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Was the block machined and heads gone through and resurfaced? On thing that could cause this is a warped head. Did it overheat at all during your tuning? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is awesome. I may have missed it but what are the specs on the turbo? Considered running e85? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Cool thanks for the link. So does anyone have a parts list? This truck is gonna be my DD. I just need it to be reliable and with the carb it's not

anyone have a write up or parts list on what's all needed to do a tbi swap on an 86 comanche? I'm hoping to find everything from an s10 in the junkyard

Well the f body will be 93-95 so it will be the 3.4. Should be a fairly easy swap. Keeping the fi. Still wanting to put the 3.8 from my fiancés dads camaro since he offered to give it to me and its a superior motor to the 3.4 but I can't find any straight forward info on the swap. Anyway got the MOABs on. Love them, gotta decide on a lift and tires next. Thinking 2 inch lift because this is gonna be my DD. any recommendations?

Slight update. Found a set of 16" MOAB wheels finally. Going to pick them up today. Still searching for a donor F body. Not much luck people want too much money for those 20 year old $#!&boxes

Made some progress today. Got the hoist repaired and pulled the motor, harness and degreased the engine bay. Right now I'm doing some research on putting a camaro 3.8 into the Comanche. , my fiancés father offered to give me his 98 camaro tonight. Car runs great and has a fairly new motor with 50k miles. Anyone have any ideas on what's involved? I know it's a 90 degree so the bell housing is different.

Engine ready to come out, I wanted to take the header panel and front end off but it's welded and bolted? Guess its not coming off Brake booster is shot, you can also see the rust on the firewall. Tomorrows plan is to get the motor out, degrease and clean the engine bay. I also wanna get the rest of the dash out and replace the heater core and ac evaporator. The brake lines are all shot. Going to redo all of them.

I'm going to keep it as original as i can. I do wanna do a 2 inch lift though. I actually really like the red interior I was only going to change it if I painted the exterior mango tango. I have decided to stay with the original color. I did some more work tonight. Motor is ready to come out tomorrow. Found where my brake fluid was going, brake line has a pin hole leak and it was leaking everywhere down the fire wall. I also found some bad rust on the driver side firewall where it meets the floor board =( more pics to come once I get cleaned up.

thats a good idea, i wasnt aware that the door panels were rare...they are still in good shape, just not going to match the new black seats and carpet. This is the first time the truck is being worked on, everything on the interior is original 1986, truck was owned by my grandfather and hasnt been wrecked,clean titile. Last six digits of the vin - 184356. What can you tell from that?

The paint looks better in the pics then in person. It's peeling and fading in a few spots. I'm on the fence if I wanna go mango tango or stick with the original maroon with gold flake, depending on the exterior color I may go all black interior. All the chrome pieces are original. And yep I have a factory chrome bumper. Rear bumper is in decent shape besides a small dent from my dad in the early 90's.

This is what I'm starting with, straight body rust free First thing I did was take the side steps off and remove the hood Started removing the interior- very minor surface rust on the driver floor, after cleaning with a wire wheel it looks perfect. The seats are looking rough, getting redone with black cloth Door panels getting redone all black That's pretty much it for today, I am working till tomorrow. I am going to look at a couple Camaros tomorrow. Hopefully ill pick one up so I can get the motor out this weekend

What's up guys, glad to be on this site, so much info and knowledge. Anyway I figured it was time to start a build thread. I have a 1986 Comanche XLS with the 2.8. My grandfather ordered this truck brand new in New Jersey In late 1985. I remember growing up and helping him work on it and always telling him I wanted it to be mine some day. When I started driving the truck in 2009 it has 70,000 miles on it. Now it has 105k on it and I decided it was time to ditch the tired 2.8 and rebuild most of the truck. Major plans are as follows - camaro 3.4 FI (rebuilt from block up) - all body work and new paint job (mango tango metallic) - interior re done in black Need help deciding what transmission to use. All work will be done by me in my garage. I have a 2001 cobra I built so I'm thinking this motor build will be cake lol

What an unbelievable truck! I just read your whole build thread. So awesome! You did a great job man