hey all i used to be a member on here over a year ago, and now im back, about 2 years ago i sold my 1985 Z28 305 tpi but i just got it back, i found it on the side of the road blown up and abandoned by some kid, well anyway i saved her and now shes home in my garage, it has a 305 TPI with a 700r4 and a 3.23 posi disc brake rear, when i had it it pulled a 224hp/304ibs torque on a dyno, now im startin a 350 swap

parts of teh 305s crank and bearinngs and even a section of the cam shaft came flying outa the side of the oil pan. ill post pics of them soon

 

ok so as of right now im gathering up v8 goodies, i just got all new interior so right now shes completly gutted, fresh new black carpet should be in her tonite along with a nice center console, i found some so so black/grey sets outa a 91, all black interior plastics for the rear seats and forward, i need to eitehr re finish my dark greytruck plastics or get new, the car was ORIGINALY maroon with gold around the botom and tan interior

plan is the dark mettalic red of the later IROCs with black interior

 

Keep us updated Brother! Good luck!

 

ok well bad news, the motor i got already had bearings in it, and well, the cam bearings wer installed wrong and are all nicked and scratched, so it looks like im having the block honed and new bearings installed along with the crank installed. ughhh fml,


good news is i ordered my lifters and cam and gasket set

 

Working on cars goes like this:

If it's not one thing, it's a 100 others.

Have fun and keep us updated.

 

so, latest updates, all new black interior with black/grey seats (still need dash pad tho) all pioneer sound, found a built tpi 350 and headers and exhaust and aluminum drive shaft

i just started unhooking everything from the motor to pull it, should be done in the next month or so, pics when i can, should be me soon>>>

 

si since my last post iv done, welllll


all the body work
new front end
new doors
91-92 front chin spoiler and bumper insert
all like new 91-92 tan interior
riped the 305 out found it had about 10 cracks in the block and several main caps cracked and bolts sheared off
picked up an 87 roller 305 tpi with 61k, cleaned it resealed it, had the 85 tpi heads redone and worked and installed em on it
droped it in the car, painted the engine bay with bedliner
put the trans back in,
put the headers and high flow y pipe on and sat the car on the ground

the NEED TO DO LIST
bolt intake and power steering pump and alt on
drop in radiator and electric fans, adjust the valves, prime the motor and drop in distributer, bump the key and listen to her purrr


theeeeennn off to paint


and THEN! its going to be time for coil springs shock struts all new poly bushings adjustable pan hard bar, ect ect you guys know what we do

 

heres some pics of what iv recently done, iv done alot more then pictured but we will get into that later
new interior

old interior

new front end before i installed new fenders and doors, alota issues ill talk about later with the original doors and after market fenders, now i have all OEM stuff from a 91 so problems solved

before anything, bumper saggy and very warped

 

now onto fun stuff, pics are pretty much self explanitory, engine bay is now bedlined and all cleaned up though

 

having some minor issues with the accessory brackets, and getting the dip stick tube in the block, few more odds and ends and we should hear it run soon for the first time in 3 years

 

anyone know a good way to drain 3 year old gas out of the tank without droping it?

 

heres some more pictures of the destruction, and some of while installing the new interior, the floor pan rust was only surface, wire wheeled and painted, problem fixed.

 

 

Siphon it out? or a vacuum of some sort? I brought a siphon from oreily or autozone.

 

theres atleast half a tank, ill try to siphon, i forgot our cars are old enough it may not have that screen in the filler neck to keep me from doing that, thanks

 

wow he really blew it up good

 

Yea well it doesn't surprise me the kid knew nothing about cars and went from a turbo 89 supra to this, I gues he figured he could rev it to 9,000 rpms to, the part that really got to me is he just abandoned it where it blew up though, left keys in it took his stuff out and rolled.... Poor car, oh well she's home where she needs to be now and almost running!

 

Did he leave the title on the dash too lol

 

no i had to "persuade" it from him, with the help of his girlfriend, when i showed up at his house, thats a story in itself that im not going to get into over a forum lol

 

Oh lord lol

 

hey bud, if u put as much blood sweat and money into a car, to stupidly sell it and find it like that, ud do what you had to to get it back to, all that matters is it was left for dead and i brought her home where she should be and have been tearing the car all apart and starting over,.


WELL bad news i end up having to work tomorow so no camaro time, if the rain holds off sunday MAYBE it will, and ill get the motor all buttoned up, maybe. ill get what i can done

 

so iv been prety busy since i was last on here in december


since my last vist

we have finished the new motor

cleaned and under coated the bay

installed the new motor and trans

buttoned everything up and heard it run last night!

pics and vids to come