Project Z0SICK
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,426
Likes: 0
From: Toronto Ontario
Project Z0SICK (Updated Pictures Page 2)
When building a project, constantly searching the forum for parts, I find it can almost consume you. Always looking out for deals that can save you cash, but on the same token cost you a lot more than you planned to spend ! Going to sleep at night, all you can think of is MODS. Dreams of power to come, I had my eye on the prize.
It all started around Christmas time, I was on the look out for a c6 rolling chassis. After an intense search on google, ebay, autotrader, etc, I saw a post on Corvette Forum where a fellow member had mentioned that he saw a local shop in Indiana who has an 06 Z06. JACK POT. Since he didn’t post the contact information for this company it was back to google to locate this dealer. Everyone was on holiday for new years and I was very excited to scoop this deal before one of my fellow forum members beat me to it. January 3rd 8am I made the call ! It seemed a little risky to cross the border to pickup a car which I have never seen in person. Brent told me the body was mint, and I would be very happy with the purchase. I figured lets take a chance, and hammered out the deal. Brent had his father load up the car and meet me half way which was the Detroit/Windsor border. What service ! This was my third Corvette to import into Canada from the USA so I was prepared. It was a breeze. My very first Z was finally on its way home.
I had recently purchased a Hoist and installed it in my shop. Everything was to be ready for my new whip to arrive. I decided that I wasn’t happy with the condition of the stock seats, so I decided to pickup some new oem seat skins. I found a set of beautiful black ZR1 skins on the forum. After pulling the stock skins off I realized this was no easy task. To my surprise the seat was actually made of carbon fiber.
After the seats were in, I decided she needed a quick wash and wax. I began to realize how lucky I was to find such a clean car ! The realization that my dream of one day owning a c6z06 had finally came true.
Since I had already purchased a Warhawk short block with forged internals early in 2010, it only made sense to drop the hay on some supporting mods. I had been working on some R&D fabrication projects for Rob @ Champion Motors so it was easy to get some help building up a killer motor. The turbo pistons which came with the motor were beautiful ceramic coated JE pistons, but the compression was to low for my Super Charger plans. Rob picked me up a set of big bore 4.125 pistons which would work well with my bad *** 3.625 Callies crank and bling bling Oliver Billet Rods for my 388ci screamer. He also helped me to select a big blower cam which should help keep my high rpm power goals.
It all started around Christmas time, I was on the look out for a c6 rolling chassis. After an intense search on google, ebay, autotrader, etc, I saw a post on Corvette Forum where a fellow member had mentioned that he saw a local shop in Indiana who has an 06 Z06. JACK POT. Since he didn’t post the contact information for this company it was back to google to locate this dealer. Everyone was on holiday for new years and I was very excited to scoop this deal before one of my fellow forum members beat me to it. January 3rd 8am I made the call ! It seemed a little risky to cross the border to pickup a car which I have never seen in person. Brent told me the body was mint, and I would be very happy with the purchase. I figured lets take a chance, and hammered out the deal. Brent had his father load up the car and meet me half way which was the Detroit/Windsor border. What service ! This was my third Corvette to import into Canada from the USA so I was prepared. It was a breeze. My very first Z was finally on its way home.
I had recently purchased a Hoist and installed it in my shop. Everything was to be ready for my new whip to arrive. I decided that I wasn’t happy with the condition of the stock seats, so I decided to pickup some new oem seat skins. I found a set of beautiful black ZR1 skins on the forum. After pulling the stock skins off I realized this was no easy task. To my surprise the seat was actually made of carbon fiber.
After the seats were in, I decided she needed a quick wash and wax. I began to realize how lucky I was to find such a clean car ! The realization that my dream of one day owning a c6z06 had finally came true.
Since I had already purchased a Warhawk short block with forged internals early in 2010, it only made sense to drop the hay on some supporting mods. I had been working on some R&D fabrication projects for Rob @ Champion Motors so it was easy to get some help building up a killer motor. The turbo pistons which came with the motor were beautiful ceramic coated JE pistons, but the compression was to low for my Super Charger plans. Rob picked me up a set of big bore 4.125 pistons which would work well with my bad *** 3.625 Callies crank and bling bling Oliver Billet Rods for my 388ci screamer. He also helped me to select a big blower cam which should help keep my high rpm power goals.
