thanks sean! this system is by far the best i've done to-date as far as clearance and overall looks. i hope it sounds good too. the time this system took was substantial though. i spent about 4 hours working on the crossmember to make sure it was going to be exactly perfect. the rest of the exhaust took 2 more 4 hour sessions to get it done. so that's 12 hours of work, lol!

hey steve, or anyone else dealing with this stupid bull crap, can you guys post a direct link to somewhere where i can buy bolts for my starter?

 

JY or dealer would seem simple enough.

 

ls1tech has a conversion sticky which lists 2 companies that sell the various bolts an ls setup uses. Or I believe it's $13 from a dealer for the two of them.

 

How about an updae? It's been 3 days!

 

update:
i just signed the paper-work to buy a house, and i've been working on getting all the inspections taken care of.

i got the starter in the car and now i need to find some bolts to hang the alternator. i haven't really done much as far as the harness is concerned. it's just a lot to tackle and i don't want to get interrupted by my realtor to come and sign something, then i'll loose my place and it'll take a while to get back again. i am closing on the house on the 25th of march, the car WILL be driven over to the new house. i made that very clear to my fiance tonight when we were talking about all the stuff that needs to be done. i'm in baltimore this weekend, then back to the grind stone on tuesday (class, etc) and i'm hoping to get the wiring done tuesday afternoon.

 

Congrats on the house Matt, was it the one we were talking about?

 

I can't believe you spilled the beans on the Organized Racing forum!!!

 

sorry...i had to...no one seems too interested by the thread though. only 10 replies and it's been up over two days...

 

when using a stock 4th gen throttle cable, did anyone have to modify anything to get true 100% WOT? i just put mine in and it's not getting 100% wide open throttle when on the floor. it's like the cable is too long or the cable housing is too short...i could probably bend the lever on the throttle pedal to accomplish what i need, but i'm not sure what everyone else is doing...or if this problem is specific to my car/cable.

 

i ve had the same problem.. just noticed it because you brought it up ! .

 

Great work. Exhaust looks amazing.

 

it's pissing me off that's for sure...seriously thinking about the lokar cable now

 

Didnt I mention this in the sticky? You just have to bend your stock gas pedal arm up away from the floor a bit to take up the slack.

BTW Congrats on the house man

 

i didn't read the sticky...i pretty muched dived into this project unprepared, lol....thanks brother

and the house...if the bank will ever give us the OK on the FHA repairs necessary for my mortgage company to give us the loans we'll be doing good! (the house was a VA forclosure)

 

Geez dude you did this the hard way if you didnt read that sticky man. I'd of killed for that info about a year into my swap LOL. Respect to you foir blasting through this so fast and so renegade style man haha thats killer.

Yeah man theres some deals to be had in real estate right now thats for sure. Banks... blah... nuff said

 

so that means ive been runing my car at non wot! >??

 

Sorry man, but it IS in the FAQ...

 

Ya but if you've been happy with it before just think of it as free found hp. I'd love to find some free hp for my car and I'm going absolutely bonkos trying not to tear down a perfectly good engine just to build a faster one this year so a compromise has been made....

Next summer... speed season

 

so i'm having a problem with my fuel pump so i decided to troubleshoot:

direct power to positive terminal on fuel pump
+ direct ground to ground terminal on fuel pump
= no fuel pump...

ugh...i'm so pissed i bought a used fuel pump....gonna hop in the truck and head to summit this afternoon i guess...

 

Been there, done that. Bought a used Walbro 255 from a guy on craigslist. Got it home, & (you guessed it!) it was as dead as a rock...

Sorry that the same thing (more or less) seems to have happened to you.

 

fresh tsunami fuel pump is now in, got 5gals of fresh 93 in her too. had my buddy come over with some HP tuners action today. he turned off my VATS along with a slew of other things as well...and kinda gave me a bit of a base line so the pcm doesn't freak out about some 4.56 gears and a 28" tall tire. i'm waiting on the battery to charge then we'll see what's cookin'

 

it starts! and i'm exhausted...

it doesn't run though. it'll run for about 5 seconds then shut off. we're suspecting a possible bad MAF. but i need to do some trouble shooting first. but it does start...and sounded NASTY through that 4" magnaflow out back when i got one good little rev out of her....it spins up QUICK....

