Project: Angry Bird

[ANGRY BIRD]

Hello ladies and gents, and welcome to LastCall's NA 3800 L26/ L36 build thread.

IT HAS BEGUN.



Parts pile:

-2008 Grand Prix L26 3800 Series III Long Block with 56K on it.

-Heads courtesy of 95RS-

-5 angle job on the valves,
-new phosphor guides
-Comp 105# springs
- Smoothed intake port/ smoothed expanded exhaust ports
-Decked .025" running stock thickness head gaskets

-ZZP GT2 Cam

• 216°/216° at .050"
• Intake Lift .317" (.507" lift at 1.6:1 rocker ratio)
• Exhaust Lift .317" (.507" lift at 1.6:1 rocker ratio)
• 111 LSA

-All new seals and gaskets for the engine, all Felpro.
-New Delphi OE Iinjectors (Well 5 of them lol Couldn't get the last one. Will be using one from the donor engine)
-Deplhi Fuel pressure regulator
-New timing chain and dampner.
-NGK TR55 plugs
-Valvoline Synpower Full Synthetic 5W30 oil
-K&N oil filter
-Duplicolor Pontiac Blue engine enamel

[FullThrottleV6]

[triple_l82]

thats a nice looking couch.

What has begun? engine swap?

[ANGRY BIRD]

Engine build and swap

parts pile



Started the tear down



some of the "old" stuff

[FloydSummerOf68]

...so what's the plan?

[triple_l82]

^thats what we are looking for. Goals? Parts list? etc?

Now lets talk about that couch.......it looks good and whats with the 2nd gen?

[ANGRY BIRD]

Updated OP

Garages is my friends, that TA is 8 years in the making, should be rolling by the end of the year he hopes. Its gonna be a BEAST.

I was gonna post fridays progress but this computer at school apparently doesn't have an SD port.

Heres a couple pics from sunday's work a friend posted on FB.

They thought this would be amusing to post on saturday lol



Scrapin gasket on sunday and hating it.

My eyes look creepy



Takin the front cover back off after paint

[triple_l82]

cool, keep up the good work. Why the blue though? kinda bright color.

[ANGRY BIRD]

Pontiac Blue- Its a Firebird Brah! Its gonna look good in the engine bay, I already know!

[triple_l82]

cool.

[White94Bird]

Always thought about porting that color in my engine bay too.

Sent from my DROID RAZR

[ANGRY BIRD]

Its now a long block. Cam and heads are done. Pics when I have time.

[ANGRY BIRD]

Down to long block last friday





moar parts



Fuel

[ANGRY BIRD]

Greasing my shaft



Balls deep



cleanin up the gasket surface



Puttin on the new heads



Torque





sexy bitch

[epic]

Awesome progress thread. Expect vids thx.

[Sparky]

pictars and vids always make good build threads