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Hell yeah that's awesome, I will check those out if the lower won't work. Do you have any idea about the upper radiator hose? I downloaded the Gates hose guide to dig through but if you've found anything...
Hmmm if a hose can't be found you could always go with a silicone 90 off the radiator use a piece of aluminum pipe and a straight silicone off the water pump to get it to where you need to and then get the pipe coated afterwards. Just a thought tho
Power Steering lines mocked up and will build them appropriately out of the correct hardware. Just need to get some proper fittings and see if I can make some nice crimped lines or I'll just get the adapters and a pre-made fragola hose or something, not sure yet.
A couple of pictures showing how close the coil pack is to the HVAC box, just a bit of cleanup required but we will see if it hits when the vehicle is in motion, etc.
PSI harness is in, unfortunately it's just an inch or so too short and it's tight running it like the factory harness was run. Might have to drill a hole somewhere but not sure there is really any room around the HVAC components to do so. Literally if they would have made the harness just a couple of inches longer it would have so much more breathing room. Going to see what I can do with this but everything is plugging in right now for the most part... Oh yeah Gates 20893 fit great for the top coolant hose, just needed a bit of trimming on one end.
Going to get after these two OEM harnesses, found some diagrams to go through and see if there is anything that I need out of these two harnesses. At first glance it looks like they integrated some power/body stuff into the PCM harness so I might have to strip that out of the harness and reloom but we will see. Obviously I'm not going to need a majority of this...
Finally got it all started up! I was just happy that the engine wasn't making any bad noises since this was a used engine and I had no way to verify everything was good. Still have a lot of things to finish up before it's mobile but I'm starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Finally got it all started up! I was just happy that the engine wasn't making any bad noises since this was a used engine and I had no way to verify everything was good. Still have a lot of things to finish up before it's mobile but I'm starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
From: Montgomery (Lake Conroe,) TX north of Houston
NicD, congratulations on getting the engine started!
In one of your pictures in post #23 you talk about the HVAC box needing some clearancing to avoid contact with the coil. My LS427/570 swap in my 1987 IROC is running into the same thing. I'll either need to spend some time with a file or just use my die grinder with a carbide burr and grind that box down.
Awesome Nic. Post more pics please. Especially interested in seeing final engine bay pics. What did you do for exhaust? It’s very tite under these cars.
From: Montgomery (Lake Conroe,) TX north of Houston
Originally Posted by Che70velle
Awesome Nic. Post more pics please. Especially interested in seeing final engine bay pics. What did you do for exhaust? It’s very tite under these cars.
Awesome Nic. Post more pics please. Especially interested in seeing final engine bay pics. What did you do for exhaust? It’s very tite under these cars.
Well the exhaust is kind of a cluster. I originally put on the standard Magnaflow exhaust kit on the car back when it had the original engine in it so I'm going to keep that back portion and just build a 3" y-pipe to fit up to it. The Hawks swap headers came with a y-pipe but I've had to cut it up to get it to fit and then I'm going to have the guys at the shop just build the rest to mate it up. It's TIGHT under there for sure, and with the torque arm setup and 3" driveshaft there is hardly any room but I think I can snake it above the cross bar for the torque arm. I'll try and grab some pictures in the next day or two.
I got the shifter cable/bracket in place so that's all done and got a driveshaft built locally with a slip joint in it and adapters to mount up to the 10L80. This thing is getting really close to being mobile, need to finish up some wiring but it's almost ready for it's maiden voyage.
I also started working on the exhaust and chopping up the y-pipe that came with the swap headers. It didn't really fit at all so I'm going to have that part fabbed up but in the mean time I've got the rear portion coming forward going over the torque arm mount crossbar and just kind of fitting things up.
The car made it's first drive, open headers and all! I ended up putting in the Dakota Digital RTX gauge cluster as well, so easy to just grab the data over CAN and wire in the relevant warning lights, etc. So here is a quick video of that...
Also what the under hood looks like right now, still have to finish up a cold air intake of some sorts and clean up some wiring but it's getting there!
The car made it's first drive, open headers and all! I ended up putting in the Dakota Digital RTX gauge cluster as well, so easy to just grab the data over CAN and wire in the relevant warning lights, etc. So here is a quick video of that...
Also what the under hood looks like right now, still have to finish up a cold air intake of some sorts and clean up some wiring but it's getting there!
Car sounds like it drives fairly smooth already! Congrats on the first drive. That gauge cluster looks really slick too. You did a killer job on it and in a short period of time
NIC, as mentioned ..... a VERY NICE JOB!! you mentioned in the beginning that it would be a driver... does this mean that you will deal with AZ emissions? i daily drive my red '86 C10 (gilbert/chandler area) and it took a few tries to get to pass
(2013 Gen IV 5.3 truck engine) also curious about what you are thinking to do on the tune for your engine? granted you will tune it, just wondering what you have in mind? ....
NIC, as mentioned ..... a VERY NICE JOB!! you mentioned in the beginning that it would be a driver... does this mean that you will deal with AZ emissions? i daily drive my red '86 C10 (gilbert/chandler area) and it took a few tries to get to pass
(2013 Gen IV 5.3 truck engine) also curious about what you are thinking to do on the tune for your engine? granted you will tune it, just wondering what you have in mind? ....
Thanks! It's currently under collector car insurance so no emissions requirements. I'll tune it on the dyno and just get the air/fuel dialed in and see what kind of timing I can get into it but it's basically like any other bolt on Gen6 Camaro at that point. Since I'm into the TCM I will obviously do the standard type of stuff like shortening the shift times, minor line pressure increases, etc as well.
So the factory electric fans are total garbage, no shroud what so ever and they don't move much air at all. I had access to a used C7 Z06 fan/shroud assembly so I figured out how to mount it up to the radiator using the original bottom fan mounting tray and bolted it directly to the upper part of the radiator. I just cut two slots in the middle of the C7 fan shroud so it could drop down on top of the existing OEM fan mounting tray and slightly sanded down the outside portion of the C7 shroud where the two outside tabs were so it literally sandwiches in between and holds it nice and tight. The upper I just drilled a hole in the top part of the radiator rail to mount it directly to the top. The OEM radiator mount assembly I just cut off the center portion to give clearance and bolted it down. No it doesn't cover the entire core but it doesn't need to and is going to be WAY more effective than the original fan setup and now I have PWM control over a nice brushless fan with the computer.
Then I brought it down to the shop to have our Fab guy mate up the exhaust to the existing Magnaflow catback. It's tight under there for sure, but there is enough clearance around everything and it doesn't move much at all so it's good to go now. There is no way that the included y-pipe assembly that came with these swap headers was going to fit.
Here is a quick video just throwing a few revs after the exhaust setup was completed. I'll do a longer video later on after I finish up a few more things but it sounds great and it's a LONG ways away from the old 305 boat anchor that was in there.
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Brings back memories of my 86 IROC. Congrats on a job well done.