well got up today and went and got a hamonic balancer, a waterpump, and some paint so i can paint my new brackets. waterpump bolted up like a deam excect i need to find the pipe for my heater core. my new one didnt come with it. and somehow while trying to install my harmonic balancer i stripped the threads on my crank.... going to try and re tap it tonight, i think its just the first few... im still lost on how i did that....

 

well chased the thread out on my crank and got my balancer in, crank pulley installed, and water pump pulley installed. also got my manifolds mounted but they are comming off so i can have the egr hole welded shut. but i also got some of my pulleys mounted. still fighting with my ac brackets but the rest are coming along nicely. heres a picture of my motor as far as 5:00 tonight. need to go monday to get my oil filter adapter from my friend, and i also got a free $20 from zone so im going to get my plug wires. going to be ordering from rockauto here soon to get the rest of my motor stuff besides the intake,carb, and dizzy. one of these days ill get those three items lol.

 

well went to go get my plug wires today from zone and they didnt carry them and would have to order them from hud, really sad when you have to special order plug wires for a 350 camaro..., anywho i found a radiator, got my spark plugs from zone, and my uncle found me a th400 trans. got alittle more work done to the block as but not much, im still lost on my ac brackets...

 

damn, how small is this store? the one i work at (smallest in three states) always has atleast the accel and the chevy sb msd wires on the shelf, and every store should have the universal make it yourself kit

 

looks good though, nice progress

 

its actually a good size lol. i went with plugs to help seal the motor more, not much more since i still need an intake and a real main seal lol.

 

is that a 1 pc rear main, i hate that mines a 2, ohwell my next huge project for the car (one of many) the frankenmotor for thundergutts will have a little of the best of everything i hope

 

that should be a very fun swap lol, and yeah my motors a 1 peice rms. i ordered a gasket kit for a 2 peice lol. i cant use the rear main, the oil pan, the intake gaskets, ect. its a pain.

 

ordered it from where? return it? get the right one?

 

Ordered it from kmj performance. And can't return it because I opened it. Couldnt use the piston rings either and had to drop $57 on those

 

****, hope you didn't pay too much for it, summits got great deals on sealed power rebuild kits

 

Spent $85 on it lol. Reason I didn't go with summit was they didn't carry my gasket kit and it would be about a week and a half after I ordered it for it to ship.

 

not too bad, but damn i'd of waited to get the right stuff

 

I wish I would have too lol

 

i plan an engine rebuild at some point when i have another ride to drive, but in the meantime i have new valve covers, thermostat, full gasket set (pistons too sealed power kit), new rear main, waiting on more in my savings to get the new intake and carb from edlebrock sick of all those damn wires and hoses gonna clean it up alot in the engine bay hopefully

 

you doing all that to the v6? ill sell you the one in my motor with the trans. runs good if all my sensors were good. and tranny just needs a new pan seal. actually debaiting on taking the seal out of my shift kit and installing it on my car to stop the leak.

 

nope the 3.4 in my moms 94 has already had its rebuild, and my 2.8 is long gone my 305 the l69 in my z28 was never really used enough to have everything internally (rings) set up right and as a result my now 39k mile z28 smokes on startup and could use a valve job too, i figure what the hell might aswell go ***** deep if i'm goin in at all

 

Good job!! I'm tying to dig in now to see if I need to change my y Pipe

 

probably, either try and find one or have a trusted fabricator or exhaust shop make you one

 

I'm hoping I can. I don't see why I couldn't,

 

i dont know from experience but i imagine that you'll need a whole new exhaust your stock one is just gonna be too small for your new engine to be able to "exhale" and your y pipe is alright for the 2.8 but the new engine is alot larger and so to are the exhaust manifolds you'd have leaking and it wouldn't run right

 

Even though I personally wouldn't use Maaco, I have heard about them quite a bit.. Can you post pics of how the job came out.. I have heard mixed reviews on their jobs... Curious about prices also

 

like everyone said, looked good at first, now it's starting to bubble on me and rust is coming through on my door

 

like everyone said, looked good at first, now it's starting to bubble on me and rust is coming through on my door. It's not bad for a $300 paint job but I'm planning on repainting it.

 

not nessassarly. Stock v6 is 2.25", v8 is 2.50". But if you remember I had a new intermediate pipe made. New pipe is 2.50" like the v8s. And I'm cutting the cat out too

 

That is what I have heard. They don't look for flaws in what you have, they use tide and a scotch pad to rough up the paint, then shoot it. Problem I would be worried about now, is anything that they shot will be covered up. You might to go a little deaper into the original color to advoid further problems. You will have more attention to detail and probably will last alot longer and look alot better.

 

When I re paint it I'm taking it down to bare metal to fix any issues I find and to make it last like it should

 

well buying a v8 radiator from a member here tomorrow, just have to put the money into the bank. and i also found a tranny on craigslist for a steal!

was surfing craigslist last night because i couldnt sleep and came acrossed a guy selling a 700r4 for $75 bucks. well i messaged him and he told me its from an 89 camaro 350 tpi, it has 110k on it but it was rebuilt at 80k so it only has around 30k on it. and it comes with the tv cable, the bell housing bolts, torque converter and bolts ect. he just wants it out of his garage so im going to pick that up tomorrow.

 

Wow, that is a steal. New transmissions are what, $1500?

 

It would be really nice if he had some paperwork from the rebuild! Good luck with it. For 75 bucks it is a good starting point.

 

im not sure on the paperwork, ill ask about it tomorrow when i get up to his place to collect my tranny. im really happy with it and im sure ill find out one way or another if it was rebuilt because im going to be installing my B&M shift improver kit and a corvette servo

 

things too good to be true are usually too good to be true, with that being said i do wish you all the luck and hope its a nicely rebuilt trans, so how much round about have you invested into your car now anyway?

