It's time for motor upgrade

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:54 pm

I broke the 305 in my 89 Camaro this weekend. We had an F-Body get together in Portland to run on the rollers of a local dyno shop there. I'm almost stock except for headers and open element air cleaner. My first run was 163HP and about 240TQ and immediately after was 125HP and about 210TQ. Last year's best was 169HP/250TQ, I have since upgraded the ECM to a very tunable on the fly EBL Flash and should have broken 170HP.

I broke the motor for a single little wire that came disconnected prior to the run. The sender wire for the fan switch came off, and the motor got warm and apparently spun a bearing. I haven't looked at it yet, but it knocks pretty good.

Now my upgrade plans have been accelerated to begin in the next couple of weeks. I've scouted the area and found a shop (Bowtie Performance) who sells rebuilt motors with a 2 year warranty, and has a very good BBB reputation. I'll be contacting them to see about a long block 350/383 with roller cam to put under a TBI. TBI because all the wiring is the same and my ECM is so tunable for TBI.

I have a friend locally who bought a 350 TPI motor from them for about $1500, so the prices seem pretty reasonable. Shopping tomorrow

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:16 pm

Well, I ended up shelling out a bit more, but got such a nice motor being built. I don't know all of the specs, but I'll have a data-sheet with them on delivery. The motor is a TBI 383 with roller cam, Scat crank & rods, Speed Pro pistons, high volume oil pump, Vortec heads & intake. Plans are to top it off with a 454 throttle body. The motor should be good enough to break the T-5 transmission I have now, especially if I'm not careful.

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Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:50 pm

It was quite the summer project, working on it only weekends when the weather permitted (I was in my driveway). I finished up about the end of July and have driven it pretty regularly since. Can't seem to get a hold of the builder since asking him some questions about some tuning parameters. Still haven't got a build sheet from him, I won't have any HP/TQ numbers until I dyno sometime this winter/spring.

This is me on the way home from that fateful dyno day...

Wiring harness labeled for future reference...

Out comes the 305...

New motor just after delivery..

Finished install...

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:57 pm

I found a website that does custom emblems in polished stainless and had a set made to replace the RS emblems that were on the car. Very good people to work with, I contacted them through their website explaining what I was looking for, a couple of e-mails and phone conversations later, I had some custom "383" badges for the car.

http://www.emblempros.com/

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:05 pm

That's nice. I wish I knew more about that stuff. I know just enough to be a danger to myself and others around me.

Purple RS · Post by **Purple RS** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:23 pm

Thanks, but I don't know much myself. All I did was pull the old motor and install the new one (fully assembled). My biggest obstacle was making sure the harness maintained the connections to the correct sensors, not all were in the same lace with the new intake. I still have a little way to go with the tuning aspect, but I've got an upgraded stock ECM that makes it easier to do.

Robert Wollenberg · Post by **Robert Wollenberg** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:55 pm

I drove to Detroit from Texas to have a speed shop up there tune my ecm and tcm. Well, I was headed to wisconsin to visit family and I detoured several hours to Detroit to get the tune done. Well worth it. :)

Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:21 am

Car is looking great!

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 5:00 am

Epic man what did they rate it at?

Ill be taking my genesis up to Wisconsin come spring for turbo upgrade. i dyno'd 260whp and 290ftbls with just a tune intake and turbo back exhaust. pretty good jump from the factory claim of 210hp.