01ssreda4

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Intercooler showed up and I had to do a quick mockup just for fun. Brackets fit nice.



The pic above with the turbo mounted.....it was just barely bolted on. Here's why. Not thrilled I had to pull it back off.



Here is my solution. I red locktited them into the flange, time will tell if it holds or not.



Mocked it up on the table to save me some work laying under the car.



Final mount-up, got the alternator mounted up top also.



All the coldside done, it lacks a belt at this point to be running.



Got the tubular bumper support to work with the intercooler....it required some minor trimming.



They said 73 inch belt, that turned out to be too long. Ive got a 71 on there now but its a smidge too tight but will work for the moment. The stock tensioner gets relocated to where the alternator used to be, and the iron blocks dont have one of the holes for the mount. I ended up grabbing the side bolt hole and making a bracket from scratch, and so far its holding good.



You can see the bumper was already cut for airflow to the trans cooler, but i wanted to trim it more. This is what I started with.



This is how it ended up.



What do you do when you want your exhaust tip centered but dont have anyone to help you?? Well you electrical tape bolts to the dang thing. Made great spacers.



Turned out nice I think. I did go back and paint the hanger/frame red.





Piece to the front brake line. I found it crushed and replaced it. No clue how that happened but glad i saw it.



Ive got the segment swap done, and the 3bar VE with real time tuning, which Ive been playing with and its cool as ****. It was fighting me all day but i believe I had incorrectly input some of the injector data. I was starting to make some progress but ran out of daylight. It also added some fuel to the oil (running pig rich) so I got that crap out of there and put the Rotella in. Motor purrs and is very smooth but now Im showing no oil PSI, Im thinking my chinese sending unit didnt like the e85 oil. But, no leaks, and Ive heat cycled it about 5 times. Fuel psi crept down to 50 psi? So i dialed it back up to 60. Little crap now at this point.

sweet99ss

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Nice progress! Bolting the turbo to the hotside flange is always a mother ****** lol

01ssreda4

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Still fighting the tuning, it's being a bugar, but it's running and idling. It pulled out of the garage under its own power so we know a couple things, reverse works on the trans, I've burnt 5 gallons of e85 already and it's only moved 15 feet, and the manual brakes are hard as ****. Oh and I've already had oil pressure issues.....next update soon.

blk00ss

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Just curious why you’re not using a boost referenced regulator?

01ssreda4

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I am using one. It's hooked up and does work. During vacuum it reduces fuel pressure, which I didn't realize, and I still had the tune set up like stock where the computer limits fuel during vacuum. Long story short the settings in the tune are flatlined and I'm letting the regulator reduce and add pressure over the base setting.

blk00ss

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Yeah it’s common to set your base pressure according to how much peak boost you run. So you’re setting your pressure at 60 with the car running?

01ssreda4

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No, it's 60 with the car off, the regulator pulls it down around 50 at idle, and in the tune the flow rate with vacuum is flatlined at 127 across the board. The computer doesn't make fueling changes for vacuum, it's done entirely by the regulator.

01ssreda4

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Well I figured I was tuning this week but it just didnt work out that way. While working on the idle tuning i noticed the oil psi showed zero. I honestly didnt think much of it because the motor was very quiet and I knew i used a chinese sending unit. When the turbo started blipping oil out of the exhaust i figured i better investigate. Yep, mechanical gauge showed 5 psi. Hoping for a pinched pickup o ring i drained the oil and filter. When pouring the filter out I noticed specs of trash coming out of it. So I cut it open to investigate further. Whoops.



New oil, new filter and Ive got 70 psi again. I decided to check reverse and see if she could back into the yard and sunbathe for the day.



I need to put the hood back on but it bothers me my stickers are now inaccurate. So I decided to go ahead and clean the underside of the hood and dig in my sticker stash to keep things updated. Also, the black above the Cam Motion sticker was where i had some foam tape to keep the clear lid from rubbing the hood. Glad that can finally go away.



Here's the new sticker arrangement. Pic is a little washed out but you can see Aeromotive, circle D, autometer, transgo, turbosmart, msd, hptunders, and sje were all added.



Hood and headlights are back on, and i also glued the tab for the rearview mirror to the lexan front windshield. We will see if it holds, and I hope it does because you cant see **** out of the tiny side mirrors. The brake pedal is ROCK hard. I'm going to give it a fair chance however if it proves to be miserable stopping the car I will admit defeat and go back to the booster. And we do know at minimum reverse and first work in the trans because it pulled itself back in no problem. You can also see the shock tower bar I added, not for looks but because the front lexan is lifting slightly and I believe its from cowl twist. This should help, I also added more screws to the lower edge. Next, we terrorize the neighborhood.

