Bought this the other week off craigslist, its a former members car on here , but I guess he sold it and it wound up at an auction where the guy I bought it from picked it up to flip. 305, 5 speed wining 10 bolt with 3.42s and a thorson diff. I went to houston and picked up a 9 bolt for it , only to find my 10 bolt brakes wouldn't work I then went to the junk yard and found a 98 10 bolt 3.42 auto V6 car and turned around and the 98 next to it with a v6 had a set of founders tubular lowers and panhard road and a complete set of power slot rotors and pad that where almost brand new so i grabbed that and got the whole assy for 150 bucks. inside has a auburn in very nice shape but I will probably sell that , I just need the brakes and the ring and pinion for my original 10 bolt, I want to run a set of MB old schools 17x9.5 with 275/40r17s so i cant use the whole rear out of the 98. but I did find the guy on here that makes the brackets to use my original PBRs on the 9 bolt so Ill be stuffing that under the car to get me by till i rebuild my original rear.

 

Congrats on the new car.

 

Thanks I can wait to get the rear fixed and Im ordering my wheels and tires tomorrow. they look awesome on this guys trans am but his are staggered mine will be 17x9.5 all around.

 

Congrats on the B4C. Like the color!

 

Great car. Congratulations on your purchase.

 

well got my 9 bolt installed and I think Im going to go back with the original style 16 inch rims, I think this car would be better left as close to original as possible

 

Ordered some TDS subframe connectors and a wonderbar for it, had a bad day yesterday though, this is one for the twilightzone, I found a nice set of original 16 inch rims on CL down in houston, called the guy he could barely speak english, but he said he still had the rims, so I drove all the way down from temple to houston yesterday only to get to the guys house only to find out this guy wasnt the guy with the ad, and the wheels he had for sale where BMW wheels..LMFAO, what are the odds, but I chalked it up to a nice road trip. Ordered a bluetooth datalogger setup from 1320 electronics, should be here today so Ill let you guys know how that goes. also ordered a set of 19lb injectors to replace the frigging 22lb ones this guy put on and didnt tune for.

 

I'm a fan of leaving it stock, or at least pretty close. Obviously there's a gazillion opinions on the issue, but I'm with you. There's something cool about a B4c 1LE car.

 

couldn't find stock wheels so I broke down and ordered some Old skools 17x9.5 ...275/40/17s

 

Looks really nice.

 

Very handsome.

 

Thanks, went today and picked up a LT1 from a 1995 camaro for 300 bucks and this past weekend I pulled the intake down and replaced the 22lb injectors with some 19 lbs ones and replaced the EGR and repainted the runners the correct color.

 

well I know Ive been slacking abit, I decided I wasnted my gf out of her pos altima she was paying 570 a month for and i got to looking around for something for her and low and behold I ran across a 2000 tahoe limited on facebook marketplace, said to have "Bad head gaskets" so I asked a few question and decided I wanted to roll the dice, so saturday we rented a uhaul trailer and drove down to conroe to check it out ,
halfway there the lady texted me and asked me to call her, so I did and she proceeds to tell me the ac compressor is locked up, and I couldnt drive it back, but I told her I had a trailer and was on my way, i got there and they told me they had installed a new battery and had it running, just no belt, fired it up and it ran smooth as silk, i figured it had leaking intake gaskes since that is something vortecs are known for, so i talked her down to $1100 from $1350 and drove it on the trailer.



got it home. went to the junk the next day and found a brand new AC delco ac compressor on a truck that had been wrecked, and 2 of the 4 bolts where already removed so i pulled it off and grabbed a tensioner off the ground and 55 bucks later I was at home with a new belt and had it running and driving. Cleaned it up and started cleaning the interior.




found 4 bucks in the center console..lol
turned out this truck has 199k on it and has the original plugs and plug wires, I swapped out the plugs for some NGK v powers, now it runs even better. they even tossed in a brand new radiator..lol still had styrofoam stuck to it. so I dont figure it was a bad deal.
Did some polishing on it, the paint is fair but it polished up to a good 5 footer.
before

after



now that that is ready for her I can get back to the camaro.

 

Well guess its time to part ways with photobucket.

 

Yeah, everything I've posted across the net for a decade or more is now wiped out. Very disappointing. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable price for the service, but the jump from free to $399.00 is insane.

