rickreeves1

By the way this is for my 95 Vette with the LT1 engine. It's looking more and more like I will have to swap the water pump sooner rather than later. I smelled antifreeze yesterday on the way home from work. I also had to top it off the week before. When I opened the hood it looked like the antifreeze sprayed a little in the engine compartment, probably off the belt. I felt under the WP and it was a little damp. This also explains why my power steering has been acting up. It has been getting wet. I will investigate some more with the engine running but it's not looking good. I don't know how much longer it will last so to be safe I want to start ordering parts.

I have a Mezierre HD EWP and a Coyles timing chain at the house. I am going to buy an opti from thepartsladi to swap out the 109k mile stock opti. I believe those are factory replacements and I've heard good things about them.? I would consider an MSD but I can't afford it at this time. I don't believe I will have problems if I stay at or below 6300rpm. Opinions? Any cheaper? If I am going that far I should also do the cam. I would do the heads and cam at this time but I am on a budget at the moment. Here's the numbers for the custom billet cam I am currently considering... 228/235 .560/.560 109 LSA. - 1900-6200 RPM. Opinions? It's one of Lloyd's. I plan on calling him soon and getting his advice on all this also. At a later date I would like to swap the heads for either a set of LE2's or the new AFR 195 street heads, depending on my budget at that time and future testing of the AFR's. I still need gaskets, EWP harness, and valve train components. I will also need a new tune. I'm hoping a $75 mail order tune from PCMFORLESS can cover it for now. I will dyno tune later when swapping the heads. Something I am not sure of is the injectors. I have 24# SVO's and I occasional spray a 125 dry shot. I would rather wait until later to replace these since it will be one extra large expense at this time. I do datalogging with TTS so I can check on the injectors. I can't do this job myself because it's my only car and it has to be back on the road asap. If I thought I could get it done in one weekend I would. There are a few things I would be apprehensive about.. getting the cam and valve train correct, getting the hub off, getting the cam installed properly without pulling the engine. I have no problems pulling things apart and getting dirty. Getting the new stuff in and working correctly on a schedule is the concern. I would prefer some help but don't know anyone locally. My mechanic quoted $1k for labor. I may have to go that route. Sorry for the long thread. Opinions?

Opti $230
Cam $300
Gaskets ?
1.6 RR ?
Springs ?
Tune $75
Labor $1000


Thanks

camaro1fastz28

ur going to need valve spring to suport that cam

whammer33024

rockers: comp cams 1305-16
springs: crane 10308-1 should work
you will need hardened pushrods and guideplates to go with those rockers as well

rickreeves1

Thanks for the replies so far.

New combo I'm looking at:

Billet Cam 223/230 .565/.565 109 LSA
Patriot Gold Springs
Retainers and Locks
$600 shipped

Comp Cams Pro Magnum Rocker Arms 1.6 7/16 #1305-16
$260 shipped

TrickFlow Guideplates #30400623-8
$25 shipped

ARP 7/16 Studs #134-7103
$47 shipped

Trickflow Pushrods
$95 shipped

thepartsladi GM Optispark
$240 shipped

EWP Relay
$30 shipped

Gaskets
??

Labor
$1000

Total: $2297 hmm

I may have to rethink this and go cheaper on some things.