Who is or has run a 307?

[82TwoHeadlight]

All the government agencies at the local levels are underfunded (I guess, they think they are anyway) so they're out looking for revenue anywhere they can find it. And the "country" is getting city-fied too unfortunately.
Another buddy of mine has lived on the outskirts of Manvel, Texas so long that one of the streets in this subdivision has his last name! Ya know your people been there a while for that to happen! He works on his own vehicles, used to do transmission work on the weekends, and I think they have some animals. Well now the City has grown enough that they're not in the sticks anymore...so I'm sure this'll be happening with their area soon.
None of the Code Enforcement people I've ever dealt with or heard about are "car people" so they really don't "get" why someone else is. To them it's just another excuse to jack a "lower income" or minority person around... In the interest of "gentrification".
If it wasn't the middle of summer, I'd be making room in the building for this other truck (2006 GMC Yukon XL Denali,6.0 AWD) so I could get some parts off it I want to use on my 400 Burb. Wanted to do that over the winter and s**t kept happening that kept me from getting out there and working.
Anybody interested in the running gear outta this one, maybe for a Hot Rod LS Burb?
Sorry for the thread jack BTW....

I'm interested in the running gear. How much?

 

[bucket]

@Ricko1966 I just picked up a nice and clean 307 to put in my daughter's '77 K10. It's from my friend's '69 Camaro and we are fairly certain it's been rebuilt. It should perform nicely and be economical as well.

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[Ricko1966]

Well it's funny I didn't know whether to jump back in here or not,but with bucket calling me by name I figure I ought to say something. Some of you will agree,some of you won't but you can't please everyone. Rather than continuing the panic of throwing things together,scrapping stuff I didn't want to etc. Way to much to do and not enough time. I filled out their paperwork and mailed it back to them,we'll have to see what the consequences are. I know what the consequences are,money,I'll just have to see how much.

 

[Rusty Nail]

Uhhhhh oh yeah! Uhhhhh

What happened to the 307 crankzizzle?

 

[Ricko1966]

Sorry rusty the 307 crankzizzle is in the perfectly good running 307 enginezizzle..

 

[Rusty Nail]

A boy can dream.

 

[squaredeal91]

On purpose I bought a 1987 tune port 305 roller cam engine from an iroc camaro and put it in my 83 regal coup, not the most desirable car but interior is mint and car is fun!! that 305 thinks it's a 350. Has an R4 with 273s. Does good burnouts and drifts around for fun. I've had and driven ford 302s and there no 350 but do okay. The chevy 307, 305 are good engines imo. Its my belief that allot of there bad wrap came from crappy cams that went bad premature giving them low performance.

 

[Catbox]

307 Freshness...
This one was just reassembled.
We bought it as a running fresh rebuild for Max's '55.
His '49 truck needed an engine, so he began the transformation.

It now wears a set of Summit Vortec heads (GASP!), a ebay Vortec air gap intake, and a Holley 570 Street Avenger.
It should be plenty snappy in the little light weight truck with the fresh turbo 350 and its Saturday night special torque converter.
Just some details to finish up before he fires it up for the first time since February.

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[Catbox]

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307 with smol RV type cam
Summit Vortec heads with 1.6 roller rockers on all valves
9:1 compression
Cast Malibu manifolds
2" head pipes with 3" transition at rear of transmission
Jones Flow Pack single chamber mufflers and 3 " cutouts with turn downs for when it needs to be louder.

All packaged in a 1949 Chevy truck.

 

[JBswth]

I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say maybe the community has limits on number of non operational vehicles visible from the street? Also many places do charge property tax on vehicles. Texas can, but it's up to each county. Many other states do though.
But since it was mentioned that he needs to get this truck running soon.....

There are communities that have a limit on non-op vehicles, especially those in an HOA. One of your neighbors probably called in on you.

J. B.

 

[DoubleDingo]

There are communities that have a limit on non-op vehicles, especially those in an HOA. One of your neighbors probably called in on you.

J. B.

1 here. Our taxpayer funded Karen-force has nearly doubled in the last couple of years. And the Karens that have nothing better to do than stick their noses into everything are the ones informing them.

 

[Catbox]

We don't live in a HOA and there are still Karen's that think they run the world.
I was turned into the city by one of them.
Provided information that my **** was all up to date and give the neighbor the finger when they look our way...

 

[Rusty Nail]

Pix?

 

[bucket]

We don't live in a HOA and there are still Karen's that think they run the world.
I was turned into the city by one of them.
Provided information that my **** was all up to date and give the neighbor the finger when they look our way...

Back when we lived in town, one our neighbors was a Karen. Her and the code enforcement guy had it out for me. But they couldn't do $hit about it because all the cars had plates, I moved them all every week or so and nothing was parked on grass. Oh and supposedly the town had a rule against gravel, side street parking areas (we had one) but ours was put in place long before the rule came along.

None of the other neighbors cared at all. I never made a bunch of noise at night and I had one of the nicest lawns on the street, which is all that was needed to keep them happy.

 

[Catbox]

Pix?

One of the "complaints" was about the abandoned vehicle behind my garbage cans.
So no my aBaNDonEd Bel Air sits out at the street, current plates and all for them to gaze upon every time they drive by.
Front of the house looks like an old car lot.
And to be relevant to this thread, Max was working on his 307 when this photo was taken.

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The little 307 has been quite impressive.
It is backed with a simple TH350 with a 2000 RPM stall and a shift kit.
The rear end has a set of 4.11 gears in it, so it is quick and snappy right out of the hole all the way to 6,500 RPM's.
Not so great on the highway as it spins 3,500 at 65 mph, but he drives it everywhere.