Yet another 2nd Gen Camaro - Project/update

[gerno]

Originally Posted by rickpaw

Steve,

If you need a cheap LS motor, several JY in Houston have 5.3 truck long blocks for cheap, even with 3 mo warranty. I got my 5.3 from one of those JY, and it's been running good so far.

I'll let you know if things turn really bad but for now I'm not worried. The fix for this engine shouldn't be too bad. Thinking a pushrod length check and the crank assessment. I've run worse engines in the past but figured I should go ahead and make this one right while it's out.

[gerno]

I'm starting to feel a little better about the engine. After I pull the heads tomorrow I'll post up some pics. I don't think it's really that bad. I should be able to get it better than new for well under $1K including part upgrades. I pulled the rod caps today and the bearing look almost new. I also found it has a melling high volume pump inside. I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons the mains are a mess. I bet it sucked the pan dry....

It does have other nice parts like the Lethal Performance Night Fury cam, hardened pushrods and upgrade timing chain and LS2 timing dampener. Too bad they did the oil pump too...

I still need to pull the heads but I'm pretty confident it will look nice inside

Plan for it is to pull the heads since I need to to get the crank out. I'll go ahead and get a competition valve job done. I'll add ARP head bolts, and have the mains on the crank cut .010. I've been debating ARP main studs. I'll most likely not swap them out because I don't think the benefit is there and I don't really want to go through the line honing. Free free to tell me if I'm wrong.... I'll put an underdrive SFI balancer on the nose, Billet flywheel on the back, ARP dampener bolt and flywheel bolts, trunion upgrade for the rockers and see what I can do for oil drain passage cleanup. I'll also swap out the high volume pump for a high pressure pump.

[Flash68]

Steve you went to the dark side.

[gerno]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Steve you went to the dark side.

I sure have, it was too hard to resist with all the benefits.. Now I'm just trying to stay away from your general build path where everything must be biggest and most powerful I can find while I freshen the engine up.

[carbuff]

It's all those bad influences around here....

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Steve you went to the dark side.

Some folks just aren't hide bound and want to move forward with cutting edge technology and weird science kinda stuff like fuel injection....



LOL

[syborg tt]

Ya know I would have just sold you my camaro it would have saved you a whole lot of time.

Originally Posted by gerno

I'm starting to feel a little better about the engine. After I pull the heads tomorrow I'll post up some pics. I don't think it's really that bad. I should be able to get it better than new for well under $1K including part upgrades. I pulled the rod caps today and the bearing look almost new. I also found it has a melling high volume pump inside. I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons the mains are a mess. I bet it sucked the pan dry....

It does have other nice parts like the Lethal Performance Night Fury cam, hardened pushrods and upgrade timing chain and LS2 timing dampener. Too bad they did the oil pump too...

I still need to pull the heads but I'm pretty confident it will look nice inside

Plan for it is to pull the heads since I need to to get the crank out. I'll go ahead and get a competition valve job done. I'll add ARP head bolts, and have the mains on the crank cut .010. I've been debating ARP main studs. I'll most likely not swap them out because I don't think the benefit is there and I don't really want to go through the line honing. Free free to tell me if I'm wrong.... I'll put an underdrive SFI balancer on the nose, Billet flywheel on the back, ARP dampener bolt and flywheel bolts, trunion upgrade for the rockers and see what I can do for oil drain passage cleanup. I'll also swap out the high volume pump for a high pressure pump.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Originally Posted by gerno

I also found it has a melling high volume pump inside. I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons the mains are a mess. I bet it sucked the pan dry....

im leaning towards it wasn't installed correctly. Unless its got an L99 replacment it should be good. Whats the tag number on it?

[gerno]

Originally Posted by syborg tt

Ya know I would have just sold you my camaro it would have saved you a whole lot of time.

But then what would I do in my spare time.....

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

im leaning towards it wasn't installed correctly. Unless its got an L99 replacment it should be good. Whats the tag number on it?

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

im leaning towards it wasn't installed correctly. Unless its got an L99 replacment it should be good. Whats the tag number on it?

Are you talking about the tag number for the pump or one on the engine? The Pump PN is 10296