Hey my Z28 has been sitting since October 2005 when my Opti went bad well im out of basic and ill be home soon after AIT. The Camaro is STILL dead but itll be fixed shortley. Now im wondering what should i do to make this start up a safe one. I dont wanna hurt my baby in any way. Thanks for the help in advance guys

 

If you're really ****, you can remove all the spark plugs, put just a few drops of engine oil through the spark plug hole, remove the fuel injector fuses in the underhood box and crank the motor over for maybe 15 seconds, pause for a few seconds then crank it again. You might see a little bit of oil pressure climb up on the gauge or you might not. At this point you can put the plugs back in, put the fuel injector fuses back in and start the car.

I'd warm it up fully and immediately change the oil and give the whole car a good once over.

 

Or you can skip everything he said and just unplug the 8 injectos and start it, then change the oil.

 

Hmm. I started mine for the first time today in months. Turned the key and vroooom! Sounded safe to me

 

Pulling 2 fuel injector fuses > unplugging 8 injectors.

 

I wouldnt be pulling the plugs if it only sat for 6 months.

Pull injector fuse, crank it a little, then put the fuse in and fire it up

 

^ agree

 

I recently did this for a friend. My process was to change the oil, pull the injector and coil wire, then turn the engine over a few times until I saw oil p[ressure on the gause. I then connected the injectors, turned it over for a few seconds, then connect the coil. Car started with minimal problems. I had to hold the throttle open for a few minutes until it wouls idle without stalling.

 

Thanks for the replys evreyone. I got an additional question about the changing the oil thing. I got the car with 26k on the odo last year and i immediatley changed the oil..... Didnt really need it but i was bein dumb. Well i didnt know what type of oil was in it so i said screw it and got Castrol Syntec. Well i ended up finding out she was running on dino oil. I heard changing is bad.. So should i go back to regular oil or stick to synthetic? (I put about 1000 miles on it useing the synthetic.) Thanks guys

 

I would think at 26K you are fine to stay with syntec, you just don't want to switch on a high milage car. I did the same when I bought my Z which had 32K on it. I never had a problem. I pulled the motor apart at 82K when I built my 383, never had a drop on oil under the car and the internal engine and oil screen were perfectly clean.