Sweet upgrade!

Thanks Wayne. Kind of a boring update. However, except for that T***key engine :whistling: , I've had a great time with the car. I've been lucky and had the best work on my car and I like to give 'em some good ink and :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Things are moving right along. Texas Speed will likely have finished the motor in a week or two. Then it's off to SpeedTech for the install. :excited:

BTW, installing a McLeod RST with aluminum flywheel, too.

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Very nice Bryan. What is SpeedTech doing with your car?

Very Nice!

Thanks. They're building a LS7 for me then Speed Tech is going to install it and the clutch.

Should be a lot of fun. Here's the link:

http://www.texas-speed.com/p-3820-ts...y-package.aspx

That is going to be a lot of fun!!! Awesome.
That intake is pretty awesome. Nice welding.

The humps/towers in the oil gallery, what is them for? Is it for cylinder shutdown stuff on a Stock engine? Since it looks to be over 4 of the cylinders lifters. Do they pull oil from there?

By the way, a very Nice Camaro, it looks "beefy" :D And Nice color :)

I don't know. I'd give you a confident answer but I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night. :)

Thanks....it's a BMW color but don't tell anyone.

Ah, I checked on the net, and it seems to have some solenoids or something in the valley cover that shut of oil to the lifters. There was not much info actually..

I did not check that good though, not that interesting.. He..He.. There is easier to find performance data though.. :D

Texas Speed LS7 installed. WOW what a difference.

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Looks great Bry!!

Bryan engine looks good in there,I bet it is fun to drive.:thumbsup:

I love it! What a difference indeed!

That looks awesome Bryan!
Looks right at home in there.

Woaaaa
 

Dang rite that's very nice engine Bryan:G-Dub: will you be posting a walk around video of the car with it running???? would like to hear what this beast sounds like.:king:
Thanks Keith

Wow! What an awesome transformation from what you originally started with. There is a winery in Portland named Alchemy Vineyards. You need to get some of their wine to celebrate an awesome build. The owners are a young couple and his daily driver is an old blue 69 or 70 Chevy C10. Well done man.

Thanks Ron. Can't wait until yours is on the road!! I'm thinking Tuesday? :)

Thanks! Definitely a lot of fun to drive.

Thanks Wayne!

Thanks Tones!

:thankyou: Texas rocks!! From a rust bucket we bought from an eccentric old guy living in the middle of the Mohave Desert to this. Alchemy indeed. Sounds like an awesome road trip.


Ask and ye shall receive. Sounds better with earphones. :)


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Here's a better vid.

Arizona All Gens Camaro club had a great BBQ and dyno today at Piccione's Performance. Rick said the 538 HP number was significantly lower than I'd see on other dynos for some reason. It was a Mustang MD. Why such a spread on numbers for different dynos?

dyno.http://s29.photobucket.com/user/boat...41526.mp4.html

:thankyou: :)

Depends on the type of dyno be it a load bearing dyno(Mustang), inertia dyno(dynojet), or dyno packs that bolt to the hubs of the vehicle. They all work in different ways. What a dyno should be used for is tuning purposes. It's best to stay with the same dyno or type of dyno when doing changes and tuning or else what you're experiencing will happen and it will be difficult to quantify any adjustments/modifications.

Car looks great and 538 rwhp is a lot of fun

Thanks for the info Trey. The 538 is the hp at the crank.

It's interesting. Before we started, Rick told me the numbers would be low. Comparatively speaking. He estimated the numbers to be about 17% lower than I'd see on other dynos. Indeed, the Texas Speed "published" number of 630HP is 17% higher than 538. I'm not sure rwhp numbers were. I remember a couple guys saying it was slightly lower than the '13 ZL1.

I hear ya about the need for consistency in tuning. Makes a lot of sense.

:thumbsup: Bry

Looks and sounds very good. :thumbsup:

Nice!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

The next 10k should come up quickly too!

Happy driving Bryan!

Thanks guys.

Gotta drive it to keep up with the BoS Boys. Lots of mileage being racked up on their cars. :thumbsup:

Sweet !

Looking good Bryan.

Nice build
 

Really liked your build thread. Most of what you've done is what I have on my planned build if I can find a project car to start with. Just spent over 2 hours reading the thread and making notes to review against what I've planned. It will be great to watch Trevor's car come together. He is really lucky to have a 67 for a first car. He'll be the coolest kid in school when it's done.

Thanks again for sharing,
Rod

New paint
 

Back home with new paint.

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Looks fantastic, Bryan. Love the way it shines.

Daaaaaang :confused59:

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Bryan it looks beautiful! Great job on the pictures too.

Wow!! nice car!

Thanks. I've been running a "paint corrections" business out of my garage to keep myself busy in retirement. :) BOS did a good job on the paint but I needed something over the top to "represent".

The color's not the original BASF Valencia Orange but it's close. Steve Rupp would like it. ;)

Car looks amazing with the new color scheme. Is that a Marquez front bumper? How well did it fit?

Tony

Thanks Tony. I forget where I purchase the bumper. Might have been Marquez. Regardless, the fitment was not optimal out of the box and had to be cut to fit.

Bryan that is freakin awesome. Love how it turned out.