Help me race my LS2
03-29-2009, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Najania
Thanks for the great help so far silverbullet, jomomma v8rumble and stu cool.
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Found out it costs "only" 2grand to buy nitto's, tci converter, lsx headders.
Originally Posted by SilverBullet73
Make sure you get a trans cooler also if you don't already have one! It will help with the extra heat the converter will cause.
Originally Posted by Stu Cool
You can see by your improved speed that the gear ratio change really helped...
Man, if you can get traction, you'll see a NICE drop in your times for sure! 
Originally Posted by Najania
I have heard the LS engines have to drive a certain amount of miles before they perform at their maximum. Is there any truth to that?
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Im gonna go with the tires for sure. I currently drive michellin pilot sport but they're at least 7years old (but amazingly still has a fair amount of tread on them)...
You might be "playing with fire" by using those tires. One of the national news networks ran a story a few months ago stating that tires that are more than six years old can be dangerous - regardless of how they look.Now even if the news networks exaggerate and/or lie a lot (and they sure as hell DO, see the small section about NBC's Dateline), I don't believe that that's something you'd want to learn about first-hand, especially at the "big end" of the track...
Good luck man!
03-30-2009, 01:06 AM
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The 2grand total for parts is without shipping and handling sadly. So I'll start with the tires. A bit disturbing to find out those old tires are dangerous. Been driving 130mph when testing the 1/4mile times and such. Thats pretty fast in a car without safety features other than seatbelts with bad tires.
03-30-2009, 04:13 AM
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nice to se another dane here... i might have a set of long tube headers that fit.... i got screwed and got sent a wrong set of headers for my swap (ls1 into 79 malibu) if you are not too far away we could test fit them before you payed a dime (krone)
pm me if your interested...
pm me if your interested...
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Hej. er fra Københavns området så burde ikke være et problem. Fedt med lidt danskere herinde. Er et godt forum jo!
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Hey there. A little update.
I have reprogrammed my tranny and built a custom CAI. I managed to get a 0-60 in 4.17 and the 1/4 was 12.66 at 110mph. The good news about the 12.66 is it hesitated to shift from 2 to 3gear for some time making my times worse. My shift rpm in 2gear are to high according to Kevin from TCI(thank you for the great help so far) so lowering that 100/200rpm would make up for that mistake.
And im still to add the DR's.
Had it weighed also. it weighs 3200 with me in it and 10 gallons of fuel.
I have reprogrammed my tranny and built a custom CAI. I managed to get a 0-60 in 4.17 and the 1/4 was 12.66 at 110mph. The good news about the 12.66 is it hesitated to shift from 2 to 3gear for some time making my times worse. My shift rpm in 2gear are to high according to Kevin from TCI(thank you for the great help so far) so lowering that 100/200rpm would make up for that mistake.
And im still to add the DR's.
Had it weighed also. it weighs 3200 with me in it and 10 gallons of fuel.
