steven_esworthy

That ad is still on cragslist. I had called them about it but it was obviously sold... to you. Im glad I didnt drive 100 miles to look at that!! The ad is completely misleading! Good luck with your project!

Have you looked inside the dizzy cap for carbon???

Hey olderthanme, how much can you get holsets for?

I plan on getting TRW-L2441F forged pistons. A set from summit is about $360. They are 21cc dish. With a thicker head gasket I should be able to get about 8.5:1 compression. Unfortunatly the LT1 has small CC's and so it is harder to get lower c/r without replacing the heads, which I may do eventually(along with a complete forged rotating assembly). The turbos are off of a Z31 300zx that are .63AR. I plan on running a lower amount of boost(about 8psi). The turbos seem to be the same as the T3's from turbo thunderbirds with manual transmissions. The only bad thing about the Z31 turbos is they have an odd downpipe flange and so I will have to modify the existing ones to work instead of buying flanges. Anyways, just thought I would share some info.

Wheelman, They are stock corvette manifolds, just upsidown with some T3 flanges. Pretty sweet, they do clear according to silicone boy, all props to him on this one. I wasnt even considering doing turbo till I read about his setup. To make the plumbing simple, i was going to use the attached intercooler. They are on ebay for about $250. Also, I am going to try to use the internal wastegates. Those are some good stories. I am stationed in a small town and everyone here is putting neon underbodies on there civics. I was going to get the LT1 fuel rail covers and have Nissan or Datsun put on them to maybe make it look a little more stock... might fool some of the real dumb ones. But considering I will have fender flares and 255 rear tires, it might be hard to pull off. Anyways, I will post more pics as I get em.

You think anyone would beleive that this is a stock engine cuz of you know, the nissan logos on the turbos?

Thanks! So I guess you put the heat shields back on? I was going to have the headers coated, but I could probably have the shields done as well! The best part about these is I sold my LT1 Manifolds on ebay for $80, so they paid for themselves. It seemed difficult to weld them(probably because of the diff in the metals) but it seemed to come out ok. I am now going to be welding on the Z(floor pans, rust repair, etc...) I will aslo be rebuilding my LT1 with lower c/r forged pistons, and welding the bungs on my oil pan. Cant wait to post some more pics!

Just thought I would share my pictures of the manifold I just welded. My first time welding, came out fairly well. Got the manifolds on ebay for $30/shipped and the T3 flanges were about $35. Not bad for $65 turbo manifolds. Not sure if I want to put the heat shields back on. This is going on my LT1. I tried to bolt it onto my engine, but the manifold bolts arent long enough for these manifolds. I will try to get some and take some pics of it mounted. Anyways let me know what you think!

Just got home(abilene, tx) from dallas picking up a 96 lt1 with 40k on it. Last week got my freshly rebuilt 4l60e delivered, im almost ready to start wrenchin'. I am going to be using a 95 computer and a TCI computer to run the tranny(and twist machine shifters). I will be posting my millions of questions that will surely pop up(have jtr manual) and will be beating the crap out of the search function. If anybody has any experiences to share, let me know. Steve

If you pull out your ignition there are two screws on the back, take the back piece off, now look at where the plug with all the wires goes into it, you can see that it should be labeled what wires do what(ie b for bat and so on), and look a few posts down, I just installed one in my vehicle with some extra security you can see pics here http://photos.yahoo.com/steven_esworthy in the z car folder

Do you have any pics of the underbody? Or any pics of the install? That would really help me out, but good work!