Everything's looking good so far!

 

Picked up a box of "2nds" mandrel bent 3.5" bends



Found an oring in the catch screen of the oil pickup, Im guessing from the old piece of dipstick tube that broke off of the factory tube.

 

Yes I have, I tossed it on the scales back in November.

I weigh around 210, With me in the drivers seat the truck weighed 3921

Nose : 2299
Rear: 1622
Balance of 58.6/41.4%

 

Cleaned up the pistons



Gapped the rings.

Top to .026 and 2nd to .028. Top had to be opened up a lot. Most were in the .016 range the 2nd just needed a light file to get to .028 they were mostly .026-.027 already.

 

Bottom end is back together. Hoping to get the engine set back in the bay by saturday.

 

Got the entire drivetrain installed and ready to go.











3.5" pipe fits with ease











Oil feed installed.

 

Took off the whole old exhaust. Just the section from xpipe to mufflers weighs just under 100 pounds. Surprisingly heavy.

Anyone want some spintechs?

 

More Parts!

Meth injection kit came in.



The correct fuel rails came in



S106Banger came over last night to test fit the manifolds and crossover. Im going to have to replace my acc brackets since the Kwik performance ones are so different than the holley ones that he built them with. So if anyone wants to buy my Kwik Performance acc brackets let me know. Also going to do the jeep steering shaft mod to gain more room.

 

 

Got a IAT sensor screw in style meant for a GN



The 3.5" SS bends came in.



Ordered 12' of SS 3.5" tubing for 11 bucks a foot.

Also have this stuff for sale

2 Spintech XL mufflers 3" center in/out



2 fake 3" cats from Froozen boost



Also my old CAI intake

And LS7 card style MAF

 

Grabbed a 96 Jeep Grand Cherokee shaft because I could get a 88-93 cherokee one. The reg cherokees have the fatter shaft with them, while the grand cherokee you must remove the upper shaft from the stock steering shaft and slide it over the grand cherokee one.

Grand Cherokee on top and stock on bottom. You can see how much thicker the stock shaft is which takes up header room



Jeep shaft cut to length and factory upper ready to slide over and welded.



Test fit



Finished product



Got my hotside done by Big 3 Racing and more specifically s106banger who did all the fab work. All 304 SS. 2.25" crossover.

 

Big productive day. Got the rest of the engine sensors and various other stuff hooked up. and tossed on the new hotside. Everything fit except the steering shaft still doesnt fit














My badass downpipe





Oil feed line is temporary its just what I had laying around.

But this happened

 

12+ft of 3.5" stainless came in.



Sewer pipe



Shimmed the steering box to gain some #3 tube clearance

 

Moved the oil drain from side of pan which ended up not working out, too much stuff in the way, to the front of the engine.

 

Wrapped the crossover last night



Worked on getting the GN sensor to work which wasnt hard.

Looked in my wiring diagrams and it called for the "E" pin thats tan to be the iat signal wire. So one lead of the new iat harness went in that pin. Which happened to be in the last pin of the 5 wire connector. The other lead for the new iat goes to either pin with the black wire for ground.



No sensor connected



Temporarily pinned in



Or




BAM!



Little hot air action

 

Glad to see how far it's come!

 

Picked up Holley brackets since thats what my manifolds and crossover was built with.



Tooks a bunch of grinding to get my pump to fit since it called for a corvette specific pump and mines just a general type 2 pump. But its on and fits. Need to cut a hole in the back side of the bracket to run the return line to.



Got the cold side all fabbed up, Have to get it tacked up and make sure it still fits then get it finish welded with the iat bung meth bungs and BOV




















Finally worked on the pillar pods some more and its almost ready for some primer. All fiberglassed.

 

Milled out my new holley brackets to accommodate the non vette ps pump Im running. Also milled a large window to run the return line to it.

 

Alternator and powersteering pump is on and the tacked intercooler piping checks out. Ready to be fully welded.















Also threaded the waterpump for 90* fittings.

 

Well just so happens that HPtuners doesnt support 3 bar speed density os upgrades on my '10 Colorado OS so talking with S106banger and Big 3 where he works. I will be keeping the MAF but moving it downstream so it can be before the seperate IAT and Meth nozzles. This makes me have to put the BOV on the other side of the intercooler between the turbo and the intercooler. Just another hurdle because of the vvt and the os running it.