My 2010 Sport

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My brother got me some purge plugs for christmas so I tried them out boxing day and finish welded the mid pipe. Ironically I still had to use foil on 2 ends since I only had two 3" plugs.


A view of the cutting and BFH'ing required for the sikky swap kit and a TR6060 manual transmission. The cut at the top of the transmission tunnel was needed to clear the larger bell housing, I have a template to cut some caps for the holes. The secondary fire walls need some massaging for the heads and the OEM coil pack's & brackets.


One of the rocker arm mounting points got stripped out when whatever went down, went down. I did re-tap for a helicoil but I managed to **** that up and didn't get the 2 inserts aligned properly. The insert at the bottom of the hole caught on the valve spring compressor bolt, so now I have to hope I can EZ out the helicoils.


Comparing the new BTR dual springs & Ti retainers to the unknown beehive springs and steel retainers. I think the old stuff was from Howard since it had a cam and push rods from them.


I decided to remove the other cylinder head and continue on changing the valve springs. The BTR shaft rocker conversion and Summit HDR push rods went in with a new OEM head gasket. There's a million reviews for each style but after seeing the bronze bushings I pressed out worn and shot to ****, I am glad the BTR kit uses needle bearings.


Tools wise I used the Trick flow valve spring compressor (p/n 90307) and Summit trunnion bearing installation kit (p/n SME-906011), I know you can do this with sockets but having the stop built into the tool so you don't press the bushing too far in made this so easy.

Wiring specialties wired up a 4 pin alternator connector even though I specified everything was from a 2011 Camaro. Waiting on their reply as to my options for converting to a 2 pin, if it ends up a pain in the *** I'll just buy a 4 pin regulator/brush holder and swap that out.

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