Military guy here....In my younger, single days about 10 years ago I bought a 98 Camero with extensive work done. I dumped all my time and money in it doing various things until I was satisfied but after being in storage for the last 7 years I'm having issues. First and foremost, I relocated my coils and put billet adapters to for small block Chevy valve covers too clean it up. I also put valve cover breathers on both covers and in now wondering if that was a smart idea.

Second the car is hard to start and the more times it's started the harder it gets....like the plugs are getting soaked. Could it be due to extra air bypassing the maf? I could just tape them off I guess. Any ideas welcome.

 

If you use a MAF, you MUST run the PCV system where ALL air going thru the crankcase MUST go thru the MAF first, or it will never run right. You need a proper PCV system. Vents on the valve covers totally screws that up> It never works well on any other street engine either.
Get everything hooked up as it's originally supposed to be, put in some fresh plugs, and take it from there.

 

Does it make any difference if I did the LS6 PCV mod?

http://ls1howto.com/index.php?article=18

Edit: I guess not since that doesnt solve the air through the breathers....but would i be able to just close those breather ports with the ls6 mod?

 

You can run valve cover breathers with a maf, what you can't do is keep the pcv setup. Quick test to see if this is your problem would be take the hoses from your valley plate and valve covers off the intake and cap the intake nipples. Try this with a fresh set of plugs and see how it goes. Any codes thrown yet?

After 7 years though I would have drained the gas tank, flushed the lines and changed filter before I tried firing it up. Quite possible it's a bad fuel prob.

 

I would say after sitting so long your injectors could be your problem. Leaking injectors will cause hot start problems clogged ones will not perform well. I would at least take them out and have them cleaned and checked.

 

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Interesting issues that could possibly be several things.

Any chance you could post some pictures? So many times pictures can cut to the chase, in what have might have take so much longer with description alone.