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Old 04-17-2009, 01:46 AM
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Default Lets see your LSX race engine bays and interior gauges

Post pics of your engine bays. I particularily wish to see where all the plumbing is routed, regulators, etc.

Would like to see interior gauge mounting too, have 7 total gauges and tach or shift light to install. Not certain if I want to sacrifice all three center air vents.

This 408 is going in soon


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If that is your engine setup above, get rid of that edlebrock elbow they are JUNK. But, if you had the engine on the dyno you already know that

I'll get a couple pic's up for ya this afternoon, have them on the home pc
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Not done yet but its getting there...




Much easier than all those gauges and its a data logger.

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heres some engine bay shots of mine i got my coils mounted up under the dash,i turned the factory engine harness into a stripped standalone harness and used a painless 12cicuit harness for the chassis and hid the wires in the right front fender and lower core support barely any wires are visible car has elec water pump,pinto rack and bmr alt mount,strange spindle mount brakes,coilovers,bmr k member and upper and lower control arms
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That elbow compared to a 4500 style 4 barrel is robbing u about 40-70rwhp.
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what hood is on your car?No way in **** those nitrous noids are going to clear a ws6 hood! I would go with a 4 barrel TB aswell but i'm sure raymac will play with some things.Good luck!
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what kind of numbers did make with that elbow. I'm curious because I will be running the same elbow this year.
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On the engine dyno a little over 650 naturally aspirated with a hydraulic roller valvetrain. Wanted to bolt on a smoothed out elbows.com piece which Chris had worked on but we were running out of time. There is about 25 hp left on the table with just a little more work as it is currently configured right now. With time I will be experimenting with options for more N/A power.

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Originally Posted by sr71bbjr
what hood is on your car?No way in **** those nitrous noids are going to clear a ws6 hood! I would go with a 4 barrel TB aswell but i'm sure raymac will play with some things.Good luck!
Thanks Greg, currently I have the OEM WS6 hood on it. We're going to lay the solenoids over with 90 degree fittings and see how much clearance we have. A 4 barrel TB is not out of the question.



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