Pop N Wood

You do realize with an LT1 your car will already be slightly tail heavy. Unlike a 60's muscle car there is no real need to relocate the battery. But if you do I would be tempted to run both a positive and negative lead back to the engine.

That car will not run without a radiator. Maybe that is why he is selling the kit rather than keeping it. I doubt that car has ever been driven. He replace the upper raditor cross piece with an articlating strut bar. That thing must flex like crazy

I have the book and it is well worth the money. They give detailed drawing to show you how to cut the mounting plates. No welding needed. Flat plates with some holes drilled in them. They also give you a lot of little details that can really kill you if you have to figure it out on your own. Like how to make the tach work and putting a resistor in line to the alternator. The problem with the distributor is the HEI types will hit the bottom of the hood latch. You need to make a new latch bracket, get a catch from a ZX and add some 1/2 inch spacers between the cross member and the frame rails to clear that. If you have a non-HEI dist than I think you can just move the motor forward a bit to clear everything. You will have more wiggle room if you go auto tranny and don't have to worry about the shifter. http://www.summitracing.com sells the JTR book. you might get on that site and get the ISBN number and see if a local bookstore can get it for you. I know I shipped some phone books from Sydney to the US and it took over half a year to get here.

Did they walk you out the door or try and sweet talk you?

Too cool. Can't wait until I get enough torque to blow things up.

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=81151&highlight=firing+order http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=67551&highlight=firing+order Mudge taught me all I need to know. Except the carb thing. Guess I didn't listen to him too well.

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This site has several guides detailing how to switch a car to run pure ethanol http://www.green-trust.org/ethanol.htm

But if you are measuring the energy content in BTU than the 34% fewer miles per gallon are already taken into account. It takes more gallons of ethanol to get the same BTU's of energy as a gallon of gas. There are numerous contradictory studies about the energy gain or loss from ethanol production. BTW, it is completely legal to distill ethanol for fuel. This site has the government permit form you need to fill in. More interestingly, that same site says you can get tax credits for pure ethanol used by a buisness. So distill your own fuel and the government will pay you to run your trucks on it. I didn't know that.

If the angles are the same the centerlines of the shafts will be parallel.

My brother and I both kind of phased out smoking by switching to cigars for a few years. Seems much easier to stop cigars than to cold turkey cigarettes. My brother did cycle through chew for awhile too, but that was too much for me.

I have heard that too. Something about dealers marking where they sell. The ones on the side of the road are proabably gym shoes that fell off someone's bike or got stolen from some smaller kid.

Interesting and brief synopsis. http://www.carbon-info.org/carbonscience/carbonscience_008.htm Had never really thought of the water aspects. something Californian's have been living with for decades.

I agree, your picture makes no sense. You show a switch jumpering the power to ground. you don't show the field coil on the relay. That is the part that energizes the relay.

I have always wanted a short bus just like the one I use to ride to school.

I hope you got witnesses hearing him say that. The same thing happened to a buddy of mine maybe 3 months ago. Was backing out of his driveway and got hit. Swung is car around 180° and knocked him back into his front yard. No skid marks, figured the other car had to have been doing 40 MPH when they hit him. Can’t figure out how his was going that fast since his driveway was maybe 100 feet from an intersection with a stop sign. The couple got out of the car apologizing and saying they didn’t see him because they were arguing about money. When the insurance companies got a hold of the accident reports and said it was my buddies fault since he was the one backing into the street. He had to cover both cars.

Checked luggage. Found a note in my case when I got home saying the TSA had inspected my bag. Wonder what made them suspicious? The tool box, the big metal bar or the bag full of gauges and wires? The R200 cross member is a good bit thicker than my R180 bar. Was going to cut them both in half and weld them together to gain dual exhaust cut outs. May have to think about that one some more.

I use this place as kind of a barometer of LS pull out prices. I watched the prices from that place for a couple of years before I bought my engine. Since the end of last year prices on the 2001-2002 F bodies went up like I said. I called the guy, and he told me he only lists a fraction of the engines he sells on ebay. He said his prices are dependent upon the auction prices for the cars. He said everybody had finally figured out that these engines are starting to get old and that they aren't making any more of them. The pre 2000 motors are supposedly less desirable due to different oiling and heads. You see the obscene prices on the LS2 motors. Makes for a small pool of available cars.

Amen brother. I noticed Consumer Reports did an issue with the lead article about their experiences and testing of an E85 vehicle. Not very flattering.

Hot damn that is subtle understatement. Hope to never know what you mean.

Naaaawwwwsss!!!

the year makes a big difference in price, as does the manual. LS1 prices jumped about a grand from the first of this year. They are becoming harder to get these days.

Mission successful. Got a crossmember, tach and voltmeter/fuel guage from Ecology for fidy bucks. Easy to do when the cars are up off the ground like that and the dashes are already torn up. This was my first time underneath a 280. Man, there sure is a huge difference betweent the floor pans of a 240 and 280. Thanks again guys.

Back fit a hybrid drive out of a Prius. Be the first of the new wave of motor swappers.

I notice zbarn lists replacement joints for $25. I have never pulled the joint at the top of the shaft. Call Z barn and see if they sell just the joint or the whole unit.