engine swap ??????????????
11-24-2007, 02:31 AM
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
iTrader: (-1)
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Hobart, Indiana
Posts: 315
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 1986 caged out firebird
Engine: 454 = wheelies
Transmission: th400 stall and trans brake
Axle/Gears: 4:11 ford 9" with ladder bars
engine swap ??????????????
ok i am doing a bbc engine swap the engines almost done but i was just wondering if i should do a gn 3.8 turbo swap instead i just want to do somthing diffrent would it be worth selling the bbc and getting a 3.8 turbo gn engine and building it.
11-24-2007, 08:14 AM
#2
Member
iTrader: (3)
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 188
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 87' Camaro
Engine: 305 carbed
Transmission: 700r4
Axle/Gears: 2.73
Re: engine swap ??????????????
well honestly i'd go with a big block over a 3.8 *any* day, nothing wrong with them but.."big block" and "almost done" why want to go to 3.8 from that?
11-26-2007, 05:49 PM
#3
Supreme Member
iTrader: (5)
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Casselberry, FLA
Posts: 2,771
Likes: 0
Received 5 Likes
on
5 Posts
Car: 88 V6 'bird/89TBI bird/85 T/A
Engine: 2.8/TBI/TPI
Transmission: V8 T-5/700R4 x2
Axle/Gears: 3.42 open/2.73 open/ 3.27 9 bolt
Re: engine swap ??????????????
I would run a turbo Buick first because I like to drive the car everywhere. BBC cars are front heavy and it throws the handling way off. Most guys here are drag racing with them when I see their pictures. Turbo Buick guys drag too, but their cars are a little more agile if you have to make a high speed turn.
Just another opinion and my
11-27-2007, 12:58 PM
#4
Member
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 86 Turbo Camaro
Engine: 427LSX
Transmission: 4L80E
Axle/Gears: 9" 3:25
Re: engine swap ??????????????
I'd second the Turbo Buick engine!!! 
After having had many small blocks in this body style from a 355 all the way to a 434sbc I've ended up with a V6.
My car now is very quiet and gets good MPG. It's got the best of both worlds... runs on pump gas. For it's first time out this year with this setup it went 11.19@123mph on 93oct. with 17lbs of boost.
Very slow 60' due to the converter being too tight. My MPH is mid 10's.(with the right launch)
I'm planning on putting a VSC (variable stall controll) in the transmission this winter which will put my stall at 3500 instead of 2500. I should be able to launch with 10-15lbs of boost and go 1.4's where the car did with a different buick/200R4 trans.
Here's the way the car looks now...
~Scott
(1).JPG)
After having had many small blocks in this body style from a 355 all the way to a 434sbc I've ended up with a V6.
My car now is very quiet and gets good MPG. It's got the best of both worlds... runs on pump gas. For it's first time out this year with this setup it went 11.19@123mph on 93oct. with 17lbs of boost.
Very slow 60' due to the converter being too tight. My MPH is mid 10's.(with the right launch)
I'm planning on putting a VSC (variable stall controll) in the transmission this winter which will put my stall at 3500 instead of 2500. I should be able to launch with 10-15lbs of boost and go 1.4's where the car did with a different buick/200R4 trans.
Here's the way the car looks now...
~Scott
11-28-2007, 09:41 PM
#5
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Adelaide, Australia.
Posts: 651
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 1984 Trans-Am WS6
Engine: WAS: 5.0HO, SOON: ZZ383-425HP.
Transmission: 700R4 with shift kit
Re: engine swap ??????????????
Thats frekin insane, looks too damn clean.
11-29-2007, 06:13 AM
#6
Member
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 86 Turbo Camaro
Engine: 427LSX
Transmission: 4L80E
Axle/Gears: 9" 3:25
Re: engine swap ??????????????
Thanks... I think that's the first thing everyone that's seen it says. 
Hope to clean it up some more when I put it back together here in a few months with the improvements. I'll eventually build a Stage 2 engine that has more CID and better duribiltiy than the stock block engine but they are getting hard to find and are expensive.
~Scott
Hope to clean it up some more when I put it back together here in a few months with the improvements. I'll eventually build a Stage 2 engine that has more CID and better duribiltiy than the stock block engine but they are getting hard to find and are expensive.
~Scott
12-05-2007, 03:46 PM
#7
Supreme Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Osceola Indiana
Posts: 2,151
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 92 RS(sold) 1989 IROC-Z
Engine: 350 TPI
Transmission: 700R4
Axle/Gears: ones that turn
Re: engine swap ??????????????
man your car is sweet anymore pics I want to see more, that thing would be a killer sleeper except for the slicks
Trending Topics
12-05-2007, 03:52 PM
#8
Member
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Car: 86 Turbo Camaro
Engine: 427LSX
Transmission: 4L80E
Axle/Gears: 9" 3:25
Re: engine swap ??????????????
Um... dude.. you live like 2 seconds from my shop.. Come over and see it
E-mail me for my address... It's about a mile from Osceola Dragway.
~Scott
E-mail me for my address... It's about a mile from Osceola Dragway.
~Scott
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
theshackle
Tech / General Engine
4
03-05-2017 06:37 PM
