WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

[WarShrike]

Had a productive afternoon, installed the headers, plugs and wires as well as connected other odds and ends. Waiting on a couple fittings so I can do a PCV catch can, taking care of a few loose bits right now.



Slip on turn-downs so it will help keep the O2 sensors a little happier without getting a lot of air reversion back in there and making it dump fuel or not idling right.



While I waited for some stuff to dry, did a test fit with two wheels. I need open end lugs since I am running long ARP wheel studs for racing duty. I know it'll look a whole heck of a lot better once it's on the ground.

[RideTech_Ryan]

Those wheels are killer!

[WarShrike]

Thanks Ryan, I'm looking forward to getting them mounted and rolling the car out.

Been busy, had some minor issues crop up but back to full steam ahead!

Started doing my PCV catch can stuff. I've searched high and low for a twist in oil cap that had a fitting that I could route to a catch can. Without really having any luck, I decided to mod the existing oil caps and just make it work.

These are just stamped metal w/ a rivet holding it all together. Well, after only a couple uses, the rivet would work loose in the metal and it would all twist easily. I drilled out the rivet and then used a drill press with a step drill to open up the holes on each individual layer.


Initial test fit with a -10AN fitting, this is the same size line on the catch can I'll be running to.


Next hurdle involved the retaining nut for the AN fitting. This was a bulkhead fitting for fuel tanks, and I got it so I could sandwich everything together cleanly. This nut needs to be ground down to fit inside the neck of the stamped metal cap.


A big friggin pile of aluminum later, the nut is a press-fit inside the neck and used locktite to make sure everything stayed in place after the test fits:


Final product!


I'll post more on the catch can stuff later.

[DanStokes]

That's crazy enough to work!

Dan

[TheSilverBuick]

I like it!

[WarShrike]

Thanks guys, hoping to fire it up really soon. Had a minor issue with the rear pinion seal so I lost over 1/2 a quart of good old Red Line diff fluid + additive (filling remotely from fender with funnel and tube because of the watts link). So I'm waiting on more to show up as nobody in town has this stuff.

[WarShrike]

Watts link completely installed, took a little bit of fine tuning. I'm glad I had an angle indicator. Following that, I downloaded the old tune to back the timing off and adjust fuel accordingly with the new injectors. I'm blown away that the Optima Redtop was still holding a full charge after sitting in my garage for a year and a half. I've had that battery since ~2010!





Here's hoping I can fire it up tomorrow!

[SuperBuickGuy]

exciting moment ahead....

[Benjam88]

Kinda got stalled on a few things that took longer than I had really hoped to, but it's down to just chipping away at it all now.

I need to find longer shock bolts for the A-arms, I forgot that I had read a thread awhile back, so I need to go to the local hardware store tomorrow after work.

Exhaust is just loosely mocked up, will install rear end and stuff when I get a chance in the next few days.

What exhaust are you using? Been wanting a duel exhaust for my LT1!

[WarShrike]

What exhaust are you using? Been wanting a duel exhaust for my LT1!

Kooks true duals. Hooker has a Blackheart dual setup out as well now.

[WarShrike]

Continental DWS installed, still need to dress up the sidewalls and stuff. Can't wait to fire it all up. Just waiting on catch can components right now

[silver_bullet]

looking awesome!!

[WarShrike]

While waiting on other things, got the car cleaned up a little, got the transmission to finally shift the way it needs to and tried to get some things ready to fire it up.

Felt really good to clean it up as well as for something to finally go my way with the transmission since I had been worried that it might need to be pulled out...again.

[Russell]

Looks good! I want to know what to 60-0 distance is with pizza sized disk!?

[WarShrike]

Catch can finished by my friend at EPS Tuning, came out really nice! Laptop was dead so couldn't load my tune and it got late so I didn't want to fire this thing up with open headers after some neighbor's bedtime. I'm already that guy, I don't want to become THAT guy.