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Originally Posted by LSxJunkie
You put an LS1 and a T56 (at worst) into what I'm going to assume was a second or turd gen when you were in high school? Pics or it didn't happen.
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Third Gen. The whole car would twist noticably when I accelerated...to the point where the body panels didn't match up between the front quarter panels and the doors.
Sorry, don't have pics...this was over a decade ago....the car was destroyed as well. I sold it to a kid a few years behind me when I went off to college and he wrecked it less than 5 days later - I was pissed.
It started innocently enough. I found a beat up old manual transmission '89 IROC-Z with the 305ci for $800. I put full-coverage on it instead of liability because I knew it was going to eat its own face. The 305 threw a rod a few months after I bought it....insurance company discovered it was more expensive to find an out of production 305 than just find a 350, so I went and found one and they agreed to pay. Engine was in perfect condition - from a 97 vette that had been t-boned. After the shop finished installing the engine and my mom drove me to go pick it up, the mechanic took my mom aside and said that I was going to end up killing myself in it. 2 weeks after I got the engine in the car, it ripped the transmission to shreds and insurance wouldnt cover that since it was really my fault for putting so much power in the car. I went back to the junkyard and got the transmission out of the same wrecked vette and paid for it myself, took it to the school autoshop and some of the guys there did the work to install it (required plenty of fabrication to get that to fit...). 2 days after I got it back....it ripped the rear-end to pieces. Got that replaced too.
The car was SUCH a piece of shit. Misaligned body panels from the frame literally twisting, some rust, the interior was gutted, T-tops leaked like crazy, the carpet was coming out. Pretty much the ultimate sleeper. The only real issue I had after replacing all that stuff was that it would overheat like crazy because we only swapped the engine instead of all the accessories, so it really couldnt keep itself cool. I'm sure if I had ever tried to do more than take off from a stoplight or pass on the highway it would have broken something.
But man, those all-season 225 rear tires didn't stand a CHANCE haha