I've complete the lengthy task of downloading all of my photos from the bucket. Now I just have to find them a new home.

 

well looks like photobucket got the memo and set things back right.. Dropped my vortec block off at the machine shop. assy starts soon.

 

timeline of the engine build

 

more that's it for now , just ordered some ebay stainless roller rockers , we will see how they are.

 

Coming along nicely!

 

Nice work, and glad to see it's coming along. I like those wheels too.

 

Thanks, gotta wait for my rockers so I can order my pushrods and it will be ready to install.

 

Did you buy the LT1 engine to install in the Camaro or the Tahoe? I must have missed that part

 

I was originally going to install it in my camaro but being a b4c 1le i really didnt want to do a bunch of mods to install it so i justsold it and picked up this vortec 350 to build and keep my tpi original looks

 

While there's no right or wrong answer...it's your car, and you do what you'd like with it...I like this idea.

 

Thanks.

 

Looks like my new wagon is going to get my engine...

 

Ok I've decided to install this engine. Ordered my dyno dons headers....next payday ill order the dual cat y pipe.

 

Install in the Camaro or Roadmaster? Love the Roadmaster, btw!

 

Cool stuff so far, but I don't know what the hell is going on hahaha.


Went from a 92 B4C->Rear end stuff->LT1 engine->Tahoe->built vortec->Vortec engine going into Roadmaster?


BTW I grew up out there in the Temple area, got family in Cyclone.

 

Yeah mcgarnicle, sometimes you just gotta go with it till it comes back around to the original topic. At least we didn't cover the summer vacation and band camp!

 

Well now that I'm following this thread I'm looking forward to see what engine goes in what car, and what new car will steal that engine before it can go in

 

Interesting. I was in a marching band, and we were the Cyclones.

 

LOL yea I have a tad bit of automotive ADD but the engine is going in the camaro and the wagon is up for sale and the Tahoe limited is best 1200 bucks I ever spent..lol

 

It's all good. Glad you're having fun with them. That wagon is sweet.

 

well after driving the wagon to a car show down in austin and not having nearly the HP i want or think a 350 should have , I hatched a plan to take the Lb9 from my camaro and slap it in the wagon and thus get started on my camaro engine swap so out she came..

Whoops where did it go?

this is the kinda clean you get running a few gallon of E-85...not bad for 199k

 

I'd sport that wagon all day long!

 

Well turns out this isnt the original LB9 ,,,its been replaced at least the short block....




Does have the 081 heads though so I will just swap heads and hopefully cam if they reused the stocker to my LO5 and reuse the dual cat setup after some cutting for a better exhaust.

 

If you still need a 10 bolt, I'll trade you mine fully complete and working awesome for your 10 bolt housing.

I am having an 8.8 built and need to cut it up and I feel bad cutting up a good rear. You would just have to pick it up in Lubbock, Tx.

 

I got the adapter plates from a guy on here that makes em,and got the 9 bolt installed and I'll be rebuilding my 10 bolt with the good parts from the 4th gen housing I got. thanks for the offer though.

 

Found this last night while browsing the web at work..lol I didnt pay nearly that much for this car, but all the amps and stuff out of the rear hatch was gone when I got it, thank got, I have no use for that mess.

http://www.2040-cars.com/chevrolet/c...camaro-299153/

 

well found a Vortec tpi lower on here so I bought that and found some NIB edelbrock High-flo runners on Ebay so it wont be long now.. if only my dyno don headers would get here I could drop her in.

 

headers are on the way.

 

What type of headers?

 

Dyno dons.... got here today , Merry Christmas to me. y pipe should be here soon.

 

Pretty!

 

Well the weather has finally broke here in TX and its back in the upper 60s low 70s , did some mocking up of stuff, Cant wait to get get a clutch and bolt this thing in .

 

Who makes these wheels? Size and offset??

 

They are MB old skools i think a -6 offset

 

damn this weather... I cant get anything done, Did take the upper to work and port it a bit over the weekend.. Ill be installing new poly mounts if the frigging weather will break.

 

Well got the Motor Inn bolted up the transmission yesterday with a brand new clutch new throwout bearing engines finally in for good if the weather holds hopefully the reassembly will be done this coming weekend I got to go out of town for about 3 days down to Florida then I have about 3 days off when I come back so should be able to get some good stuff done Yeah I know the valve covers are on backwards I still got to pull them off strip them and repaint them