Meatwad Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Finally! My cam, valvesprings, and lifters came in when I got off of work! Also picked up a 8.8 rear end out of an explorer. Drained the old gear oil out of it. Took 15 minutes of hardcore scrubbing my hands to get that terrible gear oil smell off of my hands afterwards lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Gadsby Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hahaha, my R200 came on the other day and stained my soul as well. Still not enough to take away the feeling of new parts though lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Gadsby Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) Darn double posts... Edited January 31, 2015 by Jay_Gadsby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUNNY Z Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 What are the cam specs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) What are the cam specs?218/218 @.050".578"/578" 114 LSA It's a little small due to my turbine side of the turbo being a little on the small side for the 6.0 By the way, I sent you a pm Edited January 31, 2015 by Meatwad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 So I have changed direction as far as color combination goes. I decided Chevrolet orange in the engine bay would really pop against deep impact blue. The block, valve covers, and timing cover will be orange. I bead blasted the valve covers and timing cover. Painted them orange and painted the recessed stripes on the valve covers black. Masking them was slightly tedious, but the little details can sometimes make a big difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUNNY Z Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 How are you going to do a PCV setup? Not from the valve covers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 How are you going to do a PCV setup? Not from the valve covers?Yes, I am going to run it from the valve cover for now. I'll definitely be running a catch can on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted April 8, 2015 Author Share Posted April 8, 2015 It has been a couple of months. I have been distracted by a low mile 2006 GTO that I purchased and have put some money into that. I even took it to the track last week. Anyways, i finally decided to pull my heads off and send them to the machine shop. They called me 3 days later telling me that they were done. As i got to the machine shop, i saw the owner shaking his head. He forgot to tell the employee to bead blast the entire head. Instead, the interior and the area where the exhaust flange bolts to was the only areas cleaned up. The heads were pretty corroded and i wasn't about to paint beautiful aluminum heads. I made them take the heads back apart and clean the whole thing. That was really my only issue. While the heads were gone, i cleaned up the rest of the engine. I used HTH engine degreaser. I buy it by the gallon from my neighbor who works at a customs shop here in town for a good price. After i cleaned it up, i figured I would paint the block Chevy orange because i thought that it will pop against the Deep Impact Blue that i plan on painting the car. I picked up some LS9 Gaskets from the Chevy dealer. I also ordered every other gasket the engine needs and all the ARP bolts i need to button the engine back up, minus the accessories. After months of searching endlessly, I finally picked up a 50,000 mile T56 from a friend who was parting out his LS3 swapped 1996 Impala SS. Picked it up for $1,300 and drove the car before it was pulled and it shifts and drives fine through all of the gears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zfan1 Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Nice project, good luck with the build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Got this beauty most of the way put together, just waiting on a few misc parts and a harmonic balancer installer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) Weirdest craigslist story I've ever had: so I saw an ad for corbeau a4 seats. The claim was that they're brand new in the box. The lady gives me an address 28 miles away and a suite number. I go there with my buddy because it seemed kind of sketchy. We get there and the place is called brain solutions. Confused, we call the lady up trying to find the damn entrance. We walk in and there is some older lady in her 60's. We go around back and she opens the door. There is a huge corbeau box. I open it and there are two brand new corbeau a4 seats still in the wrapping. I got a killer deal on them so I bought them an stuffed them in the back seat of the goat. We were both confused as to what happened. We googled the place an it's a teaching place to help mentally challenged kids learn. On the site, there's a video explaining what they do. Who's on the video? The lady who sold us the seats!! We were laughing so damn hard due to how weird the situation was! Regardless, I got two a4 seats for $350 Edited April 15, 2015 by Meatwad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackzpeed Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Hope they fit..... I tried a pair years ago to no avai as the shoulder wing hit the door panel. I'm running sparco seats now. Good luck with seats and the rest of your build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 If they don't fit, I don't think I'd want a skinnier seat. I'm a pretty skinny guy and these things hug me pretty tight. Any tighter, I wouldn't want them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alainburon Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 Weirdest craigslist story I've ever had: so I saw an ad for corbeau a4 seats. The claim was that they're brand new in the box. The lady gives me an address 28 miles away and a suite number. I go there with my buddy because it seemed kind of sketchy. We get there and the place is called brain solutions. Confused, we call the lady up trying to find the damn entrance. We walk in and there is some older lady in her 60's. We go around back and she opens the door. There is a huge corbeau box. I open it and there are two brand new corbeau a4 seats still in the wrapping. I got a killer deal on them so I bought them an stuffed them in the back seat of the goat. We were both confused as to what happened. We googled the place an it's a teaching place to help mentally challenged kids learn. On the site, there's a video explaining what they do. Who's on the video? The lady who sold us the seats!! We were laughing so damn hard due to how weird the situation was! Regardless, I got two a4 seats for $350 image.jpg That's a good deal, crazy story....lol Nothing on Craigslist surprises me anymore though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhotographer06 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Definitely subscribing to this one! nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 The only thing I'm waiting on to put it all in is a scatter shield(safety first), and to get paint so I can paint the engine bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 Engine and tranny put together and the fun part is near! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebekahsZ Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Did you check the index of the bellhousing? Mine was off a good bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatwad Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 Yep! It's all good to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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