Good build Darth.
Do you still have those MMS cathedral heads?

 

Yup. Still got them. Been thinking to put them in my wife's vette with a stealth cam. But two conditions are necessary. I have to be home and she has to be out of town. And since I always travel and she burned her vacation time up, it will be a while.

 

So why did you take them out again?
What heads are you running now?

 

Took them out because I cracked the block on the 346 and then got the 428. If I had just swapped in a 6.0 short block or something they would have stayed on

 

How many cc is the intake runner and will you sell them?

 

Dude, I totally missed your question on this thread from three months ago. My bad. Yes I'd sell, but PM to talk, because if I don't get a number I like, I'll just use them on wife's vette.

Long, rambling, disjointed post, so bear with me. First off, the life stuff settled down for a bit, and then picked back up. But, since I'm pretty proud of this one, here is the bathroom remodel we did. Shout out to LazerLemonTA who came down a couple of weekends and helped out with the heavy stuff. All construction and detail work, except laying the tile was done by Lazer, me, and my wife.





Now, since finally getting all that done, yet another daughter just got engaged, and we are talking a short engagement, so likely another wedding before the end of the year. I think for my last daughter, I'll just auction her off on ebay to the highest bidder.

Now, on to the cool stuff...

The car continues to run quite well. It does not use much oil at all. I set a record recently of 15 mpg around town and all short trips on this thing, which is pretty decent given what it is. But there are still some things I just don't like, and so it's time for some revision surgery. I'm going to detail the stuff I'm being picky about here, and then I'll start another build thread with the details.

----1. I'm really not sold on the Sniper. I run it, and it drives OK. According to the logs it makes a lot more power, but the car just isn't scaring the crap out of me like it did when i first put the engine in. I think that the sniper is great for top end >7K RPM, but midrange, my guess is it kills port velocity.

----2. I'm still worried the heads are a time bomb with the stock castings guide issue.

----3. I feel like the heads burn too slow or something. For the flow, port volume, etc, You would think these things would be home runs, but there's something I can't put my finger on about it. It could just be the intake, but I doubt it. I know that my dyno curve really cannot be trusted for the final numbers since the wheel slip was bad, but somehow I feel like the motor is underproducing for what it is.

----4. I don't drive it like I used to due to the travel. I don't need to worry as much about the daily driver thing. I like driving it, don't get me wrong. But I don't need to be too concerned about it. Plus I've gotten better at taming cams, so I think I can tolerate a more track-oriented build and get the thing to settle down.

----5. It sucks being one tenth away from nines. I might be able to get there as it sits, but I don't get enough track time to dial myself in. I know that my driveline can handle quite a lot with what's in it, so I don't need to worry about an extra xx to xxx HP. As long as I stay below 650 lbs of torque I should be OK.

So, with all those considerations made, I've got a build plan together finally. I'll start up a new thread to avoid confusing the two. Hope this one has been entertaining. I do think what we will see though is yet another example of the difference between a budget build and top shelf parts. And as budget builds go, I don't think this one was poorly done:

Ported LS7 heads
Sniper
LLSR valvetrain
Forged 428 CI bottom end.

Total spend ~$8K including the bottom end. Some would likely argue not a budget build, but $5K of that was the bottom end.

 

Darth,
the shower looks great ! Did. You use Shuter backer board. ,( the orange stuff).

 

I used the 7/16 concrete board. We waterproofed it with red stuff before we tiled. Can't remember the name of the stuff we used. The shower floor was a superhard orange foam that we also coated red prior to tiling. Don't know if that answers the question?

 

Reminds me, I need to have a shower.
I hope you got no spy cams in there Darth.

 

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Come to the dark side....we have cookies.

 

LMFAO

You sir are consistent!

 

couldn't resist

 

No, but I heard rumors of a fabled Horsecock. Just make sure it's on your side. No telling the damage a Horsecock can do.

 

Seems to me you are talking from experience.
How long were you in a wheelchair before you could walk again?
Lol

 

No one ever fully recovers from a horsecock. lol

 

It is always a pleasure traveling to Darths Cant wait to drive the new build! I might get lucky enough to help the surgeon on this one.

 

LOL. Nurse Lazer?

 

Shower and tub looks great guys. Good work, my build was the rehab of my mind from doing a full rebuild on my house after a flood. Now im ready to rehab from car by finishing some small details on the house😂

Post a link here so I dont miss the new build .

 

Awesome work on the shower. I just finished our master bath shower to as my Nova build cruises on...i ll have to post some pics, no glass yet, and alil plain lookn compared to yours...

 

Wife found a lot of marble for sale at $10 for 360 sf. Couldn't get decent ceremic tile for that. So we jumped on it