejetted a LOT of 85 1/2 ton pickups with 350's in 'em.......

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They weren't available when I ordered an '85. Couldn't get 350"s until the TBI 1987 trucks.
Mine was so stinking slow with 3.08 gears and a 700R4 it down shifted on hills on the interstate. I put a 350" TPI in it. Don't know why they didn't put those in at the factory. Liked low RPM and got better mileage than the Q Jet 305" ever did. Pretty quick compared to other pick ups.

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I think the whole thing is really just an elaborate scheme intended to divert everyone's attention away from the "new" cars...LOL.

P.S. It seems to be working.

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If you read passed post of Richard Muhlenhardt, he is the person who asked for this truck to listed in guide, just guessing and he asked questions about grade points to enter indy, also he is the person who went 1.32 under at brainerd points meet. maybe richard and larry hill could have a match race in U/SA for number one qualifier at indy.Tom

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In 1986, did they produce a shortwheelbased truck? And if so, what was the measurement?

Re: NHRA approves a new "Dime Rocket"!
 

They did make a short wheel base 1/2 ton. But I do not remember what it measured.