8.1 Chevy Vortec Swap....

[70rs]

Sorry to hear about the water issue. I hope it is nothing that reqires a new motor. Good luck!

[69MyWay]

Here is the low down on the mow down.

The painless wiring is super high quality nice stuff and easy to work with.

got it all wired with the body off the frame so I had full access to do what I needed, then wrapped the harness purrrty.





Loaded up - radiator in place....and ready to test it all out - of course the engine failure was already present - I just didn't know it---yet.



Then I noticed pressure in the radiator - I never got the engine over 190 in the drive - and it spit water out of both exhaust manifolds.

So...we drained it out.....



cappuccino anybody????



Here is what I found - BOTH head gaskets blown - how weird is that? I'll get the heads to a machine shop this week.






I went ahead and started the cold air intake build - it is looking good - but going to be a super tight fit. The air intake goes over the radiator support down the front to a 10" Anderson Performance filter....

Waiting on headers now too - but will work on getting the engine healthy before they get there. I'm actually on a schedule...have to have this flogged out and functional before December. The final report will be in the March 2010 Corvette Enthusiast magazine with all the details of how this thing went down.

Now....I have an eye on a Comp cam xtreme energy cam...some roller tip rockers...and of course we could do a little head work while we are at it. However, I planned on running it stock first - spinning the dyno to figure out what we have as a base line - may be denied that opportunity now.