I would have to say that I enjoyed the build the first time around in the magazine.

But the redo that you have done by far has captured my attention and it just so cool to watch all the work your doing weekly if not daily.

Keep up the great work.

Car looks amazing Jody!!! I might have to "just be in the area" this weekend... Hey it gives me an excuse to bring by your LM1 right.... :D :D

yes it would.................. :D

air cleaners showed up, and got the breather tanks mounted. I had some nice tanks Mark built that bolted in the wheelwells, but they didn't clear the new air filter location, so I bought some Stefs aluminum breather tanks and mounted them in the area next to the air filters. I drilled and tapped the valley cover on the LS2 behind the intake and ran two #10 lines to the tanks. That's pretty hidden, and is a baffled area of the engine, so there shouldn't be a lot of oil pushed up. I ordered some different breather caps from the tank with a nipple fitting on them, and ran a line from there to the air filter base. This way there will be no smoke or oil smell when the engine is running. I did this before on other cars, and was reminded by Charley, as I think they did this also recently to the Red Witch.

The coils just showed up, so I'm going to see if my mounting idea will work, right after I finish up the trans lines.

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Jody

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Can you post a pic of the caps? Car looks great!

my camera sucks at close range. They're basically like these:

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forgot to post where the oil filter ended up. That last pic didn't work as the front bumper brace interfered. So it ended up being bolted to that brace. Clears the tire easily, up behind the bumper, not hanging down at all.

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Been looking at this sign a lot in my shop. This has to be one of the most frustrating cars to assemble that I've done. I need to talk to Mark and see if he had the same fun as I am, or if it's just me............ :willy:


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fastened the intake down after the breathers were finished (had to move the manifold to get to the rear breather ends). Hooked up the fuel line, added 5 gallons of gas to the tank, and set the fuel pressure to 55 psi. Best part, no leaks!

Now I'm on to building some brackets to mount the coils.

Jody

Jody it's really coming along beautifully, despite all the little difficulties. Thanks for posting the updates, keep em coming! -Rob

working on mounting the coils today. You'd think it would be easy to find a place to put them, but it's not, at least not for me.................

First I made some spacers, and with some 1/4" all-thread I got the four coils for each side as compact as they possibly could be. Thanks to Tony (Nineball) for this idea, saw it on his red 69 Camaro.

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For you Camaro and Chevelle guys you can use the above setup and build simple brackets and bolt them to the back of the heads. They're virtually hidden and pretty simple to do. But on my car the engine has been set back further than normal; Mark had modded the frame pads to slide the engine an addition 1.5" or so, and this makes the passenger head very close to the firewall. I wanted to keep this setback, so the rear of the heads was out. The problem from here was trying to get them in the same area on each side. Originally I wanted to put them in the wheelwells, but Chevelles don't have wheelwells........... :D They're so small you'd have to remove the the wheelwells to put them on or do any work on them. One the drivers side you could build a bracket to bolt to the side of the block to mount them; not on the passenger side, starter is in the way. On the passenger side they could be mounted to the front crossmember, no way on the drivers side. No frame room either side, etc. So this is what I came up with.


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Added some braces and it's very solid. It's tucked up high out of the way of water, debris, etc. and still has plenty of room to get the wires and harnesses in there. Now on to the drivers side; similar deal but will need to be spaced a bit further out to clear the oil lines.

Jody