After almost one year without the Z, it's going together tomorrow. Built the engine this week and got everything ready to go in, and tomorrow I'll be stabbing the engine and tranny. All that will be left to do is reconnecting the wiring harness and fabbing up the pipe for the intercooler. Then break in and tuning. PS what do you guys think about the coil brackets I made for the LTCC?
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/848245/2

Thanks to everyone on this board that has offered advice, and thanks to the guys who have bought parts from me to help make this possible.

 

Looks great.

-What's up with that main girdle shown?
-What would you say you have into the coil pack conv.?

Let us know how the 50#er's work for ya, what brand are they?



-Scott.

 

Initially I was going to use the main girdle instead of converting to the four bolt main, but after second guessing myself, I took the block back to the machine shop and had the 4 bolt mains installed. I probably have about 550.00 or so in the LTCC not counting the Taylor wires. Thanks for the feedback.

 

Looks good. What's the deal with the iron LT1 heads?

 

I get that question a lot lol. Larger combustion chambers is the main reason I went with them, I ended up with 8.2 to 1 compression and I'm planning on running about 16 to 18 psi. Plus I've done some asking around and the iron heads tend to have less problems with blowing head gaskets, plus I like iron heads better because I dont have to worry as much about stripping out bolt holes and spark plug threads. The only other heads I might run would be the TFS heads because they also have the larger combustion chambers and a thicker deck for head gasket retention, but the only real difference between them and the ones I have is about 50 lbs and I'm just not willing to pay 1300.00 for a 50 lb wieght reduction, and the AFR heads are completely out of the question, the prices on those heads are beyond rediculous.

 

Love it!



"Hey dad, when I turn 16...?"



Ryan

 

 

Looks good!! Hey I'm curious did you decide to use the stock front main cap or did you change it to a billet unit? Reason I'm asking is because the machine shop that did my block F'd up royal and didn't machine the block the way I wanted it done. So just curious what you did cause ill be running about 6 lbs less boost than you. Thx

Mikey

 

Do you have any pictures of the bypass valve mounted? Looks like you are going to have a good time driving that car.

 

Normally a shop will only splay the center caps (not the end caps).

 

Yep what I'm saying is that when they do splayed mains they can also put a billet 2 bolt front cap on the engine. In supercharged applications where you have a lot of tension on the front hub a billet unit should be stronger. My machine guy forgot to do it for me but also said my engine should be fine. I'm just curious if he replaced the front cap or just the center three. Thx

Mikey

 

That beast is guno run!!!!


How was your fitmit issue's running that size Intercooler? I'm looking at getting the same size I see in the pic that it buldges a little in the bottom. Did you brace your bumper skin? Do you have any more pic's on the subject? Thanks

 

Sorry for the late response guys, I was out of town for a week for training. On mine just the three middle caps are splayed, from what I could tell by searching and what my machinst told me most of the additional stress on the crank from the blower was only twisting force on the hub and what little extra stress the belt tension added was minimal so I decided to go with just the three middle caps. Everyone seemed to be in agreement that that set-up would be plenty strong so I went with the opinions of those that have more experience than me . I still need to run the intercooler lines and finish a few details on the intercooler mounting. I have considered trying to raise the cooler location a few inches to make sure it wont hit parking stops and such and I'm still working on wiring and installing a lot of stuff in the car that it didn't have before this engine build. The engine and transmission (and other drivetrain pieces) are all in now, so I'm finally in the home stretch. I wont be able to take any new pics for a few days cause I left my camera in my chiefs command truck and I'll have to wait till I go back to work to get it