The LS1 came to life today!!
 

Got her fired today, what a sense of relief!

I was so worried as we tried Saturday with no luck, today we tried again scanned the PCM and did tests for spark and fuel. Diagnosed the problems, as soon as we fixed them, the LS1 came to life right away. I am so freaking happy right now!! :thumbsup:

The thing sounds mean as hell, of course with open headers and the cam lope was shaking my whole house!

I have some videos, but don't know how to post them.

It's going to the shop Tuesday to have the suspension done (lowered, alignment etc), exhaust/intake built and frame connectors installed as well as other things. When I get it back it should be ready for some shakedown runs!

Thanks for all the help and support!

Ryan

Hi Ryan,congrats on getting the car done, so it shouldn't be too long before it's back on the road.l Look forward to seeing the videos, any up to date pics? :thumbsup:

Good to hear,

That moment is always a special one when you work on your car. I will be there sometime next year too with my LS1.

Just curious, what was the problem that you had when it didn't start.


Love to see the video. You have to host it somewhere, maybe Scott can help you out.


Jan

congrats
 

its always a big moment bringing the vehicle to life .............nerve racking also...congrats
please post pics...... its our way of seeing what you have done.....
hey, we all wanna see another lateral-g machine come to life!!!!


radrambler

Huge congrats on bringing her to life!!! Your almost there!!! :thumbsup:

Thanks everyone!

We had the ignition wired up wrong, John at Speartech clarified that, and the fuel lines were mixed up at the regulator, there were no instructions with it, or any arrows so we assumed the wrong inlets/outlets. Swapped them and it fired first try!!

We had some other electrical gremlins like lights etc, but we took care of that.

I'll try to get some vids up tommorrow.

Ryan,

Glad to hear you got it fired up. Thats always a good feeling. Now you`ll be driving it in no time.

Time to drop the hammer!!!!!

Kurt

autokraft.org

I finaly received the videos from Ryan. All I can say is BAD ASS!!!! Nothing more cool than what you see in the 2nd video. Just something awesome about seeing a guy next to a 69 Camaro with a computer! Very impressive. The car sounds and looks sick!!! :woot:
I hosted these right off my new site. :)
1. Ryans 69 Camaro LS1 fire up from front.
2. Ryans 69 Camaro LS1 fire up from rear

Varoooom! Rumpity, rumpity rumpity rumpity, rump...vroom!

There goes the neighborhood.
/Steevo

The only thing better than pics are videos. :thumbsup:

Thanks guys, and thanks to Adam for hosting them!

BTW: the guys in the vid are not me! One is my friend Matt who has the tuning software, and the other is Mo, who did all my wiring.

Hi Ryan, great to hear the car's up & running at last :yes: Is that a rebuilt engine with a new cam? If it has got a new cam, then you know the cam has to be run in, ie keep the revs up to 2-2500 for 15 minutes or so, buzzing the revs every now & then, otherwise you'll wear out the cam lobes & the life of the cam will be drastically shortened. Just don't let it idle on tickover too long!

So when do we get to se the vids of the car on the road :thumbsup:

Thanks for the tip, the engine is used with a new cam. There are alot of varying stories over at LS1tech to do with cam swaps, so I'll take what you said make sure it gets broken in properly.

I'd say the car will have it's first shakedown runs in about a month.

Damn Ryan! I hope you got your exhaust/suspension completed. I think the 4th gen has to go. I NEED a 69 :hail:

Congrats Ryan. Its nothing like firing a engine for the first time.

With the roller cams in the LSX engines is that really important? I thought that run in cams just was for tappet lifter cams.

That engine sounds really great, hope that you can keep it with mufflers.

My bigblock had a great rumble sound and my greatest concern with my LS1 conversion is to try to get the same sound from it.

What Cam spec do you have?

Great inspiration


Jan

Yeah, you're right there Jan, sorry, but for some reason I was thinking flat tappet technology, ooops!

Thanks Jan,

The cam is a Texas Speed 233/239 112 cam, you can read the specs on thier site. They also tuned my PCM for the cam. I hope to keep the rumble with mufflers as well, I think it will sound pretty good. Going with dual 2.5", X-pipe, Magnaflows and 3" tailpipes out the rear.