Going to have a nice lumpy idle. :tup:

Degreed LJMS cam, dropped in Johnsonlifters (short travel hydrolic), installed Melling high pressure oil pump and put on front cover.

Melling put Red Locktite on a spring retainer screw (or something) because it was damn near impossible to get the screw out to replace the oil flow spring. I also had to take apart the pump to clean out any metal shavings.

All-in-all... pretty successful day.

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Another day and a half. You should be ready for install. :rofl2:

That sounds a whole lot like month and a half.

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Yea, it's like watching grass grow. :icon14:

Windage tray on (with fitment issues), oil pick up and Moroso 4way trap door pan. I'll come back tomorrow and figure out the clearance.

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To find out where the crank and rods are hitting the windage tray. You need some HiSpot bluing compound (grease will work too). Put a thin layer on the inside of the tray. Install it and rotate the crank. The bluing will transfer to the crank and rods marking the contact areas.

My big block Mopars had a swinging oil pick up. My big block Pontiacs and Chevys had a T shaped oil pan.

Git'r done before the 27th. Grand Haven meet up :rock: I really wanna hear this bad boy chuggin'. :driving::driving:

1.5mo is optimistic. :rofl2:

I'll try to make it out in my Juke.

Fixed some windage tray issues and put the oil pan on. Now I can take it back off because I forgot to install the oil pickup.:wtf2:

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Can't wait to hear this thing run. Boosted ls powered z seems brilliant!

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Thanks man.

This LS will spin high RPM like the VQ. Life will start off at 7,500rpm the first year. The next year I'm going to change the TQ converter out to a billet drum and let it eat at 9,000rpm. That's why I'm going through everything and getting all the good parts. The engine note should be glorious at top end, or atleast that's what I hope.

But you know... Keeping it over built and not turning it up kinda has a nice ring to it right now. This **** is expensive. :rofl2: I'm not sure how others do monster builds.

How they do monster builds?
He sold the kids, the wife is out turning tricks, 3rd mortgage in the house, 10 credit cards are maxed out, one meal a day and that's either pork and beans or cheese mac and hot dogs, and he is working 3 jobs. Or he's a trust fund baby.

Popped in a billet oil diverter, put the oil pick up in(forgot to add it yesterday), used some RTV on the front and rear joints where the front/rear covers meet the oil pan. I put in ARP head studs but they were for a gen3 block... I have a gen4 so they had to be removed. Moved onto head assembly and found that the machine shop didn't cut all the valves properly. I guess I'm on hold for a few days now. It is what it is.

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Found a good 7min video that pretty much shows all the steps I'm doing in a fluid motion.

For curious minds:



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Installed the ICT Billet Valley Pan today. I needed an easy win today. Put the gaskets in and screwed it down. boom. done.

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Looks like Nelson Racing Engines added the same piston coolers I added into my block @2:35

The heads are dropped off at the shop and they confirmed that the intake valves are screwed. I'm looking into getting some Ferreah valves, I'm just not 100% sure which ones I can get the best bang for my application. I'll defer to the machine shop on that one. The engine/trans will be going in as soon as the ARP head studs and valves get sorted.

In other news... I've decided to ditch the air to air setup and switch it up. Air to Water is the new direction. Specifically twin air to water and twin BMW 7 series pumps.
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My 4l80e is back from Capizzi Automotive. Mine is the non billet TQ converter, that's a future upgrade so I can spin up to 9krpm.
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:) Hope things are going your way, keep us updated with how its going. Cant wait to see this beast in person. :hello: :driving:

Last week I found out the exact spec that I needed to purchase for my intake valves. I settled on a set of Trick Flow replacement valves. I got the valves dropped off to the machine shop so they can do a multi angle grind (maybe a 3 angle) on them so they seat to the head.

Air to Water intercoolers are at the shop squirreled away in some corner. Nothing really to show on those until the work start on the turbo plumbing.

