And the 400 before I put in in the bay!! Should be running very soon. I'll take another pic installed in the bay after I get it running.

 

here is mine....
Its going to change yet again in 2 weeks or sojavascript:smilie('')
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.....the damn picture won't come up.....

www.cardomain.com/id/celli85
its on the second page

 

A little dirty but

 

Here're some pics of the LG4 in the '85 Firebird S/E I just picked up recently. Not real pretty right now, but I hope to clean it up some this summer. It has 160k miles on it!(not too bad for $400 eh?)





-Paul

 

You need to become friends with someone named "Simple Green"

 

I was thinking more along the lines of steam pressure washer and high strength engine degreaser/wheel acid, but simple green would work too

 

Still have the Qjet.

 

heres a couple pics of my brothers engine (ljnowell) he doesnt have a digital camera and were workin on it over at my house right now so he wanted me to post a couple of the pics we have we have probable 100 pics so far..lol..here we go

 

another one

 

Theres a couple of the pics. Those are before the fuel lines and heater hoses were on. Damn chrome looks black because of the relection.

 

yes i know, i need to clean the plastic stuff up.. kinda lazy right now.

 

another one ...sorry i was getting creative with the camera here..lol

 

well the motor isnt in the car right now but this is what will be on it.

 

I'll keep this beast of a thread going.

Here is my motor as of late.

 

i like those valve covers man whered you get those??

looks good

 

They come stock on the 350HO. GM sells them.

I have mixed feeling about them, But I like them enough not to buy new ones.

 

Finally got the cracked 2.8 out and this in sorry cheap cam

 

its a lil dirty, in a 5th gen g body not a thirdgen, i wish i had pics of our big block 85z with stock towers, but this is my junk.


88iroctpi,becareful with that fuel rail w/ gauge, make sure the screws on the back stay tight, they have a tendency to vibrate loose and then the fluid disappears and the gauge stops working. just personal expierence with slummit junk.

 

my 350HO(piece of **** broke *** motor) had black ones stock i ordered those covers for 130 from the gm catalog, i think www.sdpc2000.com has them as well.
and i dont suggest going thru GM for their crate motors, 2 years and 3 motors later i finally built my own and i havnt had a problem yet.
1st crate dropped a main cap bolt on very first start up and shattered a piston and punctured the pan.
2nd motor lasts almost a year not even 1k miles and the rods were installed backwards,but since i installed the motor myself and pulled it out when it blew the warranty was voided:jerkoff:

 

So exactly how do you install connecting rods backwards? There is no front and back to them.

 

Using Stock TBI Pump as well w/ no problemos

 

Well I guess I might as well contribute a pic also. The new tunnel ram engine is still on the engine stand but this is last year's engine and will probably be most of this years engine as well.

 

What are you gonna do with the old engine?Are you going to part it out?

Daz

 

Here is Mine, just got done beefing up my 305.

 

Some of the stuff will be used on the new engine and I'll probably just sell it as a long block. I'll change things like take off the aluminum valve covers and install some chrome tin ones etc. The distributor will go into the new engine. I haven't decided about the water pump yet. The carb will go onto the tunnel ram to match another one.

I shouldn't have any problems getting at least $5000 Canadian for it. Probably worth closer to $8000. Depends how much I keep on the engine. I could make it a "carb to pan" engine with a few extra parts I have lying around but it wouldn't be on alcohol. It could never be used on the street though without filling the fuel tank with VP C12.

Eagle 4340 crank, Scat I beam rods 1/4" longer than stock. JE lightweight pistons 13:1 compression. Biggest flat tappet cam available from Comp Cams. Merlin oval port heads. Victor Jr intake. Just to name a few of the goodies in the engine.

New engine will have even nicer goodies. Same pistons and crank, aluminum rods, timing gear drive (no chain), BIG roller cam, tunnel ram with 2-850's, Canfield 310 aluminum heads.

This engine puts out around 600 HP. New engine will be around 850 HP (all motor).

Even that picture is old. It still has a MSD distributor on it and I now have a small MSD billet one. The fuel line is also running to the rear and I now have the fuel cell mounted up front.

 

Im more interested in the heads since my bottom end is pretty solid(stock forged assembly with 7/16" rods

Daz

 

mine .

 

my 350 as of now, still not done

 

not quit finished

 

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Apeiron what kind of car is that engine in ???

 

69 Nova SS L78

 

sweet

 

Mine:

 

hey Purple82TA glad to some other folks on here running the edelbrock carbs i believe they are awsome carbs for street rides man ....i like the way it looks

 

yah, i've ran Holley's in the past and they (In my opnion) are junk. i'm sure they have their place but not on anything i'll ever build again. had a 750 DP on a 454 and i had nothing but probs with it.

i love my Edelbrock, 4 years, 4k miles and not 1 single problem


now, if i could just figure out how to restore that factory shine...


Dave

 

yeah i have had lots of problems in the past with the holleys and wouldnt recomend them for much of anything except for just making 1/4 mile passes they are awsome for that but for driving puposes the edelbrock is the way to go ive had 4 edelbrocks in the last 8 years on 4 different cars and loved the response and looks of it .....they are awsome carbs...

 

i promised my self i wouldnt post untill it ran. it was orignally a 305 tbi, now its a 350ish tbi, w/ a weiland intake and holley carb and lots and lots of other stuff, and took out all the ac, heat and whatever else i could put my hands on... FUEL INJECTION SUCKS!

o and to the previous post... ive had edelbrock and holley... overall ive had less problems with holley, but thats me personally... i know everyone is different, i think their alot easier to tune too...

 

heres mine...

 

I just finished getting mine running with the new 650 Mighty Demon... I used to have a holley 780VS on top. This is a horrible pic.









Here's the old carb:

 

wow, those are some sweet valve covers!

 

heres my sig for some reason i canr post big pics. isnt the bast setup but it works edelbrock 600cfm manual i mean no choke carb
EDIT: btw i have headers about to be put on i just need to get some gaskets ill have a new pic soon with headers on

 

updated pic, taken last week...

 

heres a pic of my 540.cool thead by the way.LOL

 

Dude where in Texas are you located. If your near houston you have to come to our winter gathering On Jan 1st. That is one sweet motor man.

 

These are pics from a long time ago since ive cleaned her up a lil bit.

 

finally took a pic and fixed it to where it can display on this site.
this was a pic recently after replacing pushrods and valve springs (broke on spring, bent a pushrod).

 

the $985 low 12sec motor in my 88 camaro........

 

those are nice looking motors. im glad to see that some 3rd gens have ***** now. i think im gonna put a 100hp shot of nitrous on my motor around christmas.

 

not finished yet. its a 700 holley dp

sorry for the big picture

Nebu.