2nd Chance Camaro - Let the Project Begin

[syborg tt]

Well, things are finally feeling real as I am pouring gas into the car for the first time in almost three years.





I also went over my start up check list and oddly enough I missed a few more things.







Somehow, I missed a few things and of course one of the most important things.

Yep, I missed the PFT tape on the NPT fitting going into the tank and thankfully Dan was over and he noticed all of the fuel on the ground.



Problem solved.



Andrew continued running test before we fired up the car and he notice that I wired the Fan relay incorrectly.
Instead of rewiring it while we were on the phone I just snipped the trigger wire and I will just manually connect it to the battery.



Here we go first start attempt in 3 years. Well it fired right up and boy did it sound terrible.



Then we started again so Andrew could remotely diagnosis the problem. He discovered the entire left "Odd" bank was not firing correctly.
We shut it down and started looking at the coil harness as that seemed to be the issue.



As you can see from the pictures the Holley plug is at the rear of the valve cover and of course it's just plug and play. Well in this case this
case we discover the issue. What we quickly discovered was the wiring was 180 degree's off. Ugh !!! Somehow number 7 is at the front of the
motor. So we called it a day and I will be calling Wiring Specialties on Monday.



I pulled the harness out and noticed they were numbered (( DA !!!! ))



Hours later .... You know right before you are supposed to be at dinner for a good friends Birthday stupid idea's run through your head.

What if I flip the coil harness around and push some of the main harness from the inside of the car into the engine bay will it actually reach.

Yep, But it's tight.



I figured I could start the car when I got home as it's already snowing and I have a 30 minute drive to the restaurant. So I will just start it when I get home.

[syborg tt]

Yep, We have an oil leak.



Thankfully I picked up the Earls "O-Ring" version a couple weeks ago.



This time I added the PFT tape before it leaked.





Looks like I have a second leak as the Oil Pressure switch at the back on the block is leaking and most likely the culprit.

[fleet]

Congrats MJ…sounds great too!

[syborg tt]

It's Sunday Morning and I have one goal and that is to here the car running and running correctly.

Fixed and now I am finally going to start it and hopefully it sounds better.






Time to call Andrew and give him the good news.

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by Cosmo mentis

Congrats MJ…sounds great too!

Thank you Thank you

Originally Posted by camcojb

I thought it was because you still had the injector wires over the fuel rails instead of under...

Trust me it's killing me to have them like that.

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by syborg tt

Thank you Thank you



Trust me it's killing me to have them like that.

Fix it??

[syborg tt]

Couple more small leaks.

Nothing major just needs to be tightened



Since I missed the PFT tape everywhere else I decided we needed to look at the fitting under the manifold.



Since the intake tube needs to be bead blasted and anodized black it was no big deal removing it.



Nothing to see here as it looks like I remember to do these.



Noah was supervising Mike & I



More reminder notes







At some point I will remove this fitting and put some tape on it.



That's all folks

[WSSix]

Congrats on getting it running!

[$mike70Z28]

A+A+ Marty i did not see any chunky in the pics lol

[syborg tt]

Happy Sunday Morning,

It's Sunday and I am feeling good.

Today I am going to change up my top post battery wires for the last time.



I move the ground wire that was on the top post to the side post so all the grounds are killed when I twist the switch on the battery.



I will eventually clean the wires up in the inner fender.



Something is missing.



All better





I sent Andrew a text of how nice it was running and he called me and said let's finish this thing and so here we go.

I told he we still have and oil leak so I am going back to fix it with PFT tape instead of the paste.