Hey guys, I've had a build thread going on in a local forum for a little while now, but havnt posted on here yet, So here we go.

First off, I'd like to say, I bought the car back in December, 2010 already swapped, so I don't take credit for doing the swap.

How it was when I first bought it



Specs:

-1998 Camaro SS LS1 w. T56 6speed (working OBDII port)
-ECU Serviced - removed VATS, two o2's... little stuff
-Granny Speed Shop Subframe
-Granny Speed Shop Transmission Crossmember
-Granny Speed Shop Torque Arm
-Granny Speed Shop Engine Mounts
-Granny Speed Shop Driveshaft
-RPS Stage 3 Clutch
-CYN-R-G Segmented Flywheel
-Wilwood 7/8ths Master Cylinder
-Hinson Super Cars Master Cylinder Adapter
-JTR Long Tube headers
-3" Off road Y Pipe w. V-bands
-3" HKS Hi-Power Cat-back
-G.E.T. Coilovers
- Other little stuff.

The day after I brought it home, I went up to Atlanta to pick up a set of wheels for her, and the day after that a friend and I started on getting the fitment right.

Rolling the fenders so I could fit my new wheels


Wheels/specs : WedsSport SA70 17x9+20 18x10+18


Fitment pictures:

Front fitment was just ok.


I was pretty happy with the rear fitment.





Basically, It stayed this way, with little changes, for about a year.

Well, after about a year, I got bored of the car, changed a few things up. (most of the work was done in the dark after work, so I don't have many pictures of the work :/ sorry.)

I changed a few things up with the motor, along with the body.

Motor wise, with the help of friends, we did a heads/cam swap.

New motor specs:

Heads: TSP PRC Stage 2.5 Heads
Cam: TSP MS3
Intake manifold: BBK SSI Ported and polished. The mouth was ported to 92mm to accommodate for the throttle body, and the runners were ported to match the ports of the heads
Throttle Body: PTM 92mm

I had to get a custom adapter made as well for the throttle body to work. The throttle body was 4 bolt, and the intake was 3. so i took it to a local machine shop, and had a .5" spacer/adapter made.




Engine Bay pic: (messy, it was still a work in progress at the time)



Well, long story short, The car is finally ready to be tuned, we start tuning it, and fry the 98 pcm, which if you dont have any experience with gm engine control, suck in short.

Instead of buying another 98 pcm, I searched a ls1 forum for a nice 99-02 pcm and decided to re-pin my harness once I find one. After about a month of searching, I found a really nice 2002 pcm, and buy it. So the fun began. (again, no pics, sorry guys) So I started to re-pin my harness, which is about 200 wires. It took me about a month to do, working on it off and on.

 

I'm also working on doing some things with the body and suspension.

As far as the body, I'm working on doing a wide body.

Here's a couple pictures of the progress:

The first thing I bought was this origin style rear bumper, i figured i'm going to cut it up anyways, so no point in buying the real thing.


Then I traded a re-amemiya style rear diffuser I had for a set of 50mm origin over fenders. The bumper, and over fenders didnt clear each other, like I suspected, so the cutting began.

First cut.


I dont really have pictures of what I did of the bumper, but i cut the piece of the over fender that drops down straight with the line of the bumper, and then molded the piece of the over fender into the bumper. On a side note, I got rid of my Hi power and Cut and welded the tip of an Isis 4" blast pipe on it to help fill the giant hole for the exhaust that was cut by the PO. still Have to go back, and glass part of what he cut.



Getting close to finished.


Better picture with the blast pipes on

 

hi, I want an ls1 fd.

 

doing the same thing with the side skirts

Cut the skirt where i wanted the rest of the over fender



no finished result pics of the skirt yet.

junk in the trunk. (sitting high because i haven't cut my quarter panels yet, so i couldn't let it all the way down off the jack) sorry for the shitty cellphone pictures too, i'm a broke *** and dont have money for a camera. i did just get an iphone though so pictures will be better.


Traded my stock hood for a shine spec gt hood a few days ago, pretty excited about this considering it was local, and I've been wanting one for a while.






Other shiz.

