# My Build Thread LS1/FD Its Fast! **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [February 17, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409 "2010-02-17T12:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 72
**Author:** ![Studderin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/studderin/32/7197_2.png) [@Studderin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Studderin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1421 "2010-11-02T19:52:12Z")
you’d run 9’s with a $500 NX kit on the stock LS1 Trex setup. just sayin ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1422 "2010-11-02T20:02:54Z")
Ahhh fresh into the build season and the tread as always is quickly turning into the you should do this you should do that. Save you breath please people. It is beyond annoying. If I wanted a 8 second drag car I would have it. That is NOT what I want. I want to build a stunningly clean example of a dope ass car. That is it. You all are very free to build yours how you see fit. Also Studderin i am building this with an auto in mind for the future…my cam-only with nitrous would not even be close. Being as your car is a one purpose machine I do not expect you to understand. I will be honest I want a garage ornament that i know i built more then anything else. Bottom line I want a nice quiet turbo car. I get more excited over all of the finishing details I am putting into this car then the power any day of the week. I want to be able to pop the hood and see an amazingly clean bay I want a clean and comfortable interior I want to be able to row gears when I am in the mood I want a nice quiet car with a smooth idle that I will cruise around town in sometimes. Notice a pattern? 🙂 Some of you guys. :picard: ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1423 "2010-11-02T20:14:54Z")
you should go back to a rotary motor, bro…the only clear choice here. lol jk ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1424 "2010-11-02T20:26:08Z")
LOL right haha. I hate to say it but I feel only some of the non racing oriented guys on here will really appreciate what I am building here. I plan for it to have the comfort and refinement of a factory car with the go pedal that means business! You can’t go this in depth into a build and only measure your goals in ET imo. I love drag racing but im just as happy in 10s as I would be 8s. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1425 "2010-11-02T20:36:44Z")
> [@cougarspeed](#): > > … I feel only some of the non racing oriented guys on here will really appreciate what I am building here. I plan for it to have the comfort and refinement of a factory car with the go pedal that means business! :tup: :tup: :tup: ---
**Author:** ![95dime](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/95dime/32/7514_2.png) [@95dime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/95dime)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1426 "2010-11-02T20:45:59Z")
> [@cougarspeed](#): > > Ahhh fresh into the build season and the tread as always is quickly turning into the you should do this you should do that. Save you breath please people. It is beyond annoying. If I wanted a 8 second drag car I would have it. That is NOT what I want. I want to build a stunningly clean example of a dope ass car. That is it. You all are very free to build yours how you see fit. Also Studderin i am building this with an auto in mind for the future…my cam-only with nitrous would not even be close. Being as your car is a one purpose machine I do not expect you to understand. I will be honest I want a garage ornament that i know i built more then anything else. > > Bottom line I want a nice quiet turbo car. I get more excited over all of the finishing details I am putting into this car then the power any day of the week. > I want to be able to pop the hood and see an amazingly clean bay > I want a clean and comfortable interior > I want to be able to row gears when I am in the mood > I want a nice quiet car with a smooth idle that I will cruise around town in sometimes. > > Notice a pattern? 🙂 > > Some of you guys. :picard: i like this. pretty much what ive been trying to do with my truck. except it has a very choppy idle and shakes the whole truck and is loud as fawk. lol. are you keeping the interior for the most part stock? ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1427 "2010-11-02T20:50:34Z")
> [@95dime](#): > > i like this. pretty much what ive been trying to do with my truck. except it has a very choppy idle and shakes the whole truck and is loud as fawk. lol. > > are you keeping the interior for the most part stock? Do you remember the pics from last season? They are in here somewhere. Hold on ill grab one. But yeah I am leaving it how it was, carpeting the one area that was unfinished, spraying in a layer of lizard skin sound deadener while everything is out and adding a 10pt cage. I don’t want one but i think it would be irresponsible to go as fast as I am going to without it. All the glossy looking stuff is carbon, seats and carpet are new. Interior is clean. ---
**Author:** ![Choda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/choda/32/7347_2.png) [@Choda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Choda)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1428 "2010-11-02T21:15:16Z")
nice job drew!!! call me if u need some help ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1429 "2010-11-02T21:18:20Z")
Thanks man. Lets drink some beers soon! ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1430 "2010-11-02T21:20:54Z")
ditch those seats and get some brides!!! ---
**Author:** ![cougarspeed](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cougarspeed/32/7468_2.png) [@cougarspeed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cougarspeed)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1431 "2010-11-02T21:25:08Z")
Go outside… Can you hear it? I just 🖕 off my balcony haha ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1432 "2010-11-02T21:29:17Z")
I heard it…all 500+ miles away!!! ---
