A few years back I bought a beige 85 Regal LTD. This was originally a carb'd 231 that someone swapped in a HA GN motor. I drove the car while slowly collecting parts to swap in a LC2. I already have a complete motor and wire harness and various other items sitting around.
My 16 yo son has a 98 Regal GS with the 231 supercharged engine. Nice car, it was mine till the wife took it, then when the boy got a license we gave it to him. Well a few weeks back he was driving and he said it just died. I guess me putting 4 quarts of oil in it the previous week had no effect on it... Well I let him drive my 85 and the first day he had it he called to tell me that he was broke down on the side of the road. He said it lost power and started to smoke real bad. Head gasket I think.
So no we have 2 cars down. Well we pulled the motor from the 98 and took it to the machine shop then pulled the 85 HA motor out. This thing was barely bolted in. Scary to think that my son and I both drove this car. There was no transmission mount bolts. one of the motor mount bolts was finger tight, the other was good. 4 of the 6 bell housing bolts are missing. Speaker wire from the battery to the starter solenoid. Man I am lucky yhis thing lasted as long as it did.
I just got done installing the LC2 wire harness and hopefully tomorrow will get to bolt the tranny I have up to the LC2 motor and get it ready to be dropped into the hole.
More later.
Anybody know what tranny lived behind a 231 carb'd motor? I am going to use this tranny till I have my spare one rebuild
My 16 yo son has a 98 Regal GS with the 231 supercharged engine. Nice car, it was mine till the wife took it, then when the boy got a license we gave it to him. Well a few weeks back he was driving and he said it just died. I guess me putting 4 quarts of oil in it the previous week had no effect on it... Well I let him drive my 85 and the first day he had it he called to tell me that he was broke down on the side of the road. He said it lost power and started to smoke real bad. Head gasket I think.
So no we have 2 cars down. Well we pulled the motor from the 98 and took it to the machine shop then pulled the 85 HA motor out. This thing was barely bolted in. Scary to think that my son and I both drove this car. There was no transmission mount bolts. one of the motor mount bolts was finger tight, the other was good. 4 of the 6 bell housing bolts are missing. Speaker wire from the battery to the starter solenoid. Man I am lucky yhis thing lasted as long as it did.
I just got done installing the LC2 wire harness and hopefully tomorrow will get to bolt the tranny I have up to the LC2 motor and get it ready to be dropped into the hole.
More later.
Anybody know what tranny lived behind a 231 carb'd motor? I am going to use this tranny till I have my spare one rebuild
I'll save this crossmember for you! Are you planning to go to the midwest meet? I could bring it with me and if you or someone from your area is there, I could give it to you or them. Well check the Hot Air motor. If the crank is good, I could use that and maybe we could trade. Either way, no big deal, I at least owe you this crossmember for coming and picking me up when i was broke down on the side of the interstate. That would be least I could do for your help which I really appreciated!
