Now its my turn.

[rhipsher]

To say P/P work is completed and off to the powder coaters. These pics were taken with my cell phone so the quality is so so.











I've seen this extra hole drillrd right here on some of the IH housings I've seen in the past. Not sure if its necessary. But if it helps speak up.

[Paul Workman]

Hmmmm.... Just curious what your interim expectations are, as it would appear you must be contemplating a staged approach - doing the heads later, yes? I see you siamesed the intake plenum, but left the primary port of the IH more or less at the original size. Is yours a 90 or a later model? (As I see what appears to be a bit of the primary injector boss remaining - not necessary on the earlier LT5s.)

Lots of ways to skin a cat. I'm just curious what the "master plan" is.

P.

[rhipsher]

Originally Posted by Paul Workman

Hmmmm.... Just curious what your interim expectations are, as it would appear you must be contemplating a staged approach - doing the heads later, yes? I see you siamesed the intake plenum, but left the primary port of the IH more or less at the original size. Is yours a 90 or a later model? (As I see what appears to be a bit of the primary injector boss remaining - not necessary on the earlier LT5s.)

Lots of ways to skin a cat. I'm just curious what the "master plan" is.

P.

It's a 90. At this time I'm not planning to do the heads. I've opened the primary ports up to 36mm half way down then started gradually tapering them down to 33mm so they match the stock primary head port. If I opened the primary up to 36mm all the way through with the stock 33mm head port it would cause a serious missmatch and would be like hitting a brick wall for air flow. I've removed as much of the injector bosses as I could without having to break into the fuel injector bore to much. The plenum and injector housings that I used to copy what I did to mine from were uglier than mine and still had a little left of the injector bosses. They weren't totally gone. And that cars base dyno was 335rwhp. After those P/P plenum and injector housings were put back on in combination with Jeal headers Mgana flows and dr gas and a good tune it dynoed at 409rwhp. If I get somewhere in the ball park of 385rwhp I'll be happy. If it ends up being more than great.

But if I decide to have the heads done I'm just going to go for a 368 build. And I'll let one of the builders do that.

[USAFPILOT]

nice work rick...you ready for mine now...haha

[rhipsher]

Originally Posted by USAFPILOT

nice work rick...you ready for mine now...haha

Hehe! I tell you what Ryan if you can wait until this winter I'll knock em out for you. Then I can work on them in the garage intead of the master bathroom. It turns the bathroom into a mess. Leaves a layer of aluminum all over everything. God bless my wifes soul for putting up with it. My garage temp has been hovering right about 110 deg.

[Locobob]

Originally Posted by rhipsher

Then I can work on them in the garage intead of the master bathroom.

Bathroom??? You are kidding right??? Your wife must be an amazingly patient women.

Hard to see exactly where you're at regarding the primary bosses in the pics but you can pretty much take them down to the roof as the injectors seal high in the housing.

[LGAFF]

I guess there are worse things than porting in your bathroom:

[rhipsher]

Your right about that.

[A26B]

Originally Posted by LGAFF

I guess there are worse things than porting in your bathroom:

Notice the absence of decor? Looks like the ex-wife took it when she moved out. Wonder what wall he took out to get it in there?

I can't believe anyone's wife would allow you to do port work in the bathroom Where did you put the air compressor?

[jonszr1]

jerry having met ricks wife , she is one in a million , she really wants the house redone ,gotta figure by letting him do this she is getting something extra special for the house or from rick