Well, I had typed a solid hour of an actual build that was detailed... But stupidly I typed it in Internet explorer... Which crashed like the pile of **** that it is. So here's a short version. Bought the car as a graduation present to myself in 2007 it came stock with an SS hood, Ram air intake, SLP mid length headers and a flow master exhaust. Car went from stock to Cam, to heads and cam to a spun rod bearing over the period of 6 years. Blew it up last year at power cruise. I always got, and Still do hear, "It's just an LT1 car" hence the projects name. It's real fun to hear people say that with the new setup too! Bought a wrecked 99 Camaro ss for the drive train. The wrecked car had: Cammed LS3 T56 9" rear end Nitrous and some suspension. Swapped the stuff in over the period of 3 weeks. The car runs well. Needs a final tune once I get the Nitrous in. I'm hoping for some where around 480-490rwhp on motor and some where in the 600rwhp range on nitrous. We'll see how it goes though! The car when I bought it: The donor car: Cut some **** up, to make more working room: Pull subframe/motor/tranny combo on two gojacks and a homemade dolly under the trans: Install said combo into the good car: Make nasty, cheap ass fuel solution to drive the car in 18 hours: Oooh, neat: Fab up a cheap ass (Not really, **** was still 100 bones from pepboys) Air intake setup to be able to drive the car. Ooh Fancy: Got check engine lights?: ^^No ****s given, Drive it hard^^ Looks good all cleaned up: Looks sick with the drag wheels on: Goes pretty good too: (6.1L challenger SRT with a D1 on 8psi Guy said 580 horse. I'm assuming, and hoping for his sake that's at the crank. This car doesn't run that hard) Afraid old man will say you jumped him? **** it, give him a car and the jump. Both of those runs are on motor. The nitrous isn't completely hooked up yet. Need a timing controller so the car can get a final tune from Carl. Jump that. There was tons more of back story to the car and the build.. but **** crashed so that's out. Boost will be going in this winter as long as everything goes well.
Looks good! I've always had a thing for a nice Camaro. My first was an 86' V6 auto nothing too special when I was in high school, then I bought myself a 97' LT1 the same green color as my first 'big girl car'. Did you apply the scoop or find a hood assembly?
When I bought the car 6 years ago the hood was already on the car. It was a "true" ram air setup before. With the new intake though that setup doesn't work. Thanks. It goes pretty well. Getting it tuned this week finally on E85 and the nitrous is just waiting for a full bottle. Corners are the weak part in this thing. Straight line's pretty fun though.
Took it to proving grounds. I kept pussy footing around on the launches. Best launch I got was a 2.03. Just feeling like a slug. I didn't want the 10 bolt to pop. Only got 3 runs in. I was dumb and didn't race Friday. Should have. Kept missing my class on Saturday. 12.54 @116.4 [email protected] and [email protected] The MPH is alright. Need to learn the new shift points with the final tune on the car finally (as of Friday morning at 6) These runs are all on Motor. Never got a blowdown setup to be BIR legal. Should break 10's with a real launch and some sauce.