Ordered my gauges, didnt want to run a quad pillar gauge pod, so made a home depot racing special and made a gauge cluster out of some pvc and hard plastic. It cost me less than $15 bucks to build total.



Gauges in order: STRI oil pressure, oil temp, coolant temp, and AEM uego wideband.



I kind of threw this one together. I plan on going back and making a cleaner one when I get around to it.

 

Starting to make some real progress now.


Picked up some mod'd knuckles.
stock

mod'd


Not a huge difference. but it'll help on the track im sure.

Got some work done by Andy at RaceFAB.. gotta say I'm very happy with his work.

Hydro. Handbrake mount


he also fabbed up a dual brake caliper setup.

 

Decided to get a few more supporting mods for the mods I listed earlier.

-Katech rod bolts
-Improved racing oil pan baffle
-Improved racing oil cooler adapter w/thermostat
-TSP Twin scroll timing chain set
-Super now outter tie rod ends
-Pbm tie rod spacers

improved racing oil pan baffle and oil cooler adapter. (I decided just to go with a fc oil cooler, I would imagine it will be more than enough, but please correct me if im wrong)


New diff bushings (super pro? i dont remember.)


Katech rod bolts


Super now tie rod ends


ls7 lifters


Cometic head gaskets


Arp head bolts


Ls2 timing chain


Well long story short... We go to add all the supporting mods, pull the motor, pull the heads to put the ls7 lifters in, and noticed some things not right. pulled the pan (for the first time) and noticed the motor showed a lot of wear as if it had a lot of miles on it. So we decided to tear down the motor and do a complete rebuild.

Sent the heads, block, and crank to the machine shop to have work done to them. nothing extensive, just re-surfacing everything, and re-honing the block.

I just ordered all new clevite crank and rod bearings, arp main bolts, diamond pistons and rings, a new competition clutch plate, and new flywheel segments. Just waiting for all of it to get here so we can start the rebuild.

 

As far as the rest of the wide body, here's the progress so far.

Finishing up the side skirts (still not 100% done)





Picked up a set of origin front fenders.


(nvm the temp brackets for the oil cooler. just needed to get measurements for the an lines)


Also cut my quarter pannels. trying something a little different from the traditional fold up and weld technique.

 

 

Recently bought a sexy style tail light cover. Pretty excited for this.

 

fc cooler = junk. 70 bux gets you a cx racing one. or the like. sweet car. I wish I had an fd.

 

Other misc. stuff... one of my headlight motors burned out, so I decided to make pop ups into fixed lights.



Still gotta finish building the buckets and mounting tabs.

and lastly, I recently picked up an oem style roof wing from shine.

Decided to shave the tear drop.

 

Tossed around the idea of vortex generators. still undecided. I'm going to have to do more things to make the aero more aggressive if I do...



The car is getting pretty close. all of the progress has been over a year and a half time span. Still need a few more things like better coilovers, and something better than a stock diff. as far as paint goes. I have a gallon of dark green metallic paint, but I'm debating going black again.... still need to get wheels too obviously judged by the giant spacers in some of the pictures above.

 

Nice set up dude!

 

really digging the look man...can't wait to see it done

 

thanks for the compliments so far guys. forgot to mention i got all new valves too. they're with the heads at the machine shop making sure it all fits how it should.

 

looking good man!!

 

Thanks man, it's starting to take shape. I think I'm going to change up the side skirts just a little. but idk how I feel about chopping up a brand new set of side skirts if I do end up ordering new ones.

 

only homos name their car

 

lol

 

lol Aditi named it Russ... I couldnt come up with a title so thats what I came up with off the top of my head... I wish I would have gotten my car running by the time you leave so we could go be a nuisance anywhere both our cars go, but it doesnt look like its going to happen... but I'm not telling you anything new.

 

Then call it Russ

 

Aditi named it, Russ*... better?

 

I dated a girl named roxanne. Super hot. She dumped my *** and I bought my first fc a week later.

 

Lol... i dont think ive ever met a girl named roxanne, much less a good looking one hahaha... got my pistons in, too bad im two short... wtf diamond, stop trolling. sent them back hopefully they'll get it right on try number two!

 

F@@k I was expecting a chic named Roxanne building this car!.. What a ripoff!..lol