Built a custom Steering shaft useing flaming river parts today and installed it. Looks awesome but makes so much other stuff look like **** . Oh well getting closer and closer.

 

So its been a min and I have a few updates. First is.


*SLAMMIN*


Installed the weight jacks/ coil overs.



Sweet Oil Cap FTW



Hot parts cross over is done



Just got to finish the cold side and few more little things and cross your fingers.

 

Looking killer man g/l with it thats also the best looking 3rd gen. i have seen so far........

 

Thanks. Its been my dream for since I was about 17 to have a realy bad *** thirdgen. I've owned a dozen or so. THis one has been great to me in the 4 years i have owned it and hopefully it'll be way gooder with the forged 6.0 vs the stock LS1 and the front mount turbo setup vs the STS crap. I just hope this car doesnt kill me like it seems like its going to do.

 

Heres some pics for now. Should run this week...

 

Car runs! I did a Jig when it started with no probs. Heres a short vid of it running. Got a wrong fitting going to the turbo so gotta change that before any shake down. Thnaks to Matt (donkeypunch), my good bud Wop Josh, Ed at Va Speed, Shawn Ramey, LS1tech, Ebay (is da ****), and of course my wife Nicole who has put up with this the last 8 months. Hope to have the car out this weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTmONQeBU80 Sorry about the quality I have a pretty badass camera didnt realize the lense fogged over from bringing it from inside.

 

Do u have any clue on who made that hot-side? I'm kicking around the idea of doing the same type of build with mine but i'm gunna do my homework before I do.

 

Its part me and a local fab guy. Pm me for details.

 

Pic from a local Cars and Coffee

 

Its looking good man, its gunna be a couple more years until I start my Turbo LSX swap since I just had this sbc358 motor built plus i gotta save up some money and start doing more research and gatherin parts. Ive got a good jump on what Ill need and what kind of engine, Im lookin to go with a stroked LSX and probably a 76mm turbo but that all can change.

 

ive said it before, and ill say it again, very nice 3rd gen. and that engine looks right at home in there. congrats man!!! get some numbers!!!

 

Prob wont get numbers till begining of next year. Wanna finish some stuff up b4 it gets a complete dyno tune. THanks for all the nice words!

 

Well I'm still finishing up some things but the car runs and drives (most of the time). Here are a few randoms of the car.

Suspension




Interior




Low...

 

dam. car looks killer and aggressive
needs 12 bolt to go with all those new nice susp parts now

 

*update*
As much as I dont want to I'm dropping the motor out of the IROC to fix a few things, tuck some things, and just some normal cleanup. The fitting I had welded by Va Speed is in a bitch f a spot and I cross threaded the **** out of the fitting and after alot of finesse work it seems I just cant get it to thread right.
-So anybody who is familiar out there think i should just go with a tubular K-Member and be done with it. Or just take the pan and get a new bung welded a little farther up so it doesn interfere and leave stock K-Member in there.

Next need to figure out why my temp gauge doesnt work. Turn car on and I get nothing. Could the gauge be bad? I suck at wiring so any help would be great.

-With wiring I just got my wire relocation kit in and I'm little lost as to were to start. All i know is the battery goes to the trunk and the power wire goes to the Starter? and another hot wire from the Alternator to the battery?

-GOing to pull me hotside off and have everything powder coated. (any place better than any other?) I'va had stuff done a precision do they do good ceramic coating?

-Genral clean up, Going to try and clean the whole engine bay weld up some holes and then flat black the whole thing again.

-Any LSx guys know if you can powder coat an LS intake or should I just sand it and paint it myself?

-For those that have followed my build is there anything I should do or upgrade while its all out again?

-Final note i might be picked up another complete LS drivtrain with a 4l80e. so as much as I never wanted to the ROC might go auto with a stall and be done with it.

Thanks for any help guys.

 

Well.... UPDATES!!!!

 

Forgot to update this Page: here is the last months worth of update:
These wheels going on.


Swapping K-Members got a great deal on it and A-Arms.
Diffrence in X-Members



Cleanin the engine bay up. Sanding the black down going to paint it body color now.



Fixed the stupid oil return bung.


Now in the process of finishing the engine bay running the wires for the battery relocation in the trunk.

A-Arms on K-Member

And on motor.


Car is getting taken to a shop to paint the engine bay the same color as the Body. The black just wasnt cutting it for me. Also switching heads to 243 heads. All in All hope to have it at Virginia Speed to Dyno tune some time next month.

 

Looking great! what Kmember did you use for that swap??

 

Its a Spohn peice. It wasnt even in my plans but it was local and i talked the guy down to half what the A-Arms and k-member cost new.

 

Is it specific for ls swaps?