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Gor her running after supper this evening... Nothing scary.. just usual smoke coming off manifolds from oil fluids.. valvetrain is at least 60% quieter. They are never silent... just the loud ticking is gone now. Went for a short test drive for 10 min. After Z was up to proper oil and coolant temps, never got on it hard but it pulls a lot harder in part throttle... its crazy for a stock cam.. 94 octane with some high quality octane boost. Diablo intune canned 93 octane tune... ported mani.. tb and Ai ported polished milled .025 heads. After weeks of trying to find time from life and work etc.. its worth it now... now I can drive till end of October. I hope.. talk of early winter...

Anyway just wanted to say I did it with blood and sweat and lots of motrin. Longer than I wanted but now if I had to do it again I know where it all goes on the LS7 now... seemed more daunting than the C5Z.. just more cramped in the engine bay and more hard lines etc..

Anyway thanks again to Phil at AI for his high quality heads and great customer service in giving me and knowing what I wanted. Went through Bill at RPM in DE ( AI dealer). His service and question answering was second to none.. I was never once treated like a number!

All in all I would take the same path again! No question! I can't imagine a cam, headers with how it feels now! BTW it was warm and very humid tonight and the Z ran like it was in the 30's F. Breaking the rear tires loose with part throttle.. first time for that on smooth asphalt. I can't say what speed.



Now time for polish and wax!!

Cman01

Vid or it didn't happen. j/k.

Glad to hear it's running Derek. Did u get those 2 other pieces put back on the car?

Get it on a dyno and see how many ponies u gained
with the head swap. Enjoy the car till the cold weather hits.

Tony

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Thanks Tony... I am gonna dyno it nxt year after headers... no I couldn't find the spots where they go..especially that large ps hose rack clip fits.. gonna look at my buddies z tmrw.. I will enjoy it! More than you know Tony!

Thanks bud!
Nice to wash n wax now.. needs it badly... wanna use my new DA polisher! 😎

AzDave47

Congrats on a good project completed and now enjoy the fruits of your efforts!

outhouse

To me this is the valuable information.


So o rocker change or lifters, just cleaned up the heads, and reduced noise.


10 weeks is not bad, I'm hoping I can beat the rain when I start at the first of next month, while working 50 hour weeks.

MTPZ06

Congrats Derek! Glad to hear life finally slowed down a bit...its finally about to happen for me as well. I'll shoot you an email...

Michael_D

Now get rid of that POS canned tuned, and get it calibrated correctly before you burn it up.

God, sometimes I regret losing my ignorantly blissfull reality of not knowing anything about tuning via keyboard......