Thanks Wayne. My plans for paint were to try and get as much of the car done as possible and leave the paint pretty much to the end. I'll paint the jams before then, but the outer will be done later. With my luck, I'd end up scratching the up with every part I put on so thought I'd wait.

Hurry up and put those wheels on and take some pictures! :thumbsup:

Firewall came out great, nice work.

Nice choice on the wheels! In fact, nice choices on all of your parts!
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Thanks guys.

Well I decided to atleast put the rear wheels on today. I had to take the rear brakes apart though as I had the rotors on backwards. I'm getting pretty good at installing the safety wire :D I hope to have the fronts on next week as I go into my 4 work days starting tomorrow.

Before I got to the wheels, I spent a bit more time reorganizing the shop. I've put in a few shelving units to make more room. If any of you have ever wondered what you could do with your air tools, here's what I did with mine. I had them under a cupboard before, but the cupboard went to the dump so I made a new shelf. The initial cost isn't cheap as all the female air ends are not cheap. I plan on adding 3 more still for a total of 15.

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So now with the 305's, I still have about 2" clearance inside. I think once I wear these tires down, I'm going to send the wheels away to be widened (I can get them done for $150 each where a lot of the wheel companies want $400 each) and look at some even wider tires. Now that I have the wheels on the car, I'm really happy with the way they look. Here's some pics:

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WOW Mike! They look great on there. And the brakes really stand out nice too. When you get the color on the whole car it sure will come together nice!
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Looking great....really nice job on the firewall and I like those wheels much better :yes:

Thanks guys. I'm really happy seeing them on the car. I agree..I think they will look really good once the entire car's painted. I hope to have the fronts on later this week and will post pics.

I got the front end bolted back together with the shorter coils. I also got the front wheels on. Thought I would hang one fender and door to see how it's going to look. I think I like it :D

Next on the to do list is to get the tranny mated up to the motor and drop it in. I'll pull the subframe back out to put it all in at once instead of risking dinging up the firewall. I will need to check the clearance on the clutch as well as the scattershield.

Onto the pics:

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Those wheels really make the car kuddos:thumbsup:

Thanks...I'm really happy with the way they look.

I started doing some work on the engine today. I know the LS conversion is becoming almost the norm, so I thought I be quite detailed in what I'm doing. Any area where I had any questions, I will post more pics. Hopefully there aren't too many to make it boring. Onto the pics:

First thing was to take off the stock oil pan

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Yep it's definitely a LS

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Replace the stock oil pickup with the one included with the Autokraft oil pan. After talking to another member who did the L92 swap, I decided to leave the stock windage pan on also.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d.../PICT00655.jpg

The stock oil pan gasket is metal so there's no reason not to reuse it

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To get the stock gasket off, I had to drill out two rivets holding it in place

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Gasket in place

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Autokraft pan on

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When using the Autokraft pan, the stock oil pan bolts are a bit too long. You can either put washers under then or get new bolts. I decided to get new bolts as they look way nicer than the stock one. They cost me about 4 bucks for all of them with washers. Torqued to 80 inch/lbs as per GM specs.

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