So.......I had a good day of picking up stuff yesterday and getting boxes in from the Fed Ex guy.
Also got a sweet radiator (Thanks Cameron) and all of what I thought I needed for the fuel system.
So last night I dug into the fuel system and after at least an hour of debating on what to do, I ended up putting the corvette fuel pressure regualtor in place of the stock volvo fuel filter. I liked the idea more than the actual execution. I need to get some 90 degree fittings to make it look proper in my opinion, but this is going to have to do for now.
So with that done, I got to work on trying to finishing up some loose ends. Installed the Lokar throttle cable for the LS. Very nice piece by the way.
Pulled the tape off the heads and finally got the bolts in on the intake manifold.
I trimmed the stock mounts off the radiator with a hacksaw drilled one hole in the lower core support for the drain valve and mounted the radiator.
That was about where I stopped last night.
This morning I went out and made a shopping list, bent up some coat hangers and headed out to my local Baxters and dug through all of their radiator hoses......ended up finding a couple that will work.
This lower one was a bit tricky, but turned out to be the easy one to do. The upper one was really long and took some trimming but turned out close. Might keep an eye out for something that will have a little more bend at the top.
I picked up a cold air kit on the cheep got it home and promplty cut it up into pieces to fit my needs. I did a bit of research on this one to make sure it would work and it turned out to fit well.
There is a little rise in it to clear the tensioner and everything clears nicely now.
There is no way I could live with the nasty polished toob so I hit it with some 220 and some wrinkle black to try and keep the oem look going.
As far as pics thats all.
I also got a ton of loose ends tied up that I did not take photos of. Got the starter installed. Installed the driveline (also realized that the tranny was mounted way to high in the tunnel)
Finalized all the connections on the engine, built an adapter for the volvo sending unit to mount into the ls head. It isnt too pretty but it is functional.
Ran the 0 guage wire from the battery over to the starter and ran an 8 guage wire from the alternator to the starter from there.
I am so close.... Need a plug for the alternator to hook up the excite wire. Need to hook up a few mist hoses and vacuum lines and then I can hook up power and see what happens.
Also picked up an electric pusher fan. since there is no way a fan is fitting in there.
Tomorrow should be descent if I can find the plug I need.
Sean