Here's another "me too" build thread, mine is very simple and a fraction of what a lot of you guys are doing, but figured I would post up for fun. Some of you guys know my story, I already posted in the "new guy" forum. Kind of random pics/info from what's happened so far, car has been apart for about 3 months now, about 1-2 more months to get her on the road again. Goal for the car is to keep it a fun semi-dd that can hit the track a couple times a year. This is super abbreviated... I'm leaving out tons of details for now... will post up more later.
Here's a recent pic of the outside of the car.
Make a long story short:
-Aways wanted an FD since they came out in '93 (I was freshman/sophmore in HS), really, really love these cars
-Bought my silver '93 back in October 2005
-Motor was low on compression but still drivable
-Rebuilt the rotary with stock turbos and set the car up for street/track/strip/whatever, goal was 300 ish wheel-hp and 250 ish wheel-ft-lb, and, more importantly, to run the car high 12's in 1/4 mile at 110 mph. And to be able to put it on road course/open track day and keep it cool/reliable
-Started tuning the car on my own on the street
-Got the torque itch recently and decided to do the swap
-25k miles on the rebuilt engine and it ran great
Dyno sheet, about 300/260 whp/wtq (dynojet), "non-sequential" turbos, pig rich, 91 octane
Never got the 12 sec slip but did run the car @ 112+ mph vs. a "425 hp" Camaro SS, stock wheels, 245/45/16 toyo TR1 street tires
Best I could do was 13.137 @ 108.22 vs. a lightly modded Evo 9 (read: no exhaust, talked to him after that pass). Same motor/turbo/suspension on my car, with different wheels/tires
I'm no drag racing pro, just doing it for fun... check out 1st pass against Evo in the vid
Right before pulling the motor (about 1 or 2 weeks in fact) I had a track day at Buttonwillow, here in semi-So-Cali. Boy was that fun. Car ran perfect, besides the brakes (didn't bed new pads/rotors in as well as I should have). The guys who set the track up are Corvette dudes, one has a C6 Z06 and the other a ZR1. Both are complete animals... those cars are nuts and are a big part of why I'm doing the swap (torque!). Check out the vid of the Z06 following me. Yeah, I am slow, he could have just drove right around me, but I was out for fun
Last shot or so of rotary, night before motor pull.
So I picked up an engine/trans/misc from a semi local guy who was in the middle of a swap on his FD. Fresh rebuilt LS1 with cam/heads, and some other goodies...
Check out his build. Fresh pistons, rods, rod bolts, oil pump, timing chain, z06 clutch/fw/pressure plate, ls7 lifters & trays, ARP head bolts, CNC 5.3l heads, double valve springs, titanium valves/retainers, etc.
Out with the old, gone but not forgotten
ZR1 track buddy showed up right when I was getting to pull the motor, I actually had my phone ready to dial him up to get him over and he magically showed up, awesome.
Put new adjustable height/damping coil-overs on the car. Pettit trak pro, stage 2 (10/8 kg/mm springs, 24 level adjustable dampers).
Rolled car out of garage for first time in 2 months or so, pressure washed engine bay. Check out dog on left, silly pooch!
Clean, empty engine bay /w Samberg engine cradle installed
'nother shot of Samberg cradle in the 'bay
Trans tunnel
I did a bunch of upgrades while the motor was out.
Comp cams rocker arm trunion beaing upgrade
Katech con rod bolts
Improved Racing oil pan baffle
LS6 valley cover mod, had to cut/grind the ls1 block to get this to fit
Motor ready to go in, did this by myself in a about 2-3 hrs.
Subframe/motor mounts
Will post more later... the whole driveline is in the car now (diff, axles, driveshaft, trans mount, etc.), fuel lines are run. Have to do wiring, fill fluids, and hook up cooling and should be able to fire it up in a few weeks.. hopefully!
