Ok look. You either have to take material out of the head, or you have to move the master cylinder.

And why would he want to go rotated? J-bodies already have the engine sit in the car correctly, an we have a better axle design (ie we have an intermediate shaft and then an axle to go to the passenger side rather than that 1 long goofy one cobalts have).\

let me illustrate.

 

it can be done ive done it and cobalts have an intermediate shaft also

 

The SS does, didnt think the LS did.

 

I think you got the axle thing backwards, I have one long and one short axle, the only J-Body with a intermediate shaft maybe the old 2nd gens? Set up the same way as the SS/TC.

Regardless, I'm gonna look at it again tonight and see what my options are...my buddy is really good at figuring things like this out...I'll let him take a look when he gets back in town. Between the two of us I'm sure we can figure out a solution.

WORST case I put the solid bushings in my motor mount and then I don't have to worry about the engine moving..haha

 

1. leaf i wasn't aware of that..2. you're apparently wrong so my idea still is a decent one

it wouldn't have to be much..

 

Let me know what you come up with Dave

 

Car is slightly more put back together...most of the hard **** is out of the way tho.

Also, my injectors showed up

 

Time for solid bushings yet?

 

Larger radius, shallow bend. /discussion on brake line.

 

Well, it runs......started up like a champ late Saturday night...no videos since it only ran for a min or two due to having neighbours and its still open header at the moment.

Sounds alot healthier than the old motor thats for sure.

Still got a few issues to sort out but I hope to have it on the road by the weeks end.

I'll try and grab a vid of it running tonight if I can get out to the garage early enough.

 

Yay!

 

Oh she runs does she

Vids or ban !!!

 

Some pics:



Finished the 3" portion of my exhaust, thanks to my buddy:

 

wow, that is one hell of a build.

How much did it cost u, if u dont mind, after you bought the le5 block? I already haev the le5 and i may want to try this.

Thanks a lot.

 

Phenom - Thats hard to say, the head ran me around $1500 all said and done, thats including the cost to buy the head and the valves. I already had the valve springs and cams, so tack on another $800 if you need to buy those. Head gasket was $150, Header was around $600. I'm up to around $2000 prob into the motor this year, and another $2000 for everything you see in this thread. Keep in mind tho the car already had a few thousand into it from the years before. So like I said, its hard to put a price on my "build".


Weekend Updates:

Got the trigger wheel sorted out and properly centered this time, oil pan back on.

Exhaust is finished, cam cap is clearanced for the brake line.

Started the car, let it run at 1600rpm for 20 mins to break it in/flush any metal shavings out. Drained the oil imediately after and it came out clean. Pulled the oil filter and its the same story...so I don't know where the shavings came from after the first start up, but they are no longer there....which is great.

Car started and ran great, it did however develop a very werid intermitant "sqweak" (best way I can describe it) after running for 10mins or so....it was hard to pin point but it sounded like it was coming from the back of the motor. It went away as soon as I would give it some gas, and then return a few seconds after it idled again.

I think it has something to do with the way I have my PCV system set-up currently, I'm going to try something different tonight and see if the noise is still there....hopefully its something simple like this.

Car would of hit the road this weekend..but I tried to adjust my coil overs and ended up stripping the bolts cause they were siezed, like an idiot I tried to drill them out and now the collars are fucked, so the car can't move. I'm going to see what spare suspension parts I have at my house and try and temp something in to get the car moving till Ground Control can send me some new collars.

With any luck it might be on the road tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

Anyways, onto some pictures..

Clearanced


Exhaust (Race > Street)

 

How much HP do you expect to get out of this thing when all is said and done?

 

Hopefully in the neighbourhood of 215whp

 

if u dont mind, how much did this cost you after you bought the le5 block? i have an le5 already and im interested in doing this. Thanks man.

 

Dude I already answered you in my post above.

 

Update: Got my header evac in last night, minus the hose, swapped my rear suspension back to stock so I could steal the collars and use them on the front for now to drive the car around.

Took it out for a ride last night, had a bit of a hard time idleing at first but it cleared up after a while, IAC still needs to learn the new steps I think.

It runs like a freaking champ tho overall, the motor moves the car along effortlessly at low rpm/low throttle, much stronger than the old motor thats for sure.

Didn't get on it much, AFR is around 16:1 once the motor hits PE...LOL so some more fuel is in order.

Car is still at my buddies, gonna grab some heater hose tonight to finish my header evac install and then it comes home tonight, gonna drive it to work for the rest of the week to get some miles on the clutch then I can start tuning

 

Fixed up all my melting wideband issue, also fixed up my melting CPS loom issue last night...hopefully I have no more problems with that.

AFR is better than I thought also, I think I need to just "fatten" up my fuel table at the lower TPS levels and add some fuel to the top end of my tables as it starts to get far to lean over 6000rpm.

Took it up to 7000rpm last night tho and it pulls hard even tho the tune is very shitty at the moment!


Going to finish up my header evac system tonight and fix a massive exhaust leak and then we should be ready to rock and roll.

 

how loud is that thing with that header on there?

 

With the Cut-out open it is VERY loud, closed it it is a fair it louder than stock (I have the stock muffler on) but its quieter than an aftermarket muffler.

 

It is pretty ignorant thats for sure with the cutout open

 

Got my new rear springs in yesterday and replacement lower collars, so its back to riding around on all 4 coilovers.

Rear springs ride like a total bag of ****...lol Not sure how long these will last, might swap them back in the day before going racing....its pretty brutal.

Here is the pic. (New: 8"x2.5"x600lbs-in Old: 7"x2.5"x250lbs-in)




Started WOT tuning, will have it done for Sunday, I'm out of town all next week for work and then next weekend I'm going RACING