The Mother Of All LSX Mustangs by 1dirtyZ

8 minute(s) of a 68 minute read

some progress to report: 

we hacked up the front bumper to gut some more air to the intercooler .

also managed to finish up the charge pipe from the blower to the intercooler :

and got the pipe from the intercooler to the throttle body kinda done ( welded the BOV, need to get an IAT bung and sensor and th meth injection nozzles on there.

we put the fenders on to see how it looks :

also got a snow performance boost refrenced methanol injection kit in today . we'll be fabricating a place in the driver inner fender area for the pump to mount, and will position the tank for easiy access right behind the driver side headlight. the plan is also to go with the dual nozzle kit . the meth kit should be installed by tomorow ( except for the electrical work), the trans coole ron the other hand might be finished by sat. . the plan for that is to mount two coolers back to back in the passenger side fenderwell opening we have.

harness should also be in by tomorow , it'll take a few days to rip it apart and thin it down ( it will be an engine harness from a junyard car). 

as for the throttle body , guages, and the moroso oil accumilator ; they should be in by the begining of next week ( i hope ).

so, next up is getting all the sensors, installing the engine harness as well as a relay/fuse panel, fabbing up a driveshaft, and see if we can fire this thing up !

7/5/08

well , got the methanol pump and reservoir mounted today , as well as the harness! 

just need to machine an adapter to have the autometer oil pressure sensor work with the valley cover hole, as well as the water temp sensor. those should be done tomorow.

got a few parts in today, namely the guages and the moroso oil accumilator ---- which is BIG! we kinda ran out of places to put it in , so a bracket in the passenger side fender (behind the tranny cooler) will be welded in tomorow. 

didn't get any pics today , but i did get some crappy ones on my phone that i have to upload. i will get better ones soon and post them

7/10/08

well more progress has been made , like i said before , engine harness is done as well as the guage sensor adapters. 

the accumilator and its bracket are done, i just didn't like how low it hanged from under the car, so it will be repositioned to be tilted a bit ( bottom part more forward than the top - like an f-body radiator). the accumilator also shares the tranny cooler bracket.

the tranny cooler is also done ( well almost); i wanted to have two coolers together , like two layers of coolers, only problem is i couldn't find any more tranny coolers here! i guess they sell out real fast now that the "warm" season is here 

so we ended up just using one and will be slapping a small spal fan on it :

image looking in from the passenger front tire :

the last few days we were looking around for a radiator that would fit behind the intercooler and was short enough not to hit the intercooler pipe on the top ( don't want to order one from summit and wait for it to show up). 

i saw a small radiator on a sand rail here an when i asked the owner he said its of a small bmw or mecedes , so i went to a used parts place that specializes in used german parts, and i asked for the smallest radiator they had ..... be carefull what you wish for

here it is mocked up behind the intercooler :

to tell you the truth i wasn't very comfortable with how small that thing was after we mocked it up on the car; it was tiny! i've seen tranny coolers bigger that this one 

so we looked around and got one that sorta fits , its off a toyota hilux and it fits ok , we're in the process of building the brackets for it and after that we'll get the hoses:

also being done right now is the interior harness and relay board. the harness for the windows, lights, ctc. is all done , just need to wire it in to the main "board" where all the relays and fuses are.

i really should start looking into making the driveshaft at this stage of the build; the car is a few days from being started

7/11/08

quick update, we took the radiator off ( again ) , cause after looking at the evo next to the stang , we realized the evo's radiator would fit even better ( and was full width !). so we took the evo's radiator off ( should be getting another one tomorow ) and we are in the process of mounting it up. 

the car laso gave its first sign of life: after downloading a new base program into the pcm , we primed the fuel system , and to our surprise , it only leaked in one spot ( right at the exit of the fuel pump- thread sealer took care of that quick) , after that we commenced the engine cranking cerimony we just wanted to hear it turn over - it had no oil so we had no intention of starting it .

a minor setback though, we never tried the dipstick while the engine was out of the car and on the stand. it now appears that LSX blocks have a smaller dipstick tube diameter than a regular ls1. so we'll pull the engine up a bit , drop the pan , make sure the windage tray is clearanced for the dipstick in the right place , and re-drill the hole . 

we also re mounted the accumilator , it hung a bit too low for my taste, so we angled it and now it looks better.

7/12/08

IT LIVES!

at 6:19 local time , the engine fired up for the first time !

at 6:36 we had oil to the rockers 

the thing sounds mean 

i'll try and get a video of it tomorow ( or i'll pull a phill on you and not post it )

can't let it idle for too long since there is no coolant in the engine (nor radiator).

should be a driver soon!

7/13/08

the relay and junction block board is finished (will be painted and firmly fixed once the roll cage is in ):

we're starting on the autometer dash cluster now , should be finished soon. it will have , boost, volts, oil press. , water temp , fuel level, and AFR ( hopefully ) all in the dash cluster. tranny temp will be in the console area. 

here are teaser pics ( more like WTF pics) of the next project in line for the guys at SLR ( i'll be re doing my stang soon too ):

loool! its really not that dusty, its just that my camera for some odd reason , shows dust 10 times worse than it is! ( well ,that and the car has been sitting outside for god knows how many years )

anyhow, i just got the new fiberglass hod with 2 inch cowl , will post pics tomorow. also fownd a cog belt in the shop that fits the current pulley arrangement (small crank cog for now, till we get the big one )

i'll probably be getting the radiator hoses and hose clamps for the tube from the intercooler to the TB tomorow. and with that we can fire the thing up for more than a few seconds and check for leaks and do the first oil change.