Well, this build kind of took a little turn for the last few weeks.

After the big push to get the truck done for Goodguys Puyallup and have it run like crap that entire weekend when it ran at all I worked with a few guys on LS1 tech to get a new computer with the proper operating system in it and decided to start over on a tune with HP tuners.

Anthony setup an ecu with a 6.0 4l80E tune. Ron came over and we spent an entire 100 degree Sunday messing around with the truck trying to get a tune on it. We had the truck running but the tune was still wrong. We checked the fuel pressure at the rail and it was waaay too high at 92 psi. I pulled the fuse on one pump and the pressure at the rail came down to 58 psi right where it should be.

With one pump running the cavitation I was experiencing got worse. As the truck was running we could watch the datalog and see the truck going from rich to lean and back again. As the pump would cavitate it would go lean, then the pump would pick up and get quiet and it would go rich.

Ron headed out of town for a few weeks after that and I literally have not touched the truck. It is in the exact same spot with the ecu hanging out of the glove box that it was when Ron left.

I need to rebuild the fuel system. I am pretty sure I will just do a new tank with an Aeromotive Phantom system in the top of the tank. I cannot get the Bosch 044 below the level of the tank sump without it being super low to the ground.

With that being said, I have lost pretty much all motivation to work on it this summer with just a few weeks of nice weather left up here I am going to enjoy it out doing something instead of working on the truck.

A little....6lbs and 50% Throttle and the thing is still stupid fast on a terrible tune.

Funny guy you are. Was good to see you guys two weekends in a row kind of funny how much we have in common really.

Thanks for the props man, car is pretty damn fun to cruise around town in. Been racking up some miles the last few weeks on it too. Got just under 30 MPG heading down south last week.

Let me hear more about this Daikin VRF stuff you want to know about. I am a Daikin authorized 3D dealer here at work and we have installed lots of them...

Thanks, lots of thought went into them and even though they are not really the right font, they look pretty slick.

Rushforth put the truck on his Facebook page and I was a little suprised at how many haters there were on the Chevy powerplant in the Ford.

I guess after years and years of engine swaps, I dont even think about it anymore, cool is cool in my book. If someone put a ford in a chevy and did a great job of it and it made a great car as an end result I would care less of who made what part.

I guess when the weather gets ****ty here, Ill pull the hood off for Aaron and Chris to work their magic on it and get a fuel system ironed out.

Dan, Ill pm you my number.

Sean

Bummed to hear it's being stubborn with ya. Hey...it's the shake down period and there are always a few glitches. It's to be expected. Probably not a bad idea to walk away for a few. I've spent days working on one little thing trying to make it work or fit with no luck. The next day....BOOM it's done in like 2 minutes.

The truck looks great and it's going to be a lot of fun once you've got it all dialed in.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Eff-em....
You are spot on: Cool IS cool regardless of the manufacturer. I'm a Bowtie guy but I love all cool vehicles (& Volvo's too :thumbsup: ).

Ordered up new fuel rails and adjustable fuel pressure regulator with a gauge on it yesterday.

Going to reconfigure the fuel pumps location to right at the tanks, get rid of one of the filters and plumb it up differently. This should hopefully fix my fuel system woes and get me back to doing some tuning on the truck.

Not having it running or driving after all this major work due to what I believed to be a small problem is pretty annoying. I just need to get it fixed and get it out to use it. It does nobody any good just sitting in the garage taking up space.

More to report in a few days.

Sean

For those that are following along with this here is my most recent update.

New Billet fuel rails, adjustable fuel pressure regulator are installed and quite nice looking.

I lowered the mounts for the fuel pumps several inches and ended up with much happier fuel pumps. We were able to set the fuel pressure right where it needed to be at 58 labs and fire up the truck and the pumps sound so much better now. =)

My friend Ron and I have been working on getting it running better for the past few weeks and learning as we go. We were stumped for a long while as even though we had the MAF failed in the tune, the truck would not allow us to make any changes to the VE Table and we were getting no code for MAF not being there.

Ron finally figured out a few settings in the tune that we needed to change and we were finally able to fail the MAF and make changes to the actual correct VE Table. this was the last day that we were able to work on it. Ron took off for a week in the Desert and I then took off for a few days and headed to Vegas for a long weekend with the wife.

Weather is turning to fall weather up in Portland now so most likely this will be stuck in the garage for the next several months. I am really hoping that we can get a descent tune on it get it running and driving reliably and make a little boost so I can tear into it for this winters round of work.

15" front Wildwood brake setup to finish off the brakes and a totally custom interior.

Hope to get some photos up here soon to get this thread more exciting =)

I am trying to come up with next summers big trip. Any opinions on the best event to try and get to next summer?

