Thread: v6 to v8 swap ..camaro

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well i plan on going with a different cam intake and a demon carb, also is the 350 vortec a good choice? or is there anything else i can get for the motor to make more horsepower? should i get gears for the rearend or will the ones i have perform alright. and about how much horsepower will this combo make?

What scares you about EFI? Those Vortec heads are made to get the most out of the EFI system on the car/truck. Get a stand-alone wiring harness and run the EFI.

Some people just dont like dealing with the wiring of the EFI. I can understand it. But, if your car already has a system set up for the standard sensor array that comes with the EFI, why not use it to your advantage? Even TBI would be more efficent than a carb.

where can i get one of those wiring harnesses and will the wiring be hard to hook up? will i need a different computer to run that fuel injection or will mine work? will i have any trouble tuning it?

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check with these people, you will need the computer that came with the motor. its not hard to hook up and it want need no tuning. it will tune itself.

is there anthing else i need to know? anything at all? fuel pump fuel lines cam ?

Depends on where you are going with the engine. The cam should be matched to the cars intended use. The intake will be dictated by the cam. The fuel pump will be dictated by the intake system.

i plan on the car to just be like a weekend driver since i already bought a 1.5 liter honda civic but i dont understand will i not get enough from those heads runnin a carb and different intake? explain

I dropped a 1969 327 into my 91 camaro and the conversion is not all that hard. I went with the carb option. Has a better rumble if you know what i mean. I installed a 350 turbo trans. You need to use a different drive shaft. There are kits from B&M for the trosion bar that connects to the rear end.Nothing from the v-6 trans will work. If you go carb the fuel pump needs to have a pressure regulator installed. Also you have to bypass the computer to keep the pump running. You will have to change your hood also because with a carb on it it will not shut.

learning something today. what yr. did the camaro fix it so you couldnt bolt the v8 trans. to the 6yl. trans. i was thinking they had the same bolt pattern, but i guess that other than the 4.3 v6 the v6 pattern must be all dif. than the v8.

I'm not sure what year they changed it but I do know that a 3.1 liter bolt pattern is way to small. And when I changed trans to a 350 turbo which came out of a 1978 pontiac the drive shaft had to be cut and rebalanced. The yoke end that goes into the trans if a different size also.

does a drive shaft come with that kit

No it does not. If you can afford it go with an aluminum one. That will cost some $$$

I was wondering do you plan on putting headers on that engine? Also do you intend on keeping the AC?

no there will be no AC, how much does an aluminum drive shaft cost?