I am swapping motors in my '86 Z-28. And I was wondering how yall's looked. I am wanting to get rid of all the cluterness. It has a stock LG4 (305 w/4 barrel carb) motor in it right now. I am putting a 350 in it. So I thougt scence I am already changing everything, now would be the time to get rid of whatever I could! I cant stand all that crap. You cant even see the intake on the motor because of all the wires and hoses in the way! And im probubly going to put headers on it, and right now I dont see how I can do that with all that other crap in the way. I know im going to get rid of that EGR crap. But I would like to know what yall did.

Thanks!!!!!

 

I swamped a GMPP 350 in my origonaly equipted LG4 car. No computer, edelbrock intake, carb, and dress up. Headers, heads, and cams are comming this summer. I'm hoping for 13's this spring after exhaust.

-Matt

 

Did taking the comp off mess anything up like the a/c or anything?

Thats what somone told me would happen. Plus seence I have a 700r4 (well I guess anything auto), that it would mess up my converter.

Do you have any of these prob's?

 

I done away with the heat and A/C in my car and smoothed over the firewall. I also ditched the computer,the only thing you need to make the converter lock up is a vaccum switch,which is pretty easy to fix.

 

Mine. Was a TBI 305 car. A/C will be gone by spring.

 

I don't ever plan on removing my A/C, not were I live.

 

Hey Prime the motor looks sweet but watch out for that breather cause I know someone that had one and their filter started falling apart and the pieces got sucked into the carb. Not saying it will but that it has been known to happen. Looks good tho. Just didn't want it to hurt that nice ride.

 

Yeah I know a guy who melted half of one of those filters after a few good backfires. Look out!

 

Remove the AC? Uhhh, I might as well remove the right rear wheel while I’m at it. That way I’d make my car even lighter!

Seriously though, what exactly would you mess up by pulling the computer-controlled stuff out? Keep in mind that they set the smog standards from us poor CA bastards, so it’s not like we have a lot of options…

Had to replace my carb recently, with a smog legal carb ($1.100 new, $350 for remanufactured which I for some reason ended up getting) It would have been pretty sweet to have just pulled any old carb from whatever car I could find at the bone yard, but… well…

/forsete

 

My a/c is gone as you can see in the pic. I still have a heater and use it everyday now. I don't have any of that emmisions BS (EGR, Smog, Canister, ect.) Nothing got messed up with the computer gone. I do live in an emmisions controlled area and this year I failed the sniffer becouse of a bad cat. The #'s were very close to passing. This year after exhaust, it will be fine.

-Matt

 

 

my engines so ugly...

WAIT i Know what can Help!!!

An Lt-4

 

heres Mine....

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Here are a couple of mine,


Before


During


After

Some parts have been reloacted, like the MSD Coil and Box.
I'll have some updated pics shortly.

 

If you do away with the ECM, then you will need to wire up an aftermarket TC lockup switch.

 

Here's mine lol I wish. Has Supercharger, Twin Turbo, and NOS!!

 

mine is a tight stock 305 LG4. Anyone want to sell me a 350?



If I remembered right tripod wont let you link pics, so here is the link. http://members.tripod.co.uk/michigan34/87fbird2.gif but thats an old pic of it, I have 2 inch tubinging feeding to the intake pan from under my car for a litle ram air goin on.

 

 

heres mine, showroom fresh should be with only 49k

 

YUM

 

CAMARO NOW OFFERS 5TH ROW SEATING!!!

 

Hey SLP-GTA you have a really nice car. I saw that one on eBay a while back. Never driven in rain is what he said!
Sweet ride!

 

Here's my 'bird which, will probably never get done

http://www.deadbird.org/z/eng.jpg

And my beater camaro

http://www.deadbird.org/b/maro4.jpg

Now,, don't get to jealous over the camaro,, I know it's sweet & all but, control yourselves

At least it's clean to the touch

 

Thanks 83firebird yep that the one, and I bought it to be a daily driver, rain whatever. But when it arrived it was way to clean to do so. So now it my toy, only driven on nice days
(sick isnt it) but I see it getting rare to find 3gen that are not trashed.

By the way yours look pretty clean for a 83

 

Wow! Lots of great looking engines in here. I think I might try to get rid of most of the computer mess. But thanks of posting!!

 

The 5.7L TPI in the IROC:


and the old 5.0L TBI from the RS:


I can't wait to have a beautiful engine bay like some of you guys.

 

Here is Scauffiel's I had a pic of it and I really like it so I hope he doesn't mind.

 

Here's my 383!!

 

If i send someone some pics of my project,can you post them? I promise you won't be sorry. It is not completely finished,but should be a hell of a ride when it is done. The old motor went 10,90's @ 125.Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Heres's mine. Got some stuff coming in. Like Billet valve covers, polished aluminum rad shroud etc.

 

Heres another angle. See more at www.cardomain.com/id/flyinlow89

 

here's one....kind of old tho... no good recent pics......besides, it's filthy anyway.

 

here`s a work i progress:

 

All you have to do is reduce the size of the picture, then include it as an attachment directly from your computer.

 

Here are a couple...

1987 Iroc 5.7L (all stock, aftermarket cruise, 52,000 miles)


1991 Formula 5.7L (pardon the mess, hasn't been detailed since the last work I did on it, and it has the wrong master cylinder, mostly stock 114,000 miles)


1991 RS convertible 5.0L tbi (all stock, 55,000 miles)


1991 Firebird 3.1L (almost entirely stock, 140,000 miles)

 

Mark, I'll give it a try, thanks for the info.

 

I can't believe it worked! Thanks again Mark.
Here's another :

 

Here is mine. I repainted the all of the firewall, except the part about where the heater core tubes are over to behind the dist., and the fenders. I haven't got my new fuel system set up yet, so that is why the lines are on top. I alos am going to try and build a delete pulley this winter so I can stay sane while I can't drive the car! I also am getting an aftermarket overflow tank, which one I have not decided yet. Even though I took off the brake booster, and master cylinder, I still managed to not get paint under the steering column. That is why it looks a little pink. I had to put the remote starter silinoid on the firewall just so something would be over there. It looks lop sided with the drivers side full. I also moved the harness under the booster.

 

Here are a few of my 86 IROC ragtop's engine bay. Not entirely done and clean - but still..












Ken

 

 

Yeah I 've ran them on various cars for the last 5 years. They do OK if you replace the element every 3 to 6 mo. but one quick backfire and bye bye filter. Thanks for the complement I really appreciate it.

 

installed this past year

 

Reviving a 7 year old post, to the day!

 

 

My 92 rs engine bay with sbc 383 alum heads.

 

More engine bay photos of 92 camaro!

 

Picture of my 1991 GTA 5.7L TPI engine from several years ago. Wish I still had it ! ! !

 

That is AMAZINGLY shiny! Did you use Mothers Mag and Alluminum Polish? Its what i use on my sled and it works wonders.

 

Very very nice, looks like your was well taken care of. I bet you do wish you still had it. I would like to find an iroc someday, but its going to have to look like yours under the hood. I am still building this car, havent drove it yet. Been a 4 year project!

 

I wish I could get it back just like it was the day I sold it!

A friend of mine talked me out of it. He had it for 4 years sitting in his garage. Only put 2000 miles on it in 4 years. His wife was expecting, so it had to go. He sold it to a guy that was going to give it to his 15 year old son as a first car. It ran 7.20's 1/8 mile. DOT tires, emissions legal. Have not seen or heard of it since.