On Sept 28 2015 I picked up 93 TY 0935 in Abilene TX, at the time I was told the motor had been rebuilt and just needed finishing up the installation. Some of the cladding was damaged on the drivers side rear to kick panels. Needless to say it needed some work, a lot of cleaning, and TLC I figured it would make a good project for the most part everything seemed salvagable.
I started off by tearing the "rebuilt" motor down and after finding used bearings decided to send the block to the machine shop, of course they measure it and recommended bore it .030 over decking the surface and line boring the the mains and turning the crank 10/10 plus forged pistons. This project got off track from the beginning, looking back I wish I would've put eagle rods in to it at this point but at the time was tying to stick to something of a budget. I built the motor with probe forged pistons stock rods and crank 412 comp cam decided to go with L35 heads with screw in rockers used comp cams self aligning roller tip rockers hardened push rods Alex's springs and retainers re-used the ARP head studs and other hardware that came with the motor.
My goal was to keep it close to stock and reliable as possible, as I plan to drive it on weekends to shows and car runs and the such. I also added a Fluidampr harmonic balancer powder coating many parts and ceramic coating the exhaust manifolds and crossover pipe. Rebuilt the whole front suspension upper and lower control arm bushings upper and lower ball joint new cv axels Eric Tinns posi front axel. I also decided to add a 3k stall converter deeper trans pan and cooler while the motor is out right? Solid motor mounts Jeep steering shaft all the typical upgrades.
I removed the rear leveling system along with the wiring as it was not being used any more and ran my Hot wire kit for the 255 Walbro fuel pump in place of that wiring. I cleaned the entire frame and repainted everything. I also removed the rear axel and springs and replaced them with Beltec lowering springs painted the shocks and rear cover to match all the other red. I ran new brake lines to the Camaro rear disc set up. I still need to figure out the parking brakes? I also installed the Sportmachine lower dual pass water to air cooler and johnson pump. I have a 20G turbo thats been ported and balanced ceramic coated to match everything else with the Forge waste gate. I will be running a Turbo Tweak chip 60# injectors Glo shift wideband and gauges. I relocated the ECM to the glove box for easy access.
After 2 years working on this thing every weekend it is finally time to drop the motor back in to place get everything wired/ hooked up. Hopefully get it running by the end of summer 2017 if I dont take a 2nd part time job first LOL I will keep adding more pics and listing more parts I've used as I think of them.
I started off by tearing the "rebuilt" motor down and after finding used bearings decided to send the block to the machine shop, of course they measure it and recommended bore it .030 over decking the surface and line boring the the mains and turning the crank 10/10 plus forged pistons. This project got off track from the beginning, looking back I wish I would've put eagle rods in to it at this point but at the time was tying to stick to something of a budget. I built the motor with probe forged pistons stock rods and crank 412 comp cam decided to go with L35 heads with screw in rockers used comp cams self aligning roller tip rockers hardened push rods Alex's springs and retainers re-used the ARP head studs and other hardware that came with the motor.
My goal was to keep it close to stock and reliable as possible, as I plan to drive it on weekends to shows and car runs and the such. I also added a Fluidampr harmonic balancer powder coating many parts and ceramic coating the exhaust manifolds and crossover pipe. Rebuilt the whole front suspension upper and lower control arm bushings upper and lower ball joint new cv axels Eric Tinns posi front axel. I also decided to add a 3k stall converter deeper trans pan and cooler while the motor is out right? Solid motor mounts Jeep steering shaft all the typical upgrades.
I removed the rear leveling system along with the wiring as it was not being used any more and ran my Hot wire kit for the 255 Walbro fuel pump in place of that wiring. I cleaned the entire frame and repainted everything. I also removed the rear axel and springs and replaced them with Beltec lowering springs painted the shocks and rear cover to match all the other red. I ran new brake lines to the Camaro rear disc set up. I still need to figure out the parking brakes? I also installed the Sportmachine lower dual pass water to air cooler and johnson pump. I have a 20G turbo thats been ported and balanced ceramic coated to match everything else with the Forge waste gate. I will be running a Turbo Tweak chip 60# injectors Glo shift wideband and gauges. I relocated the ECM to the glove box for easy access.
After 2 years working on this thing every weekend it is finally time to drop the motor back in to place get everything wired/ hooked up. Hopefully get it running by the end of summer 2017 if I dont take a 2nd part time job first LOL I will keep adding more pics and listing more parts I've used as I think of them.
Comment