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Dec 31, 2008 | 12:36 PM

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car progress

For those of you that don't know, i bought a nice package from speed inc. its well on its way to being done. :-) here are some pix for those of you that have been curious.

this is after cleaning the engine bay up a little bit.

accessories and what not pulled off

heads and intake off

inside the cylinder. they are smooth as ****!

underside of the car

shifter and what-not out

new LS2 flywheel

clutch in

old clutch/flywheel/pressure plate (can you tell i drive it hard?)

LS7 clutch on the left. Stock on the right.

rear coming down

rear on the ground

rear end on the ground. DTE Brace installed

new heads and headers in place (not bolted in)

i'm just waiting on a couple miscellaneous things and the car will be done. :-) can't wait to get the PCM back from Speed Inc (mail order tune. it is their SI5 cam. figured they'd know how to tune it best) and get this thing started!

new pix

new video
Www.YouTube.com/watch?v=x3-n7w07CZc
Www.YouTube.com/watch?v=LIYzMJYP8_I

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Dec 31, 2008 | 02:12 PM

scramblerman

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looks like it is coming along really good.
How was it to drop the rear and the torque tube from the vette? Pretty straight forward?
Looking to do a clutch, heads, and hardened output shafts eventually on my vette.

Dec 31, 2008 | 03:18 PM

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everything went smoothly except getting the bellhousing off. the clutch wouldn't go in through that opening.

Dec 31, 2008 | 03:54 PM

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Lol man you should have asked!!! you dont have to remove the bellhousing all you have to do is tap in the dowel pins a bit and it slides right in i just did mine last month..

Dec 31, 2008 | 08:50 PM

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it looks like fun, i will more than likely be tackling this in the future. so u really don't have to take the bell housing at all?

Dec 31, 2008 | 09:13 PM

y2kc5

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nope let me know if ya need some help

Dec 31, 2008 | 09:23 PM

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where in chicago r u located y2kc5? im located in the south side

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Dec 31, 2008 | 09:35 PM

CHIWS6

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i'm not that far south, i'm 10 mins north of midway. ur closer to scramblerman. how long did it take u to do the clutch? was it ur 1st time? any special tools needed to take it off?

Dec 31, 2008 | 09:42 PM

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It wasnt that bad just make sure you have it up high enough and have a good trans jack strong enough for the trans /diff and torque tube to come out... It was my first on a c5 so it looked pretty scary could have done it in an afternoon but i ended up doing heads /cam install along with it..

Jan 1, 2009 | 10:43 AM

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Lol man you should have asked!!! you dont have to remove the bellhousing all you have to do is tap in the dowel pins a bit and it slides right in i just did mine last month..

The dowel pins on the LS2 flywheel? I guess that makes sense. It was why the disc and plate wouldn't go up. I'll keep that in mind. Those bellhousing bolts made my top 5 list of PITFA bolts to get to. Right along with the Trans dipstick tube bolt on the back of pass. head (F-body).

Jan 5, 2009 | 08:53 PM

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Did you pull the pins out or hammer them in?

Feb 1, 2009 | 02:26 PM

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first start up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3-n7w07CZc

Feb 2, 2009 | 07:01 AM

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Wow, I was expecting at least one response from tech! Haha. I got 2 pages on a mustang board!

Feb 2, 2009 | 05:16 PM

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more teaser video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIYzMJYP8_I

Feb 2, 2009 | 05:24 PM

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new pix and video added to first post

Feb 3, 2009 | 10:33 AM

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Nice. My setup is almost the same, except no Fast intake and slightly smaller cam. A lot better than stock.

Did you drive around without mufflers? Sounds great but makes your ears ring after a while.