**Author:** ![Quik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/quik/32/5979_2.png) [@Quik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Quik)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1433 "2010-11-03T04:45:23Z")
seems like you got a grasp on this best of luck to ya… > [@cougarspeed](#): > > You are not teaching anyone anything by stating it will have a high mph and not et like an auto. But im not building a drag car I am just building something I feel like and that includes shifting it even if it sacrifices et. I have gone over this. I am running the same 26" tall et drag as last year. I don’t think my tune caused the bog. When you launch a car and it doesn’t spin the tires enough it will pull the rpm down and give a bog. Besides its not like we are talking anything big we are talking a 10.9 cam-only car that cut 1.5s all day. It just needed to be launched a lil harder I was just being a puss. Left on about 6k and when it hooked I could just watch the tach drop hard. O btw if you dont do your tuning or know of the timing im talking about, then how do you know the bog wasnt tune related ---
**Author:** ![38stang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/38stang/32/7479_2.png) [@38stang](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/38stang)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1434 "2010-11-03T05:56:50Z")
His tune was spot on, street tested, and dyno tested. It was NOT his tune. :smash2: ---
**Author:** ![LUKE\_L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/luke_l/32/7462_2.png) [@LUKE\_L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LUKE_L)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1435 "2010-11-03T06:08:13Z")
> [@cougarspeed](#): > > Bottom line I want…to be able to pop the hood and see an amazingly clean bay Work began last night…I love having a little helper 🙂 ![http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/llorentz/NYSpeed/cougarspeed/Harness/Before005.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/e/0e5ced288c07d495f6fb43a4c978d38c7255dc72.jpeg) ![http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/llorentz/NYSpeed/cougarspeed/Harness/Before008.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/a/0a9be22128e5152a477e8bd953c71659fed4d262.jpeg) That is all you get for now. For reference, starting weight: Front Harness = 19.4 lbs. Dash Harness = 6.4 lbs. LS1 Harness = 5.6 lbs. ---
**Author:** ![psphinx81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@psphinx81](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psphinx81)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1436 "2010-11-03T07:00:10Z")
> [@cougarspeed](#): > > Ahhh fresh into the build season and the tread as always is quickly turning into the you should do this you should do that. Save you breath please people. It is beyond annoying. If I wanted a 8 second drag car I would have it. That is NOT what I want. I want to build a stunningly clean example of a dope ass car. That is it. You all are very free to build yours how you see fit. Also Studderin i am building this with an auto in mind for the future…my cam-only with nitrous would not even be close. Being as your car is a one purpose machine I do not expect you to understand. I will be honest I want a garage ornament that i know i built more then anything else. > > Bottom line I want a nice quiet turbo car. I get more excited over all of the finishing details I am putting into this car then the power any day of the week. > I want to be able to pop the hood and see an amazingly clean bay > I want a clean and comfortable interior > I want to be able to row gears when I am in the mood > I want a nice quiet car with a smooth idle that I will cruise around town in sometimes. > > Notice a pattern? 🙂 > > Some of you guys. :picard: i feel your pain, i keep getting the same shit… some people dont get it lol ---
**Author:** ![Gl1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gl1/32/5471_2.png) [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1437 "2010-11-03T07:39:17Z")
> [@cougarspeed](#): > > Ahhh fresh into the build season and the tread as always is quickly turning into the you should do this you should do that. Save you breath please people. It is beyond annoying. If I wanted a 8 second drag car I would have it. That is NOT what I want. I want to build a stunningly clean example of a dope ass car. That is it. You all are very free to build yours how you see fit. Also Studderin i am building this with an auto in mind for the future…my cam-only with nitrous would not even be close. Being as your car is a one purpose machine I do not expect you to understand. I will be honest I want a garage ornament that i know i built more then anything else. > > Bottom line I want a nice quiet turbo car. I get more excited over all of the finishing details I am putting into this car then the power any day of the week. > I want to be able to pop the hood and see an amazingly clean bay > I want a clean and comfortable interior > I want to be able to row gears when I am in the mood > I want a nice quiet car with a smooth idle that I will cruise around town in sometimes. > > Notice a pattern? 🙂 > > Some of you guys. :picard: ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1438 "2010-11-03T07:48:44Z")
In all seriousness, are those seats OK safety-wise for running with cage/harnesses? I do see they have a reasonable place for the harnesses to run through the back. ---
**Author:** ![psphinx81](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9a140/32.png) [@psphinx81](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psphinx81)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1439 "2010-11-03T09:38:30Z")
> [@LUKE\_L](#): > > Work began last night…I love having a little helper 🙂 > > ![http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/llorentz/NYSpeed/cougarspeed/Harness/Before005.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/e/0e5ced288c07d495f6fb43a4c978d38c7255dc72.jpeg) > > ![http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t167/llorentz/NYSpeed/cougarspeed/Harness/Before008.jpg](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/0/a/0a9be22128e5152a477e8bd953c71659fed4d262.jpeg) > > That is all you get for now. > > For reference, starting weight: > > Front Harness = 19.4 lbs. > Dash Harness = 6.4 lbs. > LS1 Harness = 5.6 lbs. wire tuck my car please? ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409/1440 "2010-11-03T10:16:20Z")
Im just “happy” that you being a former fbod dude actually have a very nice suspension setup, and have a baller interior with all the pieces that you have lol. 🖕 carbon fiber is so ricer!!! fckin quick release with ricer totally gay crown on it steering wheel wheel!!! fuck that shit!!! full coilovers !!? waste of money! [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409.md?page=71) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-build-thread-ls1-fd-its-fast/79409.md?page=73)