Last edited by LB; Mar 9, 2011 at 08:14 PM. Reason: Update
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,426
Likes: 0
From: Toronto Ontario
I was lucky to bring that motor over to Champion before the install as Rob noticed that I had the wrong double roller timing chain installed. That would have really hurt to install that motor to have the car not start. LOVE YOU ROB ! I then ordered some custom Cometic gaskets to set my compression exactly where we wanted it. Fern who is robs head mechanic showed me the correct torque order on the head studs. It felt great to do the finishing touch and torque those bad boy LS7 heads to 85lbs. I also learned how to clearance the push rods which left me feeling like a champ ! I always try to learn something new every day.
In the mean time back at the ranch, I was working on a custom fuel system to support my anticipated high power level. I picked up an APS fuel sending unit & had been working with Jack @ Racetronix to adapt his weather packed double pumper harness to my APS kit. We installed two new Racetronix Walboro GS342 pumps, socks, and custom wired up the sending unit all plug and play with the stock harness. It was quite the mission to drop the entire rear sub frame, suspension, and drive line, but I must say pulling out the stock sending unit and installing the new sending unit in the tank made dropping the rear end look like childs play.
I figured while I had the drive line out of the car, it would be a good time to do some rear end mods. When it comes to custom drag race parts I always call my boys down at ECS. After talking to Doug & Mike, I decided to try out the new Eaton HD carrier.
There were some pro’s and con’s to this install. The price for the Eaton HD carrier complete, almost seems to good to be true considering it came with 4340 hardened shafts, the billet carrier and carbon clutch packs all built into one low price. But it was not an easy install. We had to pop it in and out of the case about 5 times to get the shim height correct. As you can see in the picture below, it is not the identical height from where the ring gear bolts up to where the long shaft bearing is pressed on.
I was searching the Canadian classified ads on the forum which could be described as a daily ritual when I came across a local c6z06 owner who has a brand new set of 360 Forged Mesh 8’s. I had always dreamed of picking up a set of these with Chrome lip and brushed centers. Well, beggers can’t be choosers and at the price I paid, black is the new chrome ! Originally the wheels had a yellow lip, but after a quick trip to Champion, and Pete had them black with blue pin stripe to match the car baby. Thanks Petey !
Last week Rob ordered me a surprise YSi kit from A&A Superchargers which I eagerly await its arrival. I decided to go with a 10 Rib setup which would include a flip drive system. I will be running a 3” blower pully with 8” Balancer. I plan to drop the motor in the car next weekend, more pictures soon to come !
In the mean time back at the ranch, I was working on a custom fuel system to support my anticipated high power level. I picked up an APS fuel sending unit & had been working with Jack @ Racetronix to adapt his weather packed double pumper harness to my APS kit. We installed two new Racetronix Walboro GS342 pumps, socks, and custom wired up the sending unit all plug and play with the stock harness. It was quite the mission to drop the entire rear sub frame, suspension, and drive line, but I must say pulling out the stock sending unit and installing the new sending unit in the tank made dropping the rear end look like childs play.
I figured while I had the drive line out of the car, it would be a good time to do some rear end mods. When it comes to custom drag race parts I always call my boys down at ECS. After talking to Doug & Mike, I decided to try out the new Eaton HD carrier.
There were some pro’s and con’s to this install. The price for the Eaton HD carrier complete, almost seems to good to be true considering it came with 4340 hardened shafts, the billet carrier and carbon clutch packs all built into one low price. But it was not an easy install. We had to pop it in and out of the case about 5 times to get the shim height correct. As you can see in the picture below, it is not the identical height from where the ring gear bolts up to where the long shaft bearing is pressed on.
I was searching the Canadian classified ads on the forum which could be described as a daily ritual when I came across a local c6z06 owner who has a brand new set of 360 Forged Mesh 8’s. I had always dreamed of picking up a set of these with Chrome lip and brushed centers. Well, beggers can’t be choosers and at the price I paid, black is the new chrome ! Originally the wheels had a yellow lip, but after a quick trip to Champion, and Pete had them black with blue pin stripe to match the car baby. Thanks Petey !
Last week Rob ordered me a surprise YSi kit from A&A Superchargers which I eagerly await its arrival. I decided to go with a 10 Rib setup which would include a flip drive system. I will be running a 3” blower pully with 8” Balancer. I plan to drop the motor in the car next weekend, more pictures soon to come !
