Really like the wire loom idea. Should look and run awesome when youre done.
Really like the wire loom idea. Should look and run awesome when youre done.
T-RAV99 GMC | 5.3 | Skinny White Guy Tuned
Are you going to run with an oil cooler? I saw the oil cooler fitting on the oil pan, If not the Chevy dealer has the block off plate and gasket for $9.00. I just bought one for mine, that's how I know...X2 on the cool idea for the wire loom idea, I just wonder about the heat and that stainless with the wires in tight quarters??
No oil cooler, at least for now.In fact, the fitting on the pan is blank. I'd already bought the regular block off plate to go on the other pan. I may drill and tap this fitting for a pressure guage sending unit, though.
I had wire looms like that before on my sbc and it worked great. The tubing and brackets are carbon steel. Only the end plugs are stainless
I ordered these headers today instead of running the manifolds. Ordered a 4.10 ring and pinion set, and these little boogers for the steam holes. I ordered 2 blanks for the rear, and two with 1/8" NPT ports. I'll probably drill and tap an 1/8" port in the water pump, and either use -4AN hose or 1/4" brake line for plumbing.
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Well, with my son's baseball schedule, mine and my wife's work schedules, revival at church, and other things happening, it's been a slow past couple weeks for progress on the truck.
I did finally get around to making(but not completing) the coil pack bracket setup. I decided to mount them behind the intake using the two rearmost holes in the valley cover.
View with the carb and breather.
I also finally got the holes drilled and the end caps put into my wire looms.
I went ahead and fed the wires through for a test fit. Looks like I may need to send them back and get 45 deg boots. I'll double check when I get my headers in to make sure they will work.
That wire loom looks sweeeeeeet.
T-RAV99 GMC | 5.3 | Skinny White Guy Tuned
have you tried opening the crossover pipe between the heads and leave it open until a solid stream of water comes out of it? There was another person on here that had put his head gaskets on wrong and caused an overheating issue, must have had one upside down.
See my truck data in the "My Garage" section here... http://www.ls1truck.com/forums/my-ga...tml#post191709
Got the headers hooked up to the exhaust Wednesday. I'll try to get a better vid soon. It's rained the past 3 days here. There's alot of background noise in this video so you will have to turn up the volume to hear the exhaust. These Magnaflows are really quiet, especially with the x-pipe.
I think I have my coolant flow issue resolved. A guy on LS1Tech said he had to fill his engine through the top neck of the water pump becasue the water won't cavitate into the engine just from the radiator. I still don't have my alternator wired, and I think the battery is getting weak, so when I get the alternator wired, I can start testing, tuning, working out bugs, then make final touch-ups and such. At least now I can hear what I'm doing when I work on it now.
New vid from last night. Sorry about the foggy look. I took the camera out of the nice cool house outside into the muggy, humid air, and the lens fogged up.
Not sure why my power steering pump is whining like that. It's full of fluid.
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