i dont know what it is but.. after owning four 3rd gens and two 4th gens, and not having any f-body for one year.. i want a third gen again. since i sold my '99 TA, i got a '03 gsxr 600, drove my dads '77 vette for a few months, and am currently driving a '00 audi A6.. but theres just something about having a cheap, fun car to drive. i miss my '83 berlinetta 5.0/5sp as much, if not more than my '99 M6 TA.

i guess that means its time to start looking for a fixxer upper again..

 

found one already. '84 Z28, no motor/trans, decent looking body. $200. man i need some money.

 

Wow only took seven minutes! Sounds like a good canidate for a LS1/6 and a T-56 combo. Enjoy you new project.

 

i was thinking more along the lines of carb'd LQ4/9 + T56..

simple, reliable, efficient, powerful.. what more could you ask for?

 

An ls1/t56?

 

eh.. LS1's are overrated. i would gladly pay less than half for the same engine, with a little more power and torque, for a slight weight penalty. assuming i get an aluminum headed motor, it's still going to weigh less than a Gen I and make over 100hp more than anything that came from the factory in a 3rd gen.

you do know what a LQ4/9 is, correct?

 

Mmmmm, gokarmaro...

Huh?

Oh yeah, he wants to put a real motor in it,hehe.

 

The LS1 is underated in MY opinion. But refresh my memory.. what exactly is the LQ4/9? Sounds familiar.. just can't picture it right now

 

the LQ4 and LQ9 are 6.0L truck engines. they are dimensionally the same as the LS1/2/6/7, besides the bore and stroke. all of the accessories bolt up just like an LS1. but most of them are iron blocks. the SSR has an aluminum version for instance, but those are very rare. the LQ9 (345hp) is a higher output version of a LQ4 (315hp-ish?). those are some of the basic differences/simularities.

 

Ahhhh.. I KNEW that sounded familiar! Lol. Ok that would deffinently be more badass than an LS1 What do real world dyno's put the LQ9 at?

 

http://www.performancetrucks.net/for...light=lq9+dyno

 

That would be a pretty cool swap in my opinion. Have any third-gen guys done it before? Of course the LS1 swap has been done, but I haven't seen anyone with a LQ4/9 conversion.

 

Deffinently short of an LS1 in stock trim.. but oh man slap some FI on there

 

I used to have a 91 Z28 with a 350 TPI and a 83 Z28 with the Crossfire injection...The 83 was **** but the 91 was great about everything, I also owned a 1986 2.8 Camaro, what a piece of scrap

 

yeah, my parents had a couple third gens with 2.8L's and from what i can remember... thay sucked.

so far ive had a:
1983 Berlinetta (paid $250 for it, 305/5sp, painted it, new WP, PS pump, headliner, sold for $1,500)


1985 Z28 (parts car, bought it for $500, sold the front clip for $400 used the trans in the cheap '87 Z, interior parts in the other '87 Z)


1987 IROC Z28 (33k original miles, 305 tho)


1987 IROC Z28 that some kid f**ked up the old motor, i dropped in a 305, painted it, sold for $2,500


1994 Z28 (A4, my first car )


1999 T/A (LS1/M6, 83k miles, bought it for $7,500 two years ago, what a steal!)