Out with the old, in with the new

[ForcedFirebird]

The old turbo reworked to use the buyer's headers...

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On the car...

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[IsaacHayes]

Too cool. But I want to see your setup done! heheh!

[ForcedFirebird]

Too cool. But I want to see your setup done! heheh!

Slow going right now. My wife had to have a kidney removed due to cancer, but she's doing good (all gone ). Until she goes back to work, money is tight. I finally got paid from a side job I did a few mos ago, and will be ordering the gasket kit in the next few days, and will get to start porting. Also have enough $$ to do the ls6 spring swap.

I'll be working extra hours at the CNC shop, so I don't know how much will get done on the actual car, but I will have a chance to make all the custom stuff I need to get this thing running .

[Guest]

nice but get rid of those home depot couplers at the intercooler. Those are not made for pressure and are not reinforced. THey are made for connecting sewage pipes

[pontiacdohc@gmail.com]

have you ran this with the turbo in the qt mile yet , if so what does it run, i used to have that 2.8 mpfi in my celebrity i used to think it was fast all it had was 2.5 inch exhasut with a flowmaster with this custom i mean "custom" ram air..
i pulled some pics up from cardomain...

i blew this car up right befor i took it to the junk yard, it had valve train issues it blew a push rod threw the vavle cover!

[IsaacHayes]

Haha a pushrod through the valve cover that's funny!! How does that happen? Hahaha

[ForcedFirebird]

Never got back to the track after the installation. I was fooling around and hit the rev-limiter and BOOM, detonation that sounded like a cannon going off. Sad thing is, I had a MegaSquirt for tuning, but was using a stock ECM and tuning with fuel pressure. I since sold the MS help pay for the new motor, and won't be putting a turbo on this one until I have the MS installed .

I have been around 3rd Gens all my life, ever since I rode in a brand-new 87 IROC, in '87 , I fell in love with them. I can say it would have smoked a 305 f-bod, and probably be close to a 350. It just didn't have the dig like a SBC would, but after a few feet, it took off, and spinning tire if I weren't careful (no LSD then, but will soon).

[pontiacdohc@gmail.com]

what was funny about that is it made all kinds of nosie then it held it at about 5000 rpm and it stoped we were like what the fuck we looked under the car and oil everywhere it was funny that car never used to smoke at all either then we left my freind was behind me it started smoking black then blue and then when all the oil was gone he said it tunred white it blew everything it was funny

[ForcedFirebird]

I've put rods through the side of SB's before, but never a pushrod through a valve cover!

[pontiacdohc@gmail.com]

yeah 305 camaros and firebirds are slow I beat them all the time in my gtp i reallly get them from a 30mph dig ive race a 88 z28 305 beat him from a roll pulled on him at about 70 and a transam with a 305 from a dead stop it was a stick too, i got him from the line and left him when I hit 2 i think there was somthing wrong with his car

[1988GTU]

What sparkplugs (Brand/Pn/Gap) were you running on your old setup?

[IsaacHayes]

Heh, my friend had a 3.4l camaro 5spd with headers and mods, and I would walk away from him with passengers in the car every time. Then he totaled it when he had to hit a ditch to avoid a semi that was coming head on for him. He got a 305 RS after that and he says it's slower than his 3.4l!!!

[ForcedFirebird]

What sparkplugs (Brand/Pn/Gap) were you running on your old setup?

Autolite, stock gap.

[1988GTU]

Will you be keeping those same plugs or will you change out for something more suitable?

[ForcedFirebird]

Will you be keeping those same plugs or will you change out for something more suitable?

Dunno. Nobody has done this swap, so I don't have any proven info on this particular combo. I'll probably just have to use trial and error.