LS1 swapped into an EVO! by Scream

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thanks for the tip mark, the plan is to connect the valley cover port to the intake cover breathers, that way when the evac system starts pulling vaccume , it would do so from all over the enging instead of one side.  

back to the radiator, it seems to have mesteriously reappeared on the car again

took the car for a spin , but i guess there is something wrong with one of the sensors. the car will not rev under load. if its in nutural, it revs fine, but in gear or on the brakes , it almost seems that the pcm does not recognise any input from the throttle . the sensor is new- it came with the tb - but maybe there is some thing wrong with it or the harness. on a positive note, the transbrake works !

7-29-2008

so, azooooz (the owner) decided to finally tune the car. the direct port system is still not on the car, but it still needed to be tuned for idle and N/A power. so on went the little evo on the dyno , and stomp went the right foot on the gas 
for some reason( probably the stupid quick silver shifter) the tranny went 1- 2- R !!

don't know if anything happened to the tranny , but just to be safe we took it out of the car and will be tearing it appart to see if there is any damage. we'll also be seeing what the a$$holes at tristar over here did to the tranny ; its suppsed to have borgwarner clutches and the transbrake installed correctly . we'll see what we done .

7-31-2008

we took the tranny appart to check on it , and it was mechanically sound, but the a$$holes at tristar did it again; we specifically asked for borgwarner clutches to be put in , and instead they put in generic peices of crap instead ! they also f'ed up the transbrake install, where they left parts in and neglected a few build steps ( we provided them with the instructions for the transbrake). guess that explains the tranny acting up .

anyhow, the tranny will be put together the right way this time , and should be finished by sat. evening .

8-10-2008

we put the tranny in , and after replacing the TPS ( turned out it was not reading right) took the car out for a spin. first off , the trans brake works! second, we need slicks

i guess we'll start pounding on it the next few days. and we should start the direct port install soon ( or at least start on the wiring ! )