ill keep you posted on everything but last night i was driving home and my oil pressure went to o and the motor went kaboom, just died right in front of my house too, tried to crank not a thing would turn, so on CL i found a guy with the same 305 out of a 85 camaro and its only 250 and has 90.000 miles on it, the car has 77k, but anyway, i will be doing a motor swap and may need some help here and there, and from the information i just got tonight i got one of my friends looing at the motor telling me that the TPI intake on the 1985 carb setup, he says it could physically bolt on but the cam setup may not make it run, anyone have any idea if it would work or if im better off selling the motor and trying again
THANKS

 

It'll be fine, but if you wanted to change it then the time to do it is while the engine is out.

 

ok yeah i REALLLYYY want to cam the shiz out of it, but im just worried the cam setup with the TPI wont run at all, but we will see

 

another thing is i dont know if the angle of the intake on the motor would math up to the TPI, its a 85 z28 motor i dont know what the did to the motors from 85 to 86 but ide like to know before i yank the other motor out thanks

 

You can't put a large cam in a stock EFI setup, but there wouldn't be much reason to anyway.

The center intake bolt angle changed, but it's nothing that can't be dealt with. You can either slot the manifold, or you can put your 86 heads on the 85 block.

 

but my problem is i don't know what exactly i wrong with the 86 block i know i lost oil pressure and burned something up in the block but would that cause my heads to burn up with whatever happened to everything else??

 

No, there's no pressurized oil anywhere in the head.

You've examined your current engine and you're positive it's dead?

 

wont crank got a knock got a racing buddy that said i spun a rod bearing and i also ran it with the oil pressure at 0, so the motor didnt do so well plus the motor is going to be a race motor when im done with it, but i have to have something in the car to get me to schooland back for now

 

just wanted to make sure i like working on cars but the know how all of the things work is still off the wall for me