The Camaro Club (UK)

v, nice...

I'd love love to go the EFI route, and started getting prices together from a friend who said he'd build me a similar 4 barrel throttle set-up.. so very curious how you get on..

Are you're getting a trigger wheel on the crank too, so ignition is included ?

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I didn't know Sony made throttle bodies

Lovin the progress, keep it up

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Thanks chaps

Will be doing ignition too, so 36-1 trigger wheel for the crank, need to make one up and fit to damper to suit. Shouldnt be too difficult Probably going to use megasquirt for the ECU as I have had some reasonable experience with it. Hopefully will help with fuel economy a little, but doing it more to get proper control over everything.

Built up the short block today.

Had 0.020" skimmed off each deck face to bring the pistons flush, should help squish a bit and bring CR up to 10.5:1 with the flat top pistons. Got it honed as well while it was in.

Made up a tool to change the cam bearings, time consuming, but the old ones were knackered.



Spent the rest of the day swearing at my piston ring compressor, and generally battling getting the pistons fitted. But job done... Rotating assembly done, all new bearings, Eagle steel rods and hypereutectic pistons.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Block's looking nice..

Any reason why you went for the intake runner mounted injectors rather than the throttle body set up ? was it just what came up ?

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

No real reason. Prefer runner mounted injectors to throttle body ones anyway.

I did drop the heads on the block at the weekend, just waiting for the cam to come in so I can finish the engine build off.

Decided I really ought to sort an oil pump drive out Going with fuel injection, I don't need the distributor so thought I'd grab an old points one and modify it.

Stripped the gubbins



Put it in the lathe and turned the top end down and gave it a quick polish up as well



Also had to remove the advance mechanism from the top of the shaft



Made a press fit cap to cover the end up out of a bit of ally bar stock



And a couple of hours later, job done 8)



That should do it

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Putting the engine together is proving to be more of a problem than I thought.

But got the cam in and timed up, heads on. Just need to get some hardened pushrods now. I had some stock length rods kicking around, so tried them to get an idea if they are the right length. Don't look too far off to me. Initially thought they were on the short side, so got the blue out...





Just waiting for a sump and a few other bits, then I can get it finished off.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

Its all looking good Cheers Neil

Thansk chaps

Finished work at 1 today, and it had stopped raining for the first time in about 4 weeks so I got a chance to do some more work on the rust bucket.

Cleaned the floor up, gave it a quick coat of paint and trimmed the old and new frame rails to fit nicely. I was quite pleased with how simple it was really.

Got it welded in, also went smoothly. Obviously on a roll today...made easier by doing a lot of it from above, other than the part that fits to the inner rocker. I added a few extra welds that were either missing or they didnt bother from the factory as well. Can't hurt. Once finished I painted it with epoxy to keep it all protected.

Now thats done I can finish the repairs to the floor inside. Which will be a major step forward.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Repaired the bulk of the floor today, inbetween the rain that is. Just 2 small bits left to do and then it can be cleaned, seam sealed and painted. Hopefully it wont be raining too much tomorrow....

Annoyingly the last repairs had been covered with underseal, so its going to be a messy job getting the floor clean ready for paint.





OK it aint pretty, but its better than it was

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.