And so it begins
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Teching In
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And so it begins Hello All,
New guy into the LS pool (or more like an ocean now). Just another Middle-aged guy from the Midwest who always wanted to graduate from old-school SBC's to the LS platform. Read and watched tons of stuff in dozens of places (and of course it was always sounded so easy) but never took the leap. But that has changed and I'm not "sticking a toe" in the water, but executing a full on cliff dive (hoping not to end in a belly flop). But as with every other endeavor before - if I'm not failing - I'm not learning. So I have spent the savings and got the "learn it" platform purchased.
2000 Camaro SS - Solid car (54K milage) - somewhere between shouldn't be street and not quite a race car
- LQ9 6.0 (403 ci) - Callies Crank/Rod, SRP Piston, Comp-Cam .623 int/exh 243/250 dur@50, 114 LSA, LS3 Heads with Manley Valves, BTR Valve Spring & Trunion Kit, LS7 Lifters, LS3 Intake w/ Nick Williams 92mm TB, Texas Speed LT headers
- Powerglide, Transbrake, 4200 PCI Stall converter
- GM12 Bolt Rear-end, Mosier Spool (4.30) and 35 spline axles
- Midwest Chassis Upper/Lower Tubular control arms and Midwest Chassis Tubular K Member
- Spohn Torque Arm/DSL and Adjustable Pan Hard bar
- Adjustable trailing arms
- Welded in sub-frame connectors
- QA1 Adjustables on all 4 corners
- Roll Bar ("enjoyment seats" are gone, but everything else still remains and works)
- Weld Drag-lites (can believe people still use these) and Hoosier DOT Radial (27.5x11.0)
Needs to be sorted out still - but came with car (somewhere between installed and better figure it out first)
- Ligenfelter LNC-2000
- Nitrous Express GM Mass Air Plate System (250 HP); expandable to 2 kits
- Nitrous Express SAFE System (stand-alone fuel system)
So its basically a car someone wanted to "street outlaw" but didn't want a race car. Being old guy and pretty much past the acceptable age of the "street scene" - the car will probably end up "licensed" (for the sole purpose of being able to drive to race "shops") and ran mostly in the 1/8th mile tracks around town. Owned the car for about 3 weeks now, cleaned it up; working now on sorting out all the "shouldn't have been done this way" stuff. Once a "decent" set of rims are on and its outside - I will get a few pics up.
Can't wait to grow and suffer with everyone here!
Todd H.
New guy into the LS pool (or more like an ocean now). Just another Middle-aged guy from the Midwest who always wanted to graduate from old-school SBC's to the LS platform. Read and watched tons of stuff in dozens of places (and of course it was always sounded so easy) but never took the leap. But that has changed and I'm not "sticking a toe" in the water, but executing a full on cliff dive (hoping not to end in a belly flop). But as with every other endeavor before - if I'm not failing - I'm not learning. So I have spent the savings and got the "learn it" platform purchased.
2000 Camaro SS - Solid car (54K milage) - somewhere between shouldn't be street and not quite a race car
- LQ9 6.0 (403 ci) - Callies Crank/Rod, SRP Piston, Comp-Cam .623 int/exh 243/250 dur@50, 114 LSA, LS3 Heads with Manley Valves, BTR Valve Spring & Trunion Kit, LS7 Lifters, LS3 Intake w/ Nick Williams 92mm TB, Texas Speed LT headers
- Powerglide, Transbrake, 4200 PCI Stall converter
- GM12 Bolt Rear-end, Mosier Spool (4.30) and 35 spline axles
- Midwest Chassis Upper/Lower Tubular control arms and Midwest Chassis Tubular K Member
- Spohn Torque Arm/DSL and Adjustable Pan Hard bar
- Adjustable trailing arms
- Welded in sub-frame connectors
- QA1 Adjustables on all 4 corners
- Roll Bar ("enjoyment seats" are gone, but everything else still remains and works)
- Weld Drag-lites (can believe people still use these) and Hoosier DOT Radial (27.5x11.0)
Needs to be sorted out still - but came with car (somewhere between installed and better figure it out first)
- Ligenfelter LNC-2000
- Nitrous Express GM Mass Air Plate System (250 HP); expandable to 2 kits
- Nitrous Express SAFE System (stand-alone fuel system)
So its basically a car someone wanted to "street outlaw" but didn't want a race car. Being old guy and pretty much past the acceptable age of the "street scene" - the car will probably end up "licensed" (for the sole purpose of being able to drive to race "shops") and ran mostly in the 1/8th mile tracks around town. Owned the car for about 3 weeks now, cleaned it up; working now on sorting out all the "shouldn't have been done this way" stuff. Once a "decent" set of rims are on and its outside - I will get a few pics up.
Can't wait to grow and suffer with everyone here!
Todd H.
Congrats on the new ride and quite the list of parts! You're never too old to jump in. I think you'll find the LS platform leaps and bounds better over the old stuff. Make sure you find a quality tuner as that can make or break a build.
