okay so my dad just picked up a 90 corvette l98 4 speed. he wont stop rubbing it in my face how much faster it is than my firebird. what i need to know is if the engine combination im putting together will be enough to beat him or if i will have to use a little nos. stock l05 block pistons and crank. 416 heads, vicor jr. intake, and a lt1 or even lt4 hot cam, holley 750 vs, or 850ms

 

They are the same car basically if you have the L98 350 that is, but he only weighs 200lbs less than u do. I see you have an L05 though.

 

What did the LO5 come out of? What was your car factory?

 

I have a 90 corvette. all stock. It runs pretty good. Just before I got the vette, I had a 3rd gen with a somewhat similar setup as your describing with a few differences

305
750 holley
edelbrock perfomer
Cam -- the old 327 --350 hp standard, not the greatest but not a bad cam.. i think 222 @ 50 duration

oh and exhaust.

it had a fresh 3.73 gear and posi
th 350 trans with a stout shift kit
and a 2200 stall converter

This camaro ran top notch, i had a lot of fun with it, in fact more fun than I had in much faster cars. Not that it was slow, it ran pretty decent. I raced it against a few other cars and it held its own. Beat a 5.0 with a 5 speed , and my other camaro at the time with a old 350.

As far as racing the vette. Well as good as the camaro ran. It just didn't have the steam to outpower the vette.

 

the lo5 came out of my 1995 k1500, from the factory it came with a 305tbi, for now im running the 350 on the tbi but im getting ready to put a carb on top and do a head and cam swap with the aforementioned parts. i do love my car, and although the vette is a nice looking fast car, i dont think i would trade my firebird for it

 

The fireburd should win cuz it's a year newer and probably has better components and stuff. The computer alone probably has 500mb more ram

 

to bad the the firebirds and camaros were always one year behind on the technology used in the corvettes huh?

 

How's it run with the 350 lo5 in it right now.

 

Also. I see your from the thumb area of michigan. Cool. Im michigan also. Alpena area

 

Also. I see your from the thumb area of michigan. Cool. Im michigan also. Alpena area

 

it runs pretty good, the motor had 200,xxx miles on it, but the pistons looked brand new still had the casting ridges on the skirt, so i re ringed them, got the block hot tanked and put it together with fresh bearings, put a stock cam in it, and redid the heads. Its always nice to see a fellow michigander on these boards. maybe when the weather turns nice i can finally get my car out