68 Camaro L92 project
06-12-2014, 08:18 PM
#1
Teching In
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 17
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
68 Camaro L92 project Hi guys, I've been lurking on here for a while. Time for me to post my built thread. I've seen many great rides on here that really inspired me. I started with a 68 Camaro 454 BBC (all steel boat anchor lol) with a 4 sped.
The car has been on the road since 2004 and it was in deep need of upgrading, it drove like sh*t with the 685 lbs engine. In the past few years I drove the car 3-4 times a year only.
I am swapping an L92 with a T56, 12 bolt rearend, Hotchkiss suspension, vintage air AC system, TMI seats, 18 inch wheels (can't decide which yet) etc etc. Here are a few pics of my car.
If I can answer questions on anything, don't hesitate since I benefited so much from other's experience on this forum.
Also, can you guys tell me if I'm allowed to call my engine an LS3 or will it always be a L92?
The car has been on the road since 2004 and it was in deep need of upgrading, it drove like sh*t with the 685 lbs engine. In the past few years I drove the car 3-4 times a year only.
I am swapping an L92 with a T56, 12 bolt rearend, Hotchkiss suspension, vintage air AC system, TMI seats, 18 inch wheels (can't decide which yet) etc etc. Here are a few pics of my car.
If I can answer questions on anything, don't hesitate since I benefited so much from other's experience on this forum.
Also, can you guys tell me if I'm allowed to call my engine an LS3 or will it always be a L92?
Last edited by 68camaro-ls; 06-12-2014 at 09:07 PM.
06-12-2014, 09:25 PM
#5
It may be too late, but I'd seriously reconsider the MSD Atomic EFI.
"Self tuning" systems mean that they run. To get them to run well, producing power, good manners and efficiency, they need to be tuned by someone who knows how to tune that particular EFI system. If that's not you, I'd look in another direction for the engine management system. There, by far, more tuners familiar with factory ECUs than any other systems.
I had a SBC using the old Holley Commander 950 system. I got it to run well, with decent manners, but never got the fuel economy it should have had and there were simply no tuners who knew that system in the entire Los Angeles basin.
I've got a '68 Camaro now with the LS376/480 and the "matching" GMPP ECU. Pre-tune, it ran really well but was rich. I just had it tuned and now it's got better manners, and better fuel economy (24 MPG on the highway, with 4.11 rear gears and 438 RWHP).
If you can still return the Atomic EFI, you could do a factory based harness & ECU for much less than the cost of the MSD, with much better access to competent tuners.
In any event, you're going to like the car after the transformation.
"Self tuning" systems mean that they run. To get them to run well, producing power, good manners and efficiency, they need to be tuned by someone who knows how to tune that particular EFI system. If that's not you, I'd look in another direction for the engine management system. There, by far, more tuners familiar with factory ECUs than any other systems.
I had a SBC using the old Holley Commander 950 system. I got it to run well, with decent manners, but never got the fuel economy it should have had and there were simply no tuners who knew that system in the entire Los Angeles basin.
I've got a '68 Camaro now with the LS376/480 and the "matching" GMPP ECU. Pre-tune, it ran really well but was rich. I just had it tuned and now it's got better manners, and better fuel economy (24 MPG on the highway, with 4.11 rear gears and 438 RWHP).
If you can still return the Atomic EFI, you could do a factory based harness & ECU for much less than the cost of the MSD, with much better access to competent tuners.
In any event, you're going to like the car after the transformation.
06-13-2014, 04:54 AM
#6
Teching In
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 17
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Yeah definately too late but I'm still confident I got the good setup for what I want to do with the car. Remains to be seen if I regret it or not. I'll let you know in a month what I think of it.
Trending Topics
06-30-2014, 09:50 PM
#8
Launching!
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 230
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
CHeck out my book, it might be helpful 
