way the suspension should have been my first clue about that and once i opened up the original motor there's the second clue right there um that thing was so full of oil gunk and varnish and sludge there was severe carbon buildup the egr ports were almost completely clogged with carbon one of the rocker arms was actually cocked over to the side a little bit and i was like that's kind of weird looks like this valve spring keeper missing and i pulled the oil pan down and once i cleaned all the sludge out of the bottom i was like there's the valve spring keeper in the bottom of the oil pan so somebody literally ran this thing into the ground just about but that's okay because it gives me an opportunity to redo it all and actually get this car justice so with the time constraints that i had as far as trying to get the original motor rebuilt and stuff it just it just wasn't gonna work out and um i got real lucky and found a crate NUMBER_TOKEN ho um that my local o'reilly auto parts was able to source so big big shout out to them it is hard to find motors in stock nowadays so that worked out really really nice so the powertrain is in my buddy joe and i are doing all the test fitting and figuring out what we got to do custom like as far as fueling cooling system lines wiring there's a lot to this swap for sure definitely more than i originally expected but it's turning out real well so without further ado let's go ahead and get started i'll show you where we're at at this moment joe's working on wrapping up the wiring harness he ended up building a custom swap harness using all factory parts we took the monte carlo's original harness and adapted it to the NUMBER_TOKEN camaro harness that i got with the tune port set up then i had to end up getting a uh ecm from a slightly newer tpi setup like a NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN or something like that that still had the mass airflow system and then i got some ecm connectors from a late first gen sNUMBER_TOKEN to make it all work into the ecm so it's a conglomerate of all sorts of stuff but it's very cool because it's all factory stuff so we're restoring and replacing as necessary and also tucking everything at the same time so taking the opportunity to do a little bit more of a custom cleaner setup than what would have been from the factory so everything up here the entire injector harness it's all tied in together and it's going to run underneath the plenum down the firewall through the firewall at the factory grommet to the ecu or ecm underneath the dash so it's going to be a very very nice setup and it won't have the rat's nest of wires and lines like it did originally this was another headache that i just wrapped up the ac and heater box that's what that giant hole in the firewall is for because you got to stick this thing in and then wheeled it up underneath the dash because that's where this section goes and it includes the heater core the evaporator the blower motor but the biggest problem is that there are seals all throughout this thing that deteriorate
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