Well, it's all together and running! Made her idle for a good 5-10 mins while I checked all the clearances and lines for leaks etc. and then took her down the street to the gas station! I know she wants to GO and the turbo starts making boost at about 2200 and the blowoff sounds awesome! hahhah ... def needs a tune now. The previous tune was done with the stock 5.3 and 4L60E and now it has a low compression bottom end with cam and the bigger turbo/etc. and it goes into knock retard like a retard! I could barely get in the boost without the alarm being triggered on the Dashlogic.





Just need to wrap the crossover tubing; I don't have enough, and maybe relocate the catch can to a more permanent location instead of zip tied near the battery ... or maybe route the tube back into the filter to make EPA happy, lol

 

updated the first post with Video after first startup...

 

Great job pretty clean installation you have done there.

 

Curious, why didn't you build the kit with the driver manifold pointing down and forward? PS pump in the way?

 

Well to do that would require another passenger manifold ... which I actually do have but never test fit it like that. P/S and steering box is in that region though

Thanks, just waiting on some plug wire separators so I can get rid of the zip ties.

 

The only damn fitting I didn't take apart and re-seal leaks! lol

 

How soon till you get it on a dyno and throw a final tune in it?

I like the simplicity of the setup.

 

Well for now I'm gonna get a street tune done on it to make sure it's safe to get into boost. Finances are tight so a full dyno tune may take some time. The tune was tweaked when the trans lockup wasn't working so no that I've settled that too, the engine sees more load and gets into knock retard hella quick

 

I feel your pain, my wallet is still on life support.

 

Well I'm having concerns on the amount of condensation I'm getting in the catch can. It's pretty bad that I'm getting a whole lot of water out the bottom after a drive. Most drives aren't that long and it's cold in the nights, so hoping it'll settle as the weather gets warm. Total tubing length is about 6 feet for the valve covers and about 2 feet for the valley, empty canister with just a filter up top.

The only thing that's making my concerns worse is that the coolant level dropped and I have no real signs of leaks (although I'm keeping an eye on the top hope that seems to have a dampness around it, and the system held 15psi pressure test for about 10 mins. So it's either that there's a coolant leak into engine when it gets hot or the air in the system is getting purged slowly; as I lost some coolant and refilled as I modified the heater core hoses a bit to keep them away from the hot side.

I really hope I'm not gonna have to pull it all apart to replace the head gaskets. UGH!

Played with the tune a bit, but we had misplaced the harness from the wideband to the EFILive box, so it was only a few runs on the road to keep detonation at check and making sure the fueling was safe for daily driving, nothing much else done for now.