Cascade Crew

hnkajnk · New Member Joined: 30 May 2011 Posts: 10

Lookin good Cool

Alphius · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject:

Paul was kind enough this weekend to help me out with my subframe connectors and a custom Y-pipe to go from the LS1 manifolds to the MagnaFlow catback. We only set the car on fire once.

Awesome Y-pipe.

The exhaust has great clearance. Most of the way back, the T56 is lower than the exhaust. Subframe connectors are also installed. I can't wait to see how much difference those make.

I also managed to get my supports cut out in the dash pocket so that my gauges would fit. The speedo and tach were too close to the supports for the middle two screws; I had to take the dremel to them. Note to self: Get rid of stupid Grant wheel.

Now I have lots of engine wiring and gauge wiring to do, and I should be ready to start it up. Very Happy

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:36 pm Post subject:

Some sexy car pics right there!

chevymad · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:37 pm Post subject:

Looks awesome! Love the clearance. What size pipe? So how many times did one of you catch fire? lol

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 7:01 pm Post subject:

2.5 to 3.

The insulation fell off the propped up carpet. Just one fire.

QwkTrip · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 9:47 pm Post subject:

That's some darn good exhaust to support the whole car. Laughing

iansane · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:15 pm Post subject:

I'm Ian Smith and I enthusiastically support this swap.

Alphius · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 11:37 pm Post subject:

fiveoformula · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 1:36 pm Post subject:

How many hours would you say you have into the wiring alone now? Just out of curiousity

Alphius · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 6:30 pm Post subject:

Well, so far stripping the harness took about an hour and a half, another hour to run wiring around the engine bay and plan out where everything is going, then I am expecting extending the harness and making it look nice to take between 4-8 hours. Gauge cluster took me about 2 hours of work to do last night.

I bet when I'm completely done I won't have more than 16-20 hours into the wiring total. That's a lot more than it takes me to do a batch fire single coil MegaSquirt harness, but to be fair the GM harness is a lot more complicated. Laughing

The last two MegaSquirt harnesses I built took less than 10 hours each for sure. Also this is the first time I've had to redo a factory harness so there is a little learning curve built in. I am probably going overboard on the work a little to get everything set up perfectly the way I like it. Most people just feed power in and hack off some plugs. Mine will be completely redone.

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:08 pm Post subject:

Damn! I step away for just a min and you go all out ls1 swap on me! Awesome progress bro, I want to come Check it out when I visit in may. You can show me how much smarter you are than me for going LS. Haha I'll be following this swap closely from now on. Keep up the good work brudduh

-Jake

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:14 pm Post subject:

Gabe is putting a lot more work into this harness than you'd see on most of the TGO hackjobs, but I think the end result will be well worth it.

With the harness rerouted and rewrapped and the ECM relocated to the factory spot it will look much cleaner under the hood and be much more serviceable down the road.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:20 pm Post subject:

Gutting a factory harness is way more labor intensive than a Megasquirt!

One of the many reasons I've ditched the factory RX7 ECU idea.

Jake, LT1 is no slouch, be proud!

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:23 pm Post subject:

Twilightoptics · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:29 pm Post subject:

Indeed.

ChrisB · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:55 pm Post subject:

This thing is awesome! Nice work man..I've always wanted to do a gauge setup like yours with the autometers.

Alphius · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:40 pm Post subject:

I'm trying to do this swap the right way in every way. Doing it right the first time will hopefully ensure many years of happy, healthy LS1 motoring with a minimum of redoing stupid stuff.

I'm sure after this is done I will have lots of proud moments showing it off to friends, family and Crewbies. Smile

The smiles will be even bigger when I'm behind the wheel though! Very Happy

Jake, your LT1 swap is nothing to sneeze at. I bet I've spent twice what you did on your swap, and I sure don't have twice the power! Laughing

As far as the harness goes, I just need a day or two and a solid work ethic to get it done. I have other plans this weekend, so it won't happen soon but I am hoping to get quite a bit done next week and weekend. I need to get this car running! I am tired of not driving it, it's been almost exactly three months since the last time I was behind the wheel and I'm starting to have thirdgen withdrawals. Burnout

fiveoformula · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:09 pm Post subject:

I would go crazy with no 'bird for 3 months. I try not to drive it in the pouring rain so if there's a dry day, I practically dump the clutch right out of the garage... lol can't wait to see it running though, I'm looking for more motivation to pull the trigger on a motor I'm thinking about buying. Twisted Evil

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:12 pm Post subject:

fiveoformula · Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 11:16 pm Post subject:

Yes RLY! And I wanna see yours done too Aaron!