Notsostockcamar

Hi all just figured I'd share the transformation of my 88 sport coupe from when I got it February of 2012 till now.

Here's when I first brought it home paid $800 for it. It had the original tbi 305 removed and replaced with a carbed 350 that had a flat lobe on the cam and a blown headgasket because of it.


So I picked up a cam n lifters for cheap and pulled the heads to replace the gaskets. I will never do this with the motor in the car again haha.




Then two weeks later it spun a rod bearing so I swapped in a built 327 I had laying around 11:1 compression pretty wicked cam aftermarket valve springs and retainers and some ported camelbacks.


Old motor on the stand.


New 327 on the cradle.

Notsostockcamar

Tore all the hvac crap out and removed alot of the unused tbi wiring.




Then I had a headgasket fail due to my hei distributor failing and giving me way too much timing so that mixed with the high compression caused it to fail.





I threw headgaskets in it and drove it nice till this last year when it came apart again.

Notsostockcamar

So I picked up a 4" steel cowl hood and spent a little under 3grand between summit and jegs and decided to do it right.

Out came the motor


Then I tore it down for all new gaskets.






Repainted the engine bay.

Notsostockcamar

Got the motor back in and ran it for a bit it ran really strong and had no leaks so I went on with the mods. It had a nasty true dual 2 ¼ crush bent exhaust on it which had to go and I figured id ditch the manifolds at the same time so I ordered a set of hooker supercomp longtubes, a mufflex y pipe and a 4" bullet muffler for now.

Notsostockcamar

That pretty much brings us up to current. Things I didn't list, 3 transmissions it ate and a pump in the current trans ,and it blew another headgasket right before last winter weights stuck in the hei. I also put in a custom stereo as well. Ill have to write up a complete mod list soon.






Here's a pic of how the car currently looks.

Notsostockcamar

Mods:
11:1 327
Ported camelbacks
Aftermarket springs and retainers
Comp ultra gold roller rockers
Comp magnum pushrods
Edelbrock torker intake
"Chevrolet" tall cast valve covers
Comp cam lost the card I believe 525/540 lift unsure on duration
Holley 600cfm mechanical secondary carb.
Summit racing billet distributor
Summit racing digital ignition box w/rev limiter
Msd wires
K&N 4" filter and lid
Custom accessory brackets
Hooker super comp 1¾ primary long tube headers
Mufflex y-pipe
4" bullet muffler
Fully built th200c shift kit, line pressure mod.
B&M 2600 stall converter
Blazer 2wd driveshaft
Poly torque arm mount.
B&M console mount megashifter
Electric fan.

Interior:
Custom stereo
4x 8" crossfire db series subs
Crossfire vr601d amp
All Pioneer speakers
Jvc deck
One of thise cheap 3 gauge pods under the center vents on the dash.

Exterior:
4" steel cowl hood
Cheap chrome "track wheels"
Custom Dents dings scratches haha.

That about sums it up I think. Well till next year it's patiently waiting in storage.

DynoDave43

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Welcome aboard!

Notsostockcamar

Thanks, been a long time lurker. I'm comin over from the dsm scene been doin sbc's for a long time though. This is my first third gen tho.