Take a break and enjoy your family brother, life is to short to work all the time.

Thank you for visiting Hillbilly Garage and reaching out. The channel started over fixing my RAMS. The idea of the engine resurrections started with the yard sale motor we call "sludge monster". The 305's are just what we got started with, "lil red corvette" is the first 350. I screen shot your suggestions to consider your idea for the second 305 we call "hot rod shop". I am planning on stepping up the "juice" on it. Our plan is to keep ramping up the builds as we go. Thank you so much and hope to see you around the garage regularly.

Really nice paint job on that 305. But what's up with the 305 builds? I can see if it was a Vortec 305 and you added a sbc 383 crank to it and did a little port work to the heads and maybe add a set of 1.94" intake valves. Top it off with a genuine imitation RPM Airgap dual plane intake and your choice of 650 carb and you would have a hot little sbc 334 runner with a .030" overbore. The cheap cast steal sbc 383 crank for this build unless you want to add boost? Being that the Vortecs are a roller block might as well use a roller cam in it. There's a company from Texas that sells reground factory roller cams on the Bay of e for a reasonable price. Many different performance regrinds choices to pick from. And always no matter what cam you run, even a factory cam, run a genuine imitation RPM Airgap dual plane intake. There is no downside to using that intake. The low rise aftermarket aluminum dual plane intakes make less power than a factory 4bbl dual plane intake. The only gain is the weight savings from one of those. The Airgap style high rise dual plane intakes will make more power down low and run the power out further in the RPM band.😎👍 I ran a factory sbc Vortec 305 with the Edelbrock RPM Airgap dual plane intake and it made more power everywhere. And that's with the factory cam. Granted it is a roller cam but it's not much of performance cam at all. But I did manage to run 14.0s in the QM with that engine in a 3,400 lb car.

That small block Chevy is looking clean, but you know me and i can't wait to see the hybrid Hemi come together 💪. Keep pushing my man 👍

Nice Job! Doing this at the moment. Your video help me alot.

Thanks for the video brother, that was interesting good work 👍

Could that vette engine possibly be a four bolt main engine? Lots of work going on in the garage 👍

They were off roading and busted a river/creek too fast and put the water over the hood. Sucked water in the air inlet

The count is at 107 now, that's my number. Looks like you got a couple late model Hemis to play with. I'm mostly a GM guy and older off brand stuff but I don't dislike the Hemis except that they made them in Mexico. Hopefully someone was having the time of their life when they broke those rods.😎👍

Looks like a late 70s shark body vette engine if it is out of one? Watch those porting videos while you port a set of 193 swirl port heads for that thing when it's ready. If it is from that era, if I recall correctly those would be smog heads that have 76cc chambers. The 193 swirl ports have 65cc chambers for a nice compression boost if the bottom endis still sound?😎👍

In case "Luckypiston" decides to delete his original comment. @Hillbillygarage1215 Yeah, he seen the videos that Charles Servedio Head porting And Flow Bench channel on here. I have seen him in the comments there.🙄 Charles has a playlist on the 193 swirl port heads, he took them all the way to over 300 CFM on the intake side and over 200 CFM on the exhaust side. The mods would be basically the same for the 187 swirl port heads. He even posted how to modify the port while keeping the 1.94"/1.50" factory valves the 193 heads came with. Wow, I can't believe that guy acted like those were mods he came up with.🙄 Also if you plan on doing much more port work you might want to invest in a better grinder and burrs especially grinding cast iron.😎👍

Lookin forwarded to seeing how that 350 Bette engine turns out. God bless Kenny👍

Another good video! Save the one ones! The new ones are junk!

Looking great !!

Happy Hump Day!!!!!

Happy 4th!

I see you are going with carburation , these TBI motors LOVE carburation , just that move alone is gonna make a big difference, that old TBI intake was a huge choke on these motors ! If you really want to hot rod a 305 swap in a set of flat top pistons and use a set of the bigger valved 193 castings ported out

Those are 187 castings (the 350 version is the 193 casting) , the two main mods that i have found than increase intake flow on these heads (that anyone can do) is remove material from the port wall where the head bolt passes through the head and rework the guide so it has way more tapper from the bowl roof out toward the end a the guide, u can even push back the end a the ramp a bit too, do that and u will increase flow.

Interesting to see how these come out . I have a set on my trans am this might be a winter project instead of buying a set

thats the worst head chevy made, anything you do has to help

Thanks for subscribing to my channel. I also subscribed to your channel as well. Love the idea of you rebuilding old motors and selling them. Look forward to new videos from you!

That is my goal Clay, i want to resurrect stuff when I can and maybe help someone hop up their vehicles a bit without spending a ton of money. Thank you for visiting with us, I really enjoy the conversations.

Fix the old stuff because a lot of the new stuff is junk! Enjoyed the video!

I like the small block Chevy motors. Years ago I heard that the 202 heads were great for the small blocks. Also heard most of the power comes from your heads of the motor. Any advice on that?

Thanks Clay, I'm looking forward to that also. We appreciate you visiting with us.

Enjoy watching engines being saved!

Enjoyed watching

Great project engines!

Can’t wait to see it run!!

Great video . Bottom line do not use the aftermarket grooved bearings unless you clock them in between 1 and 330. The measured spacing on both sides was nice

Another good video!

Great video!

Question: can I change from blend oil to full synthetic without hurting the engine?

I’ve changed many, many oil and filters on all my trucks. I’m just getting to old and fat to do it😂 Another great video!

Looks like a case of not changing the oil on regular intervals ? Question: are those standard 350 heads ?

Another great video!

You better keep these older trucks……these new ones are junk and will be lucky if they see 20 years.

Another great video. I wish I lived close to you. Would love to visit. I’m a long way away in Alabama!😁

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Yes, I realized I mistakingly called his diesel a Cummins, sorry my bad

i"m in Canada and owned a company where i"ve owned lots of trucks with all their own issues, from Fords GM"s and rams, i've owned 7 Hemi Rams with an average of over 300,000 miles not kilometers before selling them, i've NEVER had a lifter or a camshaft issue. then only differance i can see is in Canada it recomends oil changes every 5,000 kms or 3,100 miles and i stuck to that religiously, i don't know if that's the differance or not...

I'm a Valvoline user and have an'03 4.7L V8 in my 4Runner, so being 20 years old and 157K miles on it and having had religious oil changes with quality oil for the past 80K miles and 10 years, I think I'll still get some of Valvoline's "Restore and Protect" and use it for awhile. Your stuck oil rings got me wondering. Thanks for your videos!

I would like to see a couple of main bearings to see if any debris damage from the cam/roller. Ideally one would think that the oil filter would catch it all, so is that true? Anything falling into the oil pan is sucked up by the oil suction tube, to the lube pump and then through the filter, so suction screen may have some debris, lube pump may be scored, but I would hope bearings were spared by filter. If not, I would consider deleting the filter bypass capability if possible, it's there supposedly for those who don't service their engine like they should and their filter starts to plug.

Wonder if u obseved any cylinder scuffing or observed higher oil consumption with such stuck oil rings, Thanks a lot for sharing ur knowledge its very useful.

Was the vehicle seeing a lot of idling?

Keep up the good videos

Good job brother 👍

Great video!

Great video!

Great video!