After stepping over parts in our garage for the past few months, I think I know the reply I would get if another car showed up to work on .
Let me know when you get a weekend to work on yours and I'll be over. It would be nice to work on one that I didn't start with me opening the check book.
Chris R said
May 24, 2011
Where did you locate the speedometer?
Lost in the 60s said
May 24, 2011
Looking good, Steve......
I didn't beat the counter either...
Derek69SS said
May 24, 2011
SteveS wrote:Let me know when you get a weekend to work on yours and I'll be over. It would be nice to work on one that I didn't start with me opening the check book.
That's part of the reason mine is taking so long... every time I try to make progress, I run into another problem that will either take a lot of money to solve, or requires me to figure out how to fab something that will work.
SteveS said
May 25, 2011
Where did you locate the speedometer?
The speedometer is the the center hole, the tach is on the left. Everything works but the fuel gauge. The problem is in the tank because can reach on top of the tank the ground the sender and gauge goes to full. So dropping the tank again is on my list too.
Scott Parkhurst said
May 25, 2011
Wow! Nice work- I really dig the way you chose to use the 'small areas' for the shift light etc. Very creative, and the final look is really close to stock. Good job man!
SShink said
May 25, 2011
Nice job Steve!
X2 on the dash conversion. I wondered when somebody would have a 4 in 1 dash pod conversion. Like the green print on the gauges too.
bwild70ss396 said
May 27, 2011
It is looking nice!
SteveS said
Jul 11, 2011
Update: Thursday I'm hauling it up to TPIS in Chaska. They're going to work on the idle and driveability I'm missing. I've decided I don't have the time to get all the tuning bugs worked out myself. I've been making small adjustments when I have time, but I need someone with more experience than me to take a big swing at it.
After that I've got some small interior things to work on, charge the AC and hopfully get some miles on before the end of summer.
SteveS said
Jul 16, 2011
I changed my tuning session from Thursday to Friday because there was a 90% chance of rain Thursday and only 50% on Friday. That worked well . Three miles form TPIS it started to rain and it rained from 8:30 until 2:00 when I left. Between down pours I got it unloaded and we did get the idle fixed. The road were too wet for and wide open tuning, but they have a chassis dyno coming... next week, and the shops they usually borrow from were booked up. So we weren't able to work on any wide open tuning. Jim and the guys at TPIS were very helpful considering I tied up most of their day trying to tune when it slowed down to a sprinkle. The drive home was as bad, by Pine Island I had to pull off the road it was raining so hard I couldn't see. I found out all the places the Chevelle leaks, and as soon as my carpet gets dry I will get back to work on the interior.
One good thing, now that it idles, I was able to charge my AC. Vintage air cools like crazy!
-- Edited by SteveS on Saturday 16th of July 2011 07:11:01 PM
Lost in the 60s said
Jul 16, 2011
Glad to see you're making progress.
That forecast for Thursday/Friday sucked. I got rained out both days from work...
Scott Parkhurst said
Jul 20, 2011
Will we see you at Car Craft Steve?
SteveS said
Jul 20, 2011
Unfortunately, I won't make it to Car Craft. I need to work on my tune a little more, I've got a couple of lean spots in my part-throttle area, and the transmission shift points need a little work. It's too far of a trip until it get it dialed in. I'm hoping I can make it up to the club show on the 7th.
Chris R said
Jul 20, 2011
You can always come up as a spectator.
SteveS said
Sep 13, 2011
Time for an update! I'd been working on my tuning issues myself, but wasn't making progress as fast as I'd like. So, I hauled to car up to Carl Thomas at Lancer Services in St. Paul last week. He kept it for 3 days, working out all the computer bugs. I picked it up last Friday and it runs really good. Idles, drives, shifts, just like it should. Only thing that wasn't working was the converter lock up and my cruise control which I just traced back to a switch on the brake pedal that took care of both issues.
I've got a slight pulley alignment issue that is giving me a belt squeal that I need to work on, but otherwise I just need to get some miles logged before it snows
Lost in the 60s said
Sep 13, 2011
SteveS wrote:
Time for an update! I'd been working on my tuning issues myself, but wasn't making progress as fast as I'd like. So, I hauled to car up to Carl Thomas at Lancer Services in St. Paul last week. He kept it for 3 days, working out all the computer bugs. I picked it up last Friday and it runs really good. Idles, drives, shifts, just like it should. Only thing that wasn't working was the converter lock up and my cruise control which I just traced back to a switch on the brake pedal that took care of both issues. I've got a slight pulley alignment issue that is giving me a belt squeal that I need to work on, but otherwise I just need to get some miles logged before it snows
Congrats on getting it all worked out and you don't have to wait long to put miles on it. The Fall cruise is in 17 days...
