Well guys, I've been talking about this car for a few months and some of you know about my 88 TBI car. I came into possession of this beast back in May and I've been cleaning her up since then. Now I feel it's time to show her to the world. So without further ado I bring to you my latest aqusition. The L9H8.........












pay no mind to the chin spoiler, I got drunk and sprayed plastidip on it because I was bored,lol. it's coming off this weekend.

here's some pics of the engine bay, I'll show you what I started with then what it is now....















I still want to clean it up a little more but as I said it's still a work in progess. Tell me what you guys think?

Nice clean engine compartment. good job!!

very nice car!

The car looks great man! I really like how clean the engine looks with the low mount accesory drive brackets, and no a/c. Hurry up and clean up the chin spoiler, cause that looks like a nasty primer job LOL! Drinking... haha

It's an 88 TBI car with a TPI and 91-92 gfx? Looks nice though.

What the hell is an L9H8? Is that supposed to be some kind of cute way to say L-90-hate?

Lol, no I have 2 cars. The gray 88 is my TBI car in my sig. This is my Black 91.

Yep, it's my nickname for the car,lol.

Robert nice car & nice job from how the engine bay started to now!!!

Looks good. What are your plans for this car?

Looks great man. Glad I have never messed with my car when drunk.

Car looks great. Are those the stock fogged-over parking lights ? If so you can look at a set of these.= http://www.1aauto.com/1A/HeadLights/...PP00008/271776
If your interested in seeing them installed here's a link = https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/afte...r-parking.html

Looking nice! Engine (as well as the whole car) looks very clean, but from your other post I am guessing that you probably have some pretty big plans for an overhaul... just don't make it faster than your '88! lol

Well my plans are just making the car a "fun" cruiser. I have my hot rod,lol. My short term goals are just refreshing up the powertrain with some mild upgrades. I'd like to get another set of unmolested ZZ4 Heads I can port or a set of LT1 "heavy" aluminum heads, not the later "lightened" ones and convert them over for SBC use. I either want to port the stock intake and add some bigger runners or if I can find one for a good price a stealth ram would be awesome. Transmission wise i'd like to just freshen it up with a good "mild performance" upgrade with a 2000-2600rpm stall ( i'm in love with the 3200 in the 88,lol). I haven't decided whether I'm going to use a production LT4 cam or go a touch larger with the ZZ4 cam (again I love it in the ZZ5.0) I really don't want to go crazy with this car like I did with the 88. It's keeping almost all of it's comforts like the interior, heat and radio. I'm r3dneck I don't need AC,lol. The most money will be spent on suspension and handling. That I will go crazy on.

It's a stock 3:23 posi car but the upgrade to 3:42 will be in probably by next month, I already have a set of richmond gears I've been sitting on for 6 years,lol. Luckily most of everything I've done to this car I've either had already in the garage or I was able to sell some of my parts that I've collected over the years to pay for the little I've done to this.

I built the exhaust myself, I have a thread in the exhaust section that I need to update. I think in the whole exhaust I have about $500 from headers all the way back to the muffler. I already had a set of Eibach Prokits sitting on my shelf in the garage so that was a no brainer. I would use the Transgo kit I have sitting on my shelf but I don't see the point as I believe the transmission needs to be rebuilt anyway. I have a stock SMC hood that needs alittle love but it's still useable, I'd like to modify it so I can use the stock blisters for a stock appearance.

For the wheels and tires i already had my Snypers from the grey car but I reused my polished GTA's on it so the Snypers got moved to the 91. I was VERY reluctant at first but I'm glad I put these on this car, it looks great.

car looks great! keep up the good work

What brand alt and ps brackets are you using?

Looks good.

You can polish your parking lights out to a like new shine in a matter of 10 minutes if you want to. 3m makes a kit if you want to get power tools involved (needs a drill), and it costs $15.

You sound as if you know what your doing so this may be unnecessary but have you used the Richmond Gears before.The only reason I ask is that a friend of mine is hating the whine that came with them in his new install. He lives up north so I had to go to Youtube to get a idea as to what they sound like.I was surprised. I like to only hear my engine and exhaust so a constant whine in my ear even slightly would drive me crazy.

I haven't heard the whine from richmond gears before but I have heard about people saying that they do. If it's any louder than the damn 80 series I just put on the car I would be amazed,lol. The blasted thing is so "bassy" that it rattles my ear drums.

No disrespect intended but "IMO" thous are still way off from the ones shown below.I'm all for restoring stock but I have yet to see a badly fogged set "really" pop .I have spent a small fortune on my car and then not changing the parking lights because of a $80.00 purchase for one of the most important pieces one the front of the car I just could not do.And talk about getting way off the "stock" path concerning the parking lights just take a look at the 'Cristal" ones there selling on E-bay and running on some of the nicest cars I have ever seen.I don't care for them my self but to each there own.

so why did you take off the dual tpi filters for a single cone k&N also, isnt the maf sensor in the cone, did you get rid of that also, just wondering?

Looks like a map car and not a maf car.

Always wondered ronus, for such a beautiful paint job everywhere else, why is the chin spoiler the only thing needing fresh paint?

What Mr.Blaze said is true, it's a MAP car so no need for the sensor. I got the single cone to help clean up the engine bay more. I've been running an open element on my TBI for years with no ill effect so I thought it fitting to do the same with this one.

Here's a photo op I just couldn't pass up today, craziness of the same color scheme,lol.

If it works for you then go for it. I dont really see a difference, though.

So, what brand alt and ps brackets are those? March?

Well the PS and pullies are March but the ALT side I made myself by copying the March bracket on my 88. The most expensive part of the swap was buying a new crank pulley and the tensioner for the alternator. Other than that All it is is a spare piece of half inch aluminum, some cheap grade 8 6 inch bolts from true value and some 3/8's washers from walmart.