Got a 2.8 and want to know what are the best hop ups for the engine...thanks

 

The search button is my friend!

also the read me first guide sticky at the top of the v6 forum page.

Swapping in a 3.4

some more info would help
Firebird or Camaro? Auto or stick? year? carb or MPFI?
What are you planning on doing with this car?

Now that we have those things out of the way:

start with>TomP's tuneup
cold air intake
headers
high flow cat
cat back exhaust
cam
trueleo intake plenum (when available)and a larger throttle body (if you have a MPFI car)
turbo
n2o

 

89 camaro rs..mpfi..automatic

 

1. Tune Up
2. Intake
3. Exhaust
4. New Hi-perf ignition, ALL new, not jsut parts, this **** is geting to be 20 years old, replace it.
5. Bigger injectors
6. Chip (Tuned for bigger injectors)
7. Cam
8. Turbo/N2O

or

1. 3.4 Swap
2. Repeat steps for 2.8


What will give you the most power? The latter, you will be much happier with the 3.4 stock over a slightly modded 2.8, and the great thing is all that stuff for the 2.8L fits right onto the 3.4

 

I was thinkin of doin a 3.4 swap but theres a problem im only 15 and my mom will be hard to convince but if i can find one at the junkyard its goin in

 

Kool im 15 too, i bought my firebird when i was 14. Get a dynomax catback/ high flow cat, for starters

 

Im only 16.

 

im 17 but then again i got my first camaro at 13 ti was a 2.8 and the trans wetn in it so i got another to drive and this ones got a 350TPI... i plan to put a twin turbo 454 in the 2.8 though

 

You'd think spending some time on this forum with a bunch of guys your ages would keep me feeling young.......it isn't working.

By the way, how come not one of you used an apostrophe? Did my generation use them all up???

Oh yeah, to avoid total threadjack.....if you want to make a V6 seriously quick, and actually keep just 6 cylinders under the hood, you'd best have pretty deep pockets!!

 

Yup their all gone

 

Don't worry Mike, I'm 38. There are a few of us middletimers around here.

 

I'm 43.

Been hoarding apostrophes for years. See. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

 

i'm not quite as old as some of you, but i am loosing my hair, does that count?

back to the question at hand, i know that rftc has a 3.5 that he is building, i personally am doing a 3.1 equivalent and i have already got $5,000 in parts and still got like $4,000 more to go just in the engine. i mean my cam setup alone was 763.50$ and that was shopping around, dale and i figure that you can get 300 out of the 60*'s. that was using his desktop dyno. if you really want serious power, wait til you learn how to drive, then take and swap in a ZZ750 crate engine and slap a supercharger on there, but at your ages, i would stick with something that you can handle. i think that all the older guys than i would agree with that one.

p.s i realize that you all have to start somewhere