The Unicorn: Abandon all Hope

[wretched73]

Originally Posted by LS1ow

the hell is the air compressor for

Air actuated shifter, duh

[sweetbmxrider]

Is the air filter on backwards? And do you keep the wood tool tray in the trunk??

[LTb1ow]

BLS's word of hate have kept me awake many a night at the mess of this wiring. He insiunated that this was worse than his N20 era wiring.


So we got to updating


Still have some work to do to tidy, but its simpler and cleaner meow.


Does this do anything to make the car faster? Nope.

But, now, I can sleep at peace knowing BLS wiring is as good as my polishing skills.

[Blackbirdws6]

With that out of the way. I'll respect your work when you start wrapping all your visible wiring in red split loom. Until then, you show off your spaghetti electrical fire elsewhere and keep my name out yo mouth.

[townsend]

Originally Posted by Blackbirdws6

With that out of the way. I'll respect your work when you start wrapping all your visible wiring in red split loom. Until then, you show off your spaghetti electrical fire elsewhere and keep my name out yo mouth.

[LTb1ow]

In prep for eventual teardown, built a halfway decent workbench


Yanked driver side manifold


Not bad of a seal, maybe a tiny leak between 3 & 5


And the reason for the season, wet, oily plugs


Waiting for leak down tester to arrive today

[LTb1ow]

Pile of stuff on a bench can only mean one thing

[wretched73]

Top your workbench with a sacrificial layer - https://www.homedepot.com/p/Hardboar...2777/202189720

[LTb1ow]

Ply wood is cheap pal.

[sweetbmxrider]

I thought he meant the 2x4 under the hood

[LTb1ow]

After a rough start realizing my argon was empty, snagged a new fill at lunch today


Then I managed to snap the bolt on my Vband, but metal hot glue gun and a old bolt made short work of that


Much more room now, and can actually get a wrench on crank to do rockers etc. Previously compressor housing was about ten mils off balancer.


Downside, is radiator is shoved hard up against the car and turbo is tight


Should I just chop front off and get the RSM front end? Probably.

[LTb1ow]

After a lot of going back and forth with myself.. decided to cut. Will need to figure out top mounts, but bottom is mounted to lower rad support. Gotta finish up the hose roughing in then take everything out to clean up edges and weld hotside.



Now have clearance on both sides of compressor housing

[LTb1ow]

Acquired a fancy elbow

[Blackbirdws6]

Top mounts seem simple enough to make. Could even consider something like what I did on the blue bird. How much more better should the fancy elbow flow?

[LTb1ow]

Yea I made a quick proof of concept over the weekend.

[LS1ow]

that rads been 10.01.

[wretched73]

Originally Posted by LS1ow

that rads been 10.01.

Yea but has it seen 571 WHP?

[townsend]

Originally Posted by Blackbirdws6

Top mounts seem simple enough to make. Could even consider something like what I did on the blue bird. How much more better should the fancy elbow flow?

hopefully it flows better than that edelcrap junk. 417Motorsports custom, but was too tall for my car (im not cutting hood)

[LS1ow]

Originally Posted by wretched73

Yea but has it seen 571 WHP?

nope, 527 is all it took to get that and cool pics for IG

[LTb1ow]

Big photo dump from the past week or so

Had to modify the radiator to get room for the air filter on turbo. Also added vac line port to elbow.


No more coil of copper, proper backpressure damper cylinder


Painful purchase but MLS gaskets are the best


While I was waiting for heads, have been experimenting with manifold heat management

[LTb1ow]

And the heads, machine shop found some lovely gems from the previous owner of these heads


But both heads resurfaced, 0.007 off both to clean up


Its hard to see but the bolt/head stud holes were reamed out, and then sleeved so the port breakthru didn't suck oil down from top of head


Pretty sure every LT1 owner goes thru this picture at least once


Heads on, rockers & guides setup, intake bolted down

[sweetbmxrider]

How many angles was the valve job?

[LTb1ow]

Obtuse ones

[Blackbirdws6]

When running?

[LTb1ow]

Originally Posted by Blackbirdws6

When running?

When its warm outside