Sorry guys i have to leave u the 350 tpi is now officially built and in don't worry though i'm like a little kid leavin all his friends i'll come back and visit for now i'm off to the tpi boards i'll leave u this last photo as a memory of me

 

Ah hah! I asked what was under the hood of this thing in another thread. You said it was a "surprise". Is it a 305 or 350? Looks like a sleeper!

Brandon

 

doh yeah its a 350 but i won't tell you the special suprises in the motor

 

You're pretty sorry, you know that?

 

Have Fun with the new 350! I want to put a 350 in my Camaro someday... but for now I'll have fun with the 2.8, when I get it runnin in a couple weeks!! Keep up the good work man, nice lookin ride... I bet you'll whip some *** wit it!

 

86camarokid tose 6 bangers really aint that bad with the right mods they'll smoke most stock stuff i had a hot ignition module and 50,ooo volt coil that gave it the get up and go along with a homemade cold air intake and i use that royal purple synthetic oil i smoked a stock 350 camaro but had a lot more mods than what i listed you'll get there someday but enjoy tha camaro while its still fairly cheap to insure!!

 

i know a guy with a 83 t/a that told me how nicley a pontiac 455 slides under the hood in thirdgens, then when i was out out the street races there was a 91 RS with the same 455 swap done, thing sounded so bad ***, i need a new set of pants

 

Yeah, I'm doing this 455 Swap into my 1988 Camaro. In fact, the motor is sitting in it right now. I'm waiting for my transmission conversion kit to arrive soon. I've still got to get a Carb for it, and hook what few wires I have left now that the ECM is gone.

My motor is a Buick 455 though!
Specs
Stage One Heads
Edelbrock Dual Plane Intake
750 or 800 CFM Carb (Soon)
TH400 tranny with shift kit
Hot Cam - Don't know specs for it.
EST. 380 HP
EST. 500 FT/LBS

 

Just because you're putting in a 350 doesn't mean you can no longer visit the V6 board... I have never owned a V6 vehicle of any kind but I still hang around in here

 

Yep; 90% of the car is the same- including the trans and rear axle. Even the MPFI and TPI injection systems are very similar.

 

was it a huge huge diffrence when u first drove it with the new engine???? omg i cant wate for a month till i get the experince of mine with the new engine, no more feelin ashamed. YES.

 

The 3rd gen car was originally designed to accept a Pontiac engine block. The 1982 Trans Am was supposed to recieve the Turbo 301 Pontiac engine as the top powerplant. About 3 months before production started, GM axed the idea and converted the Pontiac engine plant into a 4 cylinder Iron Duke engine plant. The cars then got the 'corporate' 305.

I have seen some cars with the Pontiac 455 in it. Rodney Butler of Jim Butler Performance in Leoma, TN had one that he sold a couple of years ago. It was street driven, too. The starter is on the opposite side as a Chevrolet engine, and the exhaust was really tight, but it was in there without any cutting and welding.

What would be far cheaper to find and build, and would be nearly as effective in the third gen car would be a Pontiac 400. They are much more plentiful than the 455. I had considered doing this swap, but I will not have a carb on my car. I could opt for the Holley style fuel injection, or a custom injecton setup (cha ching$$$$), but I think that after considering that I want ALL of my stuff on the car to work like it did from the factory (AC, Cruise, driveability)I decided to just stick with the six, and save my money.

 

Just because you have a 350 doesn't mean you have to leave us. You are going to have more fun with the 350 than what you previously had. Now you have sleeper to terrorize the Stangs and imports.

 

So I'm NOT the only one on here that knows a thing or three of the days when PMD was still around. Entirely correct - and on a side note, can you imagine what might have happened had the 301T been kept longer? Stronger mains, new crank, and EFI + turbo = fun.

 

From the sound of it, a turbocharged V8 sounded like it was fast, but I kept hearing that that motor was horrible for some reason. It would be an interesting swap.