ncave Posted May 24, 2011 Share Posted May 24, 2011 Hi everyone, This is my first post here....thought id say hi and share a couple pics of my z31 I been working on for the last 8 months or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badboyz31 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 very nice and clean setup man, what tranny are you using? I'm in the process of doing a turbo vortec 5.3L into my z31! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncave Posted May 25, 2011 Author Share Posted May 25, 2011 Thank you bad, it's just a th350 from a 75 Monte Carlo. Fit snug, but no alterations to the tunnel needed. Was able to make a linkage to keep my shift lever stock also thankfully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncave Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 Well crap.... Took first real test drive too work... Blowing some serious oil smoke unfortunately. Happy with how it drove, but noe what to do with the motor problem. Any suggestions? I definately wanna keep the tpi system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamikaZeS30 Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Did you rebuild the motor before install? If you've got oil smoke (in the exhaust I assume?) it's either rings or valves. Either way it's going to require major disassembly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncave Posted June 9, 2011 Author Share Posted June 9, 2011 I did not rebuild the motor before install.... Took a chance with a used tbi 305 out of a 87-94 k1500 that was readily available to get this project started. I tried to drive it home from work this morning and the smoke has gotten much worse. I've been a master tech for a long time and never seen this much smoke out the tailpipe of a car lol. I'm pretty sure I'll be needing a new motor, which is fine.....just not sure what route too take. The tpi setup is a 86 maf. My goal is to have a fun car to hotrod my whole 3 miles to work or the golf course, not win any drag races. Obviously I'd like to have as much power as I can get for the money I'm gonna spend if that makes sense. I'm gonna run a compression test tomorow on the other 7 cylinders..... Only checked cyl 8 due to time..... And was at @130. I should probably make at new post about this, explaining my setup, symptoms, etc. Huh? Getting car towed back from my shop to the house in the mourning..... Just too much smoke too drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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