On a side note.... I've decided to go full retard and start learning how to do carbon fiber. Most all of the supplies are in. I only need a couple more things before I start that. I figure I can start with a small item like brake cooling plates. after that I will step up to a few other items. A few other items that caught my eye are my: Hood, roofskin and trunk with molded in duckbill.

I currently have a fly1 spec-v hood waiting to be put on but... When I got my hood it was fiberglass with an over lay of cosmetic carbon fiber, which pissed me off.

Anyway, those are a few items rolling around that I want to do. First priority is my engine completion though.

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I am interested in how the CF goes. looks like fun experiements.

Heads are back from the machine shop. New over-sized intake valves, Trick Flow 2.040, are seated with 3 angle grind. The work is top notch :usa:

Just need my ARP headstuds to come off back order and the long block will go together.

Some exciting news for my 370z, I am going to haul the vehicle to Auto Dynamix in Kalamazoo. My car was being held off site in storage. What this means is that the VQ and Transmission are coming out in short order. My new engine/trans can be test fitted! You guys have no idea how excited I am about this.

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Wow thats a cool build! Where did you get the CF for around the gear shift and air ducks?

Various places.

7AT Trim Ring / Switch Plates -Carbon Fiber Element
Inlet Duct / Fender Vents - Finite Element Design

Carbon Fiber Element is carbon fiber overlay. Finite Element Design is pure carbon fiber.

If you wait a while, 7AT trim ring will probably go up for sale. I might have to switch my gear lever to an Outlaw Gear Shifting Assembly.

Today was a big day for me!

I just picked my Z up out of storage today and hauled it to the Kalamazoo, MI (Auto Dynamix) shop. Now this doesn't sound like that big of a deal; but, I haven't moved my car for nearly two years.

Why two years?

Well,

I was going to make a twin turbo low mount kit for the 370z but the market got saturated with kits at the price point I was going to aim for. The Z was pretty much tore apart at the time of other kits coming out so there it sat until I came up with the "good" idea to LS swap.

So here we are today:
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Mine has already been sitting 4-months :wtf2:
Hope to be dissembling in the next 10-weeks :ugh2:

2-button rig,,,good for line-loc & transbrake :tup:

SO....... I might have went full retard?

My buddy found a way to convert the OEM head studs to 1/2 inch. This will create additional clamping force so I wouldn't ever lift a head gasket.

Additionally we found a company to CNC port my heads at a great price.

Where do I draw the line? meh. F it. I'm already balls deep in this build.

Glad we could chat about this before I made another performance decision.:rofl2:

I'll keep you guys posted.

Sexy!! Might as well go neck deep while you're in there. At least you'll still be able to breathe :driving:


We are happy to help :tiphat: Nothing like support when you need it most :tup:

Well, I just found out that my smaller diameter head studs came in.... SO... I am going to focus on getting this b-otch together.

OK, got back out to the shop and put ARP head studs in. After that I spent about 4hrs working on getting valve springs in the head. Yup... 4hrs. They were quite the pain in the a$$. One of the valve springs is MIA because one of the retainers were not put in correctly and shot to the moon at light speed. I may have pooped my pants just a little.

I then got one head torqued down to spec so that measurements can be taken for pushrods.

With both heads on the engine, one not torqued down, I needed to see what a complete engine looked like... I've got to say, glorious! The hood will likely need cutting. Perhaps I can test some fabricating with carbon fiber. My Spec-V carbon fiber might go up for sale. :)

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I'm sure you have this covered but are your lifters solid? I helped a friend do this with his LS RX7 swap and we ended up ordering the push rods longer than required. Once we started up and the hydraulic lifters he had got oil pressure we had to pull them out to remeasure and replace with shorter ones

They are hydraulic:

https://www.briantooleyracing.com/jo...s-2126lsr.html

Flying valve springs hurt like hell. Got hit right in the nipple. :shakes head:

:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:

That had me dieing laughing.

I was worried about it taking my damn eye out!

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I'm been a victim of my own stupidity more times then I care to think about. :shakes head:

Stop talking about it!

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Victim of your's too? :rofl2: