Pretty exciting day here!
A lot of stuff showed up!
So the first thing that showed up this morning is the Innovators Balancer.
That's for the A&A supercharger setup.
It's literally designed to work
with all their bracket setups so you don't have to worry about anything.
Ten rib for the blower, secondary drive,
and then this is where we're gonna drive our dry sump.
Nice, fresh, clean dash.
So this is the same AIM that we run in the S14.
They have some newer stuff that's coming out, but I want to try to keep as much
similar across the two chassis as possible. It's gonna make our learning
curve easier. Ty's already familiar with using that dash, setting it up.
The water pump from CBM already has the - 20 fittings ready to go. It's for an LS3 Corvette.
Easy peasy. Those go *bam* right on.
So this is all of our fast stuff that setup for a fast 102 intake manifold
This the main reason why we switched over to this intake manifold. It makes a ton
of mid-range power it's great for heat dissipation and it's gonna clear the
hood so we got like fuel rails the runners cuz now the new fast intake has
tunable runners where you can put very short ones for high horsepower over
8,000 rpm, medium ones for like a race motor like this and also the long
standard ones for all kinds of toys. Got a mock up Pro X CBM heads.
The conk front cover this is what you need for an RHS block and since we do run a RHS
block you have to have the ability to offset the cam sensor here. If you use a
standard GM front cover the cam exactly centered in the Kip pickup point
Make it a little bit difficult for it to crank over it takes a little bit of time
so they have these plugs and offsets so that you can actually offset the cam
sensors to get it in the right location for your cam depending on your deck
height of your block. Got our parts from CX Racing. A few of you fabricators out there don't
know CX have a lot of really good fabrication parts intake tubing
intercooler piping, exhaust parts, a really good place, very fast shipping.
LSX-R 102 intake manifold. It's so light it's has bosses ready for direct port
nitrous which is what we're gonna be doing this year. This has the tunable
runners inside of it. It's super small, lightweight. Color screen has LED
warnings on the side. I really like it because it can flash the whole dash red
low oil pressure, water temp too high, whatever, but I can also give you like
subtle warnings and in drifting I'm not looking at the dah unless it's literally
slapping me in the face telling me that there's something wrong. So Ty sets
up like very subtle things like nitrous bottle pressures low or intake air temps
are a little too high but if there's a serious problem like low oil pressure
it's a whole - will turn red to really get your attention
it's hard to be at an AIM product with how light and how much you can configure
and this actually runs all of our data acquisition at the same time so our
shock pots our steering angle sensor all of our engine health and everything that
I'm doing behind the wheel this logs it.
Look at this haul we have here!
Danggggggggg
it looks higher huh?
It's big!
And fast they really think ahead
all these little bosses right here are for when you want to tap drill and tap
it and put your sixteenth NPT direct port nitrous nozzles right in there
So right now, what we're doing is putting on our CBM pro heads since they are a
little bit different where the port location is how things fit a little bit
taller deck all that stuff we really want to make sure that we're using the
same heads that we're gonna be using on the engine for a final fitment when we
go to build intercooler piping and make sure the intake manifold and everything
lines up so taking off the old like stock LS3 heads, putting those CBM heads
on they're gonna put the proper water pump that CBM did for us with our - 20s
our R HS front cover, balancer,
kind of continuing on the mock up and you know
putting the parts that we're actually going to be using on the engine
Alright so we got most of the stuff on the front of the motor all hooked up got
the supercharger on, got the new water pump on, just needed the stuff to get the
belts on then I'm set the intake manifold on and
just kind of look what we got since it's all new stuff just want to make sure it
all works together
Alright so this is kind of how it all works. So much crap on all of these
pulleys it's crazy
So this is ANA's secondary drive system, so basically the
balancer drives this pulley and that pulley then drives your accessories and
they do that so that you have a dedicated belt just for the supercharger
that way you're able to put serious torque on the belt and this is 10 rib
big boy so you're not having to put your accessories through that much belt tension.
