'01 Z28 donor - LS1 RWD HHR Panel
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The exhaust system is beginning this week. Stock Camaro cats, 2 1/2" mandrel bends and straight tubing. Quick Time electric oval cut outs and side exhaust in front of the rear wheels.
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The car car is moving under it’s own power now, still some things to sort out. It’s in the paint shop now getting some of the
battle damage repaired. Hopefully it will be ready to take out on the road soon.
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Alwhite00 (03-27-2023)
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DONE.....Sort of
The car is running and driving under it’s own power. Of the hundreds of things that could have gone wrong, dozens did. It’s got a vacuum leak that I can’t find and I need to change the MAP from a 2 bar to a 3 bar. I’m having difficulty finding someone that wants to help me chase down the problems. All of the LSX tuners that I have found here in SoCal only want to hook it up to HPTuners and play on their laptops. If there are any mechanical problems with the car they aren’t interested in it. Oh well, I’ll keep looking.
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Tuners aren't mechanics. Find a good mechanic who is up on things and you will be happy.
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Crazy cool build I have a 2011 LT2 HHR 😁.
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OK so I went a little nuts. I removed the LSA setup and replaced it with a BDS 871. The blower was pretty much a bolt-on
except for having to machine an adapter for mating the Innovators West harmonic balancer to the blower crank pulley.
The biggest job was re-routing almost all the underhood wiring, removing an 18” section of the cowl and cutting a 7”x18”
rectangle out of the bottom of th windshield. (Ala-Funny Car) I’ve got a local water jet company working with me on cutting
the glass. So far no luck on cutting the windshield without it breaking, so far we’ve broken 2. I’ve got an idea on how to do this
without breaking it. When it works I’ll let you know how we did it.
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transam5.7lt1 (03-12-2020)
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When it’s running post up some videos so we can hear it.
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OK so I went a little nuts. I removed the LSA setup and replaced it with a BDS 871. The blower was pretty much a bolt-on
except for having to machine an adapter for mating the Innovators West harmonic balancer to the blower crank pulley.
The biggest job was re-routing almost all the underhood wiring, removing an 18” section of the cowl and cutting a 7”x18”
rectangle out of the bottom of th windshield. (Ala-Funny Car) I’ve got a local water jet company working with me on cutting
the glass. So far no luck on cutting the windshield without it breaking, so far we’ve broken 2. I’ve got an idea on how to do this
without breaking it. When it works I’ll let you know how we did it.