01ssreda4

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Wanting to put a master list together for anyone duplicating any part of this.

Turbo kit: Huron Speed

http://shop.huronspeedproducts.com/H...it-v1TMkit.htm

Wastegate: TurboSmart 45mm TS-0506-1002

http://www.turbosmartdirect.com/Prod...psi-Black.html

Boost Controller: TurboSmart TS-0106-1002

http://www.turbosmartdirect.com/Prod...ler-Black.html

Fuel Pumps: Chrs1313 dual 450s

http://www.speedinc.com/chrs1313-dua...p-in-tank.html

Belt: 71.5" 6 rib off ebay (715k6)

Oil Pressure Sending unit: PS303

Oil Filter: Wix 51042

Coolant Overflow: Dorman 603-001

Vacuum lines: Sickspeed brand, 10m of 6mm, 5 foot of 10mm from ebay

Fuel Pressure Gauge: Marshall MNB00100 from ebay

Fuel Lines and fittings: All from ttfitting on ebay

Vacuum caps: Dorman 41050

IAC Valve: AC234

Throttle Body: WARR W92LS-VP

e85 tester: Fuel-It

Exhaust tip: 3 to 3.5", seller xtips4u on ebay

PCV: 8ft of -10 AN from ttfitting

12 bolt cover gasket: 5104R

Wideband extension Harness: Autometer 5252

Collector Copper Gasket: ACE Gasket 4210

Hose clamps: Russell 650990

Exhaust wrap: 2" wide from seller wzho3115 on ebay

Exhaust Flange stud Kit: Dorman 03133

Heater hose bypass: from seller mtmills on ebay

4l80e tailshaft seal: Feiock Performance FP 400RS2700

Fuel Filter: From seller le_ji84 on ebay (China delivery)

Fuel Y Split: Z122N from seller fassterllc

Boost Gauge: Autometer 2614

Pushrods: Summit/Jegs brand 7.400

Vacuum Block: SickSpeed 2016

Fuel Pressure Regulator: Aeromotive 13303

Low Oil Sensor blockoff: ICT Billet

Flexplate: ATP z-270

4l80e AN Fittings: from sweet_performance on ebay

1/8 NPT Weldable Steel Bung: ATM 2260

4l80e Service Kit: Oregon Performance Transmission

4l80e Forged Yoke: PST brand bought from Midwest Chassis

-10 AN Fitting for valvecover: WARR brand

Pinion Seal: Ratech 6109

Turbo Oil feed fitting: PRE-60416BLK

Plug Wires: MSD 32829

Plugs: NGK 3346 gapped at 22

Knock Sensor: AC Delco 213-3521

Coolant Sensor: AC Delco 213-4514

CatchCan: from seller ael-supply on ebay

Fuel Rails: Z967 from seller fassterllc on ebay

Lifters and trays: from seller panthersales on ebay

Oil Pump: Melling 10295

Head Gasket: GM 12622033

Head Studs: Speedmaster

Valve Springs: Alper-Motorsports PEP PSK658-8-7

Injectors: Bosch 127

https://www.texas-speed.com/p-3976-f...injectors.aspx

Exhaust bumper Trim: MotionRaceWorksLLC

Converter: Circle D Triple disc

http://www.circledspecialties.com/4l...o-series-258mm

4l80e conversion harness: Nelson Performance

http://www.nelsonperformance.com/80e-conversion-harness

Map Sensor: EFI Source

http://www.efisource.com/shop/ls1-st...ar-map-sensor/

See anything I missed let me know.

Hilton

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I had a little down time today and read the thread. You're almost there!
Good job.

01ssreda4

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So the LAST non-running update.....as I've indicated, I've been having some tuning issues with the car. Quite frankly, it wont hardly run, wont hardly idle, barely starts sometimes, and wont rev clean in park. I have been trying everything I can to figure it out, and nothing I change makes a difference. Saturday I finally decided to swap the MAP sensor out with a stock truck unit. My reasoning was, even though I was seeing 105kpa with the engine off, I was only getting 65-80kpa during revs which didnt seem right (remember I dont tune for a living). Well the truck MAP spanned almost the entire 0-105kpa scale and allowed me to make corrections that it actually responded to. With a single VE correction i had it revving to redline smoothly, SUCCESS!! My buddy Randy who gave me the intake had another 3bar MAP for me to try, and guess what, it worked. So I got a janky sensor out of the box. I'm going to use his sensor in the meantime to get the tuning done this week. Since the old lady is off, i plan on letting her be the passenger seat laptop holder <<<<--insert evil grin.

