1 cam
3 cases of beer
4 Days
$1,787 parts
267 band-aids, 2nd degree burns on three fingers...
203,978.76 curse words..

Starting up...
no oil pressure... oh yeah, 97 TA's don't give oil pressure until running...

97 TA coming into full song and glory with a GM847 cam running through SLP loudmouth exhaust... F'n' PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!





photos forthcoming... when I get home.... tomorrow, maybe thursday, maybe friday.. I'm taking the long way home to enjoy.

 

take stump road, and rev it up real loud so i can hear it!

 

thats cool Ron, its gotta sound nuts! now let's get on the Turnpike!

so whats next? Stall?

 

Congrats, but was there more than just a cam swap going on? That seems like a lot of money and beer for just a cam swap...shrug.

 

Bolt~ons, exhaust change = 2 case job, cam swap is clearly 3 case job!

Well, it should have been a 2 day job, but when we discovered Sunday afternoon that the SA rockers contacted the spring keepers we hit an impasse! So we had to wait until Monday to call around the local shops. No one had promags in stock so day 3 was wasted when we had to order NSA rockers and guide plates to be shipped next day. Although we did use day 3 to detail the under carriage.

The car sounds unreal ! Nasty idle and the loudmouth above 4 G's is insane!

 

damit you have to get some vids up quick. I want to hear it!!!!! I was soo tempted to call out of work and stay up there with you guys but.. I would be in the toilet with my boss as I was working on a very important and high dollar job. I just finished it up today. That cam has to be bad *** in that car. I guess you got the VC's on ok?

As much as it sucks to find out about the rocker issue that way at least we caught it. That could have been a real problem if we missed it.

 

Well I tried but couldn't find TDC as easy as you did so I used the air chuck to hold the valves up. I have all the install hieghts I'll send you tomorrow.


100% TRUE!

There are still a few Miller's left in the fridge waiting your return. My door is always opened!

 

i'll come get them!

Cant wait to hear the car Ron
So when ya throwin her back on the dyno? Now we have Dale and Harris speed works in warminster as our two local dyno's. Let me kno cause i'd like to throw mine back on the rollers too

 

Ryan... sent an email to Dale to see about a dyno time. Maybe this Saturday if the weather isn't raining.

Bri... I have your spring measuring gizmo in my center console. We'll have to figure out a time to meet up.

Peresently Comcast is working on their connection to our neighborhood because of the "storm" that I missed while upstate. Television and internet connection keeps going off. But I will figure out the parts list that went with the cam install which beside assorted rocker, spring and pushrod hardware, also includes coil, opti, black water hoses, black water pump and even black oil filter.

I'll see about get pics maybe tomorrow. I have to be in Cape May Friday to work on my parents PC. Although, tomorrow I may find myself at the pool and in the jacuuzi as I spent a day underneath my 97 TA as a human detailing towel and being the manual "crank" while John did the rocker springs. There should be a slight oil sheen on the pool water following me about....

The 97 TA had a few good moments on the turnpike, but all in all I was a good boy as I don't want to beat on the car just yet. The car seems to get quieter above 80mph, though?!?!!? Bahahahaha. But if I just ease in the gas, the car just accelerate very easily. If I floor it... sounds like a rocket went off in the azz end.
But when I came off the Lansdale exit and used the back roads to worm my way home, the 97 TA has some bad "table manners" and was a bit unruly. I had to struggle with it to keep the idle up for the oil pressure at stop lights and bumper to bumper traffic. Maybe I was too over reactive with the lub-lub of the cam and the idle. I'm just attributing that to the need of a new stall TC and the fact that the long two hour run on the turnpike made the car idle lower than I am use to. I'll just put some of the parts stickers on my rear window so people know why it's behaving the way it is...

But it's pretty cool to arrive home and see the Tahoe blocking my side of the drivway... and the wife comes running out ot move it for me... and all I did was just pull up in the 97 TA and didn't even get out of the car. Uh, yeah the car has a real F'n' nice rumble. Bahahahahaha.

Well I'll be back later on today...
ron

 

did you get the pcm re-tuned?

I think Ron's quest for the 12's will be accomplished

 

Yep, bought an extra PCM and had a tune setup on it by MadZ28.com
Got photos up of the "operation": http://www.97transam.com/97ta-cam.php

Sound clip: GM847 cam, MAC Headers and SLP Loudmouth exhuast

 

thats gonna scare some women and children. Sounds very nice man. Get some vid or audio of it rippin when all the tuning is said and done. Good luck with it.

-Brian

 

RON YOU @#$%^&!!!!!!

Car sounds awesome buddy. I'm headed the Mom Settlemire's BBQ, but I want to meet up in the next week or two to see and hear the TA in person!!!!

Ed

 

Wow that thing is pretty nasty Ron! I love the sound of the GM847... your next mod is going to have to be a converter but it can wait for a while. We will have to meet up in the near future cause I gotta hear it in person. Sorry I couldnt stay to help finish it. I had fun though.

I look good in those pics working on the 97TA

 

Oh yeah, Brian (Projectz28) didn't steer me wrong, and both Brian and John (Pampered-Z) really helped me out big time. I enjoyed that sound so much.. I realized after driving just over two hours to get back home that I never listened to a CD or the radio. Just the "sweet music" of the cam and the exhaust.


Hey Bri, pretty funny that most of the photos that I have are camaro owners working on the TA.

Yeah we have to do a meet up soon somewhere. Ed, you have any ideas?