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

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I got the engine and cooling system put back together last night. I then cranked the engine with the valve covers off to watch all the lifters pump up. And they did. I was very pleased to see that.

So I put the valve covers on and plugs back in it, put the wires back on and tried to hook the pc up to the car. But no I can not remember my password for the laptop. I messed with it for about 20 mins and called it quits for the night. But I did notice the engine was cranking very slow, even with a deep cycle battery hooked to the little braille battery. So I put the charger on boost and with the key, still nothing. The tach was jumping up and down but could not really see the actual cranking speed. MSD will say "what is the cranking speed"? Like they did last time. So I have to get the pc up and running first. I may take it to fry's and see if they can get into it. I thought I knew the password but tried for about an hour or so last night, no luck. I have not used it for about 6 months due to a virus that was on it I could not figure out how to get it off there. So I left it alone.

Can any of you pc geeks tell me how to get into this thing?

Well I took the pc to Fry's and they said it is corrupt. They will have to clear it off and reload it with vista. He is going to try to recover any data he can but doubtful it will work. Vista is harder to crack into with all the security **** it has. Oh'well.

But on the up side... I didn't need it to get it fired up today. We put 110 leaded in the tank and primed it up to check for leaks. All was good so we hit the starter and it acted like it wanted to run. I pumped the carb a bunch of times to dump the fuel in it and tried again. It started right up. I kept it at about 2000 rpm's until it was warmed up a little. Oil pressure was 60psi temp got up to 150 so I turned the fans and water pump on. Then let it idle for a sec. The rockers were very noisy, they still need adjusted.

I did find a few oil leaks. 1 from the oil sending unit, seems like it needs thread sealant put on it. And the 2nd was pouring out of two bolt holes in the front of the oil pan. Looks like little 6mm bolts go in there. they are not the bolts that go into the block.

I'll post a video and pics tonight when we get back from dinner.. I'm VERY relieved to see it run again. You know how it is when assembling a motor yourself, you never know what could be wrong. LOL.

Video up, The quality sucks. now before anyone blow's me any ****. The rockers need to be adjusted. So they are quit noisy. We will be fixxing this tomorrow as well as a few oil leaks. And my laptop is fix and ready to be picked up. I'm gonna get it in the morning so we can play with the MSD software after getting the motor dialed in.

The car is not near as loud as I thought it would be.

Some pics to look at of wiring and exhaust.