Racer
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 264
Likes: 0
From: Illinois
I was lucky to bring that motor over to Champion before the install as Rob noticed that I had the wrong double roller timing chain installed. That would have really hurt to install that motor to have the car not start. LOVE YOU ROB ! I then ordered some custom Cometic gaskets to set my compression exactly where we wanted it. Fern who is robs head mechanic showed me the correct torque order on the head studs. It felt great to do the finishing touch and torque those bad boy LS7 heads to 85lbs. I also learned how to clearance the push rods which left me feeling like a champ ! I always try to learn something new every day.
In the mean time back at the ranch, I was working on a custom fuel system to support my anticipated high power level. I picked up an APS fuel sending unit & had been working with Jack @ Racetronix to adapt his weather packed double pumper harness to my APS kit. We installed two new Racetronix Walboro GS342 pumps, socks, and custom wired up the sending unit all plug and play with the stock harness. It was quite the mission to drop the entire rear sub frame, suspension, and drive line, but I must say pulling out the stock sending unit and installing the new sending unit in the tank made dropping the rear end look like childs play.
I figured while I had the drive line out of the car, it would be a good time to do some rear end mods. When it comes to custom drag race parts I always call my boys down at ECS. After talking to Doug & Mike, I decided to try out the new Eaton HD carrier.
There were some pro’s and con’s to this install. The price for the Eaton HD carrier complete, almost seems to good to be true considering it came with 4340 hardened shafts, the billet carrier and carbon clutch packs all built into one low price. But it was not an easy install. We had to pop it in and out of the case about 5 times to get the shim height correct. As you can see in the picture below, it is not the identical height from where the ring gear bolts up to where the long shaft bearing is pressed on.
I was searching the Canadian classified ads on the forum which could be described as a daily ritual when I came across a local c6z06 owner who has a brand new set of 360 Forged Mesh 8’s. I had always dreamed of picking up a set of these with Chrome lip and brushed centers. Well, beggers can’t be choosers and at the price I paid, black is the new chrome ! Originally the wheels had a yellow lip, but after a quick trip to Champion, and Pete had them black with blue pin stripe to match the car baby. Thanks Petey !
Last week Rob ordered me a surprise YSi kit from A&A Superchargers which I eagerly await its arrival. I decided to go with a 10 Rib setup which would include a flip drive system. I will be running a 3” blower pully with 8” Balancer. I plan to drop the motor in the car next weekend, more pictures soon to come !
In the mean time back at the ranch, I was working on a custom fuel system to support my anticipated high power level. I picked up an APS fuel sending unit & had been working with Jack @ Racetronix to adapt his weather packed double pumper harness to my APS kit. We installed two new Racetronix Walboro GS342 pumps, socks, and custom wired up the sending unit all plug and play with the stock harness. It was quite the mission to drop the entire rear sub frame, suspension, and drive line, but I must say pulling out the stock sending unit and installing the new sending unit in the tank made dropping the rear end look like childs play.
I figured while I had the drive line out of the car, it would be a good time to do some rear end mods. When it comes to custom drag race parts I always call my boys down at ECS. After talking to Doug & Mike, I decided to try out the new Eaton HD carrier.
There were some pro’s and con’s to this install. The price for the Eaton HD carrier complete, almost seems to good to be true considering it came with 4340 hardened shafts, the billet carrier and carbon clutch packs all built into one low price. But it was not an easy install. We had to pop it in and out of the case about 5 times to get the shim height correct. As you can see in the picture below, it is not the identical height from where the ring gear bolts up to where the long shaft bearing is pressed on.
I was searching the Canadian classified ads on the forum which could be described as a daily ritual when I came across a local c6z06 owner who has a brand new set of 360 Forged Mesh 8’s. I had always dreamed of picking up a set of these with Chrome lip and brushed centers. Well, beggers can’t be choosers and at the price I paid, black is the new chrome ! Originally the wheels had a yellow lip, but after a quick trip to Champion, and Pete had them black with blue pin stripe to match the car baby. Thanks Petey !
Last week Rob ordered me a surprise YSi kit from A&A Superchargers which I eagerly await its arrival. I decided to go with a 10 Rib setup which would include a flip drive system. I will be running a 3” blower pully with 8” Balancer. I plan to drop the motor in the car next weekend, more pictures soon to come !
