Wayne, for your application I would suggest the CAT Power flexplate. Its got a legit SFI rating and the price cannot be beat by any other manufacturer. Its about twice as thick as the stocker. Best price in town:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/LS1-L...Q5fAccessories

Here's mine installed when I did my motor swap:

 

I wish i could pull my pump like that steve. On the third gen its all hard lines up top so i have to drop the rear and the tank and i so dont want to. The car has sat untouched for over a week now.

 

dropped a tank from a 96 firebird formula once... will never do it again.

 

Well when mine goes I'll be using my dads 2 post and a fork lift. No heavy lifting involved, just sweat and air tools

 

anyone have a good enough shop to do a k-member swap. lol Also would you like to help lol lol ill bring beer lol. If not ill just do it on base at the hobby shop

 

We've got a lift here, if your willing to drive about an hour

 

u got a good alignment guy lol im going to reuse my a-arms lol lol i get 29mpg on hwy lol

 

I don't know them personally, but there about three or four shops here in town that could align it.

Hell it ain't that hard to do it here ourselves.

 

yeah i k now thats how we always did it on our modified and late model race cars

 

 

When I cut the "window" for mine, I only cut three sides and folded the metal flap up. I then folded it back down and put peel and seal roofing material over the seams.

 

 

The jackess that had my car before me tried to make a window and hacked it up pretty bad. Then they found out the hard lines run over to the drivers side so guess what is dumbass done. I now have a hacked up window and a cut that runs all the way over to the drivers side. When i pull the tank im going to try to weld it all back together. YAY for more work.

 

I didnt want my car cut up, so heres my setup

 

i have a hole half as big as yalls

 

The tank is different on 98s than on 01s. The "window" has to be cut in different places.
I've never been scared to cut up any of my cars. IF I owned a 10K PERFECT SS; I'd probably care a little.

 

Yeah we went by a 99+up cut picture and it turned out to be slightly off. The 98s are a pain in the *** with 2 seperate connectors on the rear side of the tank, which is why Chris' cut got so big. No big deal, I'm an X welder, I can patch that **** back together like a jigsaw puzzle.

 

Well i dropped the rear and tank today so i could remove the stock pump. It was very simple to do by myself. It took less than 2 hours from start to finish using no air. The car is still popping through the exhaust so i think its something to do with the distributor because i just rebuilt the carb and done a complete tuneup. The car will sit until i order the complete MSD setup. After pulling the tank today ill never cut another window in a f-body.

 

Yeah I thought that lol

 

They should have come from gm with that window already cut. Lots of car companies have fuel pumps that are easy to access.