im making build threads everywhere, might as well do one here.

the car


Last pics of the old powerplant




out:

tunnel pounding, beginnings of engine bay wiring (removed entire chassis harness)


interior wiring beginning


aaaand the motor.



tonight begins the teardown.

 

great thread man! gotta love a corvette powerplant

 

ummmm wow dude lol

 

my buddy just finished his ls1 rx7. all i can say to you is hold on lol.
good luck on the build

 

 

wowie

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by jdmjeff &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">great thread man! gotta love a corvette powerplant </TD></TR></TABLE> well actually f-body ls1 but close. should be a fun project. can't wait to see progress.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDMorgan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> well actually f-body ls1 but close. should be a fun project. can't wait to see progress.</TD></TR></TABLE>

close enough

z06 manifold going on, upgraded cam going in. so its as much of a vette ls1 as it is a fbody ls1 at this point

 

finally opened her up tonight, so far so good. lots of varnish in oil areas but no sludge. all water passages look amazing. no signs of corrosion or anything. water and oil pumps look good. gonna do a Katech oil pump tho. cheap insurance.

 

Thanks for driving up the cost of LS1 swaps

Looks good!!! Put some heads on there too. If you need any help, let me know. I did a LS6 swap into a FC

 

na, dont need heads. i have a "low" power goal of 400whp, which is totally attainable on stock heads.

that and im broke. 2k for heads is NOT in my budget at the moment haha.

if i have any specific LSx questions, ill find you thanks

 

Ahh, very nice.

What cam you going with? You reflashing the ECU or tuning it?

 

im going with a thunder racing grind, 230ish duration, .580 lift, 110 lsa (edit: actually wound up going with a fully custom grind. low duration and high lift. kept the 110lsa tho)

nice and lopey hehe

im going with a full tune. i have some specific requests since its a track only car (like GIANT FIREBALLS SHOOTING FROM MY SIDE EXHAUSTS mwhahaha)


Modified by Kamin at 10:27 PM 8/27/2007

 

NOICE!!!!!!

 

you should mill the heads a bit and see how much compression you can get out of a stock motor. ahah. what accessories are you going to be running? just alternator? what headers?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDMorgan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you should mill the heads a bit and see how much compression you can get out of a stock motor. ahah. what accessories are you going to be running? just alternator? what headers?</TD></TR></TABLE>
no no no, you damn honda kids and youre compression

i dont need to do any of that! lol not touching compression because i HAVE to keep this thing track-able on pump gas.

and im gonna have to be modifying some off the shelf shorty headers, or building my own long tubes. thats the worst part of the ls1+240sx swap.

 

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no no no, you damn honda kids and youre compression
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lol..

i love long tubes.. use to have some on my old mustang... build em kamin!!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kamin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">and im gonna have to be modifying some off the shelf shorty headers, or building my own long tubes. thats the worst part of the ls1+240sx swap. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Build long tubes. shortys on a good breaing motor like a LS1 suck.

The long tubes on the FC:

 

TTT

 

id love to build them, i just dont have a tig welder to do it haha.

my mig welder sucks. im not ugly-*** mig welding my headers. its bad enough i have to do it to my crossmember.

 

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kamin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">id love to build them, i just dont have a tig welder to do it haha.

my mig welder sucks. im not ugly-*** mig welding my headers. its bad enough i have to do it to my crossmember. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Take it then bring it to be TIG welded

You know you want more power the long tubes

 

i might tack everything together then have it tig'd

but i dont like paying for something i can do myself.

i spent several hours today notching and reinforcing my crossmember today. pictures tommrow welds look like *** but they will hold together haha. 110v gasless mig welders SUCK.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Kamin &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> 110v gasless mig welders SUCK. </TD></TR></TABLE>



What brand is it? I converted mine a while back for like $20.

TIG just looks so much better

 

dont remember brand (its my work's welder. just an "oh **** we need to fix this" welder) there is a gas conversion for $50 we found but again, im broke

and it works. just ugly haha.