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,426
Likes: 0
From: Toronto Ontario
Yes, if you read above, I posted a special thanks to Pete from Champion Motors. Drop him a call at the shop 416-751-8047
Here is a beter quality picture of the front wheel
Former Vendor
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 721
Likes: 4
From: Toronto Ontario
Le Mans Master
Joined: Oct 2003
Posts: 8,863
Likes: 86
From: PA
St. Jude Donor '08
love the color LB!
did u have to mod coolant passeges on the ls7 heads?
if not ull need to as block coolant passeges dont line up to any gm head nor any aftermarket head other then warhawk head...and they dont flow. just a heads up.
did u have to mod coolant passeges on the ls7 heads?
if not ull need to as block coolant passeges dont line up to any gm head nor any aftermarket head other then warhawk head...and they dont flow. just a heads up.
Corvette Stories
The Best of Corvette for Corvette Enthusiasts
10 Reasons the C6 Z06 is Still A Performance Benchmark After 20 Years
Joe Kucinski
How Much Horsepower Every Corvette Engine "LOST" in 1972
Joe Kucinski
Top 10 DOs and DON'Ts for Protecting Your Convertible Top!
Michael S. Palmer
Top 10 Most Explosive Corvettes Ever Made: Power-to-Weight Ratio Ranked!
Joe Kucinski
150 hp to 1,250 hp: Every Corvette Generation Compared by the Specs That Matter
Joe Kucinski
8 Coolest Corvette Pace Cars (and Replicas) of All Time
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvette Engines RANKED by Peak Torque (70+ Years of Muscle!)
Joe Kucinski
Corvette ZR1X Will Be Pacing the Indy 500, And Could Probably Race, Too!
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Corvettes Coming to Mecum Indy 2026!
Brett Foote
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,426
Likes: 0
From: Toronto Ontario
I can't wait to go cruse these bad azz whips 
Hope I didn't steal your name 
I will drop you a pm Nick !
This was my first color choice to
This was my first color choice to
Former Vendor
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 4,003
Likes: 12
From: Toronto Ontario
I was lucky to bring that motor over to Champion before the install as Rob noticed that I had the wrong double roller timing chain installed. That would have really hurt to install that motor to have the car not start. LOVE YOU ROB ! I then ordered some custom Cometic gaskets to set my compression exactly where we wanted it. Fern who is robs head mechanic showed me the correct torque order on the head studs. It felt great to do the finishing touch and torque those bad boy LS7 heads to 85lbs. I also learned how to clearance the push rods which left me feeling like a champ ! I always try to learn something new every day.
I was searching the Canadian classified ads on the forum which could be described as a daily ritual when I came across a local c6z06 owner who has a brand new set of 360 Forged Mesh 8’s. I had always dreamed of picking up a set of these with Chrome lip and brushed centers. Well, beggers can’t be choosers and at the price I paid, black is the new chrome ! Originally the wheels had a yellow lip, but after a quick trip to Champion, and Pete had them black with blue pin stripe to match the car baby. Thanks Petey !
Last week Rob ordered me a surprise YSi kit from A&A Superchargers which I eagerly await its arrival. I decided to go with a 10 Rib setup which would include a flip drive system. I will be running a 3” blower pully with 8” Balancer. I plan to drop the motor in the car next weekend, more pictures soon to come !
I was searching the Canadian classified ads on the forum which could be described as a daily ritual when I came across a local c6z06 owner who has a brand new set of 360 Forged Mesh 8’s. I had always dreamed of picking up a set of these with Chrome lip and brushed centers. Well, beggers can’t be choosers and at the price I paid, black is the new chrome ! Originally the wheels had a yellow lip, but after a quick trip to Champion, and Pete had them black with blue pin stripe to match the car baby. Thanks Petey !
Last week Rob ordered me a surprise YSi kit from A&A Superchargers which I eagerly await its arrival. I decided to go with a 10 Rib setup which would include a flip drive system. I will be running a 3” blower pully with 8” Balancer. I plan to drop the motor in the car next weekend, more pictures soon to come !
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,426
Likes: 0
From: Toronto Ontario
Thanks Bro !
I had a couple of idea's about less frictional loss with a small stroke crank.
I also wanted to see see if we can rev this baby hard and really put the impeller speed to its max.
I had a couple of idea's about less frictional loss with a small stroke crank.
