geoffreymexico

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Nice work man. You guys are definitely getting some work done while I am gone. I am going to have to hurry up and get going when I get back.

TransAmcoupe98

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You using 317's Justin? Also what brand methanol kit? Pics dammit! I forgot to ask if this is an 8 rib kit. I cant view pics at work so I cant tell.

ls1freak33

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yea you are slacking my friend you have alot of catching up to do



yes just stock 317's for now, and its the stage 3 Labonte meth kit here is the link to what i got (not at house right now to take pics so i cheat a lil on this lol) http://www.wickedinnovation.net/prod...-Engines.html#
and also got this in the deal as well
http://www.wickedinnovation.net/prod...Fail-Safe.html

but wont install it til later this week pro

and yes 8rib.

today i should have everything back together.
exhaust is on radiator is back in, got to go buy me a belt for blower, all my gauges and then put all fluids back in.
Planning on starting this bad thing up today........
Evan should be there as well if he gets off work, was gonna have him take vid hopefully nothing goes wrong

TransAmcoupe98

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Send me vid before you put that **** on here. I have exclusive rights *******!

ls1freak33

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yes you will get it before it comes on here or anywhere lol

geoffreymexico

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Im working on the game plan man. I was planning on holding out til the spring, but I may have to adjust my budgeting of my deployment funds to get this project knocked out sooner

lemons12

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While he works on the gauges tonight I'm going to throw the intake on and finish hooking up the sensors, I'm pushing to start it tonight.

ls1freak33

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yep looks like you need to do that buddy


yes tonight seems like a good night to try and start it.

TransAmcoupe98

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Have you got it started yet you retards?

lemons12

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Ran into issues, got irritated, stopped. Tomorrow or Thursday it will turn over.

Hardly anything left.. 2 hours max.

TransAmcoupe98

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You ran out of beer didnt you?

I8UR4RD

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nothing like that sound. youll love it. i did not see what pulley size you were running, nor injectors or pump. interested to know. i run an alky kit.

lemons12

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Looking to make 10#, don't know the pulley size..
60# injectors (Motron IIRC)
I had the pump in my hand tonight actually, IIRC it is a Wal 255.

TransAmcoupe98

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Justin needs look at getting a hotwire kit

ls1freak33

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Lol cant do nothing with out it



Yes what lemons said.



Yes i will if i find a good deal on one if not I'll buy one new


Putting rest together now hopefully have it turning over soon after i put a lil tune on it

TransAmcoupe98

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Here ya go Justin, its a Casper's hot-wire kit for ya on Speed Inc. Cheaper than racetronix, and its almost the exact same thing. 60 bucks on sale right now.

http://www.speedinc.com/cont.cfm?cid=C0000878

Just find the one for an F-body. The link is to the Vette specific but they have fbody ones.

ls1freak33

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ok man thanks will look little later, bout to do a little tuning for injectors and try and start it hopefully.........

lemons12

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Well guys... I'll shorten it up a little bit.

I got there after everything was put back together and a couple failed attempts at starting it... Trying to place blame on the injectors/tune/etc we fiddled with that stuff for the longest time. Martin (fbodyunkie) and BJ (previous D1 kit owner) tried their best to walk us through everything they could.. Martin was kinda thrown in last second as he knew nothing about the setup.
My idea, and Martin backed it up, was to flash the complete 370 tune BJ had gave us over and see how it did. There were many differences but we felt this would be the best choice. (Me and ls1freak were definitely in over our heads as far as the tuning side went so even though we were doing it correctly and it wasn't the issue, HUGE thanks to both these guys! Martin offered help the day before yesterday with any of our builds, I wasted no time hitting him up! LOL).

I hadn't really paid too much attention to what was going on as we were "sure" it was the tune and most likely the injectors.... The more things we tried with the tune the more I was sure that wasn't the issue.

I started to think about the problems we were having and narrowed it down to an electrical issue... Then I landed on the battery acting up... Swapped batteries with my truck, same issues. Ended up the + battery has a problem somewhere.. Justin held the cable so I could get good connection and we could start it.. It turned over and started on the first key turn.
Bad news: Horrible knocking in the top end somewhere.. I couldn't hear it as the exhaust was extremely loud... We switched so I could hear it but he couldn't keep the car idling long enough for me to get a video so we switched back so he could get a short clip of it idling.
We also got two scans off of the idle, I don't know enough about reading it to know if it was good/bad/etc.. We're going to let someone look at them.

Here is the knock:


I had started it once and kept it idling for about 10-12 seconds but didn't have the camera out... We wanted to keep it running as little as possible but still grab a video so it is short.

SIDE NOTE: In the tune we got from BJ the firing order was changed from the traditional Ls1 firing order to a different order... Anybody have a reason behind this?
He was running a 370 with the EPP blower cam.. This stumped us and Martin. We kept it the traditional Ls1 firing order on the tune for Justins camaro, the only thing we didn't copy from BJs tune.

I'm thinking it is a push rods/spring/lifter problem.. Justin is thinking knock.. New ls7 lifters/used dual golds/used (by me) push rods.. The PTV and push rod check both came out OK, cam was installed dot to dot.

Fbodyjunkie06

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For sure valve train related.

Glad I could help.

lemons12

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Pulling covers tomorrow to check it out... Hope it is something easy. My money is on the used springs.