racerwannabe

I now have my fresh engine installed in the car,the intake and coil mounts are much to high,will require a huge bulge in the hood..who knows if FAST or anyone makes an intake that will allow me to use the hood with out cutting it to pieces and having to look around the big scoop?? the engine has C5R heads,and the hogan intake that was on the engine is inadequate,,according to the engine builder...
I would post a picture but am a computer midget,on here

Johnny

Shrek

Here ya go buddy!

John Shiels

nice!

racerwannabe

thanks,,,,
i believe I'll be making coil mounts down next to the valve covers to lessen the bulge


thanks Jeff...

wallyman424

I have a perfectly reasonable solution for you. We could trade engines and you won't have to worry about hood clearance at all!

bowtiguy

The coil packs will not be a problem. plenty of options out there. Katech had a set-up that placed them off the covers to the side over the headers. Most will cover your pretty valve covers.

Mast Motorsports coil sidemounts..

http://www.mastmotorsports.com/2010/...e Covers&id=49

Its the intake that will give you a problem. Plenty of guys have adapted LS7 intakes in C5's, but I'm pretty sure that the C5R head does NOT have the same intake bolt pattern/inlet. I may be wrong.

Have you contacted wilson to see if they can make one of their billet LSX manifolds to fit C5R heads?

http://www.wilsonmanifolds.com/produ...manifolds.html

Here are a couple more options...although expensive

For photo information only:

http://www.kinsler.com/NewProducts/P..._CarbonWeb.jpg

Harrop version...

http://www.harrop.com.au/root_folder...rricane-1.html

http://www.harrop.com.au/root_folder...rricane-2.html

Zip Corvettes

Johnny,
Just break out the sawzall, that would be a loss of about 2 pounds.
Car looks good, my fingers are crossed that your bad luck is behind you. Hopefully I will be out with you guys this year. Here is the latest of mine.
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payton

Like stated above the coil relocation is no problem.

I would definitely start making calls on the intake. Should not be too hard to adapt a Fast intake, have something made or give Kinsler a call.

Dropped your rockers off to Zack Friday morning.

bowtiguy

Is that the Performance AFX cage????

Zip Corvettes

It sure is.

racerwannabe

thanks for all the help and suggestions,guys..I'm making a mount for the coils from aluminum,and will make a bulge in the hood for the throttle body...then something more exotic later,if the engine stays together this time.@.Payton, the tuner has refused to tune my car for me ,so I'll ask then to send me the rockers,,when I spoke with them today,Jeff said he had not seen them..
the car is all together except the dry sump lines..brown and miller are coming on wednesday, to do the plumbing and then I'll have to find a tuner than can tune it correctly,,what a nightmare this has been...

wallyman,,I wouldn't want you to have this motor...we're friends......

Git Er Dun

Glad to see it's in there and looking good! Good luck with the final stages!! Keep us posted. Car looks good too!

payton

The rockers to Zack. They are in a box with my name and address on them.

Not sure what kind of room you have to the firewall, but you can mount intakes from LS motors backwards and they bolt directly up. You may not have to alter the hood too much and you can take fresh air from the cowl's high pressure area.

bowtiguy

katech option #2. save you some time...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Katec...Q5fAccessories

racerwannabe

I checked with katech on that,,those covers don't have oilers ..we are fabing an aluminum mount,lower, the holes aren't so big now...
Johnny

VGLNTE1

Damn...nice setup