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[Stephen]

pretty much all v8's require drivers side header mod. it is le gay.

[shawley]

ah k that's what I thought. no matter how I looked at mine, I couldn't see a way around it. btw whenever you get a chance think you could post up your painless pinouts? pretty please?

Steering collum stuff that I had,

As for the rest of the lights and stuff on the vehicle, I have some of it written down that i can get you later on once I take pictures of my hard coppies/books

[shawley]

Alrighty more progress haha had the entire day off work!

So my trunk lid off of this Chaser was fucked cus it had some lame wing on it and we ripped it off and yea, so had to grab the one from my blue Chaser as it was all good, but it had tons of aftermarket sound deadner from when my Chaser had a huge stereo. That needed to come out



Took about a half hour to an hour, and got a couple good cuts in my hands before I put gloves on haha



Next was to get rid of the blue vinyl



With the heat gun that came off alot easier than the deadner



Took a break from working on the car, went to the gym and set a new best for dead lifts at 455lbs!!!!!

Back to car after guy, took the door panels off and started to remove stuff



Had to roll the window up to get to all the wiring, so I hot wired the motor, also helped me figure out what is what for wires



Attached new lines so I can wire it into my painless set up, yes it is all soldered!



Loomed and ran through the factory boot





Way cleaner now!



O and some packages showed up this morning



Just some of my gear they sent me, and all the Wirez wiring that I need to get the car going and rewired!

[shawley]

Alrighty so another productive Sunday!

My friend came over to install my Wilwood Clutch Master with remote reservoir, had do modify where it bolts to the pedal and where everything hooks up. He has this same set up in his RX7 with a 660hp LS3.









Remote reservoir mounted on the strut tower



Pedals all installed, and swapped from the auto huge brake to the manual smaller brake



Got my wheel and hub swapped over



Started to run my main power wire with Wirez power cable



Battery box installed with my power distros, and also mounted my battery kill switch on the back of the car



Loaded up onto the trailer and took for custom headers, dropped it off this morning!

[shawley]

Not this year, maybe next year. Don't wanna do it with out doing a dual caliper set up and can't afford that this year, as all my money is going into getting it running! The headers are still a mystery price till they are done, so we'll see how much they cost haha

[shawley]

Yup,

My friend has a tuning program that turns the ECU almost into a stand alone ecu, and can change anything and everything on it. He's running 660 hp out of his FC with a LS3 on the factory ECU.

The shop he's at the did a tune on my truck (04 Chev 6.0L) with the same program, and I picked up power and mileage.

[Stephen]

yeah, LSX's don't need standalones. the factory ECU pretty much is one.

[huckersideways]

I need to get my truck up there for a tune sooner than later. Or find somewhere closer haha.

[shawley]

Well was a long weekend of going out with clients and dealers from out of town/country, so I didn't get much work done, but the car isn't back from headers yet so there was not much I could do.

Started out working in my living room on the dash panel



Then moved to the garage to drill the gauge holes as I didn't wanna sweep up after getting stuff everywhere

Had to cut the hole for my double din Clarion head unit that is going in



Then mounted my switches, my gauges, and the double din cage, the deck I'm getting is not released yet so they haven't even shipped to North America yet so waiting on the deck to go in. Those are my switches for my heater/defrost, strobes, and other random things.




I was lucky enough that I had my spare dash at home that I could do this, as the one for my car is in my car at the header shop

[shawley]

I'm pretty sure you can, I'll ask my buddy next time he is over

[shawley]

Started to make my gauge cluster, took the factory cluster apart, then made a sheet of abs plastic fit in.



Then I cut out the inner mount of the cluster and mounted the abs inside of it



Didn't take many more pics of the cluster install, but I had to modify the factory cluster and take parts off of it to mount it, but now it's mounted and looks great



I get the car back today or tomorrow, and will be swapping the panels over



But woke up this morning and found my truck looking like this!!!!! And last night I was in the garage working in a hoodie and it was nice out, WTF!



Great drive to work haha,

[shawley]

Hahahaha because we can drive these cars anywhere (for 2 months of the year!), and oil money lol I know some people working 30day's up north making 15k+ in one month with not even high school education. But then those guys come and spend thousands on stereos with me lol so I can build drift cars!

Thanks, the yellow is check engine, the place I bought my lights from didn't have any blue lights for high beam, so I tooka single bright blue LED and put it in the bottom of the cluster pointed up that I'm gonna use for it. Otherwise the led light would point right in my eye while driving haha

[shawley]

Haha, I guess our riggers make a little more money here than down there after talking with some friends.

No idea on the weight yet, I`m gonna put it all on a scale before I install it. The subs will be removable, but who knows how often I`ll take them out haha. If I make it to FD or a FD Pro Am event I`ll probably take it out.

Well I know everyone is probably watching Formula D today! But I took a break from that and went off to NPP to see how my headers were coming, and they are almost done!!! just needed to finish up a couple welds and then put the clamps on my 6 part driver side headers. Pics below.

Passenger side in car



Passenger side out of car



Driver side with some of the lower pipes removed





Picking up tomorrow!!!

[shawley]

Well I got the power steering pump and alt back onto the car



View of the headers on from below





Ended up pulling them out so I can get the ceramic coated, damn it was sorta a puzzle on the 6 piece one after I took it out to go back together





Got my power kill switch mounted up



Wired up to my Wirez power distros



Also took the wiring out of my frame rail, just incase I have a minor accident that it doesn't crush the wires, so I heat wraped it and ran it through the engine bay



And got some radiator hoses