SS Camaro - Track trips, build pics etc.

[01SSRedA4]

Made me smile making the video

[01SSRedA4]

Here is a pic of the coolers, i thought i bought a matching one in size but it turns out it was about 1/3 bigger. Oh well, they fit. The new one is in the center and notice the Ys on the framerail. I changed to black nylon hose and will be buying that from now on, that stainless mesh line is shit, pokes the heck out of your fingertips.



My heel isnt even healed yet and now this. Always wear your gloves gentlemen.....sike I dont wanna die without any scars!!!! This cut was down into the meat LOL.

[JerryHawk250]

I really need to set you up with a meeting with our safety guy. No fingers dangling so your good to go. It's starting to come together.

[01SSRedA4]

If Im not bleeding, Im not working.......so it seems most times.

[01SSRedA4]

Been a while since my last update. Been building this for a buddy....
https://ls1tech.com/forums/forced-in...-75-build.html

Not much been going on with mine other then the usual crank up and maybe drive around the yard. Long story short, things appeared great (dont they always) and after bringing the motor to temp one day last week......the oil pressure dropped to 30. Checked the dipstick and yep, it had bearing material on it. It was time for some real soul searching. I chose not to replace engines every 15 miles!!! I also noticed the cylinder heads seemed dry (but no lifter noise). My conclusion is very obviously this motor, as well as the last one, has an oiling issue. But what is it, it eats bearings at 70 psi of pressure. After careful examination of the LS oiling system, Ive concluded the oil is being picked up and pumped at least to the sending unit at the rear top of the engine, but somewhere in the upper galley isnt making the pressure to force it up the pushrods OR down to the rods which are the last two things to get oil. I cant see the rods but if i can get oil to the cylinder heads the rods are getting it too. So how is 70 psi being lost so quickly, internal leak, front cam plate maybe. Once I realized I had installed a new cam plate I said lets keep it simple. You have an oiling system issue, you altered the oil pan/pickup, the oil pan has been on both engines. Lets reinstall a stock pan setup THEN go from there. Well when my buddy brings over a stock pan I look it over. Front of the pan is 5.5" deep, rear is 5", I estimate stock pickup clearance is 3/8"ish. I maintained height when i moved the pickup back :bang: So the pickup is literally laying flat on the pan floor if you subtract those measurements, which is causing massive cavitation. I opted to shorten the pickup i had instead of go back to a front sump. You can see how much i cut out here in this pic. I also upgraded to an ICT Billet turbo feed just because i liked the way it looked. And yeah its shooting oil out of the pushrods now :cool: Hope i caught it in time.

[roundhouse]

Love it when that turbo spools up. My kid bought a 92 camaro a few weeks ago. It is lucky if it is 200hp to the wheels even with a mild cam. I got him some headers for Xmas. Removal of the almost 30 year old catalytic converter will probably wake it up a lot. A far cry from your car but one must start somewhere.

Wish it had an LS swap but at least it is a 350 and not a 305.

[Weldangrind]

It looks like you had to cut a good 3/4" off. Nice detective work.

[01SSRedA4]

She's been on the back burner for a bit, other then the pickup tube repair, due to the turbo TA i was building for a buddy. But she went home Sunday so its time to get back on this car and get ready for some personal best springtime ETs. And we know these cars are never done right?

So I had a pretty nice interior in the car, sewed it years and years ago. It still looked new bc of how little I drive my car. As luck would have it I just happen to find someone local who was wanting to refresh their interior......so we struck up a deal. It's time to move on and let someone else enjoy it.

Here's what the guy bought, all 4 seats, and both door panels.



And here's how she sits today.



Not sure if you remember awhile back when i did the lexan windows, and the front and back glass was busted, but when pulling the seats out for the buyer i found this:



Whoops! Well I've got some clean-up to do. On the agenda: (in no particular order) 17" kirkey prostreet drag x2 with the black tweed covers, Wolfe aluminum door panels wrapped in carbon fiber 3m, a custom back seat delete including cutting holes in the floor and flattening it out, remove the passenger door bar which i never got around to doing, may replace that window motor also since its been in my tool box for about 4 years (works but its a little slow), ZR1 MAP sensor, and also gonna ditch the stock PS lines and make up new -6AN lines that route completely away from the hotside. Stay tuned, should be a fun little transformation!

[JerryHawk250]

She needed a little weight reduction anyway. I think the local track will be opening up in the next few weeks. I have a few buddies that are still racing. I know I shouldn't go because I'll get the itch again.

[01SSRedA4]

Our local track has sorta turned into a joke with the new lease-Es. They are doing next to no prep work and letting the street racers crowd the line and do a prep your own lane BS. Not to thrilled about that. But the seat and likely future roll cage is more for safety rather then track rules.

[JerryHawk250]

Our track would hold a test and tune night on Wednesday nights to let the street racers run and then on Friday they prep the track for test and tune for the true race cars and run a race later in the night. Then on Saturdays just full blown racing allowed only. Don't know if that has changed any as I haven't been to the track in over a year. Feb. 8th is the first big 4 day event. http://www.noproblemraceway.com/services.html

[Weldangrind]

I'm looking forward to your AN line fabrication project.

[01SSRedA4]

Well all the fuel and PCV lines have already been that, kinda figured yall would be bored with it. This will be a clever solution to a real problem though. Recent car i did had hose to hotside clearance issues worse then mine.

[Weldangrind]

Not bored! I'm looking to learn, and I might consider custom lines for my Silverado hydroboost system.

[01SSRedA4]

Summit dropped off a surprise.



Spent the morning making some simple brackets out of 1.5" wide flatbar. Though the seats are very stable, I think I going to add a backbrace to them temporarily until there is a cage to support the backrests.



After an hour of cussing i got the passenger door bar out. Weighs 8 lbs. Here's the dzus fasteners Im gonna use to hold the new door panels on.



What i will wrap the door panels with....



Rear seatbelts and the little bit of stock carpet in the hatch was 18 lb per my shitty bathroom scale.



The tools I used to get the door bars out, the new -6 line that will be PS hose, and the ZR1 map. You must drill the intake out to 15/32 for it to fit, it is slightly larger.



MAP is installed (waiting on the harness adapter), there is no panels or carpet in the car from the backseat back. Took the seats back out so i can work in the rear. Going to modify the floor and start cutting off brackets I dont need.