-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 03:08:56 PM
SteveS said
Sep 14, 2011
I've got the fall cruise on the calendar. I'll drive up and meet you guys somewhere along the route.
Scott Parkhurst said
Sep 14, 2011
Cool!
SShink said
Sep 22, 2011
Steve, now that my mind is in 'LS' conversion mode... what engine mounts did you use?
And, it looks like you used the March accessory bracket. Did you use a vintage air conversion system for the AC with that, or some other AC system?
Thanks.
-- Edited by SShink on Thursday 22nd of September 2011 11:49:40 AM
SteveS said
Sep 22, 2011
I used the edelbrock mounts with the edelbrock headers. They locate the motor in the same place as a small block. I had a 700r4 in the car before and that way I could reuse my driveshaft with the new 4L60E. The downfall is I couldn't even come close to getting the AC compressor in the stock LS1 position. Kwik performance makes the AC bracket I used. I do have a vintage air system Gen 4 system, which works great. Derek has mount plates that move the motor forward allowing for more room for the compressor (with a little cutting).
After stepping over parts in our garage for the past few months, I think I know the reply I would get if another car showed up to work on
.
Let me know when you get a weekend to work on yours and I'll be over. It would be nice to work on one that I didn't start with me opening the check book.
Where did you locate the speedometer?
Looking good, Steve......
I didn't beat the counter either...
That's part of the reason mine is taking so long... every time I try to make progress, I run into another problem that will either take a lot of money to solve, or requires me to figure out how to fab something that will work.
The speedometer is the the center hole, the tach is on the left. Everything works but the fuel gauge. The problem is in the tank because can reach on top of the tank the ground the sender and gauge goes to full. So dropping the tank again is on my list too.
Nice job Steve!
X2 on the dash conversion. I wondered when somebody would have a 4 in 1 dash pod conversion. Like the green print on the gauges too.
Update: Thursday I'm hauling it up to TPIS in Chaska. They're going to work on the idle and driveability I'm missing. I've decided I don't have the time to get all the tuning bugs worked out myself. I've been making small adjustments when I have time, but I need someone with more experience than me to take a big swing at it.
After that I've got some small interior things to work on, charge the AC and hopfully get some miles on before the end of summer.
I changed my tuning session from Thursday to Friday because there was a 90% chance of rain Thursday and only 50% on Friday. That worked well
. Three miles form TPIS it started to rain and it rained from 8:30 until 2:00 when I left. Between down pours I got it unloaded and we did get the idle fixed. The road were too wet for and wide open tuning, but they have a chassis dyno coming... next week, and the shops they usually borrow from were booked up. So we weren't able to work on any wide open tuning. Jim and the guys at TPIS were very helpful considering I tied up most of their day trying to tune when it slowed down to a sprinkle. The drive home was as bad, by Pine Island I had to pull off the road it was raining so hard I couldn't see. I found out all the places the Chevelle leaks, and as soon as my carpet gets dry I will get back to work on the interior.
One good thing, now that it idles, I was able to charge my AC. Vintage air cools like crazy!
-- Edited by SteveS on Saturday 16th of July 2011 07:11:01 PM
Glad to see you're making progress.
That forecast for Thursday/Friday sucked. I got rained out both days from work...
Unfortunately, I won't make it to Car Craft. I need to work on my tune a little more, I've got a couple of lean spots in my part-throttle area, and the transmission shift points need a little work. It's too far of a trip until it get it dialed in. I'm hoping I can make it up to the club show on the 7th.
You can always come up as a spectator.
-- Edited by Lost in the 60s on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 03:08:56 PM
Steve, now that my mind is in 'LS' conversion mode... what engine mounts did you use?
And, it looks like you used the March accessory bracket. Did you use a vintage air conversion system for the AC with that, or some other AC system?
Thanks.
-- Edited by SShink on Thursday 22nd of September 2011 11:49:40 AM
I used the edelbrock mounts with the edelbrock headers. They locate the motor in the same place as a small block. I had a 700r4 in the car before and that way I could reuse my driveshaft with the new 4L60E. The downfall is I couldn't even come close to getting the AC compressor in the stock LS1 position. Kwik performance makes the AC bracket I used. I do have a vintage air system Gen 4 system, which works great. Derek has mount plates that move the motor forward allowing for more room for the compressor (with a little cutting).
Here's the brackets http://www.kwikperf.com/
If you're sticking with a truck intake, you can use truck accessories that mounts everything up high instead of down low on the F-body stuff.