WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

[ssms5411]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Looking good I'm just waiting on your engine to be fired up and how it runs with your cam. I'm waiting until it warms up here a little before I get the heads gaskets redone and the ST5 cam installed. I wished my back was better it would of been done along time ago. It sucks having it done at a shop where you hope they do it right. Did you go with a double roller timing chain or stay with the single? I'm staying with the single with Comp 130's. I know it might be asking for trouble later on but I don't drive much and if it does break I think I can do it myself changing it out.

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Looking good I'm just waiting on your engine to be fired up and how it runs with your cam.

I'm looking forward to it as well. Injectors just got shipped off for a cleaning and flow match. Don't want one to be off kilter with it being an 11:1 compression setup.

Did you go with a double roller timing chain or stay with the single?

Double with a cloyes chain.

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Made some nice progress today!

Rear axle assembled, e-brake lines run, installed and loosely bolted in with UMI Performance Inc. Torque Arm and Poly/Roto-joint rear LCA's.

Drive shaft is installed, have to reconnect the rear brake lines (notice the stainless axle to chassis line?), sensor harness, mount up the springs and swaybar from Strano Performance as well as the Fays2 Watts Link. After that, it's back to the front suspension while I wait on a few last ditch items!

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Well, I got a phone call with some bad news about my injectors. *I bought those things after the completion of my last build, supposed to be LS6 injectors all around. *Turns out 2 of them weren't the same, were of a different part number even though they looked exactly alike externally. *The guy doing the match/cleaning found them to range from 240cc to 270cc in flow after cleaning and when he couldn't figure out why the flow was so far out of spec, he noticed the part #'s were different.

This explains a few things that I had noticed while doing scans w/ HPTuners where my fuel trims would bounce around a ton. *I might just get some injectors to handle the necessary flow for E85 (something around 42lb/hr).

I'll post up whatever transpires.

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Update on the injector stuff. I'm getting a killer deal from the owner of Fuel1 on a set of brand new Bosch 0280158227 injectors. These are rated at 36 lb/hr, flow matched and ready to go. I'll have to swap to a newer style connector on the harness, but that's not too bad of an ordeal with how direct plugin adapters are pretty common on the market nowadays.



Otherwise, I'm snowed in for the next few days (not something I'd expect to say here in Texas) so I'll probably brave the cold temps in the garage (currently 26°F outside in the sunlight) and maybe try to bolt a few things together like the front and rear swaybar assembly, test fit a few other items and make some measurements.

Still need to get a nice set of 18" wheels and sell my 17" Speedlines, gonna have to get the tires off of them and clean them up before I post them FS. They might be the only set of the Mistral 6's left in existence, so it's hard to tell how much to list them for...

[FirebirdGT]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Still need to get a nice set of 18" wheels and sell my 17" Speedlines, gonna have to get the tires off of them and clean them up before I post them FS. They might be the only set of the Mistral 6's left in existence, so it's hard to tell how much to list them for...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Speedline-Mi...-/271362225611
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[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

See, that's the thing. Mine are even more rare than those "motorsport" wheels which are just the Corsas. Mine are actually what would be considered a Motorsports wheel since they don't even come with a center cap.

[ssms5411]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

If you're doing a turbo in the future I would just go with the 60lbers. Still bosch so you will need the adapter anyways. Also on the rims chrome ZR1's are the way to go.J/K LOL I like your speedlines.

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

I have 60's, but they're overkill at the moment.

I'm working on getting some 18" C5 magnesiums right now.

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

A little bit of progress tonight. Very cold in the garage but finished the front suspension entirely. I need to go run some errands tomorrow including getting the rotors honed to fit over the hubs.

Shout out to Keith from Fuel1 Injector Services for sending me some high quality injectors after my last fiasco that I had posted before.

Need to run the front brake lines, ABS harness and then install rear swaybar and watts link tomorrow!







CTS-V Two-piece rotors up front, there's more clearance than what you see in the picture. The caliper was just loosely bolted into place, with it level with the upright, it had plenty of clearance. Going to head out to get the rotors honed in the morning...

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Well today was the good old birthday and got to spend my day off trying to tie up all the loose ends on the car. Waiting on the last little bits of things here and there.

Got the brake rotor hubs opened up by a local shop, D&S Machine did them for $20/ea, not bad considering how much it can cost hourly on for general work in a machine shop.


The 36lb/hr injectors are installed, waiting on the plug-in adapters. I've already spliced in the EV1 connectors from the mismatched "LS6" injectors, and I don't want to do more splicing on this harness if I can avoid it.



Working on installing this Watts link has been an absolute PITA. Bought it used from somebody and apparently they lost the shims that go in the clamshell spot for the axles. Should have just bought it new and never looked back...



Still waiting on wheels...



Still have to do:
• Rear swaybar.
• watts link.
• header mods.
• plugs/wires.
• PCV re-route to catch can.
• UMI Driveshaft loop.
• Fluids and bleed/burp system.
• Wheels/tires.
• Have a local shop tie in the last part of the exhaust.

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Added horsepower mods to my tuning laptop:



Got in some slip on turn downs for my headers until I can get the whole exhaust connected since I'm using a system intended for an LSx powered F-body. This is so it doesn't piss off my PCM for reading it being too lean due to reversion at the collector and killing the car in traffic when it starts dumping fuel... I had it happen a few years ago, lesson learned.

Also so that I can direct the sound more diagonally instead of straight down. No more brown note for me!

[2.8 Bird]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Do you plan on re-painting the car once this is all complete?

[WarShrike]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Eventually

[2.8 Bird]

Re: WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

Notice the NPT plug? This prevents unfiltered oil from going through the bypass and washing the mains. Spun bearings are one of the lead causes of 3800 engine death. This helps fight it along with good filter and oil selection.

That NPT that's a magnetic plug correct? Where can we get that? Also, is that a cut out I see on top? What does that do?