Turbo Camaro - Project name undecided

[SSlowBoat]

well last weekend was interesting. Planned this trip for a while down to pick up @Z28pr0jekt 93 turbo 355 build that has been mothballed for 14+ years.

When we left, the plan was to get to Richmond Hill Ga, about 2 hours outside Jacksonville, Friday, stay over. Then saturday finish out the drive to meet Ryan. Load up, grab lunch with another LTX friend then head back and get to say southern VA, sleep again, and finish out the drive sunday. gps had us at 14hrs total from my house in NJ to the storage unit in Jax, taking 78/81/77/26/95. When my buddy and i left on friday around 730am, weather showed a slight 1-3" storm for Sunday at home. was not too worried about it.

5 hours later, parked at a sheetz to get fuel and stretch our legs in northern VA, a valvestem just let go out of nowhere on my passenger rear wheel on the truck. Basically it delaminated from the brass stem (like a tire bubble). Found a tire shop about 3 miles away, got it there. They gave me a hard time initially and wouldnt help, claiming they were booked out, even though i told them i just need a regular valvestem put in, and i will remove/reinstall the wheel myself, they just need 10 minutes to do the stem. They were pushing me to another shop, when i said ""alright well is there lot decent sized, because i got a trailer and a long truck". Finally the shop foreman agreed and we did our nascar impression. got that sorted and back on the road. At this point my mom calls and is like "hey have you seen the weather, blizzard warning for 18+ for home" "FUQ".

Hit traffic outside Charlotte (rush hour) then some on 26 in South Carolina where they had it 1 lane for MILES. rolled into Richmond Hill Hampton Inn at midnight.

slept like shit (maybe 4 hours). got back on the road around 7am and hit another 1 lane run on 95 in southern GA. Rolled into the storage place at 930am, met ryan and his buddy. got it all loaded up and rolled out of the storage place at 11am, hit the wawa down the street, and got rolling north. At this point i guess the rest of the northerners realized it was gonna get bad at home, because all we were surrounded by on 95 thru GA was ny/nj/pa/connecticut plates! This became a Monster/5hr energy/junkfood marathon to stay awake and alert. We decided to basically try to get home before the crap starts. Weather was showing it starting in northern va/west md/southern pa at like 1am. GPS had us getting home at 140am initially before stops etc.

Our longest stop was in GA to get fuel and something to eat, 20 minutes total and back on the road. by the time we got to 81 again, they had downgraded the storm and pushed the times way out to highway restrictions at 3pm!!! we were already all wound up and wanted to go home, so we pushed thru, and rolled into the driveway at exactly 4am Sunday morning.

From there the car is still on the trailer. I have poked around a little looking at it this week, poor thing got snowed on the first day back north lol.

Unsure what the plan is with it. After looking at it, i think i MAY 94 harness swap it (literally only a few wires have to move around, ie 3 total) and put a 94 pcm in with a 2 bar sd setup. I am super thankful that they had spark plugs in the engine, hoping the bores are alright. I did turn it over with a wrench. Looking at what parts it came with, it really just needs pcm/harness/fuel lines from what it appears. I will probably throw a stock fuel rail on it with stock regulator since those reference 1:1 with boost.

Tomorrow i hopefully can get @Ltconvert over to assist in getting it off the trailer and onto the cribs, then fully assess the car and go from there. May part it, may keep it, no idea yet. alot of people seem to want me to save this car. will see. still have to finish the bird. still have the vert to work on, still have to work on osies car once in a while. still have ANOTHER car coming here soon to finish and get back to its glory.

This was my version of a vice grip garage episode, and honestly it was nice as hell driving windows down from virginia to florida and back up to charlotte, was 84f in ga and florida on friday/saturday morning.

Thank you again Ryan!

[Z28pr0jekt]

FYI for your signature, it's a TC 78 not a TC 76 haha.

This appears to have some of the info about it:

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/tnt-11535

[SSlowBoat]

FYI for your signature, it's a TC 78 not a TC 76 haha.

This appears to have some of the info about it:

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/tnt-11535

oh big spinny Boi! shit now I have 2 turbo LT1's with a 78mm turbo

Thanks again man!

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[SSlowBoat]

Went thru everything today. Pumps mia, but sender is there. Already has hotwire kit installed. found cam card. "super secret specs"

floors are WAYYYY BETTER than any of the other 3, shit even the bird has some rust starting, this does not even have it in the usual spots

gonna rain/snow tomorrow. ordered hood and hatch struts for now. get harness/dried out vacuum lines/caps replaced, install 94 harness, and start making fuel lines sometimes soon

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[Z28pr0jekt]

Damn, even the stock pump is missing? The walbros should've still been in their boxes. Hopefully those and the driveshaft are all that's missing. I'm assuming the eboost2 is there?

[SSlowBoat]

Damn, even the stock pump is missing? The walbros should've still been in their boxes. Hopefully those and the driveshaft are all that's missing. I'm assuming the eboost2 is there?

yup eboost2 is there with that piller mount, along with another pillar mount with an innovate gauge in it. there was another hotwire kit for pumps, plus one thats already installed.

everything else seems to be there. do you remember which roller rockers these are? are they pro magnum self aligning? I didnt see guide plates when I popped the oil fill neck off

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[Z28pr0jekt]

I think it would be these ones. Definitely self aligning Comp Cam 1.6s. I think I have ARP rocker studs in there too.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/c...make/chevrolet

What I linked might be a lower model, I thought they were full roller (including trunion) and not still stock style like the linked one but maybe they aren't made anymore is why I can't find them. It might be the ultra pro magnums if they do have the full roller body.

[SSlowBoat]

I think it would be these ones. Definitely self aligning Comp Cam 1.6s. I think I have ARP rocker studs in there too.
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/c...make/chevrolet

What I linked might be a lower model, I thought they were full roller (including trunion) and not still stock style like the linked one but maybe they aren't made anymore is why I can't find them

yea they appear to be full roller. just was unsure of self aligning. thank you. comp stopped making the full roller stainless pro magnum a while ago, I have a set on the bird from when fred originally built it

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[SSlowBoat]

where it bottomed out st some point in its life is the only rust on the whole car. this chassis is in much better shape than anything else we have, even the bird (besides paint)

started plugging thru stuff today and making a parts list (really a fastener list)

ordered hood and hatch struts

log setup looks like fun to put starter in, will find out soon (need to order starter bolts)

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[Z28pr0jekt]

The starter that should be there with the parts is the OE starter but the solenoid was rebuilt around 2006. I'm 99% certain that bottom out is from the accident while it was being towed.