ridenred27

sounds like you have a bad or loose connection. check the battary voltage first. if good follow battary leads from battary through to the starter.

i have to agree. there wont be any noticable power gains with out any head work to match the intake

i dont know where you hered that porting your heads will ruin them. but you cant go wild with the ports they are thin. but you can smooth out the castings and the intake ports. you do not want to change the shape of the ports this will have a neg. effect on the flow efficiency. bacicly all you will be doing is what is reffered to as a pocket port. some power is also found when you port under the valves. some heads are real restrictive there. as far as the t/b goes do a search on z-24 cavilers, i seen a ready to install bored t/b on one of those sites. GM sells a real nice cam for those motors also. think turbo for some nice power. buckeye has a perfect one for that swap

do you have the ability to dyno all wheel drive cars and trucks. also for your 1 hr rental is the owner of auto able to make timing and jet mods. some shops wont let you do these changes