I'm wondering if anyone makes a low mount alt kit that allows you to keep power steering - all the cars I've seen have removed the PS along with the AC.

 

Wondering the same thing...actually im gettin rid of the a/c but keepin the pwr steering, is there a setup for this?

 

That's exactly what I want to do. I hope someone has a kit so I don't have to fabricate my own.

 

im in too thats what i need, hope somebody can help

 

I've been kicking up the idea myself...

I have thought about using an LS1 powersteering pump and resevoir (that's all mounted together) and mount it low on the drivers side, while running a typical low-mount setup on the passenger side for the alternator. this would require the use of an underdrive pulley set like March makes, where you still retain the stock balancer, but you put a new pulley in behind it..

haven't had much time to mock-up any brackets to write a program for yet, but as soon as I find a spare shortblock laying around I'll give it a try.

 

I have fabricated it up myself. low mount alt on pass side, low mount PS on drivers side with idler pulley between alt and crank for good belt wrap on it.

 

^^^ haha, we're in the process of doing the exact same thing on the silver formula, just using a pump from a jeep. Thats really ironic

 

Dammit, I should just come over there and work with you guys. I used a pump from a 92 skylark, pulley from a 98 sunfire, and a high pressure hose from a 95 4.3 1500 which needed to modification BTW.

 

haha, he has a few more things that he's hiding, but i'll let you find that out for yourself

 

FWIW, that damn silver car nearly caused me to sell mine after the gathering. It is amazingly sick how clean that car was done. I can only imagine what he's got in store this year.

 

yes, sickening is the perfect way to describe it. I love a clean engine bay, i try to remove everything i can, and i think its safe to say the same for you, but that engine bay just doesn't compare haha. We'll one day catch up, that car has been steadily worked on and gone through a lot of stages the past 10 years so our time will come

 

What mine looked like about a year and a half ago when I bought her. hope to get the car painted in the coming year and I will do alor more smoothing and cleaning under the hood then.

 

yea, here is mine before everything i did to it, i like to think i made an improvement

 

Bear in mind, these pics are an extremely, way way prematurely advanced mockup of my engine project. (Please excuse the dust.)

This accessory setup cost me a little over a grand, but you can get it about $200 cheaper if you go with polished over chrome. (Polished block, heads, headers, intake, timing cover, optispark, and water pump not included.)






The company that sells this is a non sponsor, but whoever's interested can PM me for info.

 

Jesus.

Are you going to actually put that in a car? It seems criminal to put that somewhere that you can't see the entire thing. That's amazing.

 

is that a painted LT block or is that aluminum? or is it even an LT1 block?

 

Heres mine. I dont have PS but gives you more ideas.......

 

bling bling

 

It's a show polished stock LT1 block. Cast iron is a really striking metal when it's polished up right:




I'll have about 220 hours worth of my own polishing labor into this motor before it's all said and done.

 

care to share the process?