The Blue Lagoon - LS1 Content

[Iain]

Also try using a handle from a trolley jack (the 2m type) as a very long type of punch. You'll need a decent swing with a short-handled sledgehammer, though. Be fucking careful.

Car looks amazing, too. I love that colour and wheels!

[Blip Bavarian]

swapped out my fuel pump last night for an ebay "walbro" 255 lph.









also, here is another shot of my exhaust.

[distorto]

what are you going to do for the tip of your exhaust?

[Blip Bavarian]

what are you going to do for the tip of your exhaust?

Probably just a short 3" section of pipe rattle canned flat black, maybe with a bit of a turndown.

Leaving it off for now, cause it allows me to easily unclip the v band and hinge the exhaust down to gain access to the half shaft.

[Fair!]

Nice build. Subscribed.

Bob E... where is your E30 LS1 build thread??? :D

[Blip Bavarian]

Brakes

Here are the caliper brackets for the fronts

332mm rotor and hat bolted up

Part of the dust shield was rubbing the rotor, so i had to hack part of it off.







the caliper is pretty close to the wheel, so i added 3mm spacers on all 4 corners








Rears. 300mm - I had to grind down the mounting ears on the trailing arms to get the calipers to line up.

[iwantspeed]

the brakes look beefy

[Blip Bavarian]

Got the car started on Saturday

[GOOBER]

Awesome build.

[iflytii]

Congrats on getting it running! Now go drive it!!! :-)

[SamE30e]

Videos!!

[JoeyBones]

holy jeeze...what a beast!

[Blip Bavarian]

[delatlanta1281]

So rad.

[Blip Bavarian]

Got some work done Yesterday. Spent mothers day at the shop instead of with my mom. :tsk:

Anyway, Ive been worried about the rear end of my car being able to hold the torque of the LS1, so we did some reinforcing.

welded in some triangulated pieces to the diff mount






w/ diff bolted up


We also did some reinforcement from the top (trunk). We originally were going to setup the angled braces symmetrically. We decided it would make more sense to have them come down directly above the diff mount.














Im starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. This week we plan on pulling the harness and cleaning it up, and clearing room and mounting the monster radiator i got.

Also, Im having a custom driveshaft built. There is a good chance it will be here before the end of the week. Should be good to about 600 whp (not that ill get there, but dang )