Alright so I'm putting on the Fast fuel rails now. These fuel rails are
made for the LS3 intake manifold using LS3 EB6 injectors. What I've just been
using so I continue to use it.
The CBM pro-x heads have an LS3 angle and intake
port so just been continuing to use the LS3 stuff.
Alright so the oil cooler showed up from CX racing today. Really nice, this is like
a Mazda FC something or another but it should fit
right there
all nice and V mounted. Got some fittings just to kind of check it out
and see how it's all gonna layout.
Power steering cooler
which is gonna go right
here nice and out of the way and I'm gonna be finishing up the AIM dash mount
Alright so what I'm doing right now is making a mount for the AIM dash.
This is gonna go on the back and this is the piece of the steering column--the extra
one that's been floating around on the steering column. I'm gonna make this
mount for this with a couple of tabs I'm gonna have to weld on that pretty nice
piece I took my time cutting it out on the bandsaw so it's nice and smooth and
now I'm gonna make the two tabs that connect to it.
Alright so I got my AIM mount
pretty much all done. Ty's welding it I just held it while I tacked it.
But yeah that thing is gonna be gnarrr
Got the mount done, super-lightweight, of course some more speed holes.
Ty welded it up for me on the side and that Woodward stealing car steering column
mount fits right in here, the little groove so that I can tilt it back and
fourth so I'm gonna assemble it, set it in the car, see how it looks!
I'm such a nerd with
this kind of stuff like I legit spent like all day on this.
You know doing a bunch other stuff from going to lunch of course but still it's nice to
be able to take my time I haven't always been able to do this
Alright!
Alright I finished up the steering column mount for the dash and you
can totally adjust it up or down and it can swing left and right so I decided so
you can get it all centered and perfect in your steering wheel.
So what we're doing right now is Ty is modifying the end tanks to our oil
cooler we're adding a different type of mount so that we can mount it flat on
the frame rail right here oil cooler is gonna go right here and I am playing
with our oil filter. So we take apart the oil filter and cut it open and look and
check and see if there's any debris in there pretty much every time we do an
oil change, so instead of having a cut open a regular filter we figured might
as well just get a filter that you have to take apart to change elements every
time anyway so I think this is going to go get it we're going to try to mount it
up underneath the crossmember
We also got a lot of our dry sump system stuff in. We got everything from
ARE so this for example is the breather going from the dry sump tank you can see
we have our pan three stage three stage we're running a scavenge only system
because we have to turn it with a serpentine belt instead of a cog made to
bolt on to an LS low-profile really nice stuff.
Ty just welded on the new mounts for
the oil cooler, we change these fittings to dash 12 to suit the dry sump system
because that's what it's required. We're going to weld these nuts on the frame
rail right there and the intercooler comes right up in here so it's like a
v-mount.
So after about three hours of deliberation we settled on this oil
filter and its location.
We're good it's going right here,
oil lines are gonna run
underneath the rack.
I'm really happy with the progress we made this week we
got a lot of like big-ticket items a lot of parts here got a lot of those parts
on the car feels good it's rewarding a lot of those things didn't take up a lot
of time but at least it makes me feel good it looks like we did a lot and
that's always great really excited with this stuff like my AIM mount, all those
little things that I spent way too much time on. Getting a supercharger on and the
intake manifold and fuel rails and all that just really gives me a good overall
layout of what's going to happen so now I can start thinking that I want this
fitting here do I want a ninety fitting here cuz I'm not just total nerd when it
comes to which way lines are gonna be routed and how I'm gonna be doing it so
it's exciting for me feels like the project's coming together make sure you
tune in next Tuesday well we're really gonna be working with the dry sump
system hopefully those parts all come in and we'll be able to get them on the car
let me know what you guys think what you guys prefer am i doing it wrong
I'm overlooking some parts do you want to work with us hit me up let me know
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Alright, it's Saturday
And yeah, I should be working on the Corvette
But I'm taking my E36 beater car to Laguna Seca
for a grip day, to have some fun with my buddies.
too much fun