90 Camaro V8 Swap First Start Up

[gkitchens1]

oh header paint. naturally it is going to smoke. ESPECIALLY if you put it on manifolds. i was going to say valve cover leak onto manifold, which was my problem. damn thing still leaks today (its warped and i never got around to replacing the passenger side one, and i was too cheap to duble gasket it. even though now that i think about it 327 rocker cover gaskets are cheaper than a tube of silly-cone.)

[unraveledfaun]

hey man i have a 92 25th anniversary 3.1 and im wanting to put a 350 out of a 89 k 1500 gmc truck. this motor and 700r tranny was in a 3rd gen. camaro before. can i use the computer out of the truck and hook it up to my wiring harness? all in all will this be very hard or near im possible to do??? thanks for your time and please respond

[freakystylecars1]

Why was it smoking?

[buickapollo455]

did you have a 90-92 computer issue with speedo on dash is only a 6cyl dash, did you exchange dash , or custom gauges

[rickycanevari]

what bell housing and tranny did you use and did you have to change the cross member that holds the tranny i have a 89 2.8 v6 with a 5 speed and i wanna do the same thing

[Levi61092]

yeah i have a 91 RS 305 camaro. it recently got totaled but i am in the process of fixing it. anyway, sweet car dude. i'd love a 350 in mine.

[silveradoman8063]

yeah me and my day swapped my 88 camaro from a 2.8 fuel injected. To a 305 with a carb. With a turbo 350 trans.

[649alex]

sweet. I always like taking out those V6's and putting in V8's. I bet that's been done a million times to these camaro's.

[coolman603]

verry nice job wish my dad was this cool!

[TommyTransam]

kudos on your dad for keeping the rpms up during brake in.

[Apart3thedark]

How'd you get passed the brackets? did you have to cut the v6 ones off and weld V8 brackets to the frame?

[tsw44]

on a scale from 1-10, how hard was the swap?

[2001camarolover]

is that the ls1 or the tuned port injection 5.7l?

[usnavyseals99]

NICE WORK GUYS

[waylan3]

in went to oriellys and bought the after market tach like you suggested ran the wire to the distributor and one to the fuse box grounded it out and pressto it works nice but i still plan on fixing the factory tac im going to check for a short soon because when i turn the dome light on the tach in the daSH stops working.if i got a hot wire grounding out wont that throw the factory tach out of wack.i think its in the head light switch or else they hooked the factory tach up to a random hot wire

[waylan3]

i have the same car pulled the tpi out went to carburated but the tach is reading twice as much as its is running in rpm,s why is it doing that and how can i fix it

[kd5icr1967]

@waylan3

Try an aftermarket tach.You can get them all day long for under 100 dollasrs. It maybe that the capasitors are bad in the stock tach. To fix it you can also get replacement tachs that will fit right in were the stock one is.

[blacksheep260]

y was the engine smokin

[Ventonator]

Did you have to change the exhaust and all of that too? My Camaro is in decent shape, besides the engine. I would love to save the car, but have a bigger engine it it...

Anyway, did you have to switch everything, or just engine?

[Gumbie2009]

@Ventonator depending on how much bigger you go you will have to do the engine and trans. and have a more opend exhaust.

[vladimircorvette]

do you know how much it cost to convert a v6 to a v8 thanks

[Emzieroy]

a few kay lol

[kd5icr1967]

@vladimircorvette

That really depends on the engine. Call around to the engine shops for a price. I know that the trans will bolt right up to a v8

all you should do is get a different trq converter for the trans.

[newmanto03]

why are you jumping around like a little girl, nah dont worry i know why

[86IrocZ28310CI]

Congrats on the conversion! Camaro is in very nice shape, take good care of her.

Im doing a carb setup on my 86 that was TPI.

[cranemaster844]

What engine did you end up putting in there?

[brainderailment]

Very good. I've got a 3.1L 1991 RS that I hope to put an LT1 in some day. My dad has a spare 1996 Caprice LT1 laying around that I may buy a tranny for. I'm probably not going to hook up the A/C though. Also, I hope it doesn't take 8 months to do for me.

[Angelboyp8ntballer33]

hell yeah thats nice as hell!!!!!

[immadodgeguy]

doncha just love that new engine smoke

[rebelpride2011]

Im getting ready to do a swap with my friends camaro. it has the 2.8 right now but its getting the 5.7 soon. did you use the same wiring harness??

[Moneymakerx13]

Sexy car bro!

[sportscars19]

Nice swap, & Camaro!

[MajestikSkillz]

nice. the white car, is tht a firebird or camaro 78?

[midgetman1387]

it's a 77 Trans Am. Nice eye!

[MajestikSkillz]

thanks, its looks nice. I have a 78.

props on the camaro, the engine looks clean

[Catalina65389]

nice i have a 79 TA would love to do a 350 or 383 swap on my 92 3.1 camaro

[marusadamczyk]

@midgetman1387

rotfl :D :D :D

[Drakedragon1315]

@MajestikSkillz I caught that too and was gonna ask, but he answered it for you ...lol

[MajestikSkillz]

@Drakedragon1315 yea he did. wasnt sure at the time

[xluckyy99]

@MajestikSkillz Camaro 88-89

[aleks6989]

guess my headers are gonne smoke like mad come spring too. balls.

[1990camarorslover]

i have the same car! one day i hope to be feeling what u are in this vid lol mines got the 305 in it but i want an Ls1 or Lt1... that is when i save up my money. ha i will have a vid up soon then u can check mine out but nice car man

[treverleefrechette]

dude i have the same car, well, mines a 92 rs with the 3.1 v6 what motor and tranny did you use and were did you find it. i want to do the same thing, is that an lt1 or ls1?

very nice car bro, love he red, do it in a third gen

[midgetman1387]

The motor is actually out of a 1990 Van. It is a 350 5.7L Throttle Body. Your 3.1 should also be a throttle body. We went with the 1990 motor because this kept the computers nearly the same. We still had to re-pin the connectors but it actually wasn't that bad lol

[ad356]

wasnt the 3.1 a multiport fuel system with 1 injector per cylinder.

[whodare]

Nice! how much did it run ya?

[midgetman1387]

not much. I believe we were under $2K for everything. If not, it couldn't have been too much more than $2500!

[drok169]

good job man! kudos on the dance!