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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 08:13 PM
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Default R.P.M LT1 Build.....
well its FINNALY gotten further than collecting dust in the shop. Still need to finish the strange brakes and a few other things... Im gonna try to do that tomorrow and monday.... but here are some pix.... i know most of you will be shocked to see it actually moved....





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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 08:33 PM
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haha..i felt a lil tingle sensation in my left arm for a sec after seeing this...great to see your getting that car back together fran
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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 08:39 PM
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car looks great I can't wait to see it finished.
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Old Nov 10, 2007 | 09:40 PM
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Looks good fran Looking forward to seeing it on the street
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That should fly!!
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Looks liek a sick motor. question though is that the distributor in the front? If so how come not in the back like most chevy's??
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Unless he did a conversion, LT1's do not flow coolant through the intake, in front is the Thermostat for a SBC GEN 1.

On LT1's in the back of the lifter valley, towards the passanger side is the whole for the gear drive, it looks like the bottom half of a distributor wich rides on the cam shaft and a rod goes down to the oil pump.

What he did was remove that idler peice and just put a real distributor in there and ditched the opti. Now it can rev past 7k with out issue.
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Sorry I guess I worded that totally wrong I see where his distributor is but in the front of the intake manifold I thought that was another distributor hole since the water pump has the thermostat houseing not ever thinking that that was originally the thermostat housing lol my b
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Nah no biggie, I had to look twice and I'm rebuilding my 383 LT1 this week lol. I looked under the hole and saw gap and there was no hole for the distributor. Just a brace.
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Looks good Fran. You're right on my tail with your install.
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one more pic added.... ill add more as the progress continues....
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bought time Fran
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bought time Fran


yeah its alittle easier with another person here now but now i just have twice as many cars haha......
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OMG I never thought Id see this day...
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haha well beleive it.... i just ordered my madman rack and it will be here on friday... so i know what im doing on sat. i posted one more pic of it all back together now....
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I just wanna see some street hits Fran Good luck with the build, been a looong time comming man!
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Nice. Looks like Jordan is helping out. Haha. I figured you two wouldn't get any work done.
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Dammmmm Fran I never thought that thing was ever gonna move!

Haha. Looks nice. Git 'er done

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i got the steering rack done today.... now it basically needs to go to the chassis shop...
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Nice rack Fran ....lol.....glad to see the car coming together nicely
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