`79 Firebird...what would you do?

350 Chebby or Pontiac? The 350 Pontiacs are kind of orphans - you either replace with a 350 Chevy or a bigger Pontiac.

What do you want to do with the car? Drag race? Road race? Just cruising? Nitrous?

Good Pontiac V8 blocks are starting to get rare (at least around here...) - what kind of $ are you thinking?

I can concur - once you've driven an LS1 it's hard to enjoy a

70's smogger... torque is cool, but a 4000rpm redline is lame... Although nothing had torque like my old 75 Bird. 350 Pontiac, only a 2 barrel, 2.56 gears.... but wicked burnouts and I would dare say had more low end torque than my Ram Air.

I'm still holding out for a 455 for my TA, but I am building a

80/20 drag/street car out of it.

Maybe your engine is closer to 270 hp. As for asking what someone else would do, first do more research on the existing engine. Personally I would come to your house and slap you for needing 300 hp. :)

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