Short list for me is:

Power Tour
Holley LS Fest
Bonneville Speed Week

What big shows you guys headed to next year?

Sean

Sean

Power Tour would be super fun.. I think im going to do a turbo LQ4 or maybe a 5.3 in my camaro with a 6 speed, after seeing your truck and doing some research I cant see putting a bunch of money into a gen 1 small block again. Did you ever bring the hood back to Aaron?

Good job, Sean. I hope you're able to get it out a couple more times before winter sets in.

Wow... Love this!! Amazing job

Not yet...there are a few other things that need to be sorted out over the winter with the paint. The seam sealer on the cab and the bed continues to crack the paint, the bed is getting worse along the horizontal seam and above the drip rail on the cab is really bad. I am concerned. Are you not working out there anymore? Hope you are you do great work man.

I would do a 5.3 in your camaro in a heartbeat. They are cheap and easy to get your hands on, get it up and running and then put some boost to it. I wish I would have gone that route instead of Boosted from the start.

The Gen 1 motors are just old these days. I can get an easy 300hp junkyard 5.3 that will run circles around an old carb small block for a fraction of the money. Let me know if I can help, I would be happy to.

Thank you....you and me both.

Thank you, hope it gets better this winter with some more goodies.

It is nice to hear that some people still get this.

Here are a few shots of the new fuel system at the front.

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Super happy with how the black billet rails and the regulator worked out. I was able to mount the regulator directly on the back of the fuel rail cleaning up the entire setup.

Sean

X2 on the LS...sent you a message.

I'll be at PIR again this saturday helping a buddy win his PRO3 Enduro. If the weather holds and you want to watch some good door to door racing come on up.

Dan

PS I hate Daikin

Any updates? One of my favorite builds.

Thanks for following along still.

Sorry for the lack of activity on here.......Truck has been holding down my garage floor for a while now. Fuel system is all ironed out and we have it running but still not tuned. Running out of time the past few months and thinking of taking it in to a tuner to get the rest of the tune ironed out. It is a very time consuming task for the novice to get it running good enough for boost.

Did a bit of cleaning on the old truck this past week in some spare time. Still trying to figure out the tune thing but have been burried with house stuff the past several months.

Never really had any good photos of the truck out of the garage so I snapped a few of them. Truck looks good in my opinion. Dropped the front a little more.

Trying to see if they will let it into the Portland Roadster show as well.

Probably going to look into ripping the frontend apart, doing 14" willwood's up front and powdercoating all the frontend parts for more clean and shine under there. Front suspension is the only real area I wish I would have torn apart and painted/powdercoated better.

Sean

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Love the Build!!!

Nice!
:thumbsup:

Thank you

You all up to speed on that Daikin stuff now? We just finished installing a 100+ cassette system recently. I have multiple buildings running them now and we are fully trained and a Daikin 3D dealer now =)

Hope you are doing well man, its been a crazy busy year or so at work.

Sean

Sean,

Looks better than ever...wow. :thumbsup:

Btw- how's the interior room on it?

The Daikin equipment (VRV3/ VRF) has proven to be pretty solid.....the Reflok fittings, not so much. I'll be headed to California for factory training next month, we'll see if I'm still trainable!

Have you heard about the NW Drag Tour? It's a mini drag week for the NW. Woodburn, Portland and Bremerton in 3-4 days....that truck would fit right in!

I'm sure I'll catch up with you before too long, glad to see you pluggin away, the truck looks great!

:thumbsup:

Who is sponsoring that? Sounds cool! link?

I posted over in the events section so we don't dirty up Sean's thread....

Nice truck and a kick ass Volvo!

Truck looks good in the pictures, nicely done.

I am starting to get the itch to build a simple turbo motor, but I want to do it on the cheap...

Do it!!!!


Huge thanks to Ron for all his help on this, we had a great day. I think we are past the little gremlins as we were not only able to successfully tune this thing today but we were able to drive it around....quite a bit if I might ad too.

Made a lot of changes to the VE table and got it running well enough to even get it into some boost.

For the first time since this whole build started I was able to drive it around with a smile on my face. No weird transmission shifting issues, no dying, no weird hesitations or funky things when the fan turned on or shut off, it was like driving a brand new car.

Shot a couple of pictures of it with the man responsible for making my entire weekend!!!

Did I mention that the weather here was amazing today?

We put about 25 or so miles on it without a hiccup and have it pretty damn happy for where we are at in the tune. More to come soon so stay tuned.

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Thanks Ron and Anthony for the help (LS1Tech). It made my entire month to be able to drive it around even if it was just a little bit

:drive:

Sean

Great to hear its working out and you got to enjoy some of your hard work.

Thank you!!

Drove the truck into work yesterday with zero issues other than finding some tire rubbing all the way around.

