Leaving 2.59s in my old Vette with a mild H/C setup. Then selling said Vette to a friend who put 3.73s in her and was trapping 114 in the 1/4 versus you trapping 108 with the 2.59s

 

Nice, that would have me
Hows it going bud, havent heard from U in a while?

My biggest mistakes:
-Going round after round with the same dirtbag building my 4L60E untill it got to the point were he took the trans back for a rebuild and never sent it back to me...
-Installing a T56 after convincing myself it was going to stay a street car
-Buying a Used Powerdyne supercharger

My best choice ever made:
-Buying the D1sc kit slightly used for about $2.5k less than new, and never looking back.

 

seems like my biggest mistake was not to read this post...
i bought a hypertech power programmer, dint even get it yet and now i know it s **** ;-( sad!
hope not to make any more like this one ......


Dan

 

What's up Fire...how is that car running? Haven't heard anything about it since the Desert. Mine is back up and going, I got plans for a better motor eventually, NA setup that will be in the high 10's/low 11's before N20..
Hit me back..

 

This is dead wrong, If I hadent ever bought used parts I would never have even come close to what I have now (2000SS M6 that runs 10.30s and still looks stock cept for ChroMo cage) most of the parts I own are other peoples "used up" bastard parts. Plus I have met people who have more good "used up" stuff to help me get my LT1 M6 car into the 10s all while retaining a stealthy stock appearance.

Dont think "used" means used up because with some forethought you can build a 10 sec monster for cheap running used parts. Pick hard parts that you dont need to know the whole history of and you can take your saved cash and put it towards parts like lifters, light weight racebrakes, 12 bolt/9inch rear.

 

I couldn't agree more.

On my first LT1 (385 ci) stroker, I was convinced that going too big would be a problem, but so can going too small. I purchased small AFR heads(195 race readies flowing 260 cfm), no intake porting to match heads, a small cam (Comp 503), shorty headers, no stall, and a mail order tune. My new motor was done right. This can be a costly and time consuming mistake to do twice like I did.

 

crossthreading bolts... Hand screw the bolts then tighten. NEVER start a bolt with a wrench or rachet.

 

Buying what i thought was a good car from some guy on ebay for $4,900 have to goto court this damn car didnt even run after 2 days of having it lied about many parts that where "in" it


well i just fucked up my MSD opti check my thread.. what a newb mistake

 

<--messed up my first lt1 driving like a moron

... moral of the story always drive with a clear head and pay attention to whats going on around you!! ALWAYS DRIVE CAREFULLY!

.. but i bought another lt1 camaro and stroked it out to a 383. Still tryin to finish that one up

im expecting this out of mine cant wait to see how it turns out

 

dont buy the hypertech programmer it sucks biggest waste of $300 of my life. only thing thats is about it u can adjust ur shift points. everthing blows

 

That was an old post..
Here is the stuff that I have gotten so far..
https://ls1tech.com/forums/lt1-lt4-modifications/695685-update-swap.html

 

Not spending enough time doing research on my car or any car before i bought it and jumping on the first one you like. Make sure you look into everything and i mean everything before you just buy something, just dumped 3k into my car and only had it for 2 months now im up to 10k could have gotten something allot nicer if i would hAve waited, but i still love my car.....
O yeah and dont go low balling every price you see on something else you see just gonna **** ppl off and get your self mad for not just buying it.

 

wearing safety glasess when I needed gogles.when grinding got a metal chip rusted to my cornea. $1500 ER visit & a drill in the eye sux.

 

My buddy did that, but he's psycho/retarded and grabbed a neodymium magnet and eased it out :S

 

You obviouslly don't have much experience with AC Delco parts. They have damn near as many junk units as most remans do. I used to sell Delco parts and was nothing to pull Delco alternators off the shelf to find they were junk.

And Bosch invented the O2 sensor, and I have personaly seen Delco O2's that were nothing but bosch sensors in Delco packaging.

 

Most people on the LT1 forum will tell you the Delco variant, for whatever reason, work better and last longer.

Can I contest to this, not yet, but I plan on taking my Bosch back and getting a Delco. If my driver side fails before the passenger, then we know. The driver side is only a few months older and is Bosch.

 

So much for not having experience!!! I did just what the previous poster is going through and guess what??? the Bosch failed and not just failed but miserably...... it's lifespan was much shorter than the Delco.

As for remans are concerned your talking dookie. How are you going to compare a reman to a non-reman brand "new" factory part??
I've had ACDelco remans last longer than any other reman around.
Remans are always going to suffer from varied results. When you go new you know your buying what the car rolled out with and if the car is over ten years old then that is what your buying. The same level of service and life.