AINT SKEERED

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glad it was a simple fix . electrical gremlins are the worst for me

01ssreda4

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Well this is a depressing update with a happy ending. Go back to the oil pressure issues. I figured out the black junk was from the rocker arms, it was flaking off, so that was accounted for being in the filter. The car was running good and AFR wasnt bad so we went on a drive, after a couple of quick reflashes she went into boost for the first time. Holy ****** of God. The pull at 7 psi on the wastegate spring is retarded. I am officially in love with boost. After experiencing this glory one friggen time, the oil pressure tanked again. Luckily we were close to home and I limped it there, and swapped filters again. All back to normal. So I go on about tuning some more and even gave a couple test rides to friends (no traction from a roll), and on my final drive of yesterday it happened.......we buzzed the neighbors standing outside with the turbo whirl and the BOV pop, made a pull and it was there.......a rod knock. After examining all top end components i crawled under and pulled the filter and it was clogged with metal debris. I believe the previous two had been also I just saw it to be dark and assumed it was sludge. So we are gonna make the best of it, and go back with an aluminum block this go round to shave some weight. I know this motor didnt run long but damn was it glorious when it did.

To note, the brakes are growing on me some, the converter from circle D feels perfect, I can build boost quickly, I was even able to footbrake to 3k on a dusty blacktop road so that has a lot of potential and my trans cooling is not adequate. Ive got a sister cooler and fan on the way and will be doubling cooling capacity while maintaining the rearmount cooler setup. Also, the BOV with the lightweight spring was staying open at idle, and with the heavy spring would not open at all. This is what i did to the heavy spring to make it work correctly.



Side info, I was pretty disgusted with the situation so I made the best of it and put some new cabinets and microwave in the Camaro's corner of the garage. I may run a dedicated outlet for the microwave but for now just ran a cord to it. This is a hangout spot for us LS guys to hatch our devious racecar plans where the womenfolk cant find about it! Pretty nice cabinets for being store bought home depot thingys.



New motor to come grrrrrrr.

sillysspeed

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Uggggh... side note 100lbs back off the front will be a welcome thing. I don't buy any of the aluminum blocks don't hold up bull crap.

01ssreda4

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Pretty sure the fastest sbe 5.3 in the country is an l33, which is what I'm buying hopefully monday.

sillysspeed

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Exactly. My buddy ran sbe l33 and 243 heads for 2 years. Beat the hell out of it on the street almost every day with tune starting around 600rw and going up over 800rw (22lbs) until a rod finally broke. He wasn't mad at all

snowbound98

Great build, just finished reading start to current. Sucks about the engine. What came to mind was you had the pan off and looked at the bearings and iirc you made a statement to the fact of good enough? I know how it is, sometimes you have to draw the line somewhere. But damn, I was really cheering in your corner and wanted to see some times. Prob not as much as you did but I’m bummed for you none the less. I’m in the early stages of building an iron 5.3 for boost going into a 94 Formula and was really getting into what you accomplished NA. Great weight reduction, and I really liked how you were sticking with the stock appearance. One thing you mentioned was your flow rate being at 127 across the board. I tried tuning another one of my vehicles by doing the same thing. I couldn’t find any data on my injectors and the guys at HPTuners we’re telling me to tune around the fuel data. Essentially what I was trying to do is tune using the air flow and adjusting the primary VE table based off what my wideband was saying. I got close but wasn’t perfect. I figured it was just because I was street tuning and not loading all cells on a dyno. When I turned on my MAF and got out of speed density, it was a **** show all over again. It’s a nightmare trying to tune airflow, impossible really. I stopped, emailed, called and searched high and low until I got the data on the injectors. Never got all of it, but got enough to fill in the cells that I needed and then the software will fill in the voids. What a difference! It was much easier to tune in with the correct injector data. Hopefully I didn’t read your post wrong and got all long winded for nothing. I’m a newbie at tuning, wouldn’t give advise or act like I know anything but the software is awesome and every time I play with it I learn and get better.
Anyway, I’m impressed with all you’ve done and continue to do. I’ll be sure to keep up on this build and look forward to updates. Keep at it, be safe and I wish you all the best.

someblackguy224

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Read this from start to finish! and i would like to commend you on keeping a log and pictures. you really did a stand up job and i am sure you will have this thing running in the next few weeks seeing as tho all you need now is the motor!!! Great job and best of luck!!!

01ssreda4

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Thanks, bc the engine looked so sludged up i took off the #2 main cap and inspected that one main bearing, it was in fair shape, not great, not fucked. I also inspected the stock cam and lifters when they were removed and they were acceptable also, hence my reason to chance it......

You'll be pleasantly surprised when you see this new engine, shes gorgeous! 06 L33, 101k miles, from Florida, looks brand new. Should be here mid week.

01ssreda4

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Ok ok here's a teaser, yard sent me these right before UPS came and picked it up this morning. Turbo Round 2 here we come.