Thanks! Those are edelbrock headers.

 

edelbrock 65173's?

 

No 65733 or 65732. They are the same shorty header only with different finishes. It is for 00-02 F-body so since I have a 98 engine the only difference was the EGR location I think.

 

So I have decided to change from the Hinson Torque arm to the Samberg Rear diff brace. I should be installing that soon.

I have also decided to go with some PRC stage 2.5 LS6 heads and an LS6 intake. As soon as I source everything I will update this thread with the installs.

 

wow thats sexy, not a fan of yellow but FD's really pull it off, very nice work

 

Looks , sounds and must be amazing! Very nice build, pics and info. You got your self a little supercar..lol

 

Thanks guys!!!!

 

gotta get some videos up of this thing rolling!

 

I was not sure if I should make another thread or just add on to this one. I guess it is still the same build so here goes.

In the quest for more power I decided to go with some TSP PRC stage 2.5 ported 5.3L heads and an LS6 intake. I think these will work well with the TSP 228R cam. I also got some Z06 FRC that I am going to fill and have painted gloss black.

Precision Race Components stage 2.5 heads
LS6 Intake
Z06 Fuel Rail Covers

 

INTAKE REMOVAL

I am not going to go into much detail on this and just let the pictures do the talking.

Before:




After:




The good news is it only took me 45 minutes to take the intake manifold off. The bad news is I broke the oil sending unit at the back of the motor behind the intake. Ahh well.



Water Pump & Power Steering

Drained the coolant and removed the water pump so I could get at the bolts to remove the power steering reservoir. Two of the bolts were a pain to reach and took 20 minutes of slowly wrenching them off. Little things like valve covers and rockers/pushrods were also removed.




Passenger Side Head

Most of removing the passenger side head was not bad. The lower head bolts were hard to get to because of the headers in the way but the biggest pain was the bolt behind the head that held the dip stick to it. 3 hours of trying to get one damn bolt off. Sore back, wrist and knees but the damn thing is off now.







Driver's Side Head

Thanks to a buddy who came to help for a couple of hours today I was able to get the driver's side head off. We had to take the header off to get to all the bolts.








LS6 INTAKE MODIFICATION


You can see that the LS1 intake on the left has a contoured bottom where as the LS6 intake on the right is flat. This creates a problem because there are coolant lines in the valey right under the intake on the LS1 motor unlike on the LS6.




There are two solutions to this problem. The first is to buy the coolant lines that came on LS6 equiped cars. The second solution is to cut off the tabs/grid on the bottom of the LS6 intake to make room for the LS1 coolant lines. That is what I did...






Matte Red LS6 Intake

This took several days of prep, spray and curing. It was a pain in the *** but I think it turned out pretty good.




PRC Stage 2.5 Ported 5.3L Head Install

These went on a lot smoother than I thought they would except for 2 things. It was hard to install one of the bolts due to the fact that it was so long and the brake booster was in the way. The second issue is if anyone has ever installed heads before they know the amount of effort it takes to tighten the bolts. A couple of bolts where room is limited were especially hard. My back is killing...














Push Rods and Rockers installed...







Power steering pump and water pump installed. Starting to look a bit like a motor again.

 

VALVE COVERS and COIL Brackets

Nothing exciting here. Because the aftermarket heads use a center bolt design and my stock LS1 heads are perimeter bolts I had to get some new valve covers and coil brackets. Picked up some used ones in great condition other than being VERY dirty.

This first pic is after about an hour of cleaning...




After some sanding....




And the final product after painting with some VHT high temp flat black...

 

DONE!

I still have to clean up the wires and do some minor things but the heads and intake are on and the car runs.






Next is to finish up the fuel rail covers and also install the rear diff brace that will replace the torque arm.

 

im building one of these too....looking good.

 

video and smokey tire pics asap and thank you haha

 

Now that the heads are on I could finish up tucking the wires and hoses enough to finish modifying the Fuel Rail covers. After some more trimming and sanding I got them to fit.





Next is to get the Corvette letters filled and paint the covers black.

 

Nice work.

 

Thanks!

 

Just getting the final touches done. The car is 99% complete now.

I got the fuel reail covers back from paint. The "CORVETTE" lettering was filled in and got them painted golss black. I am thinking I may pinstripe the lines and 5.7L is yellow for some contrast but not sure.

 

Amazing car, one of the best looking swapped RX7's I've seen!

 

damn none of the pics work anymore besides a few here and there and last few posted on this page
Car looks great tho, nice work, that yellow really makes it stand out nicely