Drove to work, lunch, ran some errands after work and just had an epic day enjoying the truck.

Damn thing is a hoot to drive. Big boosted V8 with an Auto and a real converter in it is way more fun to drive than I ever imagined. If I can get traction, I bet it will be a pretty quick little ride.

Sean

The weather here was just amazing this weekend. I managed to spend the entire weekend not doing much, helped out a few buddies and spent some quality time with the wife.

Cleaned up the shop though, like clean clean, pulled all the stuff out, scrubbed and pressure washed all the floors. Cleaned everything up before it went back in the shop too.

I took the truck out for a little bit yesterday, drove it over to a buddies house to pull apart a jeep liberty top end. What a job, got one head off and found it cracked so we made the call and ordered up two refurbished heads for it today, it should be going back together tomorrow night.

Truck is great to just drive around, enjoyed it out in the sun yesterday but it really is quite boring without any kind of a stereo. I stopped in yesterday and picked up some 6" coax speakers and a small kicker amp that has bluetooth capabilities and auxiliary hookup. Not too sure I need a fancy head unit, I can just use the bluetooth or an auxiliary input.

I was going to put them in the kicks but they are just too big. I think I am going to do some 4" or 5" separates up front either in the stick speaker hole or build some kick panels to house them.

Here is what I started on last night. The plan is to build a nice little speaker grille for this and kind of hide it back in there and then I will wall off the back are and carpet everything to make it look neat and clean.


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Also brakes should be getting ordered for the front as long as I can get them to fit. I thought that I had lots of clearance but 15" rotors are pushing the caliper out to where the spokes start to come back a bit. Looking at a full Wilwood setup with 15" cross drilled/slotted rotors and 6 piston calipers. Should fill up the wheels a lot better =)

Sean

Awesome
 

Love the cross-breed:king:

Thanks...its actually kind of fun. Thinking about my next project and I guarantee it will be another cross breed.

Only had a little bit of time to work on it last night, still helping work on the Jeep 3.7 rebuild.

Got the grilles mounted up behind the panel, then the speaker to follow that. Rounded over the front edge of the panel where the speaker opening is to give it a little more smooth look.

Also built the other side last night.

Picked up some speaker box carpet as well and got them covered. I am not sold on the carpet not matching the floor carpet but they just about dissapear behind the seat and finish off what was a pretty unfinished area before.

With carpet

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In the truck....and really hard to get a photo of.

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What you see when the seat is back. Pretty much dissapears.

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Thinking I might run a single subwoofer to go along with these 6" speakers. Not sure if I am going to run a set of fronts or not right now. Maybe after I get this stuff up and running.

Sean

Looking great Sean! It's always nice to have some music, especially on longer road trips....:secret:

Sounds like the lil hot rods really coming together, nice work!
:cheers:

What you mean like a really long road trip? Like Northern California????

You get my email I sent to you a few weeks back?

Sean

Wicked
 

Beast of a turbo setup

I did. The short answer, yes it's a pain in the ass, yes I need training, I did code the machine to get all the valves open and Baymont Inn. I'll get back to you with some more goodies tonight.

See you in California.:thumbsup:

You are a good egg Basher....I dont think I am going to make it down there, sounds like a great weekend though. Maybe the next one.

I ordered up front brakes last week for the truck. Wilwood Aero 6 6 piston radial mount calipers and 14" Two piece rotors with custom hats and rotors. They are drilled and vented like the rears and should match the rear stuff pretty close.

I ordered from Todd at TCE Brakes. He does a marauder setup, but has realized that there are tons and tons of these frontends going under hotrods. He was truly great to work with through this process. He had a ton of information and I had to keep up with him...he knows brakes. I should have them in about three weeks. He was waiting on rotors.

Super stoked about that.

I ended up ditching the 2 channel bluetooth amp and went with a retrosound head unit. It was just not going to work that well.

Picked up the radio on Friday and got it installed on saturday along with a single 6x9 in the dash. Its a dual voice coil dual tweeter setup so you can run both front channels to it....pretty nifty.

Radio is super slick, if you were not looking for it you would not know its not stock, but has two aux inputs, two USB inputs, bluetooth and tons of preouts.

Stock knobs went back on the aftermarket radio along with the stick bezel...Ill snap some pics of it finished up tomorrow.

Also finished up the rear behind the seat with some MDF panels all carpeted up. It looks finished behind the seat now.

But the real reason for my post.

I have been chasing a tranny fluid leak for, well since the truck first started running so last year around this time.

I had pulled the pan once when it would not go into reverse and found some plastic in the rear park pawl. I straightened up the flange and put on a new seal to try and seal it up with no real luck.

