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New to F body scene coming from a low 9 second CTS-V
What's up guys. Haven't posted on a forum in a long time. I just picked up a 99' z28 with a Heads/cam LQ4, 4L80e, and 9" with 70k original miles.
This car is going to be strictly a no prep car after I discovered I just can't turn down my PD blower 920whp CTS-V and make it work on a slick surface like an F body.
Hope to use this forum to my advantage. Future mods include a lot of cutting and weight pulling, Single turbo setup with fuel system to match, and basically make this a nasty radial car to run my local class. Picture of my V trying to get down a slick surface to prove that I am indeed a badass Day I bought the car After I threw some parts at it I had laying around
How about the WS6 hood sitin on the Z28 "Catfish" Now there's somthing you don't see everyday.. Anxiously waiting to see more pictures of the car and what your weight reduction plans are for it.
Figured i'd post a little update in here. I really should probably just start a build series to keep track of things for myself.
Got some more rando weight out of the car, did a tubular front bumper cover support, all AC lines and condenser, cruise control... etc.
Had the car out street racing the other night and the trans was shifting funny. Drained the fluid and it does not look good. I figured a 4l80 in a light car making moderate/low power it wouldn't have any issues so not sure if the trans is hurt or just needs tuning tweaks (the converter was locking at super weird times - it's an FTI 3600) but the fluid is cooked and im gonna drop the pan to see if there is any metal shavings or if we can just bump line pressures and get this trans to live. If not i'll probably put a glide in the car anyways at some point this would just hurry that aspect of it up.
Oh yeah... it's all comin together So long random stuff unhappy trans fluid
At this point I have changed about every single thing on the car and probably should have just gone with a roller to begin with instead of cutting up and 70k mile running and driving car... but I guess that's how things go. The lq4 got all new bearings, gapped the rings at .030 on compression side and .032 on the oil ring side. Installed a BTR stage 3 turbo cam, ARP head bolts with ls9 gaskets, painted the block, added a high ram, billet motor mounts, ICT Billet valley cover, bought a powerglide and converter, Motion steering column and wheel, NRG seats, gutted all of the factory wiring.... etc.
The FID 2000s just showed up and will be mocked up on the intake before everything goes in. I ordered the wilwood manual brake conversion that should be here soon, SJM ABS delete, Holley Terminator X, Billet wheel s480, and changing the rear end gears from 4.30's to a 3.50.
Lots of work but lots of progress! The car should be a hammer
11-18-2022, 03:46 PM
New to F body scene coming from a low 9 second CTS-V 
Anxiously waiting to see more pictures of the car and what your weight reduction plans are for it.
