383 6spd 80Z Camaro EFI

[tones2SS]

NICE!!!
I like the bezel. Looks good.
The Beretta is a cool car. I had a '94 Z26, back in the day. Bought it brand new. Great car. Wish I still had it.
Good luck with the build(s).

[woody80z28]

Originally Posted by novanutcase

Very nice! Are you entertaining any plans of carving any corners or are you setting the cars up for straight line?

John

The Beretta handles great. I added strut & shock tower braces, Eibach springs and KYB shocks, 17" wheels with 225 rubber (as big as will fit), and 30mm front, 26mm rear sway bars, poly everything.

The Camaro has Hotchkis coils, kyb shocks, sfc's, g-braces, solid body mounts, and hd tierod sleeves, but everything else is still stock. I plan on 18x8.5 & 18x9.5 wheels with 255/45 & 295/45 NT555s and some good leafs & swaybars.

[waynieZ]

Looks great I love the dash !
WAyne

[woody80z28]

Scott's thread on garage journal brought me back over here after a long hiatus. Been busy the last couple years building a new car, buying a truck and then buying my first house... It won't take much to catch up on the Camaro since it has been a little neglected lately...

I have a new Moser 8.5" rear after I twisted the stock one at the strip in '08...and still no time slips I'm happy with yet. Best so far is a 13.51@106. I've since played with the carb and it feels better, but haven't had it back out to get numbers. I did get some good Pro-touring F-body leaf springs installed, and I have Hotchkis sway bars and 18x8.5 & 18x9.5 wheels in boxes ready to go. I put in a new AN-6 fuel system and upgraded to a digital MSD HEI ignition.









Immediate plans are for tires, with hopefully OBD1 GM EFI following and paint.

[woody80z28]

I think I'll start a new thread for my 91 Beretta build. It accelerates, turns & stops better than new, so that should could right? haha

[woody80z28]

Some how it's been another 2 years with little progress...amazing how time flies.

I got the new rolling stock on and I'm happy with the fitment. A little body massaging and paint are in line next...as well as a little bit more suspension drop.




I also decided to get rid of the 15s for good. One of the stock wheels is going on my wall in the garage as a hose reel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn3YT...ature=youtu.be

[camcojb]

progress is good. I moved this to updates.

[woody80z28]

I bought a used EFI kit that came in today, I'm psyched. Everything looks good. Accel DFI with all wiring and computers: Gen7 with SFI and Alpha-N fueling. Even has the o2. And my low-pro Eddy TB linkage clears the rails with no spacer. (Sold off the shiny one...I don't like shiny). Drop base air cleaner also clears everything fine. I had to use a 1" spacer on the drop base to clear my fuel inlet on the carb, and the TB is 3/4" shorter than the carb, so I might even end up with more hood clearance with the single plane manifold than I had with the air gap! Bye bye stupid carburetor.





Current setup with the airgap & carb:


I also bought a pair of AFR 195 CNC heads and roller rockers to make the swap from my carb Vortec intake to traditonal SBC EFI manifold. Unfortunately the heads were not the Eliminators, they were the old style. But I got a good enough deal on them that I got my money back after I sold them. Tony at AFR told me the older style would surrender about 30hp to the Eliminators on a 500hp engine. I was figuring maybe 450hp out of my 355, and it proabably would have been more like 430. Not even worth it when I'm making 400 now.

So, since I'm in the market for new heads and 195s don't really cost any less than 210s or 220s...I'm contemplating a build from scratch. I figure if I can sell the current 355 carb to pan with dizzy and fuel pump included, a nice 421ci forged Dart SHP short block would be badass. Skip white has a crazy cheap price on them. 421ci with a healthy roller cam and AFR heads? Should be an easy 550-575hp. Could even crack 600 if I want to get a little crazy with the cam & compression.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SBC-CHEVY-42...&forceRpt=true

[woody80z28]

Sold the Accel manifold & rails and bought a Hurricane manifold & rails. (Same carb height, but longer runners for better midrange.) It's a ProComp and the casting kinda looks like crap, but I'll clean it up. Came with ugly red anodized rails, but that's nothing a little oven cleaner can't fix. Photoshopped them black and I like the look.

Air cleaner height is actually exactly the same as the current AirGap since the TB is shorter and spacer is not needed. I've got 1" to play with to the cowl.

[camcojb]