Conversion Progress Report

[Bear]

Me too, with all this installing of parts, I forgot to add an air intake to my build. I could not find a drivers side CAI, so it looks like I will be moving the battery over to the drivers side. Got a smoking deal on this 4" Spectre cold air setup in town. Now too just move some wires and install.

[Jmac527]

Have you moved your battery yet? If you haven't I found out that you can use those 99+ CAI w/o moving the passenger side battary tray. Look up LT1swap on Facebeook and look at his 88-94 C1500 conversion and you can see how he positioned the metal tube.

[Bear]

It's already moved. I am glad I moved it, it looks better and made me put some thought into making it a true functional CAI. It's airtight and draws from the factory hole through the passenger, it also gave me a place to mount my fuse/relay box, and a nice hidden channel to run wire loom through. I will post some pics of it tomorrow.

[Bear]

Got the computer back and she runs great!!! I got a few questions though about it. What is the voltage output for a 2005'ish 5.3 setup. The guage in the cab is reading high, very high. Also, I have no Tach, is there a trick to getting it to work? I know I have it wired in, but is the PCM signal strong enough for the 94 tac?

[crzy8mnky]

Using a voltmeter across the terminals on the battery it was 14 volts while running, however I have seen my gauge read much higher than that. And I'm not sure on the TBI setups, but for the vortec you have to connect the output from the computer, C2-10, to a white wire on the connector to the coil. Nothing about needing to change anything in the computer.

[Bear]

I was not saying change anything about the computer, I was refering to the signal generated by the computer may need to be made stronger. I believe I have found the fix.



I will put my volt meter across the battery when it is running tomorrow morning and see what I get for voltage. I hate working night shift, by the time I get off, anything I want to do with the truck now that it is running is too loud for my wife and daughter. Should get to drive it for the first time tomorrow!

[Bear]

Alright, the gauge is reading really high but my meter says it putting out 13.85, so I guess I am good. Got the loom finished and under the hood cleaned up. DIY cold air intake came out great and functional.



I had the front end off to do some wiring correctly and thought that I should paint it while it was off. I sanded all the chrome off and used bedliner for the grille and bumper. I sprayed the bow tie in metallic cobalt blue. I should have done this a long time ago. I also used one of those headlight lens restoration kits made by 3M, and it works fantastic!