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[mdpalmer]

Peel out 

I like this part  Where do you go to school and what type of engineering are you studying? I remember those days... seems like yesterday 

[MPbdy]

I go to Cal Poly Pomona and study mechanical engineering.  I'm a senior but have almost 2 years of school left if that makes any sense.  Lesson here is don't go to college during the worst budget crisis in history I suppose

I enjoy it most of the time, but it is a lot of work.  In a lot of ways its easier than I expected.  It gets really stressful, but I generally do quite well.  A lot of the stress is self inflicted too haha. 

[mdpalmer]

I go to Cal Poly Pomona and study mechanical engineering.  I'm a senior but have almost 2 years of school left if that makes any sense.  Lesson here is don't go to college during the worst budget crisis in history I suppose

I enjoy it most of the time, but it is a lot of work.  In a lot of ways its easier than I expected.  It gets really stressful, but I generally do quite well.  A lot of the stress is self inflicted too haha.

Very nice, I've worked with a bunch of ppl that went to school there over the last couple years, all of them sharp as a whip. I actually thought about going there for undergrad but just couldn't stay away from the beach... too damn hot out there man! You may be better off staying in school while times are tough in the workplace world... if things are on an upswing when you get out you can capitalize on that 

Anyway good luck and look forward to seeing this car running around.

[MPbdy]

 

Got Samberg's diff brace installed today.  Was a medium sized bitch to get in.  Its a very nice piece, and very happy with it installed.  Took a jack and a pry bar to get the two pieces to line up.  The brace bolted right up to the floor of the car, and the other piece bolted nicely to the diff.



Also worked towards getting the trans crossmember installed, but ran into an issue.



There is a nice flat surface for it to sit on the driver's side, but not on the passengers side.  Going to make a thread in Samberg's section and see what he suggests.  I know this is an older version than what he sells now.

[waLIEN]

Hey Daniel, awesome setup you got there. I noticed you mentioned that you're from the IE. My roomie and I are also working on two separate CARB legal LS setups. We should get together sometime to exchange notes.

[MPbdy]

Hey Daniel, awesome setup you got there. I noticed you mentioned that you're from the IE. My roomie and I are also working on two separate CARB legal LS setups. We should get together sometime to exchange notes.

Neat stuff!  There is going to be a small army of us in socal soon.  Quite a few guys over in Orange County area already.

ABS delete officially finished today.  Still need to bench bleed the master.

[BeasTT]

Is it finished yet?

[MPbdy]

Is it finished yet?

Answer my trans mount question bish

[BeasTT]

Mine was the same way. Massage the tunnel with a hammer from inside the car, and let the plates and bolts do the rest of the work

[MPbdy]

Thanks.  I found a couple pictures of the newer style.  I'll see what Justin says when he writes me back.  I'll either make this one work or order one of the newer crossmembers.  The newer ones appear to have more ground clearance for the exhaust.

[MPbdy]

Block and heads are at the machine shop to get surfaced.  They said it'll be a couple weeks    When that comes back the engine can go together.

Got a little more done on the fuel system.

This came out of my rusted gas tank.



Soooo I started fresh with one from da club.  Needed to make a nice sealing surface for a stato-seal washer to seal against.  Welded in a piece of a washer.



Stato-seal goes on.







I'm leaving the return line as is.  I just needed to get from the -6 on the pump through the top of the plate.  After the bulkhead I'm going to get a -6 to barb end and run the rubber line from there.  Next is going to be mounting the pump nicely and getting the vacuum sensor through the plate for the evap system.

Also, my cell phone takes some damn good pictures.

[MPbdy]

Felt the need to smash things after getting home from class this morning.  Grabbed the 5 lb sledge and went to town.

This was the good side.



This side took a lot of punishment.  I also had to bend the ear on the cross member very slightly.  It was crooked in relation to how the plate wanted to sit on the floor in the car.  Once I got it square to the plate I finally pulled it with a long bolt and a nut to get the floor to move the rest of the way flush.  Removing the corner of the tar was pretty easy....I figured I'd try and remove a whole sheet of it.

Let me repeat what others have said.  DO NOT USE HEAT TO REMOVE THE TAR.  It sucks.

I'm just going to leave it there.  I know people have had success with dry ice.  It doesn't make that much of a difference to me.  I'm going to dynamat the tunnel where the cats and exhaust will be and be satisfied.

[thetastelingers]

I ended up putting my brace in the vice and bending the ear to conform to the body.
Either way, looks like you took care of it.

[MPbdy]

Yeah I did a mixture of the two.  The front bolt hole was misaligned with how the plate wanted to sit on the floor.  I couldn't bend it all the way over or it would have bound up again. 

The floor also had to move a good bit on the inside for the plate to fit. 

It went quite a bit better than I expected.  Originally it seemed like I'd have to cut bits off the plates.

[MPbdy]

Got the shifter installed today.  Cellphone camera does great in the daytime...not so good at night.

I test fit the LS3 camaro exhaust manifold on the driver's side and it clears with quite a lot of room around it.  Its going to be tough to package the cats in there...but it'd be easy to build exhaust off it without a cat.  Unfortunately the runners aren't that big.  The L92 exhaust manifolds are significantly bigger, but really doesn't fit too well on the driver's side.

I just need to take measurements for the driveshaft and I can take the mockup block and trans out of the car.

Got my block and heads back from the machine shop.  I'm hoping to get the engine put together pretty soon, maybe this weekend 

I swapped my clutch disk with Monster.  I ordered my clutch a year ago and they exchanged the disk no questions asked.  Very happy!  I traded in my stage 3 disk for a stage 2.  With the shift in focus from dual purpose to street car it made sense to put a milder clutch in the car.  If I ever go crazy with power I'll probably go with a dual disk clutch, so I'm not too worried about out growing it.