 

VATS ...my tuner forgot to turn it off when he was working on it...i guess he got excited and forgot, lol! tomorrow morning he's coming over to fix it

 

greg came back over this morning and turned the VATS off for real this time. turned the key and it fired right up and stayed running. has a nice crisp clean sound to it too. so far we can tell that the MAF is not reading and the wiring to the 4l60e may not be correct. i have the plugs physically in the transmission, but it's throwing all three trans codes and is defauling to 2nd gear like it's not hooked up. i did NOT do anything to the harness going to the trans, nor have i put any additional power to the trans other than giving power the the PCM. is there anything else i'm supposed to do?

oh, and enjoy a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CbOG...e=channel_page

 

Very nice, sounds good

 

got another small victory, the trans now seems to be operating semi-correctly. found a wire that needed a 12v source and i piggy-backed it onto the switched 12v going to the PCM. with it still on jackstands the car seems to be going into at least the first 3 forward gears now.

and a thanks to the guys at speartech for taking the time out of your morning to answer a technical question from a guy who didn't spend money with you. stand up fellas in my opinion, and i'll make sure the next go 'round we use one of your harnesses, this has been a severe pain in the butt!

 

Sounds good Matt. Glad to see you are getting the wiring straightened out. I hate wiing, I am sure it was as bad as the Lt1 wiring. once again CONGRATS.....

 

I would, but:

"We're sorry, this video is no longer available."

You're a wild man, Matt. You started your swap, what, 9 months later than me? And get yours running first.

Guess I'd better get on the stick. . .

 

looks like I beat you to the first fire up matt by about 2 weeks Congrats on getting it running. Sure sounds quiet in the video at idle, is it really quiet or just the camera didn't pick it up?

 

Hmmm, I still get a "no longer available" message.

 

I just watched it for the first time today and it worked fine for me. really weird.

 

Worked at home. Must be my work ISP.

Sounds pretty mean!

 

thanks guys! it's not super loud, it doesn't have a whole lot of camshaft. it's got a stock sounding idle really. obviously i'm looking for a little more sound eventually, but i wanted to be able to drive the thing without getting a headache, which is why i did the exhaust the way i did. still relatively loud outside the car, but tolerable inside the car.

five7, i'm no wild man, look at you trying to run AC and stuff! and you live in CO and i'm in GA!?! i think we got that kinda backwards...

...i hope the 4l60e doesn't give me too many fits, i got a lot of money tied up in it to turn around and do something different. if i have to do anything different, i'll be going with a 3rd pedal and 6 gears to grab...

 

Sure you are. You're a legend.

Have to have AC at this altitude. Less atmosphere to block the sun, interior gets horrible hot. Besides, I'm getting old and soft.

 

nah, just another post ***** who likes to show off his stuff

 

"Another"???

 

Sounds great man! Whoot I am going nutso up here I cant take it anymore I need my speed! Blah go away winter

 

sounds good

 

i drove it tonight! just around the block and down the road kinda thing. i have a bunch of stuff i need to do now:

-bleed brakes
-figure out gauge situation
-swap manual steering box back in
-put the hood hinges back on it so i can actually attach my hood
-put my muffler back on since it fell off
-tidy up my wiring some more

but all in all it was pretty cool! it seems as though it may be slipping going into 4th, but it's kinda hard to tell right now.

i'm just so glad it goes down the road again.

 

Didn't replace the muffler bearing, eh?

Congrats on the first road trip.

Now, back to routing the clutch hose through the passenger compartment. . .

 

Sounds great! I wish my doors shut as well as yours did in that video... Awesome job on getting this thing done so quick.

 

Right on! That's GOTTA be a great feeling, CONGRATS!

LOL - Been there, done that! I was fairly young when it happened, driving down one of the busiest roads in town when all of a sudden I heard my car get a LOT louder, along with a strange scraping noise. I pulled over to the side of the road, hopped out & grabbed the muffler/tailpipe to throw it in the back - and yanked my hand back much more quickly! Suckers get HOT...

Man, I can't WAIT to be in the same position - but at least I was able to make some serious progress today (in *large* part due to five7kid's help)!

 

sounds nice, a bit quite at idle tho.
did you had to make a new trans cross member or did it just for exhaust clearance?

 

the mounting point for the transmission is about 2" further back than a 700r4/t5 so it did have to be modded, though i suppose it's not necessary to mod it as extreme as i did. i did all that to make sure i have as much ground clearance as possible.

speaking of which i hit my collector on a speed bump the other day because i was goign a big too fast

well, i have been driving it around for a little over a week now with decent results. i need to pull the gear out of the rearend and go with something a little less extreme, those 4.56's are giving me a headache, lol! we're also having some problems with the MAF so i'm just gonna tune it out and run speed density. i'm also going to build a killer 4" intake.

 

Hey matt I dont know if you would be interested in building a intake for me....I have been lookinf for a good one.....Message me if you are