no outsourcing the work, you're getting your hands dirty! :twisted:

and its possible to do valve seals too, but it would be easier to do it if the heads were off the motor. If you really want, we can take the whole top end off the motor and I'll bring my valve spring compressor and do the valve seals for ya. :)

I actually have a valve/valve seat grinding machine in my garage, but if you want anything like that done, you're gonna have to pay me :razz:

nice! my car smokes like hell when I first get it started...what time do you guys think we should get started? and if you think your gonna be coming p me and Ill give yah my addy..

matt, about the rims: they are AR five spoke 16" black with a chrome beauty ring. you'll see them eventually and if you want them, they're yours for the asking. i might even help you refinish them.

about the cold: yeah, but i still need to get from my house to the car and then from the car to your garage. ever see the cartoons when they freeze someone who was running, then slow motion, then motionless? yeah, that's me in the cold.

which headers, y-pipe, cat back are you using, where are you putting your cutout..

ive got a welder and everything else needed to fab exhausts..

ill be happy to help you out

just curious, what kind of welder do you have?

It would be cheaper to just buy a new set of heads.

the linclon weld pack 3200 from home depot..i can weld flux core up to a 1/4 inch and with shielding gas up to 10 gauge

i just tried to do my subframes yesterday and it gets hot enough for that.

i also have a chopsaw and grinder for cleaning and cutting exhaust tubing..

Nice this is gonna be awsome!, I have no clue what heads to get..Tim said vette l98 53cc head's but then some one else said not too. then "other" L98 heads wont work..I have hedman headers and cat..and the cut out I want before the cat...but some one said to get it after...and Im all confused..If there is enough people here my mom said we would get a 6 ft sub...

personally, I wouldnt be throwing a ton of money at your 305. Leave the heads, just clean them up. unless you can score some better heads for cheap, then go for it. If I were in your shoes, I'd be busting my ass trying to make money and save it all up and buy a big inch small block crate motor 8)

The vette L98 heads are 58cc, not 53 (stock heads on your 305 are 58cc). If you can score a set for cheap, there is no reason not to use them. They are a much better design than the heads you have, and they will retain your stock compression ratio. The regular L98s or vortechs would cause a slight drop in your compression ratio (they are a 64cc chamber), which would offset some of the power gain that you would see from adding the better heads.

What cam do you have for the 305?

- Justin

i was just wondering were in edison u live i will be down for helping u with a cam and headers done a couple already.



Matt

crane cam "powermax" INT .427 EXH .454 adv. dur. 260 int 272 exh..... I live in north edision off of inman ave like 2 streets past martin luther king school

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Does any one have a air compressor and some air tools they can lend us for the day?

u live like 2 miles from me i live off of grove ave by the minnie b veal center let me know if u need help or anything



Matt

In the apartment complex's?? with a mustang with a white hood?

yes sir and mine is next to it with the black hood

nice! I see the car every day goin to school, and my freind glenn lives almost directly across the lot from you...small world

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...0183&langId=-1

Is that good for the cam stuff? I also need header gaskets and bolts..and if I get heads Ill need head gaskets right?

Yeah and I shouldn't "waste' my money on the 3.8 I shuld just swap in a LS1.... can't tell ya how many times I've heard that line. Just my 2 cents.

i should be down for helping, i wanna learn about this stuff too since ill be doing it eventually. and yea same here kasey but its all about havin a 6 banger beat the **** outta an ls1 :D

yeah! lol Im gonna build the **** outa my Lg4 till it blows! and even after that some day Ill have a ten second 305! :twisted: plus I dont want to build a motor and all that crap cause I want a 4th gen with a V8 and a t56:-)

but yet you think fourth gens are ugly :twisted:

no no no not all 4th gens..I like trans ams not firebirds and it would help if it had some sort of ram air hood...

I'm gonna come out and say it. Your car isnt the best platform to build a performer out of. I'm not saying the motor and chassis are to blame, but rather the amount of miles and the fact that you rear ended someone. You really would be better off building up a car that is already fast.

two words that will mean no ten second timeslips for your 305...valve shrouding! :wink:

whats that? I have a valve tap...and it idles MAD high and makes a clicking noise when I first start it up then its fine after a bit...