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Bit of a break between drinks.... Basically shelved it due to the above, and a chev takeover situation. So I have finally started looking at this again and I have a long winded plan, the heads that I could have bought 18 months ago are no longer available, so with the guidance of Dr Gouk racing engines, we will be getting the existing heads scanned, and another set of pauter heads scanned, and amalgamating the rocker box from the pauter heads onto my heads, once the design is all finalised they will be milled out of aluminium billet. Time frame.... 12 plus a bit months, but hey why hurry right !!

It was either the above, or try and sell what I have and buy another engine. The Pauter blocks now have a spread bore so you can run up to 108mm bores, so the crank/cam and everything is different to what I have.

Been collecting a few bits. Another radiator for the supercharger water/air intercooler, water pump and reservoir. Plus just chucking the acc drive on and getting a length on the blower belt... Waiting for trans. And to add a spanner into the works, looking for another warehouse for work, so this may have to wait until after the move to do the swap...  Anyway, shiny bits photos

Ill be pulling out the Motor/Box late this month. Any interest please contact me, it is on retard me, I will do a better deal for someone from here. Selling the complete LS3 ecu Trans pedal package. Pretty much a straight bolt in if you have a small block chev based car/boat/van/truck/camper/plane/chainsaw.

Have bought another box with fancy stuff in it that is good for 800hp/lotta torque, still a 6l80 but better. Photos to follow when I go dig out the new engine from hidey hole that missus doesnt know about... shhhh

Its kinda a little bit tempting to overdrive the boost a bit to make the most of the gearbox. Im unsure as to how much the driveshaft/12 bolt will live with, so will probably leave it alone at this stage.

@cletus Just a quick question, do you know of any IFS for trucks of my era (60 - 66) that have been previously used here and Oked / passed cert ? Just generally looking around. Obviously fatman stuff is out, I was looking at jim meyer racing - http://www.jimmeyerracing.com/products/ifs_55-62_chevy_truck_heavy_duty_weld_in.shtml - probably wont do anything but just interested... vaguely

On 26/11/2018 at 19:41, 66gt said:

Yes complete. Very good buying. 

Shit thats tempting. Ive been looking at magnuson, harrop etc, all offering (supposedly) about another 50hp compared to the LSA, but running around 12k for the set up.

Anyone want to buy an LS3 with 10,000 k's on it ?

Those bonnet height rules are retarded. Someone needs to rejig a mechanical fuel injection setup to run fuel, I vaguely remember looking at some hillborn stuff that looked mechanical but was an efi setup... or just run methanol on the street.

Ill second that, I love the deloomed engine bay, and the airbox set up is just so mint...

Front roll bar in, rear to do. Wicked cornering coming up.

26 minutes ago, KP_wag said:

Clean motor even when it was still on the pallet! Many (any) miles on it? What fancy stuff did you need to do to make the 6L80e work? 

4000ks on it over the last 4 months. Box just works. I have been mucking around with shift speeds and getting rid of low speed torque converter lock up, gm do this to save gas but makes it feel sluggish at low speed. Still needs a bit of tooling round.

It felt like an adventure, its been a long time since I have done miles in an old car and I really loved it. Bench seat cornering, no anti roll bars, no grab handles, the fear of a door springing open at every turn..... god I have missed you all.

Drove it to Russell a couple of days ago, not that it really matters, but 13.75l per 100kms. Im pretty happy with that number... zero break downs or issues. Big Tick from me !

I have put the retro sound head unit in it so it looks old school, it is bluetooth and phone sorted, Im just really over the wiring on this thing now....

Exhaust sorted, brakes need some love, bit more wiring, electric handbrake sort out, door seals and stereo and probably more.. hopefully get wheels back soon...

Drove it tonight, exhaust tomorrow. driving there with open headers and excessive traction issues. borrowed wheels...

Yeah I was thinking that, 24 kgs a rim plus tyres.... Will see how it rolls, I have found someone to redrill them thanks to Stu, so will see how it works out !!  No deafening exhaust here though. Im going for quiet as a mouse status.

Monumental Fuck Up 101 - when ordering wheels, make sure PCD is correct... I screwed the pooch on this one, and now have a set of steel wheels that are 5 / 4.75 (and 5/4.5)  instead of 5 / 5.00". These are std chev passenger fitment, detroit steel wheels, 20x8 and 20 x 9. 

1/4" of doom...  So options are find someone to sort this for me, or sell them and regroup.... Any suggestions welcome. Im pretty confident there is enough meat to weld / redrill - just finding the right person to do it. Pic is of the front of wheel, dimpled stud holes are the 4.75" ones.

It Lives ! After a week of thinking and fucking around with wires, it starts. VATS hadnt been turned off in the ecu, so no sparky and no fuel. have a problem with the pedal not moving the throttle body, and TPS errors, will try another throttle body next week and see if that solves it, its a drive by wire deal.  Wheels arrive in the country monday, working on timber decking in the tray this weekend. Spindle swap and disc brakes are on the front end. Used CPP C20 to C10 conversion spindles so was an easy swap.

To do - radiator and hoses, power steering, re attach front end properly, tray and the back end, wheels, rear brakes, handbrake (keep forgetting to do something about this), exhaust...

Maf sensor wasnt in front of throttle body hence death.

Dynamat or one of its variants would be great on the floor of a car I used to draw as a 3 year old. Basically a shoebox. 1) wear gloves (i got a bazillion little cuts on the end of my fingers because tough guy) 2) get a decent roller - the long socket I used was cheap but tough work. 3) pay some other dweeb to do it.

I have some closed cell foam coming to go over this then carpet. Hopefully is quiet like a tiger.