From ignition coils to ICM's ACDELCO originals are always better.

So many wasted dollars on MSD blaster coils and yada yada yada. The ACDELCO coil has been tested to last longer and outperform by double or triple the life.

Use ACDelco. Forget little stupid stickers and aftermarket followers, do yourself the fukn favor.

Bosch is a european car part manufacturer......they don't know our cars with the exactitude AC Delco does. YOU can keep buying bosch all you want...I'll stick to ACDelco.

Don't be quick to buying brands you don't know and hesitate if it's a manufacturer not from the US. What makes u think they run our cars heavily overseas?

Know what fails the most inside the optispark?? the laser pickup...it's a lens/eye that picksup the slots on a wheel that relays the camshafts position.
Guess who makes that part of the optispark?? look closely at it....see those 3 diamonds???? Mitsubishi... that's right overseas junk led to the optispark's bad reputation. Don't put chit in your car that don't belong there....a lot of manufacturer's copy the size and dimensions of our parts but they don't know the performance.....cuz they usually build for weed wacking 4's.

 

Wow, so I guess you little automotive experience out rules my 8 years in the parts business. I've seen and handled more reman/new parts than you've laid eyes on. I stand by my statement. DELCO NEW PARTS fail just as often as new/reman parts form other manufactuers. Bosch makes O2's for 90%+ of automotive manufactuers in the world, including Benz, Porche and Lambroghini. I know in your mind they must not stack up against you all mighty GM. But, if they trust them enough to put them in their automobiles then I trust them.

 

I worked in Parts for 3 years, but sadly we didn't sell Delco parts. We could order them, but no one would go through the hassle. Might as well just goto the dealer and pay a few bucks more to have it that day.

There may not be one single thing wrong with Bosch, but if you read the forums, everyone says "Use AC Delco for the O2 sensors".

I'm not doubting your knowledge either Brian, you're a smart cookie as well as everyone else. I'm just saying, when it comes to the O2s, people have tried them all out, and in the end the Delcos just work better. Who knows, Bosch could make the Delco's O2s, but at the same time Delco could have a quality control, where they have to ohm out at a certain spec, or whatever. So all the Delcos are of near the same quality where as the general Bosch line is just whatever. I don't know, I don't care lol If the Delco O2 is that much more I'll just stick the damn Bosch in anyways.

As for the MSD coils and stuff, I can contest to it being proven they don't put out as much voltage as the stock coils. MSD and Accel both put out less power up top.

 

Dood you just finished naming all European cars!?!!! which we already spoke about is the majority of Bosch applications.

Also what your saying is that a reman of ANY brand name can rival the quality and service life of a *NEW* ACDELCO non-reman???!!!!!
the only way this could be remotely possible beleive it or not and it will upset your 8years of experience is if the reman is an ACDelco reman. Hahahah.

My factory alternator lasted 12 years. I went to AutoZone and cheaped out with a reman replacement of XXX name. It killed a battery and died in about a year.

I rememebered that the AcDelco new was almost a hundred dollars more. I went back and the reman was still under warranty....I demanded I be refunded and with the credit I added the hundred bucks and bought the NEW AcDelco. Not a single problem. And it's quite possible it can last a good ten years.

This wasn't the first time I've learned this lesson but it was the last. As I remembered my teen years being riddled with constant swappings of remans.

Why be cheap if you know the part your pulling out lasted GOD DAMN IT 12 years???? with what right can you expect more from a part??? and with what right can you expect to say that a cheeseball reman can be expected to deliver the same quality?? The only right you do have left to say is AC DELCO BABY your the best. You cost more but in the long run u cost me less, less work, less headache, and less hardship.

Do it once, do it right, do it ACDelco.

the tip and advice still stands now shut up bafoon and get over it.

and yes GM is all mighty. No one else can deliver a car with the levels of HP and gas mileage it does. No one else makes it possible for the average Joe to work on their cars as easily as we do. And no one else has been delivering these things consistently for so long.......while the blue oval is attractive and I like many other car makers as well. None are as attractive or as cheap or easily repaired than GMs. while it has it's downsides on other vehicles it's design is almost always configured for even you to be able to fix with specialty tools needed only on the rare. It is for this sole reason that soon my entire fleet will become GM and even my beater will be a GM. becuz altho Toyota seem to last longer I detest their layout and replacment/cost of parts.

I'd gladly pass on a Viper for a Vette anyday.

Long live GM.

I'm a northeasterner and I dont swing rebel flags.
A trend was observed and a conclusion was made....I'm passing it on.