 

last time I added up all the receipts, and I mean all the big receipts so not including all the smaller stuff or my new motor and trans and stereo system I had alittle over 7 grand into it. I'm thinking I'm near 10 grand with everything small added, my new motor and trans and system.

 

Well I didn't get any receipts but you can tell this has been rebuilt. Has a rebuild or install sticker on the front saying it voids the warranty if the tc is removed and the date on it is march 25 of 2003. He bought the car in 07 and pulled the motor and trans because he's putting a 400 in it and making it a drag car. But I also got an exhaust system off the same car for $10. Has the y pipe, cat, and half the intermediate pipe. here are some pictures of the tranny and exhaust.

 

and now the tranny pictures

 

OK, looks like nothing to lose for the price. You really scored with the pipes and cat for 10 bucks. Good luck with it.

 

yeah, the guy i bought it off of didnt have the transmission rebuilt, had bought the car from someone in tennessee and drug it up here, the PO said that the motor and trans had been rebuilt so before he sold the motor off he cracked it open and it was spotless. so im thinking the trans should be the same, but the guy i bought it off of said that the car it came out of would scream and ball the tires all the way to 3rd, with a stock 350 tpi. so were thinking maybe the trans has a shiftkit and a stall. im going to leave it alone till i put it in the car. if i find that i dont like it enough then ill shove my shift kit into it. but i know i think i did very well on the exhaust. it was sitting outside near his truck when i spotted it, along with alot of other metal. he was going to the scrap yard after i left to scrap everything, including the exhaust so its a good thing i got there when i did. i figured i could sell the cat and get my money back easily. what do these cats normally sell for?

 

Well got my old exhaust flanges off the manifolds, need to cut my y pipe to get my flanges on then figure out how to remove the air pipe coming off the converter then have it all welded up. Got a small coat of paint on my trans today, painting it aluminum like my block is. Got them wrapped up for awhile till I get more money for parts. Trans is done besides paint and a new flexplate.

 

posting some pics of the trans with alittle paint, will look better after i get more coats on it, i only had enough to do one side so this is an idea of what it will look like, keeping the converter blue i think since it wont be seen. and also posting a picture of them hybernating. not the best picture because i have my car backed way to far into the garage since im not use to the engine and trans being back there yet but you get the idea. i need to find a real early thirdgen so i can take the harness off of it for my new motor, because im still lost on what im going to do there, i want to be able to run ac and my heater, but have only the essesinal wires like for the alt, dizzy, battery, oil pressure unit, and the temp sensor ect. i also need to find one with a vacuum ran lockup for the torque converter so i can have my OD. if not ill just run without it and get a large oil cooler.

 

Got my oil filter adapter today and got it installed, I'm waiting on my friend to pay me tonight so I can order my radiator tomorrow and then I'll have that taken care of. Tonight I'm going to start gutting my cat and removing the air pipe from it, then adding the new flanges.

 

why do you need an oil filter adapter? i see that on alot of engine buildups and i'm like hey my engine already takes a normal filter? lol jw why i see alot of oil filter adapters

 

The reason I needed the adapter was because my motor came with a factory oil cooler, I didn't want to re run that so I ripped it off and got a standard spin on oil filter adapter. A lot of people buy them new just because they're new but I just needed a used one to hold my filter and it was only $5 lol. But honestly the oil filter adapter is on all motors, some are just different. I went to the standard spin on style

 

Didn't do much today but knocked the **** out of the inside of my cat to gut it, Judy need to empty it now, and also ordered my radiator, it elshpulf be here this week. Going to start to slow down, Iv got all my big stuff pretty much now, and Iv got till December 22nd till I start this rodeo

 

well small update, kinda. my radiator shipped today and will be here next wednesday if not sooner. got my cat emptied out of all its material so its now hollow. but im going to have to put my car under the knife sooner than later. sadly that maaco paint job is eating my car alive and at a very fast rate. was wiping some road dust off of her tonight after i washed her and got not noticing bubbling under the paint near the wheel wells. well as i kept looking, it kept looking worse. so after my motor goes in and the underbody and enginebay are all undercoated. im going to start to strip her down to metal. fix all the bad areas, then primer her up till i have the change to turn her red again. im afraid that if i wait any long im going to lose my car...

 

nah you can wait awhile but be warned, they call it bodyWORK for a reason

 

not really work if you hsve as much dedication and love for a car as I do. I'm more worried about the damage being done then any work I'm going to have to do to save the poor girl

 

"damage being done" is being done slowly, biggest thing will be dont drive it this winter if the quarters are going bad, you can weld on new ones if you have too, but its a real pita, and i was talking more about taking days of sanding, shaping to get a perfect panel

 

Well. My camaro y pipe won't fit my truck manifolds so I need to get a pair of camaro or trans am manifolds.

 

found a set of camaro manifolds from the guy who i bought my exhuast and transmission from, he going to give them to me for $20. i recived my radiator today and alittle suprised by the condition, the box has this grainy sand like material in it, along with it in the radiator, the upper hose part was broken alittle bit, and it looks like and after market radiator and the hose conenctions look really small.

 

havent done much with mine, got a 2 ton cherry picker friday, and have been spending all my time at my dads trying to get his 68 cougar ready. well friday we got it out of the garage, first time its moved under its own power since 04. well yesterday i went to a carshow with him where he put the 68 in and i decided to put my car in. got a few pictures. im the one who did all the work on the cougar to get it running but i used the knowledge from working on my camaro so its needed lol.