Conversion Progress Report

[kewljay223]

you do have some "play" in the brake booster line right? to allow for engine vibration and movement when the throttle is punched??? thats why they are usually a rubber line.

[Bear]

Sure do, the connector between the line and check valve is a soft flexible connector hose.

[Jmac527]

I see someone has been hitting up the scrap pile from work....lol Yeah, that's VATS kicking in. Glad to hear that it runs though.

[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?

[Jmac527]

Are you using the older truck one or did you do the 3 wire LS one? You add that resistor yet, I'm curious to seehow that turns out.

[Bear]

I am using the factory 05' 2 wire sender for the PCM and the factory 94' 2 wire for the instrument cluster. I am going to pick up the resistor at radioshack in the morning and will post the results.

[kewljay223]

yes the resistor is the fix. worked perfect for me. i tried driving without it hooked up and the tach did nothing. pulled over, tied the resistor in and bam, tach started working like it should. and its accurate too.