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Jul 21, 2014 | 07:04 PM

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I did seriously consider hydro boost when I was shaving the firewall. I talked myself out of it because the car dint have power-steering from the factory. Now that I'm old and lazy driving a car with no power and a spool sucks haha. So I will probably do power steering and hydro boost this winter. Has anyone ran hydro boost without the power steering. Like the pump just hooked to the hydro boost?

I'm not sure what kind of residual return pressure/volume the booster would create. You might be able to get away with a really lower pressure valve in the PS pump. I'd make a call to a company talon hydraulics or something and see what they think.

Jul 21, 2014 | 08:52 PM

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I borrowed this pic from Nate or ls1nova but basically my manifolds are a copy of these. It was to late when I got home tonight to take pictures of mine so ill do that tomorrow. This is just to give you an idea

Jul 22, 2014 | 10:47 AM

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Hey I'm right up the street from you in Brandywine. I can never find anybody around me doing the LS turbo swaps. Let me know the next time you're headed to the creek so we can campare notes.

Jul 22, 2014 | 02:42 PM

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Hey I'm right up the street from you in Brandywine. I can never find anybody around me doing the LS turbo swaps. Let me know the next time you're headed to the creek so we can campare notes.

I dint know anyone even messed with ls stuff either lol. Ever time I tell someone what motors in the car they look at me like I'm full off ****! Haha I should be goin down this weekend if my Trans bushing comes in. Pm me your number I'll shoot you a text.

Jul 22, 2014 | 05:30 PM

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Little update. I took my driveshaft to get balanced today and the guy who built the driveshaft for me forgot to put the plastic shims in the bottom of the u joint cups. So basically my yoke had an 1/8" of side to side play. I'm hoping this was the problem with the bushing coming out of the Trans. It Just weird cause I never felt it vibrate untill the bushing came all the way out.

Jul 22, 2014 | 06:05 PM

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Here's some more pics of the manifolds and Hotside. I really dint take a lot of pictures during the build and the ones I did take are from my iPhone so bare with me.

Jul 22, 2014 | 06:10 PM

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Mounted the Trans cooler where the driver side muffler would be

Jul 22, 2014 | 06:13 PM

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Another engine shot

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Jul 22, 2014 | 07:22 PM

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Heres a little idle video.

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Jul 22, 2014 | 07:54 PM

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That will do it for sure, I'm surprised it wasn't vibrating the car though. I figure that would shake your teeth out.

Jul 22, 2014 | 08:18 PM

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That will do it for sure, I'm surprised it wasn't vibrating the car though. I figure that would shake your teeth out.

me to, when he showed me that I was surprised that it dint show up earlier than it did. on the other hand im glad that's all it was though.

Jul 22, 2014 | 08:29 PM

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short little pull to 5500 on 5psi

Jul 24, 2014 | 07:50 AM

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Car is running great, that thing sounds awesome. That turned up is going to be a handful for sure!

Jul 27, 2014 | 08:50 PM

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Car is running great, that thing sounds awesome. That turned up is going to be a handful for sure!

thanks man I cant wait to see how thing acts on 15lbs and meth. im gonna go to the track this coming weekend and see if I can get this thing to leave on some boost then ill turn it up

Jul 27, 2014 | 09:00 PM

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so I got the car back together and hopefully fixed. I put about 100miles on it this weekend and it seems to be ok so far. I took a buddy of mine for a ride today and had him take some better video to share with you guys. my first couple of videos were rough lol. I plan on going back to MIR this weekend looking to build some boost on the line and maybe get a 11.0 or 10.9 pass on street tires. we will see. track videos to come.