She's alive. Got to driver her a short bit yesterday. Street tune only. We are going to get a few heat cycles on her before we get into any serious stuff. Took her to Sullivan's to have the transmission gone through again. Tranny had a leak so we will fix that then set her up. AFter that Steve is going to finish the boost controller. I still have to pin the hood and the Corbeau Forza seats are due in next week.We are going to take it easy onmher this summer and wait for cool weather to see what she will do. Video is somewhat boring but you can see the difference between the initial startup and the tune James put on her. Car is remarkably docile for a 1200+ rwhp car.

Startup and running Video


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Also got first of new Corbeau Forza Seats

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Got a little deeper into the transmission than I had hoped to today. Nate at Sullivan's pulled it. The Torque converter I put into it was not sized right and we had beat up the pump pretty bad. We'd been keeping an eye out on the front aluminum hub for a couple of years now and we've decided to put it back to an iron piece. Little speed bump in the highway to hell but we are still headed home with this thing.

Right now guessing the pads on the converter were too thick and pressed the converter too hard against the input shaft wrecking the pump. Converter has had some metal in it, debating on having it gone through.

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Alumninum hub in the iupper left is probably a good drag racer only idea but for street uses we figure an iron piece will be more durable.

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We didn't have enough hours on the tranny to put any burn on the clutches.

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Here is the hub we are replacing

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View down inside the open Transmission

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My theory is that the converter pressure on the input shaft might have also resulted in pressure back up into the crank, fouling the reluctor wheel and taking out my LQ9...Just a theory.

Car sounds great! Please post video of first hard run. Your a disciplined man, as I would have already opened her up. Thanks for posting.

Well it is more a factor of wanting to get everything right before we stress it this time. Thanks though. May get the tranny done tonight.

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Nate at Sullivan's finished going through the transmission today. Replaced the front pump and freshened it up.

If it weren't for that hood, it sounds like you have a cammed LSx. Have fun!

She sounds great! I love the look with that hood.

Tore the sagging liner out today. Thinking up ideas. I was pressing for a Velvet Elvis headliner. Can't find one that suits me though. I have been looking at some shaggy Mink too but was afraid some activist would douse me in red paint or blood.

So you ought to try it with a roll bar in it.

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Had Special Performance Coatings in Irving Texas do my strut bar to contrast the Vic Jr. and match the overall setup.

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