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so far no cutting fiberglass and its all a bolt in with the measurements i have wont really kno untill its installed in my car. there may be a way to make the LS a bolt in for the 6spd guys. the reason it looks foward is the pulley setup. its only 3/4 inch futher foward than the org location of the BH

 

started the hot side today.

 

Little more work done today.

 

 

That looks really nice.

One question....why the "Y" pipe directly under the engine? It makes the pipes equal length, but I thought you would keep more exhaust velocity if you just put a big U-bend on the driver side and had the passenger side merge into that.

Your Y pipe is at a very steep angle(90*) and I would think that it would not keep the velocity as one that might be at 45* or so. If you shoot air through one of the legs of the y pipe how much air do you get out the other side vs the side that you want it to exit out of. The more air wanting to flow the wrong way the more backpressure and lag you are going to have.

Just thinking out loud.

 

well its a DD and will be way more than the org 250hp TPI. this was a simple way of doing it. I am not looking for all out hp. Also take into consideration that I am figuring out how to make a bolt in LS/ZF with no mods to the car. That means a/c installed with a turbo which a lot of thinking was involved. Makes things get a lil tight. So pretty much working the turbo in around the LS swap. Then stuff 3 inch exhaust under a motor.

 

looks very nice! a suggestion to you which may save some headache down the road... get your v-band couplers in your piping now while it is still only tacked together. trying to go back later and cut a section out and weld them in will be a little harder and you will not be able to account for weld shrinkage. it will end up putting your y-pipe in a bind and cause cracks after a few heat cycles.

the design looks good! I agree for an all out drag car you should maximize velocity and exhaust gas direction but for a street car, that design will still create more power then any tires you will want to drive around on regularly just look at my little old log style setup.. even I never would have guessed it would belt out the power it did on a 355ci motor

I look forward to following your progress. I currently have an iron block LS based motor at the machine shop and will be building a new full drag turbo setup in the very near future and will be sure to post up progress pictures.

I am curious about the ZF tranny to the LS motor. I had considered initially using the stock bellhousing if it would work and have a flywheel made which wouldn't be that bad but I noticed that the crank shaft did not have provision for the transmission input shaft or for the bearing. how are you planning on addressing this issue? I considered having the end of the crank machined but was unsure of the oil passages in the crank shaft on the gen 3/4 cranks and have not yet researched it.

Chris

 

v bands are going to be put in after all is tacked together. I still like the right side. I have it routed out to the turbo. Just get to work on it inbetwwen jobs at work. Sending you a pm about a few things. cant say that i looked at the back of the crank shaft on my motor..just assumed it was like the rest but will look 1st thing in the morning.

 

Looked at the back of my crank and it has a place for the bearing. It a 08. Few more pic after welded.

 

Final fitment and I will be ready in a few weeks to install in my car.

 

awesome progress! look forward to seeing it come together. Great job on the welds.

 

Nice job on the turbo set-up with the LS7!

What happened to the blower motor area... and the passenger door?

 

thanks..working on the down pipe and trying to find a steel booster. plan on working on the intercooler this weekend a lil at home.

I like the looks of the LS7 manifolds. plus they flow good and I kno they will make up to 650HP. I think the car went off the road backwards its just being used for mock up as I am still driving my car ever day.

 

Could you possibly have a nice garage setup and cooler eye candy in the background of most pics????? Awesome man!

 

I put my card in the bowl at Hooters all the time and still havent got picked for the free lunch with Hooter Girls yet.

 

started figuring out how I am goin to mount the intercooler. Going to take some shroud and lower air dam work.

 

The only thing I have got done in 2 months is the oil return and mounted the wastegate. Just been to busy at work to get any work done on it. Did spend Sat fitting the engine on the stand with the k member mounted so I can start running oil and water lines and try to hide them as much as possible. Pix should come later on this week as I have done a lil this week.

 

It all gets tight in there but you can get a idea of what it will look like.

 

doing some waterpump work. just trying to make a clean install.

 

Gettin a lil done. Just so many parts to moddify to fit the way I want it to. I'll get there one day