Took the maro back out today, its sitting in the driveway waiting to go to another friends garage where we can tear the 2.8 down.. It is knocking like a ****.. but I still enjoyed the 300M jaunt in the camaro way more than driving that ol golf everyday, seemed more solid and drove better even though the motors gone(i think) heres some pics i snapped...


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I like the color.

 

Thats one of the cars that just recently got painted correct??

And rebuild? I'm curious to know if it will be a 2.8,3.1,3.4 going back in it

 

Man your car still holds a nice shine.

So are you still planning on a SBC swap with a TH350? Last I read that was the plan. If so, what did you get the SBC from for a donor?

 

The car was painted may 28th last yr.. and its just a one stage paint(acrylic enamel or urethane??)

as for the swap rebuild situation.... If the motor needs to be rebuilt I think i'm going with A V8, I didnt get that TH350 after cause the guy thought it had the tail shaft adapter kit you need but it never... so i'm at square one,. just never updated the sig

 

Okay.
So the plan is try to fix the 2.8 and get a tranny rebuild?

 

possibly, but now i'm not totally certain the tranny is shot.. it's weird, i thought the whole thing was dead but it might not be.... If at al possible i just want to fix the 2.8 for cheap if not shes coming out,

what are my possibilities for what happened to the motor going by the loud knocking?

snapped connecting rod? bent valve?

 

Well a bad engine can make the trans seem like it's dead... even an exhaust leak or faulty ignition can seem like a trans problem.

 

Connecting rods usually don't snap. In fact, I've never heard of that happening. When I blew up a 318 in my old orange 78 pickup, I twisted a rod about 90 degrees and the cap gave way right in the middle (surprisingly, the bolts held). You might have a bent rod. Is it a deep knock?

 

i'm surprised that anything happend to the 318, i used to have one in a ram 350 van, it had about a million miles on it and it could still do a brakeburn and doughnuts, that's until my dad sold it the noise could also be a spun bairing

 

i cant tell if its a deep knock?

its really really loud