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Old Aug 7, 2012 | 10:05 AM
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I can just direct swap my ls1 intake for a ls6 intake correct? I don't need any new fuel rails? Or any other parts for that mater correct?
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Old Aug 7, 2012 | 11:22 AM
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You'll have to shave off the ribs at the bottom of your LS6 intake so it clears the steam vent tubes. Also, it doesn't have a provision for EGR, but most people just delete it.
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Just a straight swap. Theres a write up on ls1howto.com and look it up on YouTube, there's a couple of guys who go over it step by step.
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Old Aug 7, 2012 | 11:36 AM
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Ok cool thanks I already have egr delete do no problem there. What's the average price on getting one of these ported?
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you dont want to port a ls6 because there is no gains from it.
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Do I need to tune the car after the swap?
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Tuning is always gonna grab you more ponies but its not worth the cost for just that one mod. Id wait for the tune until you get more mods.
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So a mail order would do it? I have lid. Headers. Full exhaust. Ported tb. And then an intake. None of which have been tuned in yet
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Old Aug 8, 2012 | 11:24 AM
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Yea, after you are all done with your mods send your PCM to get tuned by Frost who is a member of this site. You fill out a form of all the mods you have and he'll tune your PCM for you.

http://www.tunedbyfrost.com/

Here is a pic of the bottom of the LS6 intake. The red highlighted part should be removed...



And here is a vid of my install of the intake. Part one is no longer available but in the video below (part 2) skip to 1:24 to see a bit of how I did it on mine...

[youtube]PF9RYF-0_5s[/youtube]
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What is the purpose of removing the ribs?
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To clear the coolant lines running underneath it.
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its that or get the LS6 coolant tube and block offs
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Ok guys I got a little problem. I picked up a ls6 intake for 250 bucks and did everything blah blah. Well the intake I got came off a c5. There are no brass fittings for the fbody tb cable bracket only empty holes that do nothing. How do I get the brass fittings out of the ls1 intake? Or do I really need this bracket? If it is not necessary I will just put the tb on and be done for the night an just find some brass sleeves at the store in the future. What do I do????
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Nvm last post got it figured out. But now there is a brand new oil pressure sender that reads 0 on dash. Car runs really rough. Like REALLY rough as in I don't want to start it. I scanned it for codes and only throwing egr which I was before. Could the injectors not be seated all the way? I don't remember how far down they were before
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Ok I think I found the problem. Passenger side rear section of valve cover has a tube coming out of it. The rubber hose that goes on top of that got pulled off probably when I put the intake back on but I wasn't paying attention to this. When I went to put it back on it crumbled from being 13 years old. So I will replace that. Is that probably the culprit? The car was running like it has a cam which it has the stock one. It seems that it was shaking so much that the water pump now leaks I had to replace the oil pressure switch because the old one broke on removal of ls1 intake. I put the new one in and the harness was a pita to plug into the new one and now there is no pressure on the gauge. But I will recheck that when I fix the hose. When I just turn the key on it doesn't cycle with the rest of the gauges. It does move a tiny bit though. Please give me some feedback and I will try again tomorrow
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That hose is the pcv line. You'll need to get that replaced. Did you torque down the opsu to the correct spec??
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Old Aug 10, 2012 | 10:54 AM
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I just tightened it up and read not to tight too tight
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I just tightened it up and read not to tight too tight
There are torque specs for the bolts and they are supposed to be tightened in a certain sequence for proper setting of the intake gaskets. Hope you don't have a leak somewhere after you start it up.
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I was talkin about the ops there not the intake
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Old Aug 10, 2012 | 01:48 PM
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Gotcha, I was like, "that's not good" haha.
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