Well, I went ahead and bit the bullet, I put the Camaro under the Knife my self.
I'm install new cam, springs, pushrods, oil pump, timing chain, long tube headers, and torque converter.
Here are a few pics of the car under the knife.




The stock exhaust is all out.



The front of the motor is mostly torn down, just got to get at STUPID balancer off, already broke a Snap-On 24mm Impact socket trying to brake it loose.



The transmission is out. Randy! Who said thoughs top 3 bellhousing bolt were hard to get to? It only took me 2 day to get them all out HAHAHA!



The stock torque converter is out.



The rockers are all off.




Now to get back to the balancer. I think I mite need to go buy an 3/4" or 1" air impact gun... not too sure, I'll try a new socket first maybe the one that broke was just bad. I'll post up some more pics once i get the cam out and start going back to gather with it all. Thats going to be the fun part there.

 

Don't do what I did and throw away the old cats. They are worth $50-75 dollars at the junkyard.

 

I'm about to do the same thing cant wait till its all said and done with. I hate pulln trannys What kind of muffler/s are you goin with.headers?cam?TC?

 

I have not made my mind up on the rest of the exhaust just yet, either the Edelbrock Y-pipe to the same old Flowmaster catback thats been on there or go true duals dumped with a pair of Dynamax Bullets without a X or H-pipe. Just some stright 3" pipes to the Dynamax Bullet mufflers dumped at the rear axel. the Headers are the Edlebrock 1 3/4" stepped to 1 7/8" with 3 1/2" collectors. The cam is a custom cam from PatG useing the new ESP lobes, 226/230 .598/.600 112+4. The torque converter is a Circle D 3200.

 

Im goin with true 3" duals straight no x or h with magnaflow 5x8s look up mr lous trans am on youtube or google for a sound it sounds mean well here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTX6Ga2KbZY

 

got it all back togather today and ran into header fitment problems.
the driver side header was hitting the oil filter to the point that i removed the filter to install the header. once the drivers side header was bolted up, i though i would be able to install the oil filter, NOPE, no room the get the filter to go on. on the passenger side the header collector is hitting the floorpan. i removed the passanger side motormount to lower that side so i could bolt the header up. once the header was bolter up, i could not get ther motor mounted back on the motor mount because the header is hitting the floorpan. no wounder these headers were on sale for $300.