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Old 01-27-12, 08:25 AM
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Well I have a Prodrive by Sparco seat in the car now, stock passenger seat. I really was looking for just a passenger seat and this deal on the pair came up. I still haven't decided if I'm going to swap out my prodrive for one of these EVO 2 Plus seats or not.
I suppose the EVO 2 would come in handy in the off chance you possibly let someone else drive the car.
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I would imagine the extra space the EVO has provides less support.
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Nice man, everything is looking good. What's been the hardest part about the swap so far?
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Hardest part? parting with lots of money and being without my car for almost 2 years! Honestly everything else so far has gone rather smoothly.

In other car related news, I may have a sweet deal setup on a 48' enclosed trailer for pretty cheap, so that will make hauling both the cars to the track a lot easier, and give us a place to sleep if we want to camp at the track.
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What an awesome build!!!! I'm building a LS1 FD myself and look forward to the samberg kit. I'm going with a dry sump setup & these threads are a blast to view. I love the progress of your build. Good work!!
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Old 02-21-12, 12:16 PM
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got the wheels and brakes out today. Ran some -10AN braided hose for the accusump, and the wire for the battery to the back of the car. Put the driveshaft on and started looking at what we need to do with the exhaust. few pics from today
















Hope to get the rear brakes on tomorrow, put the new harmonic balancer on, power steering pump and pully, alt bracket and alt, also going to re route the oil cooler lines because they are too close to the alternator.
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Old 03-25-12, 08:35 PM
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Test fitted the radiator









Set the car down and grabbed a few shots before we left.









Hoping to head back out again in a couple of weeks.
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nice Bell & Ross!



oh yea, nice car too
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Glad I found this thread. If you have pictures of the oil cooler/accusump install I would love to see them. I'm currently getting my car ready for the track. The last thing I need to install is the accusump and oil cooler. Otherwise I need to get the power steering pump ported. Then it'll be ready for track duty.
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I bought his engine...turned out to be a bent trigger wheel. Motor is still running strong.
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Old 03-27-12, 07:33 AM
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I bought his engine...turned out to be a bent trigger wheel. Motor is still running strong.
haha, i don't even know what part of the engine that is. Oh well, glad you got a deal on it and it still has some life.
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I bought his engine...turned out to be a bent trigger wheel. Motor is still running strong.
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ccw + lsx ftw
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Originally Posted by Fritz Flynn
<SNIP> Hopefully Brent will have his V8 car at VIR in May and I can get a taste
Fritz, was that "taste" bitter ? All kidding aside, are you going to build/find a LSx FD now ?

After look through this thread, I'm getting more & more convinced, as a properly built turbo 20B is going to be $30K+ to do it right . . .

:-) neil
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Old 05-23-12, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by M104-AMG
Fritz, was that "taste" bitter ? All kidding aside, are you going to build/find a LSx FD now ?

After look through this thread, I'm getting more & more convinced, as a properly built turbo 20B is going to be $30K+ to do it right . . .

:-) neil
I've never had aspirations for a 3 rotor turbo but I think a 3 rotor NA would be super cool but not very practical. Economically the 13b with a little journal bearing turbo is hard to beat.

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Cough cough unless I can get a deal on Bill's old car
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Originally Posted by Fritz Flynn
I've never had aspirations for a 3 rotor turbo but I think a 3 rotor NA would be super cool but not very practical. Economically the 13b with a little journal bearing turbo is hard to beat.



Cough cough unless I can get a deal on Bill's old car

Fritz,

Word on the street is that Bill's old monster may be for sale...

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Old 05-25-12, 09:19 AM
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Fritz,

Word on the street is that Bill's old monster may be for sale...

Guy
Yep it's for sale but I can't drop 40k on it. No real place to race it other than what you or me (and maybe 10 other people in the country would want it for) and 10k more buys a really well prepped 996 (w/ lots of spares and 3 sets of wheels) or possibly even a beat up 996 cup and 10k less buys a c5 t1 car so that sort of money for a track FD doesn't make sense.
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Old 08-26-12, 09:19 PM
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Car is home, running but needs a tune. PCM sent off to Steve williams in richmond.


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Got the PCM base tune back, runs much better now. Quick vid moving it around

Moving the LS6FD - YouTube
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You have a few weeks to get it track-ready for NJMP still!
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Old 09-07-12, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by ArmitageGVR4
You have a few weeks to get it track-ready for NJMP still!

i'm shooting for October at summit, if i don't make that then I guess it'll be november VIR.
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Old 09-08-12, 08:33 AM
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Glad to see it up and running!
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the v8 bug bites yet again
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