EastTnZ

I wound up buying the jtr book and the tbi one for other info it said it had in it. After all that I've still got both and may use them someday if a weird opportunity arises but I'm so glad I installed an LS engine. And no it didn't use any of the jtr book on my jci swap if I remember correctly.

That's crazy!!! You're still on u-joints with all that power on tap! What did you replace in the 4l60e to hold 550+rwhp without blowing it? I'm seriously contemplating on building another next year sometime... Thanks and keep up the great work! Yeah I hear you on the remodel, I'm saving for a house/wedding right now so my budget is low currently

Holy crap that's awesome!!!...and what rear end setup are you running currently? R200 with u-joints still or 300zxt cv's?

Currently it's $986 shipped to the house plus a guy around Knoxville said $100 to charge it professionally. But it's the only quote I've had so far. Do not charge a fresh system off the cans because r134 is so pressure critical is what I've been told. I need about 14 crimps done because I don't have the $200+ crimping tool so I'm not sure on pricing for that but $986+100+crimps. Not too bad and I tried to part it out like the build to save money but the guy I bought from is all original vintage air and beats the msrp by 10% plus out of state no tax. Hard to beat for an actual sanden compressor and I was not about to spend $450 on a no name compressor I couldn't source in the future and a set of brackets I'd have to modify for the truck layout. I think I saved about $200 going with the $48 universal mounts. And it's supposed to blow about 43* out of the vents and I can't wait! "Wheels of Time" is the place I bought my vintage air from. Locally I found a hose shop that would crimp the fittings on for $2 per crimp but if I bought the fittings from the local performance shop then they'd crimp them for free. Sadly my condenser from Vintage Air couldn't be purchased with an 8 fitting on the drivers side top and a 6 on the pass side lower so I didn't have an aesthetically pleasing finish so I had to order a 180* size 8 fitting for the top to have enough hose. Compressor, drier w/ binary safety switch, and condenser are mounted. Plus I had to buy a smaller diameter air filter to not interfere with the compressor serp pulley.

Finally decided to fix the low oil pressure issue whenever my Z sits at idle with the rear of the car lower than the front. Oil pressure would stay around 30-40 psi while driving but when I let off the gas it gravitates to 0 psi. Not good. PITA to remove the oil pan after the LS was installed but I finished it tonight finally. You can see the difference from the original 2002 factory o-ring vs the new felpro red O-ring. $3.37 shipped. Fel-Pro 72401 Engine Oil Pump O-Ring Now my engine when started up reads 70 psi and falls to the mid 50's. Tested it out on my nearly 45* driveway and stopped at an angle which usually resulted in oil pressure dropping to zero but it stayed at 50 psi. It worked!!! Next, I'm currently installing Vintage Air in the Z because the fiance doesn't much care for the heat... Two trips averaging 800 miles a piece she was wondering when I would buy the ac kit... Well at 4000 miles I'm installing a mini evap and sanden 508 compressor with the vintage air universal mounting brackets modified. I thought their would be enough room and their is just barely (less than 1/4" in almost all directions for it to fit). Granted I don't think it would've worked as smooth if I didn't leave the truck spacing and changed over to the car depth. TRUCK depth shown in pictures below. More info soon as I'm still finishing it up. Thanks for the roll bar Keith!!!