usmcpony

Its supposed to be a Ls3/ls7 tb. Why would you think its a ls2?

usmcpony

I started with 220 grit, then 400, then 600, then scotch Brite on a drill, then 800, then use a polishing wheel (for a drill) with a white paint stick.

GeneSch

Car looks good and sounds good.
What part of Ohio are you in? Who is doing you tuning? I live in NE Ohio, right on the lake.

Pitufina

LS2 & 06-08 LS3,7 are silver blade. If you are trying to use the late tb (gold) with an early ecm set for the silver then you'll run into trouble.

Those who are more knowledgeable correct me if Im wrong.

usmcpony

Im 20 minutes east of Cincy

usmcpony

Mine is a 2013. I pulled the original TB off with 4000 miles. It had the bronze blades.

usmcpony

I ordered some custom vents to try out. They fit perfect. Im going to have them painted to match the car. Hopefullykeep the engine temps down.

CI GS

Nice! Where did you get those from?

usmcpony

I ended up taking Unreal and Nino S' advice and cut my bumper support to allow more air to reach the intercooler and radiator. I have 3/16" or 1/4" steel plate at work. Im going to weld it into the open areas. It'll be allot stronger than before.





Then I put it on the ground and loaded it to get tuned.







Bye bye

russ472

did you get your issues with reduced power and all the trouble codes sorted out?

usmcpony

No. Im going to let them take care of it. We've gone over every wire numerous times. They think it might be one bad wire or a bad ecm. They're going to go through the wiring and tune. Its in their hands now.

advancivic

Updates

~STOLEN~

did i miss or did you mention where the hood vets came from? i will do that for sure. ive seen the track spec ones but like your the ones you went with.
i went through every page of this and cant believe how much work has went into this GS. hope all is going well !!! keep it up man

usmcpony

I thought I mentioned it but maybe it was in another thread. These aren't out yet. I don't know if they're going to make changes cause I had to modify mine. I'll have to get the company name when I get home. The company who makes them isn't the company who sells them.

usmcpony

And for the update:

We found one of the wires for the throttle body was pinched inside the main harness and reran the wires. Reduced power mode was fixed. Got the car on the dyno. Fuel pumps 2 and 3 wouldn't turn on. Found out the catch can vacuum was robbing vacuum from the fuel pressure regulator off the vacuum block. We moved them away from each other and waiting for another dyno opening.

russ472

awesome! sounds like you are finally moving forward.

usmcpony

I just can't catch a break. Doesn't even have 50-100 miles on it.

realcanuk

What are we looking at ? The ding in the inlet?

usmcpony

Oil in front of the blower. Looks like front seal is going bad. What ding are you referring to?

neverstop

oh ****! stick with it man, my car was a complete cluster kcuf when I first got it back and took me months of ironing out issues but it's been as reliable as a framing hammer now that I got it all figured out and it's tons of fun.