My new drag toy. 93 lx coupe carbed LS1/th400. (pics) by JRracing

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Well I ended up cutting the support tubes out of the K member and had to dent two tubes on the left side and one on the right. I didn't want to but it was either that or buy the AJE K Member and I didn't want to fork out the money right now so I did what I had to do.

The car is all packed up and on it's way to get wired and mostly finished by a friend of a friend who works on race cars. He is doing all the wiring and gauges, final assembly of the tranny and cooler and a list of other small things. When I get it back it should be about ready to hit the key. I can't hardly wait!!!!

I still have a ton of stuff to do when it comes back but least it's on the down hill side..

1-28-2009

I got the car back the other day. The wiring job looks awesome. The guy took his time and made everything nice and tight. I'm very pleased with the work.
I'll post some pics this weekend.

We tried to crank the engine over to prime the oil system but could not get any pressure at the gauge. It seems there is something wrong. Should it show some pressure when cranking?? I did not pay attention to the cranking speed. I tore the front end down and we put some ultra slick assembly lube in the oil pump to see if that would create enough suction to put the oil up through the engine. No luck. I could also tell the top end was not getting oil. Lifters not priming up.

And to make matters worse, there is a squeaking sound coming from the engine now when cranking. I hope it is not a dry bearing problem...


Any idea's guys? We put 10w30 petroleum oil in it and used permatex ultra slick on everything when assembled.

I'm going to check the shim for the oil pump(double roller chain) and maybe take the pan off to make sure it is not bottomed out on the oil pan from shimming the windage tray..

1-29-2009

I took the plugs out and cranked it a few times and it finally came up. It hit 40psi cranking. Now I need to put the front cover and all that **** back on and we are going to tackle the ignition problem. I got a cable today that is vista compatible so I can see if the msd communicates with the pc. Going back to the shop now.