so I traded my 87 ford ranger for a 90 pontiac firebird. it's a v6, automatic, t-tops, has about 75000 miles on it. the only problem is that i have to put the engine back together as most of the top end had been torn apart. I am looking for any help, particularly if anybody is in or around olympia and has a v6 that i could take a look at and figure out exactly everything that is missing. my engine is about 97% complete, but there are a few things missing. thanks in advance.

 

Where are you located again????
Nitro

 

Olympia, washington?

ouch.

Sorry, post pics, thats the best way to help.

99% of us are here in cali, south of tahoe mostly. I think one chick lives up their.

 

pretty much the only pieces not shown in the picture are the injector rail, upper plenum, rocker arms and push rods, and valve cover for the passenger side.

near as I can tell I need:
new plugs and wires
battery
1 push rod
evaporator
injector harness
breather hosing
there's a thing that bolts onto the passenger side exhaust manifold and connects to the intake, what is this called and what does it do?

is there anything else anybody notices?

 

thermostat housing, throttle body, intake tube, intake assembly, not sure what connects from the exhaust manifold to the intake however. do you have rocker arms? good thing is, being a V6, should find a good selection at a local junkyard.

 

youre best bet would be to ask around in the V6 forum. alot of those guys loyal to there V6's and have a lot of great info

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/v6/
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btw trav, the pic you have is a 2.8L. 1990 introduced the LHO 3.1L

 

Bleh, they are all the same.

 

great time to swap in a 350 are you sure the motor is solid? why was it torn apart?

 

the people before me were going to add a performance intake or something. it's got 75000 miles on it so it has a lot of life left and i'd rather have the mileage of a v6 rather than a v8.

 

Easiest thing to do is to go to the local junk yard and start pulling the parts you don't see on your car.
Make sure you get a shop manual, it helps A LOT.

 

that's actually what I've done. only problem is that junk yard cars aren't complete. I haven't been to the parts store yet to get a manual, but it is on my list of things to do.

 

Here's some pics of my 3.1, HAHA traviz. Can you tell the difference between a 383 and a 350 by looking at it?