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got the heads back today, bolted em up and set the valve covers on just for a teaser, i HAVE to get an intake! its going to look sick with a car intake sitting on top!

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found this water pump and crank pulley at the swap meet this morning, $55 for both, pump looks brand new, not sure what they came from though, take a look at the part numbers




this is the # on the pump
12568916

and the crank pulley, its quite a bit smaller than my truck pulley
heres the # on it
12601402

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Ok looks like the pump is from a LS2 , but still not sure on the pulley. Another member said it was from an LS327 iron block.will it work with this water pump? If so I just got a good jump on the car front acc!

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Looks like some good parts, so your going to run LS1 intake. Its looking good, coming together , good job.

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Ls1 or ls6 not sure yet. Thanks for the compliments omc8.

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whats the diff in mounting points of f body p/s pump and gto p/s pump?

figured it out, diff reservoir

started smoothing out the firewall also, ready for some bondo now.

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Torqued down the rockers today, preload is about 1 3/4 turns. Dummied up the acc just to see how it looked. Still not sure if I'm going with car or truck acc? Best news is I'm picking up an intake tomorrow, going to good guys first and then meeting a guy for the intake. $75 bare, not bad but also not as good as some of the so called $40-$50 intakes sold on here (still haven't seen one). Will post up some pics of the engine with the intake tomorrow.

99firebird-ta

looking good

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Got the intake yesterday , Im thinking about painting it red

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Im in the market to buy an F body oil pan if anybody has one, preferably in the DFW area. No progress on the motor or car as im out of town working until Friday. My rear diff is ready to be picked up from the powder coat shop so I'll post up some pics of that Friday when I get it. Hopefully I'll get to catch a swap meet this weekend, if not im planning on working on finishing smoothing out the firewall.

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What swap meet are you going too? I see that there is one over by Wichita Falls in Burkburnett or Canton. Both kinda far.

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thinking about canton but just found out "we" are going to a wedding. woohoo, not. where in the dfw area are you located Chadsin?

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North Fort Worth close to Cabelas

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I am doing a mustang LS conversion right now. It's pretty much done actually. At any rate if you need a tuner, let me know, my Brother in law is the best in DFW. PM me and I will get you his info. He is also on this site, he has a Turbo 6.0 LSX mustang notchback (Orange and Silver), many will know who I am talking about. Good luck with your conversion, I have had to make lots of parts, been fun, but a lot of work!

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Awesome^, thanks for the info eventually I will need a tuner. Got the rear end back today from the powder coat shop. Looks good

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Looking for some input on the timing chain, mine has 68k on it, stock. Since I'm not going crazy with my engine, just the cam swap, do I NEED to swap in a LS2 chain and gear set or will the stock stuff suffice? If I do swap it out how difficult is it to remove the crank gear ?

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Big thanks to tyler99 for the great deal on the tsp ls6 ported oil pump. Can't wait to slap her on! Also picked up a f body crank pulley today. Hope to make some progress when I get back in town.

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i figured while i wait on my oil pump to get here i could go ahead and get the rest of the front acc cleaned up, decided to paint them all black. heres the water pump dummied up, should have the tensioner and balancer done up tomorrow.

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Started on the intake, alternator and bracket. intake still needs a couple of coats but you get the idea. I plan on drilling the second hole in the block for the alternator bracket tomorrow.

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Heres some more pics from today, went ahead and drilled and tapped the 2nd alternator hole and got it mounted. once i got it on i realized that the water pump i have (that i thought was gto pump) is actually a vette pump! GREAT i just sold the vette balancer that i had! But looking at the front of the pump i think i can pull the pulley out enough to get it to line up with the alternator. The intake still needs a couple more coats of paint but i ran out. Oil pumps supposed to show up monday so i can it put on and tie up the front cover and install the balancer.