Want to learn more...
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Want to learn more...
I know that most of you in here have enough knowledge to order a crate engine and put it in urselfs, with some extra hands of course.
I wanted to know how you all learned this stuff. Is there any place on the web i can read up, any books, anything that REALLY! helps, not anythign about history and S**T. This would be a great help if you guys could come up with some stuff.
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1992 z28 25th Anniversary
All black w/ z28 wing
Flowmaster Exhaust
350 TPI
I wanted to know how you all learned this stuff. Is there any place on the web i can read up, any books, anything that REALLY! helps, not anythign about history and S**T. This would be a great help if you guys could come up with some stuff.
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1992 z28 25th Anniversary
All black w/ z28 wing
Flowmaster Exhaust
350 TPI
Joined: Mar 2000
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From: Littleton, CO USA
Car: 82 Berlinetta/57 Bel Air
Engine: L92/LQ4 (both w/4" stroke)
Transmission: 4L80E/4L80E
Axle/Gears: 12B-3.73/9"-3.89
"Extra hands"? I'm insulted...
Actually, most of us started helping someone else (dad, friend, neighbor), and picked up things as we went along. For me, it was my dad and older brothers. I did my first solo engine stab at 14 (that was a long time ago). Seriously, I did put in the engine in both cars in my sig by myself.
I knew one guy in the Army that was largely self-taught - took maintenance manuals back with him to the barracks at night and read through them. Probably the best mechanic I've ever met. So, it is possible to pick it up on your own with good reference material.
A good place to start is with either a Haynes or factory repair manual, and do your own maintence work - oil changes, front wheel bearing packing, spark plugs, fuel filter, starter/alternator replacement, etc. Work your way up to more complicated things; brake replacement, performance parts installation, and the like. Check in here when you get stumped.
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82 Berlinetta, orig V-6 car, now w/86 LG4/TH700R4. 2.93 limited slip. Cat-back from '91 GTA, Accel HEI SuperCoil. AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Daily driver, work-in-progress (LG4 w/'87 LB9 block, ZZ3 cam and intake, World 305 heads, Hooker headers & y-pipe, 3" Catco cat & 3" cat-back).
57 Bel Air, my 1st car. '66 396, 9.7 CR forged TRWs, Weiand Action+, Edelbrock 1901 Q-Jet, GK 270 cam, Magnum rockers, Jacobs Omnipack, 1-3/4" Hedders & 3" Warlocks, TH400 w/TCI Sat Night Special conv & Trans-Scat shift kit, MegaShifter, 3.08 8.2" 10-bolt w/Powertrax, AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Idles smooth @ 600 RPM in D. Best 15.02/95.06 @ 5800' Bandimere (corrected 13.93/102.4 @ sea level).
[This message has been edited by five7kid (edited July 07, 2001).]
Actually, most of us started helping someone else (dad, friend, neighbor), and picked up things as we went along. For me, it was my dad and older brothers. I did my first solo engine stab at 14 (that was a long time ago). Seriously, I did put in the engine in both cars in my sig by myself.
I knew one guy in the Army that was largely self-taught - took maintenance manuals back with him to the barracks at night and read through them. Probably the best mechanic I've ever met. So, it is possible to pick it up on your own with good reference material.
A good place to start is with either a Haynes or factory repair manual, and do your own maintence work - oil changes, front wheel bearing packing, spark plugs, fuel filter, starter/alternator replacement, etc. Work your way up to more complicated things; brake replacement, performance parts installation, and the like. Check in here when you get stumped.
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82 Berlinetta, orig V-6 car, now w/86 LG4/TH700R4. 2.93 limited slip. Cat-back from '91 GTA, Accel HEI SuperCoil. AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Daily driver, work-in-progress (LG4 w/'87 LB9 block, ZZ3 cam and intake, World 305 heads, Hooker headers & y-pipe, 3" Catco cat & 3" cat-back).
57 Bel Air, my 1st car. '66 396, 9.7 CR forged TRWs, Weiand Action+, Edelbrock 1901 Q-Jet, GK 270 cam, Magnum rockers, Jacobs Omnipack, 1-3/4" Hedders & 3" Warlocks, TH400 w/TCI Sat Night Special conv & Trans-Scat shift kit, MegaShifter, 3.08 8.2" 10-bolt w/Powertrax, AMSOIL syn lubes bumper-to-bumper. Idles smooth @ 600 RPM in D. Best 15.02/95.06 @ 5800' Bandimere (corrected 13.93/102.4 @ sea level).
[This message has been edited by five7kid (edited July 07, 2001).]
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