I know I belong in the Ford section but I have a question for you Chevy boys. What do yall think of the Turbo 350? Believe it or not I'm thinking about buying a certain truck with a 350 V8 backed by a Turbo 350 pushing 44 inch TSL's. How does this tranny hold up? Anybody had serious problems with it? Anything I should be aware of? Thanks.

Good tranny, Ive run em for years with no problems and im not easy on em the at all.
The 400 is stronger and would prolly be a perfect swap for your application with 44's .
Lets just say you could get away with the 350 for a while if need be but look forward to swappin in a 400 in the future if your gonna wheel that thing.

Oh yea, KEEP IT COOL!
I run two coolers and a deep pan on my 350

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I wheel my Ford. This truck is... what I hate to say an ex-trailer queen, way too much lift to wheel it. Maybe just some mud.

I have beat the hell out of many 350 trannies and they hold up fine. Try to keep it cool as you can especially 4 wheeling. Heat is it's enemy. Get it and start romping on it....:D

I have another question so I'll go ahead and reveal what the truck is. It's a 1986 Toyota and there is no tranfer case backing up the Turbo 350. I'm gonna have to redo the suspension it cause whoever built this for some reason put lift blocks on the front axle and welded the leaf springs to the frame :shaking: :shaking: anyways, im gonna be converting it to four wheel drive if i obtain this truck, so what transfer case should i look for to back up that tranny... it has dodge axles i cant remember what side the chunk is on.

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buying that truck is not worth it. thanks for your help anyways.

hahahahahahaha, holy shit. thats so scary. you could have used toy cases (with modified adapters, etc) or 203/205 cases.. just so the tech is out there. :flipoff2:

how much was the guy wanting? you could buy it and part it out...

$3500 fawking dollars for a 2WD monster death machine!! i aint even gonna mess with it. it would cost me almost that much just to make it safe. hey, where in alabama are you from? i live in birmingham.

I'm in Mobile. You should offer him $50 to take it off his hands to scrap/part it out... :flipoff2:

I offered him $25. I think that upset him. :flipoff2:

haha, theres a guy down the road from where i work who put a shortened 88-98 body on a blazer frame and had some HUGE ass welded in 'lift blocks'. he wanted somethin like 2-3g's for it. i just thought to myself 'theres NO WAY in HELL i'd give more than 100 for this trash. didn't even have an engine or tranny or anything in it.

hahaha well this toyota has 5 inch lift blocks up front and a welded piece of tubing if im not mistakin welded on the bottom of the frame to the spring to keep the front end level due to the weight of the chevy 350 hahahaha

wait wait, so the spring cant even do its job? ROFL! tell him $100 and get the 350 out of it and sell it for more. :)

update: he was fillin the yota up at a gas station today and some dumbass offered him $4k for it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA and bought it to put on his used car lot. sad...