she alive
i put about 60 miles on it last night. now that the springs have been heat cycled I’ll change the oil tonight to get rid of the assembly lube and take it out for a bit more. Then it’s off to @turbociv for exhaust and tune
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lmao. give it a try now.
Works now :tup:
Great work!
Sounds great!
Did you wake me up from my nap with a couple of pulls?
^LOL
Coming back from WalMart in my pajama pants keepin it real classy 
it needs a tune super bad. I think I may have ruined an open house on my street, a few folks were standing around in the driveway of a house talking and we got some dirty looks as we loped past 
Almost ready!
Then its perfect as it Norb!
Got tips in from Summit, they pretty. Lemme know John. I’m ready on my end.
Got the body nearly squared away, it needs a good buff and wax but it’s basically done. I had a hell of a time aligning the hood but finally got it to sit well enough. I also still have to have the other exhaust tip welded on and the gaping hole in the trunk area patched up. I also had some issues with belt noise that I will have to detail in another post.
Hit the dyno last night for some tuning by JD. Despite 100% humidity we were able to finish up the WOT portion but still have work to do on the idle and part throttle. I had a few hiccups slow me down including some incorrect MAF wiring at the pigtail (due to the revised order of wires for the LS7 MAF) as well as some scaling/calibration issues, but l’ll let the results speak for themselves. Last year I made 370whp/374ft-lbs on a stock 2001 Z06 cam, oem BMW exhaust (with cats), and small 3" stainless steel intake with stock van LQ4 MAF tube. This year I ditched the intake for a true 4" aluminum tube, much larger filter, and LS7 MAF. Exhaust is now a 3" dual system with an xpipe between the fuel tanks; one side dumps straight out the back with a close-off flange for quiet operation, the other through the OEM BMW muffler. Cutouts on each side before mufflers. Cam is a Texas Speed 228R - 228/228, .588/.588, 112LSA.
427whp, 400ft-lbs, with over 350 ft-lbs by 3000 rpm
I took some videos with both my camera phone and real camera but still need to pull the ones off my Nikon.
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Will be taking the car out to see some friends in Rochester this weekend about an hour away so we’ll see how she does.
Who’s 2-tone garage with audi logos? :tup: :tup:
Mine, half is “Audi” for my wife’s A4, the other is BMW/LSx for my garbage
I should post some pics of the remodel in there, I still need to do a floor but it’s nearly done.
Nice gains, what does it feel like on a street? Night and day or just a small change?
Party time!
Oh deer
Poor guy sprinted into the side of the car while I was doing about 50, don’t think he made it. Needs a mirror, fender, possibly some small dents removed from the door. We can rebuild him - we have the technology. It just sucks that I literally finished all the bodywork a month or so ago (new paint on fenders, hood)
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I haven’t really hammered on it yet because the rear fenders rub on hard acceleration but it’s a nice kick in the pants.
Bummer to hear about this. On a positive note this car is boss as hell.
Claim that shit on insurance, that does suck tho