Heads/Cam Done!!

Done Deal!! took me 2 weeks and a thousand broken parts later... Sounds like a muscle car now finally. At first I thought I blew a head gasket, but it ended up being water from when the sucker caught on fire. It definitely needs a tune though; considering it's a cc306 111 LSA running through a ported intake, and full port/polish heads with 2.00intake/1.5exhaust. It runs at 850RPMs and has a lope like a mother freaker. After about 5 minutes of running she'll throw the service engine soon light and I'm pretty sure it's from running pig-rich. The exhaust burns your eyes man... Time to go dyno in a little bit as soon as the rest of the kinks/tune is done. I drove it quickly around the block and she is a bit of a dog under 2500Rpm's but on the rest of the way up it's being thrown back in the seat and when I shift it's worse!! I'm back in love with her again.

Who else P&P'ed the heads?

Wanna install some headers in an LS1 in a few weeks? :death:

I brought them to my buddy Mark who ports heads and had him shave a thousanths off and to just increase the flow numbers at each lift by a few more cfm's... You know I'd help you out let me know when..

95TA8280, from what I understand (read), the Header install on a LS1 is a cakewalk compared to doing one on a LT1. This is coming from guys who have done both.

grygst76, do you think you can get that cam to pass emissions?

Originally posted by Van5150
95TA8280, from what I understand (read), the Header install on a LS1 is a cakewalk compared to doing one on a LT1. This is coming from guys who have done both.

That's whatI heard too....I did them (with a friend) in my LT1 and we had to have a mechanic finish the job, but we did 9/10ths of it. However, my tool collection is crappy, and it's always fun to work on cars with other people!

Lol , it is fun to work on OTHER peoples cars.

What Headers were you looking at to get? I was eyeing those FlowTech Long Tubes for my LS1, they are like $380, ceramic coated no doubt.

Originally posted by Van5150
95TA8280, from what I understand (read), the Header install on a LS1 is a cakewalk compared to doing one on a LT1. This is coming from guys who have done both.

grygst76, do you think you can get that cam to pass emissions?

I'm not sure....Plenty of overlap to remove EGR, but at the same time I'm emissions exempt (not revealing secret) I run with no cats and no air no egr no emissions period. If I tried I would fail miserably due to the heads being ported for more fuel as well as the lift of the cam....

Originally posted by Van5150
Lol , it is fun to work on OTHER peoples cars.

What Headers were you looking at to get? I was eyeing those FlowTech Long Tubes for my LS1, they are like $380, ceramic coated no doubt.

I was looking at those too (from Thunderracing) I was also trying to find some pacesetters, but I can't find them....I'm concerned about the ypipe for the flowtech, I've heard some disaster stories about that...

I wonder how much it would cost for a shop to make me a ypipe?

Originally posted by 95TA8280
I was looking at those too (from Thunderracing) I was also trying to find some pacesetters, but I can't find them....I'm concerned about the ypipe for the flowtech, I've heard some disaster stories about that...

I wonder how much it would cost for a shop to make me a ypipe?

Ebay sells LT pacesetters for like 289.00 with 150.00 for the y-pipe for LS1's. Custome y is going to cost around 200.00++

I too have heard around $200 for custom Y-pipe, find a midas on a very slow day and you'll have 3 guys knock it out in a hour.

Emissions exempt, huh, I gotta try that, lol.

Originally posted by grygst76
Ebay sells LT pacesetters for like 289.00 with 150.00 for the y-pipe for LS1's. Custome y is going to cost around 200.00++

I've been looking around and I can't find any headers right now.....

Originally posted by 95TA8280
I've been looking around and I can't find any headers right now.....

http://www.redlineperformanceengineering.com/

it's currently down now but they have them

Just wanted to add something here...A lot of people are using "seafoam and pouring into their intake and claiming huge changes in their car, I wanted to add that when my heads were off (120,000 miles) I noticed VERY LITTLE carbon buildup on the pistons. I cleaned it off with an oil soaked rag and the pistons looked almost new. I wanted to add that for no reason at all because what that stuff does is the same as a car that runs too rich, it wipes the oil off the rings and the cylinders which in turn scrapes the cylinder hone which in turn causes premature wear which in turns causes REBUILD..

Well, got the pcm tuned by pcmforless and installed it yesterday, new impression is.....dissapointment. In order to not stall her from a stop I have to rev it to 1500 before I put the clutch up. It has no power before 2500 and it feels sluggish. The idle is very choppy and it idles at 1000 instead of 850. Brian did manage to lean out the fuel a little because the exhaust does not burn your eyes now but why it seems like a dog is beyond me!! I turned my street driver into a drag driver without realizing it. Oh well, the price you pay for speed I guess right??

AHHHH!! The beauty of double-checking everything... I took my a/c delete pulley off and rechecked my spark plug wiring on the passenger side and lo and behold....A totally chewed spark plug wire to the number 4 cylinder. Just changed it and test drove it again, I am mud spelled backwards. She just wanted to take off and fly:eek: :eek: My clutch will definitely need to be replaced because now more then ever when I shift to second around 4500 it bogs a little and won't grab the clutch. Anyone have any suggestions what I will need for a clutch??

Brian got the tune right on the money. After driving it for a little while to let everything learn itself the idle is at 900 exactly and it pulls nicely. Unfortunately I have to keep the revs up to make power which means my camaro sounds like a harley. Dyno'd at a mere 378@6400Rpm's and 360 Torque Impressive, but I was looking for 400 to the wheels. Only way I'll accomplish that is with a set of LT's and true duals I guess;)

Originally posted by grygst76
Brian got the tune right on the money. After driving it for a little while to let everything learn itself the idle is at 900 exactly and it pulls nicely. Unfortunately I have to keep the revs up to make power which means my camaro sounds like a harley. Dyno'd at a mere 378@6400Rpm's and 360 Torque Impressive, but I was looking for 400 to the wheels. Only way I'll accomplish that is with a set of LT's and true duals I guess;)

Not bad. What was the A/F? What rpm was peak torque at?

Originally posted by RealQuick
Not bad. What was the A/F? What rpm was peak torque at?

I didn't have the A/F measured even though I should have since I think it is a little too lean now but the torque peak was right up to horse at 5900 which IMO was strange. It wanted to keep going past 6400 but I bought used lifters and one of them is got a bad tick so it made me leary to spin it more. I only got to do one pull since I didn't pay for it. It seems I made more torque with the stock cam but then again I'm pretty sure my engine is a little tired with 120,000 on the clock. Nothing is truly broken in yet since I can't or am not supposed to be driving (license suspended) so I was limited to staying close to home. I also have no cam surge under 2000 like everyone else says they have, why is that:confused: ;)

The surge showed up:( Matter of time before speed kicks in.) Have to keep it @2100 to stop it...Powerband..(homer Simpson) voice GARRRRRRRRR....