New Guy from across the pond!

[WarShrike]

Whew, busy freaking day. Had to stay till 11 when I was slated for 8pm clockout. One of our techs got food poisoning after eating at McDonalds. So my anticipated rolling of the Firebird into the garage has to wait until tomorrow morning.

Time to attach the sensors to the wire loom, install injectors, run the lines for the trans cooler and PS cooler, install driveshaft, put on crank pulley bolt, etc. etc.

I also need to pick up shorter bolts for the k-member as the long ones are just place holders right now. I need 4 of the same length as the bolts found on the furthest to the rear of the k.

So, without further adieu, I give you pics:

9:30 AM
Started clearing a path to the car, half the bay is filled with the old OEM parts.

10:00 AM


10:15 AM


10:45 AM


11:00 AM Fighting a heavy engine and trans with a jack up front that keeps slipping down the smooth tubular K-member proves to be very challenging to line up.



2:00 PM Time to shower up and head to work.

[WarShrike]

8 months in the making. As of 9:00 am, the car finally breathes again.

View Video on FQuick

Still need to check the pushrod preload after it idled for a few minutes, neighbors have some contractors doing some work from their garage and they were both looking outside down the street like
Sounds like I have a freaking pro stock car in my garage

I also need to install new pads/rotors and bleed them and get it ready to take it to get it aligned. Gotta hook up HPT as well.

Mods:
Whisper Lid
60*Inclusive ported Heads and Intake
Intense S1X NA Cam
Yella Terra 1.7 platinum roller rockers
Manton pushrods
FFF Longtube headers
TSP Rumbler Catback (not hooked up in vid)

TCI 3800 stall
Aluminum driveshaft
Trans cooler

BMR 32mm front, LS1 19mm rear
UMI LCA's & Adj. PHB
PA Racing Tubular K-member
B4C power steering Cooler

[immortality]

sounds good as is. shame you need to hook up that exhaust

[Ozzie]

Love it!.... nice work.

[WarShrike]

Thanks guys, car is pretty unhappy, need some time to run the tune and get it aligned. Had more snow lastnight so it is not really safe to move around much lol!

[WarShrike]

Back up and running, time to tune!

[BIG-EV]

Man that sounds intense... the second part of the last vid sounded like a hefty eight... hope my new l67 blocks sound like that once i get her up and running

[westerlybreeze]

Mmmm sounds good

[WarShrike]

Still trying to find time to tune, working full time plus school lol!

Had to install 130# valvesprings as the 105# ones didn't cut it and I feared I'd be getting valve float.
130's on the left, 105's on the right.



New license plate too

[NightRIDA]

Nice plates!!

[WarShrike]

Installed LS6 injectors to deal with the current stockers just getting too close to maximum duty.

Getting started!


LS6 connector from Casper's Electronics:


Spliced into the harness:


Injector Spacers:


Back to tuning!

[WarShrike]

Just got back from a dyno session at Texas Speed & Performance, I've been nervous all morning hoping everything would work out okay. I think I was more nervous than the day I got married!

As many of you know, I've been doing part throttle and cruise tuning on this car for quite awhile with help from a friend of mine [John Ginter]. The tuner at TSP commented on the overall idle of the car and how it did on the cruise and that it was doing pretty well. He did 4 or 5 pulls with cooldown in between. He was just trying to get the AFR just right, finished it up around 12.9:1 and it was pretty happy at that point. Open longtubes were creating a little noise issue with the knock sensors, he said it might have made a little more without it causing havok on that.

Going to look at getting a new harmonic balancer to help with spinning this thing up above 6K at the track since this thing without a balance shaft vibrates like crazy.

Just getting there:


3.8 Liter capacity strap-on:


Hot under the collar:




Anyway, numbers.

3rd gear pull, unlocked 3800 stall:
196.02 hp @ 5600 rpm
196.33 tq @ 4600 rpm


2nd gear was a little cleaner line:
195.12 hp @ 5750 rpm
206.14 tq @ 4600 rpm

These weren't really power pulls more just to get a good tune. He didn't want to lug it too bad in 3rd with it locked out.

Compare to stock 'verter/trans and 140K mile motor:
184 TQ @ 4700 rpms
169 HP @ 5300 rpms

I am honestly pleased to see these numbers through a big stall. There's so many things that have changed on the car that just looking at the numbers it is hard to really compare the two as this car is very different from when I first started.

Going to the track tonight, running the 1/8th and hopefully get some times for tonight.

[WarShrike]

[WarShrike]

Long time no post....

New exhaust:


Some shots of the car with the Speedline Mistral 6's. Can't find another set like them here...






Doing a T56 swap with a Mal Wood Adapter:


Corbeau CR1 seats:

[hustlin420]

really nice work man, awesome to see, shame can't get something different like that here