by -=raidnkil=- on Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:18 pm
LOL u kids and your trucks... Well even though u are all most definitely older than me...
I will take you all...
I actually own an 82' vette.... with a manual, which I installed 3 years back (performance transmission with gears set to the specs of the previous engine which sucks now since i rebuilt the engine, but it is still better)... which has made it a world of more fun.. I thot i'd put that out b4 u bash it for its auto tranny, bc bout 90% are automatics for the years 81-82'
This past summer I recently had my engine rebuilt and had my 350 cu in block re-bored so my piston volume is about 1.15 time its original size... I also got it professionally balanced which alone has made a world of difference in the power.
then I pulled out the crossfire fuel injection system, which is said to go brittle after bout 8 - 10 years which it has not, for nastalgic purposes i guess... and replaced is with a 24 valve electronic fuel inection system that adjusts accordingly to several factors
($6,800) for all the work and installation
any ways i took my car to a diagnostics center and it has now gone from about 290 hp before the work done on the car, and now has about 370-380 hp at 5500-5800RPM range...
sadly many things have been happening since
it needs a paint job after being caught in a lame hail storm, which did not bust any of the fiberglass... but did however cause many chips in the paint which my adjuster would not cover for reasons beyond my belief
BUT WORST of all 3 months back it has begun spitting gas out the exhaust... very bad... this basically means that the motorshop i took my engine to definitely F'd something up with their work... I'm guessing a bad seal but any insights would be apprecciated... they have not yet accepted responsibility...
I will put up a pic here soon but i am currently in the campus library...
