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Old 02-03-2012, 08:39 PM
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You are going to need to deal with the fact that Nothing in your dash will work, Your going to have to make a new dash wiring harness and all new gages. What tranny are you using? Your going to elimanate the ABS since you are getting rid of the computer. Your going to have to make a some type of fuel sending unit that will allow fuel to be drawn out of the tank instead of the high pressure system.

There is a reason the guy in the above link dropped 5K to build his car.
 
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Old 02-04-2012, 12:02 PM
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the tranny is a TH350 3spd, and im using a electric fuel pump in tank instead of manual fuel pump
 
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Old 02-04-2012, 02:35 PM
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Your stock fuel pump outputs way too much fuel pressure for a carb to handle, anything over 12 psi will over run your float and flood out the car. The 50+ PSI fuel plump would just dump gas into the motor, also the electronic fuel pump need to have constant flow which is why EFI has a return line, Without constant high volume flow the fuel pump will just overheat in a matter of minutes.

Your going to have to make a trans cross member to fit your TH350 and you to have to buy or make a rear torqure arm relocator.
 

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Old 02-05-2012, 11:06 AM
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^ In other words, you're doing more work than what's needed to make your car a good running Camaro again.
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 03:49 PM
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lol maybe, but im in this for the experience and for something crazy to happen with it, im going to redo the entire dash, things are bout ready to drop in, ** is there a good site i can look up bolt sizes for my engine, a site that is acually correct? **
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 04:58 PM
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I am not sure of any site that has that detailed of information. Not even my GM shop manual has it. You could do the site a favor by posting as many pics in a build thread as possible. I would be great to have a detailed thread for a Gen 1 convertion. Your going to run into a lot of little things that do not match up. Since I can not talk you out of it let me know if I can help.
 
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Old 02-06-2012, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by TheSolution_420
is there a good site i can look up bolt sizes for my engine, a site that is acually correct? **
I don't know of any either and trust me, I looked hard because I had the same problem when I first got my car. I actually made a trip to my local Buerk's 8 times just to one bolt. It's pretty much trial and error.
 
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Old 02-06-2012, 08:16 PM
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cool thanks peeps, i found that on the intake manifold it has 2 or 3 different length bolts, all 3/8's, but height wise there are different ones, one is 1", another is 1 1/2, and another is 2"
 
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