I also wanted to see see if we can rev this baby hard and really put the impeller speed to its max.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,517
Likes: 50
From: hopatcong nj
When building a project, constantly searching the forum for parts, I find it can almost consume you. Always looking out for deals that can save you cash, but on the same token cost you a lot more than you planned to spend ! Going to sleep at night, all you can think of is MODS. Dreams of power to come, I had my eye on the prize.
It all started around Christmas time, I was on the look out for a c6 rolling chassis. After an intense search on google, ebay, autotrader, etc, I saw a post on Corvette Forum where a fellow member had mentioned that he saw a local shop in Indiana who has an 06 Z06. JACK POT. Since he didn’t post the contact information for this company it was back to google to locate this dealer. Everyone was on holiday for new years and I was very excited to scoop this deal before one of my fellow forum members beat me to it. January 3rd 8am I made the call ! It seemed a little risky to cross the border to pickup a car which I have never seen in person. Brent told me the body was mint, and I would be very happy with the purchase. I figured lets take a chance, and hammered out the deal. Brent had his father load up the car and meet me half way which was the Detroit/Windsor border. What service ! This was my third Corvette to import into Canada from the USA so I was prepared. It was a breeze. My very first Z was finally on its way home.
I had recently purchased a Hoist and installed it in my shop. Everything was to be ready for my new whip to arrive. I decided that I wasn’t happy with the condition of the stock seats, so I decided to pickup some new oem seat skins. I found a set of beautiful black ZR1 skins on the forum. After pulling the stock skins off I realized this was no easy task. To my surprise the seat was actually made of carbon fiber.
After the seats were in, I decided she needed a quick wash and wax. I began to realize how lucky I was to find such a clean car ! The realization that my dream of one day owning a c6z06 had finally came true.
Since I had already purchased a Warhawk short block with forged internals early in 2010, it only made sense to drop the hay on some supporting mods. I had been working on some R&D fabrication projects for Rob @ Champion Motors so it was easy to get some help building up a killer motor. The turbo pistons which came with the motor were beautiful ceramic coated JE pistons, but the compression was to low for my Super Charger plans. Rob picked me up a set of big bore 4.125 pistons which would work well with my bad *** 3.625 Callies crank and bling bling Oliver Billet Rods for my 388ci screamer. He also helped me to select a big blower cam which should help keep my high rpm power goals.
It all started around Christmas time, I was on the look out for a c6 rolling chassis. After an intense search on google, ebay, autotrader, etc, I saw a post on Corvette Forum where a fellow member had mentioned that he saw a local shop in Indiana who has an 06 Z06. JACK POT. Since he didn’t post the contact information for this company it was back to google to locate this dealer. Everyone was on holiday for new years and I was very excited to scoop this deal before one of my fellow forum members beat me to it. January 3rd 8am I made the call ! It seemed a little risky to cross the border to pickup a car which I have never seen in person. Brent told me the body was mint, and I would be very happy with the purchase. I figured lets take a chance, and hammered out the deal. Brent had his father load up the car and meet me half way which was the Detroit/Windsor border. What service ! This was my third Corvette to import into Canada from the USA so I was prepared. It was a breeze. My very first Z was finally on its way home.
I had recently purchased a Hoist and installed it in my shop. Everything was to be ready for my new whip to arrive. I decided that I wasn’t happy with the condition of the stock seats, so I decided to pickup some new oem seat skins. I found a set of beautiful black ZR1 skins on the forum. After pulling the stock skins off I realized this was no easy task. To my surprise the seat was actually made of carbon fiber.
After the seats were in, I decided she needed a quick wash and wax. I began to realize how lucky I was to find such a clean car ! The realization that my dream of one day owning a c6z06 had finally came true.
Since I had already purchased a Warhawk short block with forged internals early in 2010, it only made sense to drop the hay on some supporting mods. I had been working on some R&D fabrication projects for Rob @ Champion Motors so it was easy to get some help building up a killer motor. The turbo pistons which came with the motor were beautiful ceramic coated JE pistons, but the compression was to low for my Super Charger plans. Rob picked me up a set of big bore 4.125 pistons which would work well with my bad *** 3.625 Callies crank and bling bling Oliver Billet Rods for my 388ci screamer. He also helped me to select a big blower cam which should help keep my high rpm power goals.
Thread Starter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 3,426
Likes: 0
From: Toronto Ontario
Door number one : 440ci with 350+ Nitrous Kit
Door number two : 404ci With Twin GTX35R's & Turbo400 Conversion
Last but not least ... Door three will make me a non bias power adder.
Pictures above