Awesome progress man.

 

LOL it could have been about 6 inches longer and it would have made it much easier but as long as the job gets done the size of the tool don't matter!

It was off by this much. I had to literally push it in by hand

 

I thi k with that top plate you have i would have found a way to set it down and grab the middle hole, assuming you had the floorjack under the trans already...

 

I went from the back hole to the front hole with no luck. I ended up having to set it down take the plate off and bolt the end of the plate to the middle of the motor so i had a few extra inches of play. Yes i had a jack supporting the trans.

 

Today i got the new hydro boost in. Still need to get the pedal but everything else is done on it. (taking the front seat out made this a hell of a lot easier i was able to comfortably lay on my back in the cab and get all the bolts in.

I also bolted up the hot side cross over and the turbo with the first piece of the down pipe.

My next issue is being that I've never dealt with a drive by cable i don't know how to attach the cable to the throttle body. I know they simply clip in place but it seems like i have way too much slack in the cable.

 

Throttle body spacer maybe? I had a similar issue with my 99 with the l92 intake, made a bracket work!! Are f body throttle cables shorter at the tb end?

 

I got the main throttle cable connected today the other cable I would assume is for cruise control? I can connect it but I need something bigger on the end than what is there now to hold in place. Or totally do away with it?

 

Yeah its the cruise control cable...

 

Working on getting the wiring harness ready. I repined my c100 and c152 connectors with the plugs from my 05 v6 harness to my 99 v8 harness so they can plug into the harness on the truck. The c2 connectors on the 05 vs the 99 harness are way different...this shouldn't matter right? Since the c2 connector just holds the relays and fuses and as long as i put the right fuses/relays

 

ran the harness today and pulled the tune no problem. Went to rewrite the tune with the 3 bar os and 4l80e segment swap and keep getting a "x7f negative response" message when trying to write. I have an email in to hpt support hopefully its something simple