why would you think something like that?

camaro is doing fine , sure it transmissionless but still fine

i've just been bust with work and other stuff so thats why i haven't been posting much.

in other news , i got the seats back from the upholsterer and i am all smiles ! they did a great job on redoing them in black leather (sorry didn't have the camera with me so no pics for now ). i also got a new throttle cable made which is shorter than the 6 mile one i had on the car , i got that in and re routed it and now i have a lighter pedal feel

i'm still messing with the harness trying to figure out why the temp and rpm guage don't work, no progress there


so next up is to fix the guages ( and put the interior back in ) take it to the upholsterers to get the rear shelf carpet made , then i have take it to get an stero/nav. system installed, and by then the new decklid should be here so that will be installed and its off to get it as well as the rear bumper painted

another thing i have to adress is the cold idle tune , the car has problems holding idle when really cold , i should have went with a smaller cam but nooooo, i had to put the camaro's old cam in and hope it idled fine at 700 rpm )

 

not much done , but i did get the seats in





other than that , not much to report . i have to just find an hour or so that i can dedicate entierly to tracing the wires on the harness, and hopefully that will end the cluster dilema. ( marky552 where are you ?? )

i might take her out for a spin some time these days , just to see how it fairs on longer outings

 

Stop at the car wash!

 

your pictures always make me glad to live somewhere, umm, not sandy!

 

loooooool! its part location , and part because of this stupid camera that seems to automatically put dust in every picture ; guess you can say it has a "dust filter"

in other news, the GT2 wing should "hopefully" be here next week

 

well i just came back from the first real trip for this car i drove the car from where it was to my place for a total of about 15 miles

happy to report no major incidences , the thing was a blast to drive !
temps never went above 160 even though i floored it a few times . the thing pulls great and smooth (even though it was not tuned for WOT) . the cool part is thing is that the car feels like it has oodles of torque because of how tight the trany is geared and the v8 - it accelerated real nice in 6th from 70mph , and power slides are nooooo problem

i still have to tune for cold idle ( it has issues ) , and the oil cap breather was dripping oil so i have to figure out some sort of bafeling or relocate it to a catch can. another thing i noticed is the car is a bit loud for what i want inside the cab, but its not a fair conclusion sice the rear shelf was still exposed and some of the panels were not on. adding sound deadener and a carpet should cut it down considerably .

so ,,, i guess its time to scratch one more milestone from the list

 

While I am dropping an l33 in a 4runner this makes me sad. I have a Cayman S and that 996 really is a brilliant car and had a brilliant motor. But it will be pretty quick none the less.

 

so without going through 38 pages, whats the up date? any pictures or videos? That might be the badest lsx swap iv heard of.

 

loool thanks guys .

this should sum up where i'm at right now



the car is resting peacefully in its new garage , it runs and drives good ( needs to be tuned ) , ac needs to be hooked up ( not a priority in winter ) , i have to finish wiring the RPM and temp guages , and swap the decklid ,,,, speaking of the decklid , look what showed up :







i also ordered the rocker panel thingies ( i have one missing and the other one is not in such a good shape.
like i said , its a bit slow right now cause i'm in the middle of a move and work has just been pouring on me , so bare with me for a couple of weeks untill things settle down.

 

Is it odd I want those lights in your garage? I have to ask where are you?

 

by his plate on the car, im gonna say somewhere in the middle east...

 

looool lets not stray from the subject of the thread

i'm located in Riyadh , Saudi arabia

i'm sure you can get them in the states, i'll get you their name and part number soon .

 

I love this car! Hopefully you'll be able to complete it soon..

 

Middle East was a given. I spent some time in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, was just curious. Should you happen to run across that part number I would appreciate it. I need better mood lighting for my car at night.

 

stumbled across this tread about two hours ago, and couldn't stop reading. Makes me feel like going into the garage to start a project. great build, skill, determination, and motivation.

 

dangggg i want it

 

Theres no more pages to read
subscribed!

 

more updates i guess , i drove the car back to the shop last night to work on it ( well that was the excuse i gave my self , i just wanted to drive it ) .

from that drive i got a better feel for the car ; i like how it pulls in any gear , but hate how stiff the gas pedal is ( i have to do something about it ) , i also hate that i can't read the RPM nor the coolant temp !!!! ) . i also noticed that the engine will raise its idle to about 1500 or so rpm every now and then for a few seconds just like a vacuume leak, i'm guessing its the gas tank purge solinoide venting - i have it connected to the intake- and causing it to surge , will take care of that soon

any how , so the car is at the shop waiting to be tuned ( will be disconecting the front driveshaft so i can dyno tune the thing = donut time ), so while it was there i decided to install the GT2 wing on there. well a few minutes of messing with it and tada !!!:







only problem i have now is getting it to close - the thing just won't latch in ! i had that issue with the stock deck lid and it took me forever to get it to close , so i decided to quit and make it the body shop's problem

speaking of body shops, the rocker panels should be here any day now , and as soon as they are in and on the car , its off to get the parts painted

i also spent some quality time on the stupid wiring on this car , and i still can't get the RPM nor the coolant temp to work. i though that the CAN signal wires were not connected after swapping to the new harness but after verifying it turns out they were.

i guess next up i'll have to remove the porsche coolant temp sensor and check whether the wires are still ok on that end . as for the RPM wires , i'm am just as confused as i was when i started. it just doesn't make sense

so , next up on the to-do list:

- disconncet driveshaft and dyno tune
- do a few "test" donuts
- install rocker panels
- redo tank vent and plug intake port
- relocate the oil cap breather to some where else ( don't like how goofy it looks , so i'll plug it and use the valve cover ports to vent to a seperate catch can or something like that.
- more quality time with the harness

 

hurry up damn it

 

Very Cool swap!

What color are you going to paint it?

Last, but certainly not least........... If you can, would Please film the donuts?