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Gandalf · #1 10-17-2011, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Gonzo

Jeff- Car will be leaving to the upholstery shop on Tuesday.. It will be gone for a few days.. Call me before you come out to make sure that it is here..

I was anxious to here the exhaust system on this car!

The car kicked me a fought me all day yesterday to get fired up.. The one thing that worried me the most was that I opened up the wiring harness that Speartech had re-worked for me & cleaned it up & loomed it in nylon braid.. My fear of LS wiring on LS conversions is completely gone.. Getting the engine to build oil pressure before fire up was time consuming.. but once pressure was built it was smooth from their.. The dry sump oil system worked out great.. It holds about 11 qts of oil.. The temp maintained @ 180 thru first fire-up.. The ProPart Spek gages are awesome... But I am having a problem getting the the rest of the gages.. ProParts is working on getting the rest of them to me this week..

The smoked glass on this car is going to look great... Today I get the rest of the door glass in..

The SEMA crunch continues!

Hey Chris - congrats on the startup - sounds wicked! I forget the motor specs - I'm gonna have to go back and look. Never heard of those gauges so I looked 'em up - holy cr@p - those are some 'spensive dials man!

As for the rest of your startup experience - I can almost quote you. I have to update my own build thread but suffice to say I spent most of the day re-wiring also. Speartech was fine. ISIS was fine. Custom dash fine but the combination of the above took some last minute (re)work. Similarly - I am no longer scared of the LS wiring. However my fear did extend well into the oil system esp at startup but my engine builder showed me how that goes.

Anyway - glad you are getting close. Looking forward to seeing this monster at SEMA!

Gregg

Cris@JCG · #2 10-18-2011, 08:31 AM

Gregg- I have never posted engine specs.. We had a stock LS7 that we opened up & changed a few things.. kept the stock crank & rods, changed the pistons, balance & blueprint, valve job, Avaid oil screen baffle, new cam that I will have to look for specs..

The gages were a bit pricy but worth it to monitor the engine that we all worry about.. These gages are used in Cup racing.. The cool thing about them is that they are programmable.. If oil pressure hits 20 PSI.. it warns you by turning red.. same for oil temp, water, tach.. The speedo has pit row monitor to not exceed speeds on pit row..

ISIS was discussed early in the build but decided to keep the wiring simple.. This car is complicated in many ways but also kept easy in other ways.. Ken W from Wire 1 has been great to work with… I told him that I wanted to clean up the engine harness that Speartech had done for me.. but I had never silver soldered.. He gave a crash course on it & told me to mark all wires before I started.. learned a lot .. That was my biggest fear on the engine fire up.. all good.. Ken did the rest of his own body harness..

The oil system was another worry because we did our own system to a extent.. This is our first car with all in house custom plumbing.. learned even more on that part..

The Vaporworks/Ricks fuel system again worked perfect for me.. Of course it helps that Carl comes in and sets up my gas tanks with his system..

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Originally Posted by Gandalf

Hey Chris - congrats on the startup - sounds wicked! I forget the motor specs - I'm gonna have to go back and look. Never heard of those gauges so I looked 'em up - holy cr@p - those are some 'spensive dials man!

As for the rest of your startup experience - I can almost quote you. I have to update my own build thread but suffice to say I spent most of the day re-wiring also. Speartech was fine. ISIS was fine. Custom dash fine but the combination of the above took some last minute (re)work. Similarly - I am no longer scared of the LS wiring. However my fear did extend well into the oil system esp at startup but my engine builder showed me how that goes.

Anyway - glad you are getting close. Looking forward to seeing this monster at SEMA!

Gregg