The Camaro Club (UK)

I've been out of it for a bit, but back at it full tilt now... money allowing.

Oh I bought another yank vehicle as well;

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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.

Quite pleased with this purchase. A nice fabricated inlet manifold complete with fuel rails and all the fittings. I'll be able to fit my 72lb injectors to this one as well. It's 3" taller than the stock LS1/6 plastic inlet, but should still fit under my hood with the large scoop on it.

It takes a 105mm throttle body too.

The only thing I need to consider is where to put the nitrous ports. Either spraying directly down behind the injectors in the runners, or I am considering whether it would work if I put them in the sides of the plenum (arrowed), squirting directly above the bellmouths inside. I can't decide at the moment. The plenum is made of 3mm sheet, so I could just drill and tap it for the nozzles. Otherwise it means making and welding some bosses to the runners at the right angle to fit them to.

I'd like to decide before I get to the point of fitting it, just so I don't have to take it off again at a later date...

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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.

OOoooo, everyone likes shiny new parts. Are you sure its big enough?

Now I can see why you're selling Kermit! I've just sold my VTR too. Got a 04' RSVR now, its sweeeet!

Nice looking piece. I'm suprised how little airflow work there is inside the plum though.. is that normal ?

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

I think on injection setups like this the runners that supply the individual cylinders are the important part and the body just has to hold a sufficient quantity of relatively cool air .
Certainly looks impressive

The trumpets inside provide sufficient smoothing of the airflow. The plenum is just a holding place for the air to be drawn from

Got the cam bearings pulled into their bores and checked the alignment. All OK there.

Tonight I cleaned and installed the crank, checked the bearing clearances and final fitted it. Rotates nice and smoothly.

Picking up the rods and heads from the machine shop tomorrow afternoon so should get the short block built this weekend.

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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.

Chunky old thing isn't it.. !

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

Yes, it's quite a lump. You can see why they are so strong! There's 30 bolts holding the crank in! You can't see the side ones in that photo...

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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.

The engine build is going pretty slow. Had to do some disassembly to drill and tap the block to fit an LS2 cam chain damper as my block didn't have the necessary holes as it originally had the LS3 style tensioner which are notoriously unreliable.

Then I fitted the oil pump only to find something was binding up. Stripped the brand new pump to find a chunk of swarf inside... Not great for a new part from a respectable manufacturer.

Then on to fitting DSS forged pistons to the LS2 rods with ARP bolts. Had the big ends honed 0.002" oversize to round them up for the new special OD bearings.

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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.