KC Henry

Hello Everyone,

It has been a while since I have posted about Christine (my previously LS1 powered Caprice), and that is because I lost a job for a while and had to sell her stock (but STRONG running, see Sig below) LS1 to make ends meet for a bit.

Well, I have been saving my pennies and nickels and have teamed up with "Aknovaman" on here to get a LS1 replacement installed and running. And as usual he has done a great job for me!

I am on a budget so we did a stock LQ9 and got a EPS cam package from Geoff. Seems like several LS1 guys are putting out over 400 rwhp "Cam only" using his grinds, so I hope that it will do just as well in a LQ9.

Anyways, here is a short video of my LQ9 6.0L with an EPS cam (234/246 @ .050 with .602"/.607" lift on a 111 LSA) idling in Christine, before finishing up the harness and a couple other odds and ends. Driveability and Final Tune coming soon...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TZE_vsFHM

Thank you for your time.

Mudweizer

Sounds good!

KC Henry

Thank you kindly!

The car is actually much tougher sounding in person, but the cell phone microphone just can't manage it

Steve68

iTrader: (23)

Sounds great, I had Pat G, spec out a EPS cam for my 02 Z that I'm putting together, close to yours but not that much duration or LSA,

Zmg00camaross

iTrader: (11)

Sounds good have the same cam sitting in my room waiting for me to cram it in. Any dyno numbers or track times soon?

shrike

iTrader: (1)

Nice! It sounds like it wants to eat someone

gofastwclass

iTrader: (2)

Glad to see you're back on the road again, sounds nice!

KC Henry

I live in KC and the car has been in Topeka in Aknovaman's garage for a year or so while I scraped together what lil chump change I had to do it with, and so I had to mail him the current registration and license plate sticker before he is able to drive and tune it.

When he has time to complete the driveability tuning and final tuning, I think he plans to make a couple dyno pulls with it.

After Anthony (Aknovaman) is satisfied with the tune and likes how well the new set up (new engine,cam,trans, stall) is working together, then he will let me have it.

Yeah, I can't wait to hear it in person, he said the cell phone recording just doesn't do it justice. I guess it sounds pretty menacing in person.

Thank you kindly! Seems like it's getting harder and harder to keep 3 vehicles on the road on a PB&J budget these days.

nxfirebird

iTrader: (1)

congrats on having a running car again, man that boat takes up a lot of garage space! LOL

haven't been over there for a bit, need to go hear it run and see if i can pry a set of those motor mounts away from him...

KC Henry

Ya, Christine is a big ol'granny tank lol

And I agree, I like his motor mounts, very nice pieces.

Have you seen his engine run stand? It's pretty neat as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bkM...el_video_title

medici78

Awesome car!
What did you do to the valvetrain to handle the upgraded cam?

KC Henry

Thank you for the kind words.

The entire valvetrain package (cam, springs, retainers, pushrods) came from the site sponsor "EPS".

The engine also has ARP rod bolts to assist in the higher RPM operating range of the set up as well.

itsslow98

iTrader: (18)

I just made 417/389 in my ls1 fox with basically the same cam on a 112lsa. I also have an ls6 intake, slp 25% underdrive, kooks 1 3/4 into 3" true duals. I doubt you will see 400 through a TH400 but I guess it is possible since its a 6.0. My car pulls liek a freight train though Im very happy with the cam choice.

KC Henry

Seems many of the LS1 guys are making over 400+ hp to the tire with a 234/246 EPS cam. You made almost 420, and Steveo put down 436 (while running out of fuel on the high side) using a similar EPS cam as well (seen here at post# 134 https://ls1tech.com/forums/dynamomet...results-7.html).

I am hoping that the larger displacement will help offset the power-robbing TH400 and 4500 Stall.

itsslow98

iTrader: (18)

Yea man definetly. I made that with e.t. streets and 4.10s on the dyno as well. Hell I havent even ported the stock throttle body yet.

KC Henry

Any idea what kind of 1/4 mile times the EPS cam only cars are achieving ?

itsslow98

iTrader: (18)

To be honest my car was the first results ive seen froma larger EPS cam in an ls1. I havent been to the track yet but plan to go in a month or so once i get a few things straightened out.

KC Henry

I am sure it will move rather well down the track.

greenturtle05

iTrader: (6)

Glad to see you back on the road again. what headers are you running?

KC Henry

Thank you kindly!

I am reusing the headers from the previous LS1 swap, which were the cheapest Summit racing "F-Body" headers I could find... I want to say they are Headmen brand headers if I am not mistaken.