LS1/t56 swap

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been VERY busy, rebuild my jetski literally from the ground up and had a career change. Finally had a change to get my shed/shop cleaned up and cleaned up around the car to make room to work on it again. few more weeks and I should be able to make some progress. yes, this is still happening.

7-13-2016

I almost put a days work into it last sunday.. BUT I happen to buy another car last min. It took all day to get it home. I know what your thinking.. but its ok, its a parts car for the project lol.


You may know this car, after pulling some parts off of it I was going to use on my build, I decided to save it from the crusher, along with a storage unit of parts. This was my friends car, very sad but it was suffering from cancer.. This old quad4 turbo Beretta will live on!

7-19-2016

Change of plans. going fwd LS1

kidding! I had turn it sideways to pull it out.. had to take a pic.

It took me half to day to even figure out exactly where I left off..

subframe support/mount. This way the subframe is now perfectly centered! I can pull it out and put it in without having to remeasure everything now and having it secure is also very nice (it get removed everytime I stop working on the car, I dont want it to rust).

and the bad..

not enough travel... I guess I measured something wrong..

on top of that, I need to move the wheel up more to get the correct geometry, closing the wheel gap even more!

This is with -1.5* camber, Ill be running a little more Im sure but well see what the tires want when the time comes. Ill probably start at -2* or -2.5* realistically. But regardless, It looks like Ill be pulling/flaring the fenders out. I didnt have time to toss the other side together to make sure my center line is actually center lol. But I dont see it being wrong.

I plan to go over my suspension geometry again to see what will happen If I just raise the car with the subframe where it sits. If Its still good, Ill just do that. If its not, Ill be cutting my support out and lowering it half an inch to make it right! but thats my update.