After the increase of gas prices and insurance, and the cost it'll take me to restore the Trans Am I'm about to get, I was thinking maybe a 4 cylinder engine (I'm not joking people )

I will be the first to admit, I know NOTHING about engine swaps, TBI, TPI, carb, or anything like that. So I'm wondering if maybe a newer ecotec 2.2 L would fit?

What're the options?

I know it's a bad way to see a Trans Am, but as a young person working at a fast food place, I need as many miles to my gallon as I can get

Not only that, isn't a 305 only 145 horsepower anyways?

 

Another thing, I think a V6 is an option. My 3.4L Impala is fairly good on gas.

 

Then drive the Impala.

Some LG4's were 155 HP, some 165. L69's were 190 HP. LO3's 170. LB9's 190-230 HP.

LO3's and LB9's get very decent mileage when properly maintained.

For what a 2.2 Ecotec would cost you, you could buy a couple of mopeds.

How much gas can you buy for what it would cost you to buy and install a more "efficient" engine?

 

I'm reading a lot of threads, and it seems expensive to make your car NOT a gas guzzler. It just seems complicated to have a 305 running correctly, I could be wrong though?

 

Which 305 do you have? Year, model, etc.

A couple of hundred bucks for a complete tune-up and fluids & filters change is a lot less than several hundred to thousands of dollars for an engine change, and you'll probably have to spend the couple hundred for complete tune-up items and fluids for the new engine, anyway.

What's complicated to one is simple to another. What's economy to one is guzzling to another. It's all in the perspective. I remember gasping over $1.129 a gallon regular in 1986 when I was making a third of what I am now. Is gas more expensive now at $2.459, or was it more expensive then?

 

I haven't even bought the car yet

I know I want a Trans-Am, and I want it right now! This friday I'm going to buy the car.

I believe it's TPI, I could be wrong. And I have no idea what the engine's current condition is, it could need a rebuild for all I know.

 

I believe it's an 89

 

TPI can sip gas if you keep your foot out of it.

Complete tune-up (plugs, wires, cap, rotor, O2 sensor, timing set properly), clean fuel system, fresh fluids (engine oil, transmission fluid, gear lube - preferably good synthetics all), clean air filter - it will do well with fuel and for a good, long life.

 

If it's a TPI car, I will gladly buy the TPI intake off of you That will give you some money towards your engine swap!

 

I changed my mind, I'm going to keep the 305 and just pay the piper and get a tune-up.