bpipe95

i have a 95 ta that i spun a bearing in so i bought a motor out of a 94 z28 and put that in my car now nothing seems to be right. do you have any sugestions to what i can do. i am open to all ideas. and if you can help me i will pay you in money beer or food.
the car idols fine i does not have any power
and i found out today that my new exhaust is banging aginst my car. so first i have to fix that. the car backfires when i try to start moving (M6) and then just acts very slugish.

thanks
brad

GM98Z

Sorry about the problems with the car.....Jason Short ( a moderator here) is pretty much "the Man" on LT1's. s
Shoot him a e-mail @ jhsformula@aol.com, he might be able to help.

On another note, I work part time @ Doan Chevrolet, if that's any help in the future.

Gary

96z

Any other things going on? I could probably give you an idea of whats going on if you could give some more symptoms.

Off the top of my head with what your saying your rocker arms could be too tight, Did you adjust them your self? Could it be something as simple as a rag stuck in the intake track?

What about your plugs, and wires? Any burned or possibly crossed?

Any codes, data logs, etc?

With all the time Ive spent diagnosing my car I could give you a decent idea too.

bpipe95

i need to get the coeds checked but i am all out of money i would so love to get data logs... i hate being broke. i have not even taken off the valve covers. so that is on the list, this is what i am going to check out tomarow night.

move my exhaust so it does not bang on the under side of the car

check all my header bolts

put in my knock sensor from the 95

then if i have to rip off the valve covers

ahh i need help
i have a long night in from of me tomarow night.

thanks for your help.
brad

oh and the plugs and wires are brand new.... i did find a wire that had started to melt today so i need to replace that.

96z

You have codes? Go to autozone and they will read them for free...do you have Autozones out your way?

Fix that plug wire, thatll cause a miss and lack of power for sure.

bpipe95

i do not know if i do or not i just wanted to see if any thing was amis in the computer system, i did go to autozone today they do not have the right tool for the job my car is a 95 obd1 with the obd2 plug how great is that.... also tomarow night i am going to be checking all other wires to see if burt any others.

also i put on hooker longtubes so i had to make O2 extentions was that a bad thing to do? i did not want to pay $25 a piece for extentions.

thanks
brad

96z

You could have fudged up the extensions. If the O2s aren't getting the right info the car will go into limp home mode I think which basically means it runs just enough to get you home.

A bad O2 connection will surely throw a code. You do have codes right? Thatll give us a lot of info....

amean94ta

you wouldnt happen to have that old block laying around would you

bpipe95

yep and heads and intake and all the sensors off it and two sets of manifolds and the water pump
and air pump

i got it all

it has not ben torn down yet....

96z

Did you fix the problem yet?

bpipe95

yea i got it all fixed. i had some major pug and wire probblems the pulgs were gapped wrong way wrong and i only had 4 good wires, the rest were ruind. bey either burnt or fot eaten by my belt. thanks for the help

96z

Yep thatll do it. Glad to see it worked out.