I have been under the truck looking at it and cleaning it trying to find where the damn thing is leaking, it was not the tranny pan from what I could tell, it looked like it was above that as I had fluid above there. Lots of suggestions to replace the internal harness but I was getting lo leaks there.

I picked up a tiny hint of fluid around the output VSS sensor so last week I picked one up.

Had a little time this morning and was dreading what I was going to find tackling this on the garage floor.

So I jacked up the truck and popped out the VSS sensor, well I took out the sensor part of it. It was obviously broken at some point before I got the transmission and I neglected to figure this out a while ago.

Here is what I took out.

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Got both parts out, cleaned things up, put the new sender in and took the old girl for a spin. Checked it after I got back and it was dry as a bone. Checked it just now, still dry.

Good news all around, the plastic parts I found earlier in the pan, from this sensor. The leak fixed. and all back to normal.

Put a few miles on the truck and the stereo and both worked great!

Looking forward to dinking around with the front brakes when they get here and doing some more tuning with Ron.

He was not feeling well today, hope you feel better buddy.

Sean

Finally getting around to finishing up a few things underneath.

Ordered up an ADDCO sway bar and got it unboxed yesterday. I was pretty disspointed with the finish on the bar, it was chipped and scratched up before I even got the bubble wrap off of it. If you look at it wrong the paint just falls of. Seems like for what they charge they could have powdercoated it or something, it is just crappy paint, not even a primer on it or anything.

I guess I will need to pull it out after I get it all installed and get it powdercoated.....just what I was hoping to do with a finished part.

Looks like it will fit, I drilled the holes in the frame yesterday and got it close, I have to put a thin spacer underneath the bar to clear the flexible coupling on the turbo crossover pipe as it just touches the bar at ride height.

I picked up some 1/4" plate and 3/8" plate to build spacers out of today 1.5" wide. It should be about perfect.

Might get it all installed and buttoned up after work tonight.

Sean

Little update:

Gettting the truck ready for the Portland Roadster show coming up in just a few short weeks. I spent a good portion of the last weekend with the truck up on the lift just cleaning and detailing the underside of it. Looks like I have all the leaks fixed. Cleaned up a few electrical connections with some zip ties and just general tidying up. Things still look good under there.

Also got the sway bar all painted and the front suspension cleaned up. It actually cleans up nicely. Here are a few underbelly shots of the old girl.

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Its not spotless but its pretty damn clean under there for an old truck.....my hands were damn tired.

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Then on Monday, my new brake setup showed up. Here is the stock Crown Vic setup on still...

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New front setup from Todd at TCE Brakes. Amazing stuff from him and I would recommend him in a heartbeat. Wilwood AERO 6 black caliper, stainless lines, cross drilled and vented two piece 14" 1.25" rotor with aluminum hat......turns out I had room for the 15" rotors. Should have just committed to them earlier.

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This is just mocked up on there. Still need to plumb and deal with the raw rotor finish. Hope to have this all buttoned up Saturday.

Sean

Oh yeah --- the Wilwoods are WAY better looking....

I'll keep an eye out for it at the Portland Roadster show.

I'll tell ya the same thing I tell my guys....trim your F'ing all thread! (U bolts) I've got a headache just looking at it!

Truck looks great Sean, wheels, brakes everything about it is spot on!
Nice work.
:thumbsup:

Haha!!! I totally need to get under there and cut that **** off. Never been a convenient time to do it.....I guess I had it on the lift last week so no excuses.

Thanks for the props Dan.

Well the show rapidly approaches.

Front brakes went very well......I have no idea if they stop or not yet though.

Todd at TCE is the man. Everything bolted together very nicely and had no issues at all. Pedal feel is excellent so far.

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Some goodness in this photo...

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Went through and fixed a few things that were bugging me under the hood a few bolts that needed swapped and cleaned up the rest of the stock paint inside the truck.

Built some stantions to go around the truck and picked up soem carpet from a friend of a friend.


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Truck gets loaded up in the trailer tonight and goes to the show on Thursday.

Hope all goes well and looking forward to a fun weekend.

Sean

At the show..

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Managed a little seat time this past weekend and got the brakes bedded in.

Took the truck to this local sunday night cruise in called Red Door Meet. It is mostly imports,some european cars and a few muscle cars. I have never been before.

The turnout was crazy. I was impressed as there were hundreds of cars there, all parked on either side of the road angled in. Everything from other muscle cars and pro touring rides to bikes, beemers and other cool cars.

Truck got a ton of compliments and looks from lots of people. All in all something I thought was not going to be that fantastic, turned out to be a really fun night.....I just love cars.

Now that the show is done, I want to get back on the tuning in the next month or so and get out to some events to see how the truck performs.

Ill keep updating this as time goes on.

Sean

Actually driving around.....at the store picking up groceries for the wife last night.

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Nice write up on the truck, well done!
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