easiest motor swap?

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What ^^^he ^^^^said. Remember, an engine is a bunch of individual parts working TOGETHER. Well thought out. I didn't make it as clear as I should have...get these parts first...Or Dot  dot dot  before getting anything else, but have a plan first overall. Otherwise you are still just throwing money at it hoping everything works together. Buying a new distributor isn't going to net any major horsepower gains until your compression goes so high that a regular spark dies before igniting the mixture. That will prolly never happen on a street quality truck. YMMV. BUT, there is no harm done throwing this money at it. Because it can't hurt performance no matter what. The spark plugs are the deciding factor in the entire ignition system, and for them to work perfectly the engine ground has be perfect, whether that's to the frame or straight to the battery. I prefer a straight battery ground from the block myself but YMMV. I personally never underestimate the ignition system for access to some easily obtained power, it's won't be a lot but ya never know. But there are a lot of sideroads to take to use an ignition successfully. Maybe these are outdated thoughts? Maybe other things will offer more power for less money. But ya can't overlook the cool factor with a nice shiny distributor sitting there with nice wires. BTW, those were suggestions not references, I was already on that site looking for the distributor I bought for mine and just clicked the wires to show as a reference to good wires that were not walmart wires. I run two coils on my Harley and that did wonders for it's drive ability with the huge cam I have in it.

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... then i found out why i got tired real fast. we had the truck running in the shop with one door open but it wasnt enough cause a camper in another bay has its carbon dioxide detector start alarming. silly rednecks

Rednecks aren't the only ones to this my friend! The construction company I worked at for 23 years had NO ventilation in the shop during the winter when we did most of the heavy truck maintenance. The shop was a two stall concrete pre-cast building big enough to put two semi's in. Get two semi's running at the same time in shop and see how fast it fills up with a lack of oxygen.    Or rig up a paint booth and paint a bulldozer in there. I've had my head so full of noxious fumes so often I'm surprised I'm still alive. Headaches were a normal occurrence when working in the shop, took a handful of aspirin and we did what we had to. I've sandblasted so much with a 200lb pressure pot sandblaster with just a canvass blasting hood, using Black Diamond, silica, and playground sand. Many semi trailers, dozens of pieces of crane boom, crane cabs, all sorts of parts, concrete surfaces of swimming pools, and the list goes on.

I know I shouldn't but I get a kick out of folks that wear plastic gloves to use carb cleaner...