dewrag

.... no . I just got back to town/work from 16 days of holiday drinking at home.

Vancouver has a boat load of snow/cold weather right now so my underground parking is hanging out around 0C which isn't exactly appealing when laying on the ground hahah.

That being said ill probably bundle up and start cleaning up the little stuff this weekend.

Hopefully it'll go something like this:

- power distribution box mounted and wired in
- vacuum pump switch wired in
- install 3 bar map and switch over to speed density tune in HP tuners, along with 1849 hours of you tube learning about that haha
- I really need to sit down at work and figure out how to tig weld, so I'm hoping to spend a day or so at that sometime soon and finish up the exhaust.
- hopefully spend some more money, muffler, heat wrap, air filter etc.
- if I get ambitious I'll finish plumbing in the water to the inter cooler, there needs to be a bit of cutting on the inner fender to facilitate that. Shouldn't be too bad.


Other than that it's largely waiting for the snow to melt which isn't supposed to happen anytime soon.

Blklgt

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Huge props to you doing all that in your parking garage. I've been bitching at my buddy for not insulating his shop and then I read through your build and figured I have it pretty good.

Blklgt

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I'm just wrapping up my N/A lq4 swap in my 99 obs with plans for a s475 in the near future

dewrag

Nice! My first truck was a 94' extended short much like yours, I loved that truck! I originally started looking for an extended cab for that reason,but then the weight/hp questions came into play and I got a regular cab.

.... no sympathy about the cold from me! the fact that you posted a picture with a lift in it negates everything else haha. I end up with mine on jack stands just high enough for me to squeeze under the frame rail, and just low enough for me to work on stuff under the hood at the same time.

Blklgt

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Haha for sure the lift makes it nice. The fact that you stuffed that 5" DP in there is quite impressive. Do you think that you fuel pump will keep up at 600hp?

dewrag

Good question, I bought it because it was cheap.. But, I'm bored so I did some maths to ball park it.

The pump is supposed to flow ~380L/Hr or close enough to 100gal/hr at 60psi but manufactures like to stretch numbers like that so let's use 80gal/hr. Probably more realistic with a filter and line loss anyways.

80gal/hr * 125,000btu/gal = big number. Big number / 2544btu/hp = roughly 3900hp worth of fuel going to the rail. The boner kill is the engine efficiency, 25% is pretty average for a gasoline internal combustion engine. So that's leaves me hanging out around 1000hp at the crank on gasoline as far as fuel goes on the conservative side.

E85 has ~75% the heat of gasoline so that would leave me around 750hp crank on e85.

My next setup will be another 450 with a fuel cell in the box with a gravity feed surge tank, probably around the same time I start cranking the boost up and running e85.

dewrag

I'm also not looking forward to heat wrapping the down pipe... each time around the pipe needs 16" worth of wrap. I've yet to find a cheap source for that stuff.

Blklgt

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You should take a picture of how far that downpipe is into the inner fender from the wheel well.

dewrag

so i finally quit being a lazy hunk of crap and did something truck related the last week or so. I FINALLY sat down at work and did some TIG welding, which led me into welding up the down pipe, waste gate onto the cross over and a cute little waste gate down pipe. I also braced up the turbo side of the cross over, but don't have a picture for some reason.


The only welds I did on the cross over were to do with the waste gate, looking back on it i wish i would have been less of a ***** and done it myself.



I also found some nice heat wrap on amazon... 2"X50' for $35 CAD. Theres roughly 40' on the down pipe alone.





The welding portion of learning.... These were some of my better passes. Other than that I was in gap fill mode which turns into a clown show. I consistently seem to go a little light on the heat, probably due to my fear of having to fill a hole hahah. It didn't help that I sat down and did like 3 test passes and then moved onto important stuff. Anyways, I'm sure lots of you know a lot more about TIG than me so I won't get into that stuff. I seemed to be alright with aluminum on a flat pass, but when I went to tubing it gets 14029 times harder for me due to how fast you have to move around the contour.







I quite enjoy TIG welding. I just need a few more projects that will force me into practice. I also need to invest in a setup to purge the tube to prevent sugaring, grinding sucks! Might have to weld up a catch can or something.

dewrag

sooooo yea..... Drank some beer and listened to some metal, there just happen to be some truck work get done.

So I ordered the LS9 MAP sensor awhile back as it was 3 bar, you know, all the boost right?. 12592525. I did a basic white gurl search and seemed like everyone and their dog used it... On LS intakes. haha whoops. So I flanged up this little adapter at that sits in the place of the original truck MAP and has 2 1/8" NPT ports in it, one for the remote mounted MAP sensor and one for the boosty gauge. I made it the right size so that the engine cover plastic bolt down thing holds it well in place. I made a simple block to bolt the MAP into. 8" of nylon line and some compression fittings and I was back in business. I bolted the map to the underside of the throttle cable bracket.




So this is largely how the cool side of the engine bay is going to look like. Missing some air filter that I have yet to buy and some clamps.



I tried to push the IC as far forward as I could to leave as much room as possible for an air filter. I dislike greatly how the charge tube isn't parallel to the rad support, but whatever. Ill get over it.



I eventually have to do something with the lower coolant line. It just touches the crossover, probably have to find some mouldable hose next time I drain the coolant. I never realize how dirty the truck is until I look at the pictures, its so dark down there I dont even notice it.




I also splurged on a half decent heat blanket. Thermal Zero, they seemed to have decent things said about them. They aren't $600 which is nice. And they're are made in 'MURICA. I originally thought it was 18 sizes too big, but then I just realized thats the size of a T6 turbo.




I'm getting mega excited. Basically down to cleaning up some wiring and waiting for the snow to melt. we got 5 more inches here yesterday.