long time coming

[1meanz]

yep, yall probably remember my thread about my z, and me building the motor. i didnt give up, i just decided to wait on a better vehicle. well, that didnt happen. but i did get an s10 lol. when i tore into my motor i found that there was 4 of the 6 bearings spun. dont ask me how it happened, it just did. and i also noticed that my timing chain was exceptionally loose, compaired to 30k miles earlier. so my plan now is to take the old pos 2.8 in the s10 and put 3100 internals, 3400 top end, and a cam in it. i dont want ungodly power, just enough to get up to highway speeds! lol. i already have a computer and full wiring harness out of a cavalier...


so far this is my 2 questions, do i use the 2.8 timing covor/accs.?

and,, how do i do the wiring ect. with the cavs computer/harness? or is it possible

thanx for all the help guys, and ill get pics right along the end of next week of what i have to work with lol.

[ForcedFirebird]

The intake manifold can be rotated 180*, but the coolant neck will interfere with the timing cover. This is easily remedied by cutting the top tab off the cover. You will need to open up some holes and/or drill new ones on your brackets to bolt to the FWD heads. If you keep the stock alternator location, you will have to figure out something to do where the bracket contacts the TB. I used the alt bracket with a tab cut off and re-drilled the holes to about 1/2" iirc, and moved it down to where the smog pump once was.

You might need a longer throttle cable to have the TB pull from the front, or fab something to use a rear pull setup.

Use pushrods from a Gen2, I bought them for a 1991 Cavi 3.1. They have about .050" preload and could be shorter, but these are available and cheap.

Using the RWD block, you have to remember there is no accomidation for the DIS. You might have to modify the TCE wheel to use on the RWD pulley, or make your own. I used a 3.4 block with the sensor mounting and got a few cubes to boot.

You will want to make headers, of you can even modify RWD headers by opening up the bolt holes to match the 3x00 heads. The port spacing is the same.

There might be a few things I'm leaving out, but I have a thread explaining how I accomplished most things.

[1meanz]

thanks for all the help man, i have quiet a wile to study on it, buy parts, make things lol. im hoping this motor will last me for a wile. i have the pushrods from my hybrid setup, would it be the same? if so then that would be great!i also have all my stock ones. but since the coustom ones were a bit shorter i guess those would be better to use.