After four long weeks, long to me that is, I got my car back. Thanks to Lou, Louis, Mike, and Nick Danger for taking such good care of my car. I had a feeling that the car was down on power and it was using oil so we thought it had a cracked sleeve. I brought it to Lou and we put it on the dyno...only made 482/487 rwhp/rwtq so we knew something was wrong.

I had put around 15000 miles on the stroker, most of them were very hard miles, the time had come to give it a going over. Well, the sleeves were fine, but the block had a visible crack in it. So I guess 482 is ok with a cracked block. :)

Lou ordered a new block, pistons, etc, freshened my heads, sleeved the lifter bores, had the complete assembly balanced and put in a new Ram clutch. We kept the crank, rods, cam, springs, rockers, etc and Lou did his magic.

At the same time I had the tranny and rear end blueprinted by Rockland Standard Gear, man you won't believe how great this thing shifts. It probably doesn't hurt that Lou put new semi solid motor mounts in at the same time.

Louis and Mike put it together and put it in the car in about two days. That is the entire drive train, not just the motor. Then Lou and Jeremy spent six hours dyno tuning the new motor.

Through the mufflers it made 510/508 rear wheel. I believe that with some break in and a new intake which I am having built by Hogan, I will hit the 550 mark. At least I hope so.

It idles with the AC on and pulls like you wouldn't believe. During the process we added a Specktre Werks rear fascia and a DRM heat extractor hood, and an ACI front splitter. it looks pretty good.

Thanks Lou.

Randy Goss

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[Modified by rfgoss1, 6:48 PM 7/11/2003]

 

:cheers: :cool: :thumbs: :cheers:

 

Cool! Bring it out to the Houston cruise on the 26th, I would love to see and hear that thing in person :cool:

 

I'm glad you are happy with the beast. :yesnod:

How about some new pics. :)

 

Yeah...Lets see some pictures of that bad boy. Glad everything went well and you got it back. I know what it's like being without it for a period time ;). Good things come to those who wait (so im told). LG Motorsports and family are a great group to deal with and I am honored just to say I have had my car in their shop. Good luck with the new motor and congrats on the superb #'s!

Matt

 

:cheers: Congrats on the new car! I know what it's like to wait..My stroker took 3 months..Glad everything turned out well for you..ENJOY! :thumbs:

 

I'm interested in learning how streetable your Hogan intake is, and what the dyno curves look like. I too would like to break 550 RWHP; ain't gonna happen with the LS6 manifold.

 

Congrats :cheers: :cheers:

 

where?
Randy :cheers:

 

I am going to wash it now and post some new pics in my sig. Thanks for the tuning.
Randy

 

Matt
Thanks, I am very happy with LGMotorsports. I will get some new pics up soon. I have to get some for Hot Rod Magazine anyway. My car is going to be in it one month in the coming year.
Regards
Randy

 

Vince
3 months, man you must have been going crazy. I waited only 26 days, but it felt like a year. It would have been ready sooner, but we had to wait for gaskets and some other oddball stuff at the last minute. They are very sensitive to how long a car takes at LG.
Cheers
Randy

 

As soon as I get some info on it I will let you know. Lou mapped the heads and we are sending the maps to Hogan for them to work on. Should be badass. I am not trying for a ton because I don't want to lose drivability.
Cheers
Randy

 

Randy- Congrats, can't wait to see the pics. How about a sound niblet of the thumper???? Please? :D

 

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=600512 :thumbs:

 

Randy and Alex,

I hope to see both of you at the Texas World Speedway in College station for the LG Motorsports Driving Seminar and Track Days on Aug 2 & 3.

Randy, I think your car will hit the 170 mph mark on the front strait.

Glad to hear you are smiling again :yesnod:

Neck snapping acceleration will do that.

Thanks
Lou G

 

Oh man, I can't. I have school that day from 7:30 to 5:30pm. I would have loved to .
Randy