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Old Sep 24, 2012 | 08:30 PM
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Finished my swap today, all in all about 6 hours of work. worth every penny. it pulls hard as hell up time and the part throttle is strong from jump street. ill be retuned tomorrow and hitting the track wednesday night, im looking for a 105 mph trap from 102 so we shall see. there was alot of things not in the write up that would have been useful but im pretty mechanical so it wasnt an issue. if anyone has any questions on there swap let me know if i could help out. heres the engine bay pic...
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Old Sep 24, 2012 | 09:52 PM
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Looks good!
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Old Sep 24, 2012 | 10:23 PM
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Great job man !! Now let's see some new track numbers
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Old Sep 25, 2012 | 09:24 AM
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I had to unbolt one of my coil packs to clear the new fuel rail location...did you have to do this as well. And I also had to turn the fuel line from the car upside down and turned o make it to the rail...is this how you do yours?
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Old Sep 25, 2012 | 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by baltsk8er69
I had to unbolt one of my coil packs to clear the new fuel rail location...did you have to do this as well. And I also had to turn the fuel line from the car upside down and turned o make it to the rail...is this how you do yours?
Yes. Although, I did not mention the coil, I did post pics of the fuel line location. The swap is not ment for people who are not mechanincally inclined.
I also trimmed the return line going into the reservoir, and used a piece of
3/8" hose that goes up over the fuel rail, and into the the return. The hose clamp that secures the feed hose (to the pump) was rotated away from the back of the intake manifold.

Coolant lines were pushed downward to clear the intake slightly.

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Old Sep 25, 2012 | 12:58 PM
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Nice glad everything worked out for you Jason !
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Old Sep 25, 2012 | 01:10 PM
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why didnt you use the ls6 intake , its much better than the ls1 and would have been the same amount of work.
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Because I was able to acquire this entire swap for 300 dollars....thanks 1cleansupersport! If i find someone selling an ls6 mani cheap I will swap it out for still less thank what the swap would normaly cost....the ls1 injectors and rail work with the ls6 mani right?
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Originally Posted by ramairetransam
why didnt you use the ls6 intake , its much better than the ls1 and would have been the same amount of work.
Oh good god have you seen a LS4 intake? LS1 intake is one hell of an upgrade!
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Old Sep 25, 2012 | 04:02 PM
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Anytime bro glad it being used instead of collecting dust in my garage
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Old Sep 25, 2012 | 08:58 PM
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There's a lot more wrong with an ls4 mani than the neck too....the columns in the center are huge...runners to shallow....some large baffle across the top...and my uncle will be porting this ls1 mani. That's probably gonna get me close to the ls6 gains minus the cost.
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 04:31 PM
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Wow....nice job! I too, am interested in your times.
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 05:26 PM
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Untuned I ran 13.8 at 101.78 with a 2.16 60 ft...its missing some power due to no tune. And it was 80 degrees high humidity. And I'm on street tires...hard tires. I just walk off the line.
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 05:53 PM
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leaving a LOT on the table...but your 60ft isn't bad on hard street tires.

i ran a 13.82 @ 101.7 on a 2.07 60ft with rikken raptors at about 15psi. Mods were CAI, Hogan full 3" catless DP and a custom 3" into dual 3" catback.
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Old Sep 29, 2012 | 01:39 PM
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So the Retune came back 4 percent rich. Anyone venture to guess how much power that was costing me?
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Originally Posted by baltsk8er69
So the Retune came back 4 percent rich. Anyone venture to guess how much power that was costing me?
10-15 HP
The intake will add more tq then hp
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Old Sep 29, 2012 | 04:24 PM
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So how much torque is running that rich costing me?
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Old Sep 29, 2012 | 04:54 PM
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Your going to need to go back to the track.
Doesn't it feel better?
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Old Sep 29, 2012 | 05:11 PM
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Yeah...when I first did the swap it would downshift hard but flatten out. Now it pulls hard through 6200 rpms.
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Old Nov 12, 2012 | 03:39 PM
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So if you havent already mentioned it, what were the biggest obsticals with this swap? How many miles were on your LS4 and on the LS1 you installed?
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