digitalsolo

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Well, I've spent the past few days getting my 6.0L put together and the engine bay configured.

The engine setup is as follows:

2001 LQ4; full align hone and torque plate hone on cylinders; new GM rings and stock pistons/rods/crank; Clevite 77 bearings; ARP wave-loc rod bolts, ARP pro series head bolts, GM MLS gaskets (stock thickness). Heads are 317s decked .010 and cleaned up and have crane dual springs w/ Ti retainers, TSP hardened pushrods. I custom ported the throttle body myself. The rear -AN lines are for the PCV setup.

Nitrous stage 1 is a 75 wet shot, ColdFusion/NOS based setup that I put together, shooting through a single nozzle on a power ring setup; this is off of a 4 AN line from a 10 lbs bottle in the back.

Nitrous stage 2 is a 225 wet shot, direct port. It's a NOS Pro Race fogger system converted to Noszles; According to NOS I should be able to flow a 400 shot through these without any issue, and a ~450 before I'm really pushing the limits of the hardware. Up front is a 1 gallon tank feeding a Holly Blue pump with a regulator feeding the fuel side, 116 octane will be feeding the pump. This will be a SLOW ramping progressive setup to keep my pistons in one piece, and depending on how things look on the wideband, may get jetted down more, but hey, I'm trying to be optimistic here... Pistons will be getting swapped to forged this spring, along with a stroker kit. :elefant:

CAI is something I fabbed up a few months back, keeps my intake temps with 15-20* of ambient, even at a stop; I think I can do even better with some tweaking.

Exhaust manifolds are heavily ported and painted with DEI 2000* header paint.

I moved the coil packs out of the way for a few reasons: opens up the top of the motor for easier service; easier to get to my plugs; better clearance for the nitrous; and, mostly, it looks cool. :top:

...on to pictures...

turbogarrett

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why didn't you just put a turbo 13b or a 4 rotor in there, your car has no soul!




















only joking, can't wait to see this thing on the track!

liv

get a fan shroud

and I hope you have some FAT tires

digitalsolo

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275 40 17 Mickey Thompson Street ETs are going on the back. I won't slick it anytime soon, so I'll just have to pedal well.

And the fan is shrouded, take another look. There is only about 10-15" sq. on the radiator that isn't covered by it; I see ~195* solid temps in 90*+ weather, sitting in traffic. This isn't the first time the car has been together.

If you mean ducting and such between the bumper and the radiator, that is in process, though not necessary for cooling purposes, more to please me aesthetically and allow better mounting of the fuel cell.

wingsfan

"Snakes in an engine bay"

That's a lot of hose. Sounds like it should rip pretty well.

digitalsolo

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LOL, if I had a buck for everytime someone said that to me...

A couple of the hoses will be replaced with shorter units; but they're nitrous hoses, and I lack the equipment to do crimp ends, and I'm out of teflon hose, so now that's it's all installed, I have to order them cut to length. Should clean it up a little.

I'll be happy with 10.28 out of the car, on Mickey T's (quickest LSx in town went 10.29 on slicks, yes, I know, pretty weak). I think I can get it out of this motor, but we'll see. If I pop it, I pop it. 402 is coming soon either way.

custom13B

Nice clean installation and fabrication work..unfortunately all the AN lines kinda take away from that. Youv put a lot of work,thought and money into it. I think rerouting the lines would work wonders. Also a good idea to insulate your -4 supply line with refridgeration tape. Even if you leave it as is...pretty sick car!

digitalsolo

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Honestly, only the purge and -6 supply lines can really be rerouted any more efficiently, if I move/change any others, it makes service work a PITA on the car. I'm willing to give up a little aesthetic quality for speed of service. After spending time working on a Top Fuel team, I've learned the value in designing something to come apart quickly and easily, and incorporated a lot of those ideas into the rebuild of the car this time.

88IntegraLS

Nice fitting$

I felt like crap throwing away $38 for the one pair of them I had to buy. But they work well and are lightweight. Bulk discount?

digitalsolo

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Got a good deal on a big set on ebay (came with 20' of -6 Russel teflon lined lines as well), also had some laying around the house (I work on a race team, we have a lot of spare parts), the rest I bought outright; There's probably around a 800-900 bucks in fittings, lines and such, maybe a little less, I don't have the spreadsheet handy at the moment.

edit: That price includes a big pile of spare lines I've not needed yet.

88IntegraLS

Ottoman

is it just me.. or does that engine look bigger than an LSx/LTx?

89FCVert

Nice Job! As I have said before...too bad you don't live closer to Florida! .

Keep us up to date on how it "runs"..

rarson

Lol, that seems kind of a random number... but in all seriousness, digitalsolo I HATE YOU! Nah, just kidding, I'm just jealous of your awesome car.

digitalsolo

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Took it around the block today; engine is running great, just working out the other bugs now... I'll put up some video when I get a chance.

89FCVert

AWESOME! Good To hear!