1972 Nova LQ9 swap
08-27-2013, 11:14 AM
#242
No, not yet. I have been waiting for it to stop raining every single day! Now that the weather seems to be backing off a little and the temps are dropping I need to get my butt into gear. May drop the slicks off today and have them mounted. We have a cruise in the weekend after next so I am going to leave the car as is until then. After that some slight modifications will be made to prep for some racing.
Have you remedied the fuel vapor issues? I have a slight odor coming from mine but nothing too bad. Do you have any leaks? Are you running braided line anywhere in your fuel system? If so you might want to replace it with some teflon-lined braided to prevent the odors.
Have you remedied the fuel vapor issues? I have a slight odor coming from mine but nothing too bad. Do you have any leaks? Are you running braided line anywhere in your fuel system? If so you might want to replace it with some teflon-lined braided to prevent the odors.
08-27-2013, 05:09 PM
#243
No, not yet. I have been waiting for it to stop raining every single day! Now that the weather seems to be backing off a little and the temps are dropping I need to get my butt into gear. May drop the slicks off today and have them mounted. We have a cruise in the weekend after next so I am going to leave the car as is until then. After that some slight modifications will be made to prep for some racing.
Have you remedied the fuel vapor issues? I have a slight odor coming from mine but nothing too bad. Do you have any leaks? Are you running braided line anywhere in your fuel system? If so you might want to replace it with some teflon-lined braided to prevent the odors.
Have you remedied the fuel vapor issues? I have a slight odor coming from mine but nothing too bad. Do you have any leaks? Are you running braided line anywhere in your fuel system? If so you might want to replace it with some teflon-lined braided to prevent the odors.
I am also considering a new fuel tank. I might try a EFI camaro tank & get a nova filler neck welded on. I think my fuel gauge is not working & I want to replace everything from the tank, lines, & gauge.
I only have a short piece of braided line, but I am going to replace that too.
08-27-2013, 06:03 PM
#244
Hit up Tanks Inc. and see if you can get their slow *** on a replacement EFI tank. I have their EFI tank and it works great. They told me about a year ago they were going to look into the Nova's. Hopefully they have something that will work for you. Aeromotive has a drop in assembly that should work if Tanks Inc. is dragging their butt. I wouldn't use regular braided line as it will definitely seep fuel through it. Teflon is the way to go! I used OEM style fuel line and have minute fuel odors. I think the fuel I smell is coming from the cap itself. It does a good job from creating a vacuum inside the tank but does tend to leave me a slight fuel odor. I actually have a positive pressure when I relieve the cap. It will almost blow the cap off when I crack it open. This is my second cap with the same results.
09-09-2013, 09:03 PM
#246
Im also just starting an ls swap on my 68 Camaro I was just curious as to what fuel pump you were running and if running o2 sensors were required when running the psi stand alone harness?
09-11-2013, 02:49 PM
#251
Not sure where crosstraining is but I will answer the question for him. Yes he is running a Corvette regulator/filter. See post #204 for a pic.
Usually you add spacers to the water pump when you are running a truck crank pulley with a car water pump. The truck setup sticks out the most, the Camaro/GTO are shorter but the Corvette has the tightest FEAD(front engine accessory drives). I run an F-body crank pulley with a GTO water pump, and a Corvette alt. and bracket. I had to space the alt. bracket away from the engine to keep the belt in line. Hope that makes sense to ya.
I saw you had to use spacers for the water pump. I was curious why you had to add them. Thanks Tommy
09-11-2013, 07:42 PM
#252
Thanks TSnow I appreciate the help. Do you know what headers hes running? Im going to use the mounts that put the ls1 in factory small block location. I was looking in the summit catalog and only saw one set listed. There has to be more than that available lol
09-12-2013, 12:43 PM
#255
Are you running dual electric fans? And I was reading psi's manual on there t56/turbo 400 harness and it said you have to run a maf sensor and vehicle speed sensor. Are you running either of those?
09-17-2013, 04:01 PM
#258
Not sure where crosstraining is but I will answer the question for him. Yes he is running a Corvette regulator/filter. See post #204 for a pic.
Usually you add spacers to the water pump when you are running a truck crank pulley with a car water pump. The truck setup sticks out the most, the Camaro/GTO are shorter but the Corvette has the tightest FEAD(front engine accessory drives). I run an F-body crank pulley with a GTO water pump, and a Corvette alt. and bracket. I had to space the alt. bracket away from the engine to keep the belt in line. Hope that makes sense to ya.
Usually you add spacers to the water pump when you are running a truck crank pulley with a car water pump. The truck setup sticks out the most, the Camaro/GTO are shorter but the Corvette has the tightest FEAD(front engine accessory drives). I run an F-body crank pulley with a GTO water pump, and a Corvette alt. and bracket. I had to space the alt. bracket away from the engine to keep the belt in line. Hope that makes sense to ya.