‘I’d organised a pair of Tuff Mounts rocker cover conversion plates (MG602) for Cam’s Gen III motor, as they allowed him to reuse his original tin SBC covers. Thankfully, he was able to source a cheap, second-hand Haltech Platinum Sport 1000 ECU to have wired in. Having these bits as part of the engine purchase saved Cam a bucketload of money, though it cost him in other areas as the stock LS ECU wouldn’t be able to easily run the four throttlebody-mounted injectors. With a 4150 four-barrel flange matching common Holley carburettors, the 950cfm Terminator throttlebody houses four 840cc (80lb/hr) injectors, and the kits can even be purchased with controllers to operate electric transmissions like the 4L60E and 4L80E found behind stock LS V8s. Thankfully, the engine Cam purchased came with a Holley 300-130 dual-plane inlet manifold, as well as one of Holley’s Terminator four-barrel EFI throttlebodies (550-405). While the colour helped pass the LS1 off as an older V8, the modern plastic intake manifold and front-mounted throttlebody was never going to work. This was following advice from Aaron, who has painted several engines and at least one front bumper. Now, we didn’t bother with a primer coat but we did give the engine a thorough wipe-down with brake clean before fogging the heck out of it.
I found a great deal on Gumtree for the LS with the Holley EFI and was able to sell off various bits like the T56 gearbox and MSD 6AL ignition box to help offset some of the cost.”ĪS THE small-block Chevy V8 has retained a basic 90-degree, pushrod layout with similar physical size through the ages, it’s easy to make an LS look like an earlier-generation motor just by spray-bombing the aluminium small-block in Dupli-Color Chevy Orange. “I said I would never fit an LS, but at the end of the day, the cost, power, reliability and availability of parts were too much to resist. “The car has been great since I’ve owned it and generally reliable bar the usual old-car things like hard-starting some days, vapour lock and flooding, and heat trying to kill the starter motor,” says Cam. However, several mates got together and railroaded him into picking up a cheap 5.7-litre LS1 with the goal of disguising it to look like the original Gen I motor.
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He’d initially planned to update the original matching-numbers 283ci Gen I small-block Chevy with a Holley EFI kit, to keeping the old-school looks but lend the car more modern driveability. Cam McEwen knows this all too well his 1965 Chevy Nova SS wasn’t the best option to take out in the Queensland summers and suffered a few reliability quirks well-known to classic car owners.
OLD-SCHOOL muscle cars are awesome, but they don’t always make the best cruisers.
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