Project Fire Pigeon

[Daveyhouse]

Hello all,

I am the father of zeNIPrec. He spun a bearing on his way to Dyno Day last year.
After many mind changes of parts being bought, he finally has a direction he wants to go in.
Nothing is built yet, but attached are some pics of hard parts he has bought. I will take pics as we proceed on the build. I am also going to record and put it on my youtube channel.

LT1 block bored .0303 over, 4 bolt bowtie splayed caps, line honed, cam bearings preinstalled.

https://i.imgur.com/WhcrPmM.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/flnffB5.jpg
Forged Lunati rotating assembly with cam that was purchased by someone else from http://elliottsportworks.com/ 2nd half of 2016, but was never installed. We took everything to a local machine shop to have balance and weight matching double checked, and it was determined to be accurate.

https://i.imgur.com/b0oav12.jpg

Pistons will be fitted with HellFire rings

https://i.imgur.com/AaYAgEu.jpg

Additional hardware

https://i.imgur.com/9zfnofI.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/aMWSqI0.jpg

Will be getting the 7qt oil pan

https://i.imgur.com/SdOxomg.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/u3U6grO.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/m9GFp0Z.jpg


https://i.imgur.com/roDYBQZ.jpg

And last but not least, I get to have fun while working on this. He will be my DD Designated Driver I will also be a DD Designated Drinker. :P

https://i.imgur.com/h7XfB5f.jpg

Please don't
drink and drive

https://i.imgur.com/L8Np3GN.jpg

[fullforce]

What cylinder heads are you gonna run?

[zeNlPrec]

Ported Trickflow heads

[fullforce]

NICE! that will be a solid runner! Cant wait build something like that one day

[Daveyhouse]

Valve springs came by UPS today. So we removed the old springs from the Trick Flows, then took everything to the machine shop so they can get the install height established to spec.


https://i.imgur.com/J2oGjdY.jpg


Not his or mine but we had to steal a pic of this while we there



https://i.imgur.com/8dkHPHO.jpg


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[Cathead]

That's a big Ol' Lunati bumpstick! That'll be a lot of fun! Definitely don't drink and drive behind the wheel of that (or anything else for that matter).

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[popo8]

Definitely following. Could u ppst a link to ur youtube channel?
Pretty please.

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[Daveyhouse]

Here ya go. I don't have any video of it up yet. We did check main bearing clearance last night. We had .002 on bearing 1 thru 4 and .003 on 5 the thrust bearing. Machine shop said we should have a little larger clearance on that thrust bearing, and it looks like we got it.

It takes a while for me to get video up because of time and editing. There's nothin on this build yet, but there will be
Hopefully I can take clips from video and use them to post pics here.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaQdmzVjK2GtQ7EWhV0VXow/videos

[myltwon]

Very nice looking build

[Daveyhouse]

Okay the machine shop caught a mistake with the valve spring order. It was sent with spring seats and seals that was probably meant for stock heads. So he had to wait another week for shop to order correct seats and seals to fit theses heads.

Had them measure the combustion chamber while there and was determined to be 60.5cc

https://i.imgur.com/EhYLF50.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/xaUE9lH.jpg

He also got a set of flow matched injectors
https://i.imgur.com/uirzfUy.jpg

As far as the assembly, we had another set back. I was measuring piston to wall clearance and came up short. He needs a mininum of .0045 to .0055
I only got .0045 on cyl 7,2, and 8 the rest were .0040 and .0042. Which would be fine with naturally aspirated, but the plan is for her to be a squirter so she needs a bigger hole :D
So I removed crank and cam to take the block back to machine shop.
The King rod bearings that came with rotating assembly also were too tight. They measured out at .0015.
We bought one Clevite HX series bearing and that measured at .0027 so he will order a complete set of them. The rod journals on the crank measured 2.9995 on all of them.

[zeNlPrec]

Figured i'd post another update as it has been a while. I bought a MWC K-member and UMI upper and lower a-arms. Got the vehicle up and running and was gonna take it to South Mountain Raceway.
It made it, but in the water box it had an oil leak which was the rear china wall between the block and intake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnaOs7dojmI
I bought a set of racestar wheels and had MT 275/60r15's mounted on the rears.
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I just got a MWC Fab 9" delivered today which I ordered black Friday and also a 4" aluminum driveshaft balanced with the joints and yoke installed.
I also have front&rear viking coilovers with crusader valving on order from MWC, but has not been shipped yet. On that same order I had bought sub frame connectors from MWC
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[Fastbird]

Get it on the dyno yet? With that cam, if the trick flows are ported right, you should be in the mid 400's for sure, I'd venture north of 450.......depending on drivetrain setup obviously. Sounds awesomely rowdy!

[zeNlPrec]

No never had it on the dyno, but the transmission is a CPT Pro Race 4l60e. Thats about what I was expecting though

[zeNlPrec]

Well swapping to a 582 big block with over 1000hp N/A. The lt1 will be going into my dad's fiero which currently has a 350 with a bent rod.390643906239065