'00 FRC Hardtop - moar LS/Murica/long distance high speed cruising

[nsogiba]

so i got it all back together and took it to work today. I missed driving it...

squirted the air bridge with red wrinkle
_DSC4981 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

This is exactly what I want to see for a 16 year old, 107K mile motor. Not even so much as wiped clean. Love it. New gaskets for fun
_DSC4982 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

LS6 springs are in along with new valve seals
_DSC4984 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

The Fel Pro intake manifold gaskets had an odd locating feature that was a bit oversized for the pocket for each runner...this caused the gasket to sit ever so slightly high at that corner. It probably would have crushed down fine when torqued but being OCD I trimmed the corner of each one for a nice flush fit.
_DSC4986 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

_DSC4988 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

Enjoying high dollar beverages, life is short, demand the best
_DSC4992 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

Replacement front spring came in looking damn near brand new. Waiting to install it until the lowering bolts come in - should be this week
_DSC4993 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

I need to clean up. Wife is pissed her spot is unavailable
_DSC4994 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

Finished product, needs a serious detail to clean up all the fingerprints and grease. Will clean up nice.
_DSC4996 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

[laextreme5]

Stock LS1 = 6200
Currently set at 6500

I ran my old LQ4 with junkyard yellow LS2 valve springs to 6650 like it was my bidness, trying to be a bit more conservative on this motor.

If I really had money I'd beef up the valvetrain with some fancy parts and go to like 7500

6650 is for peasants. 7500-8000 is where its at. ALL THE RPMS

[nsogiba]

Stock LS1 = 6200
Currently set at 6500

I ran my old LQ4 with junkyard yellow LS2 valve springs to 6650 like it was my bidness, trying to be a bit more conservative on this motor.

If I really had money I'd beef up the valvetrain with some fancy parts and go to like 7500

[laextreme5]

That's no LS

I feel as if this will happen to my motor, from "unique" rpm goals.

Nsogiba, what are your rpm goals your shooting for?

[LCG]

I saved that picture long time ago for undisclosed purposes, it fit what was being said.

But.. Imagine that pushrod being the only homosexual in that set of pushrods.

In my LS1 it was more the likes of a gay parade.

[190Evan]

That's no LS

That's not an M62 is it?

[nsogiba]

my guess is 5.0? Besides LS I have no clue what American Iron looks like, besides the random SBC

[DER E30]

I once reved a LS1 to the moon and kept it there.. It was unique.

That's no LS

[LCG]

In4 cosmetics and gayboy stancey stuff.

[190Evan]

In4 cosmetics and gayboy stancey stuff. Cool V8 building though I want to see videos of this thing doing what it should be, which is burnouts. I'll wait for you to mount the tires though.

[nsogiba]

I once reved a LS1 to the moon and kept it there.. It was unique.

Nice! The springs will make the cam lobe more noticeable too.

Still running stock cam, no immediate plans to change it out.

This is cool!

Bet it sounds amazing!

Bet this sounds amazing!

Will keep an eye on this

Loved the attention to detail on the last build, and already loving the detail on this build. C5 has always had a place in my heart. Something about those pop up headlights..

Ps. The BMW sig is clever

car is back together. broke a PCV line while reassembling, had to rob a rubber coupler off the truck intake I had in the basement and splice her up. Also forgot to plug in the OPSU AFTER the intake was torqued, boy was that fun.



Waiting on a mail order tune from a shop, the current VE and timing is not at all close to what it needs to be for what i'm running, I'm sure AFR is way off.

The front leaf spring crack is getting worse so that needs to be replaced ASAP as it's a safety concern. I bought a very clean low mile unit on ebay, it showed up last week looking all purdy.

I am aware that this build is not very "stancey", but....

finally ordered some lowering bolts from Zip Corvette, should be in this week, They will get installed along with the new spring.

Test fitting of E39 M5 wheels will occur this weekend also. Offsets are quite a bit lower, but should get close to flush. We shall see.

[Erald]

Loved the attention to detail on the last build, and already loving the detail on this build. C5 has always had a place in my heart. Something about those pop up headlights..

Ps. The BMW sig is clever

[GrantLDN]

Bet this sounds amazing!

Will keep an eye on this

[GrantLDN]

This is cool!

Bet it sounds amazing!

[white out]

nah...i'm just planning to rev this thing to the moon and keep it there

Nice! The springs will make the cam lobe more noticeable too.