the brown clutch fluid means the fluid is overheating. check the heatshield the covers the master to slave cylinder line.. if you jack the car up, and follow the line out of the tranny you will see a silverish piece of metal going over the line.. if its not there that is your problem.. also make sure the line is away from the manifolds (or headers in your case) my fluid was getting dark brown/over heated because some how the line came out of the heat shield and was resting on the manifold. about the sticky pedal.. the drill mod won't do ****.. not saying i dont recommend doing it.. it will help with wide open throttle shifting (if you read up on what the drill mod actually does you will understand).. but not the clutch pedal sticking, that is probably do to a worn out slave cylinder, or possibly master cylinder. i would start with bleeding out the old fluid, and making sure the line is clear of an extreme heat source, then go from there...
labor to change the slave will probably be quite a bit also, since the slave cylinder is internal, and the tranny would have to be dropped to replace it, so trying the master cyl. first might be the way to go...

EXTREMELY nice car by the way, and i hope you enjoy the **** out of it!

 

you need to test the volts at the switch when the window switch is activated. If it has power after the switch consistently then its the window motor not the switch. Becareful!

 

if your smelling gas that is probably due to the fact you dont have any cats, since they have materials in them that help to burn the excess fuel that your car does not.. which helps clean up the emissions. if you have a conservative tune, then your car would be tuned to run more lean (the leaner the mixture, the less fuel is being dumped into the engine) leaning it out wouldnt give the car any more power at all. idealy with a naturally aspirated car you would want to run between a 12.5-13.0 afr (air fuel ratio) (which is on the rich side) when you start getting more towards the lean side power starts falling off..

in summary.. if you have a conservative tune your car is probably in the 13.5-14.0 afr range maybe even a little more lean, so tuning your car more rich would net more power, yet less fuel mileage. all in all it depends on what you are looking for. you say reliability and gas mileage?? so i would leave the tune where it is at. but if you want more power, then take it to a tuner, and have them look it over, and if it is indeed a conservative tune, they can richen it up for u and get u a lil more power.... sorry for the rambling.

and finally.. for reliability, either tune will work fine.. its an ls1! forged by the hands of GOD himself

 

Wow, thanks for the detailed info, I'll be sure to look for the line you're talking about... but where exactly is it? Does it go towards the rear or the front? Anyway, I changed out the clutch fluid (sort of) using the syringe and pumpingtheclutch20times method, and I haven't had the sticking problem ever since (knock on wood)... perhaps it was just because the old clutch fluid was TOO dirty, really, it was filthy, and I believe I saw a lump or two. I hope this little method will continue to work.

Really.. if what you say is true, I guess I'll leave it the way it is. The car was tuned by Frost, who is supposedly well known for tuning, so I'm pretty sure it was done right and that the previous owner didn't waste money on nothing, but anyone is free to tell me otherwise to get a retune, or at least a diagnosis/scan to see how exactly it was tuned. The power is plenty enough for me, especially for an 18yr old teen straight out of HS, I was going to be more than happy with a stock LS1 too, considering I'm coming out of a Ford Escort! No need to be sorry at all bro, (almost) any and (almost) all advice is more than appreciated

 

if you jack the car up, and look at the tranny on the drivers side, you will see the line coming out, it is steel braided.. it runs toward the front of the car, on the left side.. it goes right to the clutch pedal, so just look in that area and youll find it.

 

nice ride man, i like it.