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So I built my single turbo FD drove it for a couple weeks had an oil leak from my oil drain line which caused oil to fly all over the place.

This happened on the way to a car show H20i, which caused me to leave the car at a gas station and get mad at it. While at H20i i saw an LS swapped RX and decided i was doing this.

Sold the Rotary and bought a local wrecked LS1 out of an 02 Firebird. The motor was an awesome deal so i thought, although at closer inspection it was really only the block that was any good.

So over the past couple months i have replaced almost everything in the motor. So welcome to my new build thread hope you enjoy the custom work myself and one of my closest friends have done.

Custom parts

Mounts
-Motor
-Transmission
-Rear end
-Subframe
Intake
-Stock modded LS
-ITB setup

Interior
-Center console
-Shifter setup
-AC panel

Engine bay
-Rad setup
-Shaved bay
-ABS line cover
-ABS box cover
-Brake Booster cover

Exhaust
-Headers
-Full 3" exhaust
-HKS catback

Trunk
-Meth Setup
-Dual fuel pumps
-Battery

So that lists all the custom work I am doing to the car now onto the parts list for the motor

Stock parts
-Crank and pistons (all new bearings)
-Oil pump and water pump

Aftermarket
-Modded LS1 intake or if i finish it ITB Setup
-Fuel Rail with 48(? forget what size now) injectors
-Aeromotive FRP
-Devilsown Meth
-Ported Heads 806 Casting
-Comp cam 921 Dual Spring kit
-EXEDY Clutch and Flywheel
-LS7 Lifters
-Mild Cam (specs to be revealed later)
-F Body oil pan
-3HP starter

I am going to be running MegaSquirt for an ECU. So here are some pictures i have taken over the process of building it.

When it was single turbo


Car headed off to be worked on





No more 13B




Started to clean up the motor


Paint


T56 showed up then i rebuilt it and added a little paint


test fitting


Now the custom work

Subframe

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Mounts





Sitting in the bay beside my friends car


Better shot


Parts






Transmission mount which we attached the stock rear diff mount to.



Now the car sat here for a few months until last week





The center console i built along with the shifter this is about half way done



Finally the start to the ITB setup

trekid

The itb set up is sick, I was looking into it but for not a whole lot more you can go turbo. but wont have that ITB noise..

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I have spent a total of 30 dollars on my ITB setup so far lol thats a cheap turbo

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more parts showed up! should be getting back to work on it this week i hope.

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Center console update

added some more work to in by adding in a switch panel

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Finished up my press



started on my rocker rollers









Then I got one of my coilpack harnesses wrapped with DEI heat tape

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my press is still working very nicely

for a 50 dollar press that is

Got them cleaned up a little




and the new stuff pressed in

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Okay so tonight i got some time to get to work on my ITB setup.... i got some flanges made in steel so i could fab some stuff up and see what i liked best but i also got a set in aluminum so i can make the final set with the tig.

Steel


and my good set



so my first idea was to build small runners and then plate it on top and attach the throttle bodies like that... but im not really liking it so far but ill finish it and see how i like it at the end. here are some mock up photos







Now i started to weld them in place and had some major issues with my welder... First the massive wire wheel i had was to big and causing terrible welds but then would work amazing so i switched that out for a 2 pound roll. this fixed it until my breaker kept blowing out half way through my welds so i got mad and stopped.



but you get the idea





now as you can see they will be angled at each other but i plan on having them interlocking and velocity stacks out to each side but we will see what idea i end up going with for a final project.

anyway thanks for reading if you have any ideas please share. im not an expert or even very good but enjoy building so im open to listen.

Tai-Lun

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What kind of ITB's are your using?

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I bought two sets of cbr 600rr throttle bodies I'm using

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Well i hated my first ITB setup so i scrapped it and decided to try something new



picked up a new blade which worked good for 3 cuts and then sucked just like the rest of them



old vs new













Then i started on my second setup which will be more of a box type deal

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Hey guys a little update I finally got the car back on the ground again and it moves! Only problem is I forgot to bolt my tie rods in... Which makes steering not possible haha anyway here is a quick little link to a video of some tuning and the car running. I am able to check a lot off my list for finishing the swap but then add so many more things to it. But at least I'm on the home stretch.