"Shadowfax" - Jeremy's 15th Anv. Trans Am

[Jdseibe]

Engine build has officially started, dropped off the 350 roller block off at the machine shop yesterday!

Also pulled the power steering pump, need to pull they pulley, and replace. I need to figure out what all the vacuum lines in the engine bay are for, which ones can be removed which ones need to stay, flush the radiator, and hookup the fans and im good to go!

[Jdseibe]

Today I decided to look into wiring some, since I still have some random wires laying in the engine bay, and a couple misc things still don't work.

the windows never rolled down, so i pulled the center console and the switches were just unhooked, so yay! plugged them in and the windows work.. awesome!

the brake lights and signals didn't work, so I decided to check that stuff out, i looked at the fuses and saw a couple blown in there, so I decided to replace them.. turn signals and brake lights work now.. awesome! except.. when i turn on the hazard lights.. it immediately blows the brake/hazard fuse.. dang.. can't just be that easy huh? I guess the next step will be to replace the blinker relay in case there is a short or something, and check all my grounds.

I have some random plugs in the engine bay that I am not 100% what they go to.

[Jdseibe]

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[DynoDave]

Sweet! I love those Anniv. cars.

[Jdseibe]

Small update:

I finally took a timing light to the 305 and get it dialed in. I tried messing with the edelbrock carb again and it just does not want to run right under load, I have no idea what the deal is. If i give it any real amount of throttle while driving it bogs, dies, or shoots fire balls from under the hood.. Ive swapped springs and tried adjusting the accelerator pump, something seriously wrong is going on with it haha. so randomly I found on a local garage sale facebook page a holley 4160 600 cfm vacuum secondary electric choke carb for $25, they just pulled off their sons truck, so I am going to pick that up and see if I have any better luck with the holley.

I also ordered a simple fan switch kit to turn the fans on, assuming i get the carb issues figured out, I should be good to go!

[Jdseibe]

Another Small Update:

over the weekend I picked up the Holley carb, So I ordered all the parts for the rebuild kit and started tearing the carb down.. and to my surprise, the inside of this carb looks like has never even run.. its really strange, its SUPER clean, the outside is another story, very grungy and dirty.. makes me wonder if they ever actually used it or just put it on a shelf and it just got gross for sitting so long. The vacuum diaphragm is shot so I ordered one of them too, but all in all this looks to be a pretty straight forward rebuild. it even comes with the proper bracketry for the 700r4 kickdown cable.

I soaked the carb in cleaner and it came out looking pretty good, going to finish up rebuilding it tonight and put it on the car. I'll post another photo of the finished rebuild.

holley-carb.jpg

[Jdseibe]

And rebuilt...

carb-clean.jpg

[MP81]

Looks much cleaner!

[Jdseibe]

So previously I had an edelbrock carb on the performer RPM intake (that I bought used) and I am trying to now swap on the holley, only problem is, the 4 bolt holes I used for the edelbrock carb are not the same 4 that have to be used for the holley (dual bolt pattern), 2 of the threaded holes to mount the holley are stripped.. ugh! so I went out an bought a helicoil kit to fix it, hopefully I don't run into any other major issues.

[Jdseibe]

So i fixed the intake threads with helicoil, and since I am using the holley now, I can reuse my old holley throttle bracket.. so i thought.. until i started looking for it.. and couldn't find it.. and realized a bunch of other parts were missing to.. looks like someone was in my garage and stole a bunch of car parts yay.

On the bright side, the car starts with the holley.

[Jdseibe]

small video of the car running with the holley.

https://goo.gl/photos/bTMzWe9jUX6U6wEa7

[Darren]

Sucks about the parts, anything else missing? Sure you didnt just place things?

How is the car running now with the holley?

[DynoDave]

Purrs like a kitten!

[Jdseibe]

Sucks about the parts, anything else missing? Sure you didnt just place things?

How is the car running now with the holley?

I had an intake manifold and my holley bracket which im pretty positive was laying on/in the intake, those are the only things I have noticed missing, they were also the things that were probably the easiest to snag too, I have a shelf thats right next to the garage door and they would have been pretty visible, I think it happened when i swapped tires on the car, I pulled the T/A half way out of the garage so I could get to the other side of the car and ended up not thinking it though very well so I couldn't shut the door all the way, so I had to leave the garage door most of the way open while I did some running around, they were parts I was trying to sell so they weren't anything that I paid all that much attention to. as for anything else, I was trying to see if i could see anything missing, I don't know off hand but I think that might have just been it really, maybe tools? but I am not very organized with them right now so it would be hard to tell haha.

as for the holley, it seems to be running a lot better, the throttle response even seems better, so hopefully after i get a new bracket I can take it for a test drive.