It's going really well so far guys! Check it out... hope to have it back in the car and running by tommorow (Monday)


Pulling the old motor out


Old motor before disassembly


Old heads are off, cylinder walls in the block were perfect!


Old cam coming out!


New cam, heads and valve covers are on!


Almost done! This thing is some serious eye candy!

I'll keep you guys updated on how everything goes! Until then...

its a nice!!

Looks pretty good. What cam did you use? What size M90 pulley?

looks amazing......right now i just have the front head off with the intake manifold.....its still in the car though what are the necessary things to unbold to just pull the entire engine because i want to just do that n then take the back head off to see if i sucked in a valve

DAMN! im jelious! Looks great tho! take some pics when its all back in again!

The engine is a pain in the butt to remove...

You have to unbolt the Power Steering pump, and the A/C compressor, and then if you get under the car, remove the starter, slowly turn the flywheel with a long screwdriver, and undo the three bolts that hold the flywheel and the torque converter together. Then the bottom motor mount is two bolts. On the back of the motor, passenger side there are two more bolts.

Then the hardest part is getting the tranny and engine apart. It's five bolts and the first four are a breeze, but the last bolt you have to get it from the pass. side wheel well, using a 24" extension.

That engine-to-transaxle bolt stumped three guys (including one former master mechanic) for almost an hour!

*edit* - I'm running the Intense Stage 1 N/A cam (even tho I'm not N/A anymore, but it doesn't matter a ton since the whole valve train in GT/GTP's is identical)

And until I can find a way to scan, I'm just running the stocker 3.8" pulley.

Looks Sweet...can wait to see it when its finshed..Good luck

wish i had the time, money, parts, and know how to do that. looks great.

You do know that the cam profiles for S/C and NA are different. The intake and exhaust overlaps are tuned for either or.

was going to say that. but, I guess I'm using my stock N/A cam with my novi1000 without any issues. probably just not quite as effecient as a cam for boosted engines. should have some nice lift, though.

That looks like it's going real well. Get more pics as you're putting it in again.

Looks like it's coming along great. Glad to see you're finally getting a blower.

Here's some correspondence I had with Scott Cook from Intense. My questions are inside the arrows, and this is why I decided to go ahead and do the N/A cam. So I will see results... just maybe not the same as I would get with a blower cam.

Andrew:

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Yes, the entire valvetrain is identical.

<< I already have the cam purchased but I don't want to do the top end swap and find out it won't work... any insight you could share would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!>>

If you plan to run a supercharger, you'll get better results with one of our Blower Cam grinds. But any of the cams will fit just fine, since all the valvetrains are identical.

You can learn a lot more on our message forum at www.3800Pro.com.

Hope this helps.

Scott

about how much did that all set you back??

I've beenout of town for the weekend...what happened to all the pics?

Pics still work for me? Anyone else not able to see them?

Oh... and I'm trying not to think about how much this all is setting me back. Not too too much really... if I were to ballpark it, I'd say total between $1,000 and $1,100. Just a quick guess.