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Originally Posted by rustomatic
Great to see you back on track with this thing, Sean. It's just great to see an actual build thread going on here . . .
Ditto on the Summit shipping deal. Between no sales tax in Nevada and my proximity to Reno (next day free), I can say that Summit is my favorite store in the world. I feel a need to visit them in person once or twice a year, just to show I care.
As for the tune, given your engine setup, I can strongly recommend, as an extreme amateur with HPTuners, a stock 2010-11 Corvette Zr1 tune (for a baseline, not forever). It got me running and driving instantly (not necessarily safely--the timing advance levels are crazy in the stock zr1 tune) after a (LS9) cam, injectors (Deka 80s), and turbo on my 5.3. Converting to speed density was pretty easy, but finding accurate injector data was a chore (but done). Success here may of course depend on your cam and injector choices . . .
Here's to happy predictability!
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I ordered in 2 fitting from my local speed shop last Wednesday for delivery Thursday, friday morning at the latest, stopped by friday night they have no idea what happened to them. They reordered on Friday, would be in Friday night no questions, stopped by Saturday morning.....we have no idea where they are or what happened. If I had ordered from Summit it would have been at my door on Thursday or Friday at the latest currently still waiting on them =) I try my best to order stuff locally but its getting harder and harder.
I am learning a lot about tuning but my buddy Ron is going to be the tuner on this one, he has tuned hundreds of cars and has a great skill set for this stuff as he really cares about things like hot start and driveability. Once we pulled the stock tune out, we compared the Cadillac tune with the truck tune and made changes between the two to end up with what was eventually loaded. Great pointers though man thanks for keeping an eye on the build and always giving some great input.
This is a total budget build for this site but I like you guys so I keep it going, I know it doesnt really fit the mold.
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Originally Posted by Flash68
You have had a lot going on! Glad to see you back on this. Thing is so bitchin.
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Its been insane dude, Thanks for the props I hope to get the chance to come down and run with you guys at least a few times this summer.
Didnt have much time to work on this turd over the weekend but did manager a few pretty nice steps of progress.
Hooked up power for the first time and no smoke so that was good.
Added Oil to the engine and it didnt all leak out of it.
We were able to turn the key on and check for things like fuel pump operation.....verified with a light not running the pump yet.
So we hooked up the computer and pulled the stock tune from it and Ron got to work building a tune and had the first one back to me on Sunday morning, I bought some credits for the first time, loaded a tune and checked a few things, throttle pedal operates, and gave her the gusto, she even cranked over!!!!!
I have a few things left to button up on the evap system from Mighty Mouse and still need to add fuel and check for leaks but should be able to test fire it on Wednesday night or Thursday of this week I am out of town all week until then.
I managed to pick up some seats from Rvolvo Asher that were damn close to what I was looking for yesterday after I chopped off some volvo axle brackets for him. Seats are a great fit in the car. It took a little work to fab up some brackets but they are pretty low profile and look great. Need some cleanup and powdercoat now.
I dropped them off at the upholstery shop yesterday and they are getting redone in dark brown leather with black double french stitch on the outers, black stitching on the center pleats and a small black embroidered RECARO logo where the plastic logo resides now. Adan has done all of my other seats and does a killer job.
I hope to keep progress on adding fluids and starting to nut and bolt things. Waiting on steering arms from Ben @ Kaplhenke Racing now to button up the front end.