If you are gona go auto I would go to a bone yard and pick those parts up... only reason is it will probably save you a bit of cash and they are pretty easy to find.... The 305 out of z28 are the same as the rest unless you get the l69 block which has the better heads and cam in it (more compression from the heads and more cam to it) so really.. if you get a 305 and swap heads and cam on it you will still have a decent motor for the car.. and you will probably notice a huge diference compared to what you have now.. not only in power, but in the lack of money in your wallet cause of gas lol

 

According to the parts and Illustration catalogs the only V8 engine to get different heads from 82-86 was the 82-84?? (not exactly sure on years might be 82, or both 82 & 83) LG4, beyond that they were all the same.

The L69 was identical to the 85 TPI, and 83 CFI engines and was introduced in 1983. IIRC, actually from 85 & 86 everything was the same in the 305 engines except the cam, and the exhaust manafolds are suposedly different.

John

 

Thanks for the info Okfoz The rest of the car, is just taking a beating from Daily driving abuse, Im reall close to saying Screw the restoration and go out and buy a v8 maro, thats in better shape then this car is, third gens are still all over my area. (and if i do this, im gonna get some T-tops! )

 

Yea the heads were the 82-84 (only thirdgens i own and since he has an 83' i was shooting him a specific thing that would match his car year) The manifolds are not different however.. as far as I can see by comparing the one on my stock 1984 z28 HO Vs my L69 I have in my 1983 Berlinetta from a swap, vs the stock 1984 berlinetta I have. all the same.. the head numbers are different (the original compression for the non l69 cars was 8.5 ot 8.7 and the L69 engines was 9.5 - 9.8 as for the engine specs i got from GM about it... So that was why i brought up the heads for the 82-84's. the cam is obviously different depending on the power output for the car since it has alot to do with it. But Like i was saying. Get a decent 5.0L block, and puts some decent heads and a decent cam in it and you will be good to go...Heck If you get a v8 shortblock I have stock intakes and carbs for it just laying around my place lol... I also have a few sets of heads.. although I will be getting one of them rebuilt to go on the standby engine... (I drive hard, so i always have a second engine on standby, so when the current one fails, i can swap them and be running in a day, and then i fix the old block (if it is fixable fora decent range) and then make it the standby lol)

 

I was at the GM Nat's and I saw that car being trailered into the show. That car was one of the cleanest berli's ive ever seen. I was talking to the owner for a little while and he said a farmer had bought it new and it was kept in his barn ever since. He said it had never seen rain or snow. I was completely amazed when i saw the interior because it was so well kept and the fact that it had the telescoping radio and guages. nice car.

 

that one right there is what my red one will look like when the frame is fixed and it is repainted (minues the t-tops).. Mine has the starwars cluster in it too (the radio pod, and the telescoping dash parts and the digital cluster.. Which actually works the way it should)

 

telescoping parts???

did some of these have a telescoping steering wheel???

John

 

I am not positive. I iwll have to go out tonight and look .. will have nothing else to do.... But the dash did have 2 pods the teleschoped out on either side of the guage cluster... (it held all the push button switched for headlights and such. Mine even has the switch for the blinkers there (it is a up/nuetral/down switch. was OEM ) I think that the steering wheel may have, since it was not like the steering wheels in the rest of the camaro's. The Ones with the Star wars cluster were pretty unique, and parts of that desgin can be seen in some of the newer cars sorta...

 

draggin the topic up from the dead, anwho just an update for you guys, Fixed the oil leak not only was the gasget blown out on the drivers side(didnt leak there though???) but on the passanger side by the tourqe converter cover the hole gasget was INSIDE the pan , while i was under the car, i found out that im missing a bolt that holds a part of the a-arms to the subframe time for a junkyard run

 

yea.. I go about once a onth and tighten then things up.. they always seem to want to back out... i figue i will not have to worry about it for a long time though since i am planing on getting a new k member a-arm setup....