hey if anyone could help i have an 88 camaro with the 2.8 changed the mortor with a 82 2.8 now when i got the car the mortor was taken apart a little. any how the 82 have drive belts and the car had a serpentine pully setup and i like to use that i have all the pullies and need a pic if any one have one on how it all go's and i am missing the smog pump.do i need this to use the pullie setup?Thank You.

 

Use the pulley's and brackets from your car. There are lots of pics floating around here, but I can dig some up if you can't find it in your search. Look for key words like "smog delete" etc.

 

That would be great if you could do that for me so i can see how and where they all bolt up.that be great if i could do it with out the smog.Thank you.

 

You willl need to use the newer, serpentine front cover, to match with the reverse rotation water pump, along with the oil pan to match the front cover.

 

A little off topic here. But which heads are you using? The 82 motor that was installed was likely a carbed motor which had the smaller heads on them. The 88 heads you pulled out would be better heads.

 

Adding to that, the 82 motor also has smaller main journals on the crank

 

so your saying that the oil pan from the 88 block will bolt on to the 82 block?cause man when i first pulled the mortor i'm useing i pulled it outa my 86 firebird that i crashed last winter so i thought it was an 86 2.8 went and changed the oil pump had the hardest time finding the right gasket for the oil pan. we found it under an 82 2.8..

 

'82 to '85 oil pan gaskets are all the same.

The reason you need to change the oil pan, is because the front cover has a different flange where it meets the oil pan.

 

Ohhh OK. thanks for everything it makes me know what i have to do so i'm just gunna leave it with the drive belts for now thanks again on that.but i do need to ask on another on.the is one plug that can't plug in and thats the onethat plugs on top of the Altenator cause it has a 3 wire plug and i am useing an Altentor with the 2 wire plug.can i just get the 2 wire plug and spice it and what wires do i use outta the 3?