Road Star

[BlueMotorsport]

wow... just wow awesome

[— fwdtamiya —]

It's good that you're working out all these kinks now, before they cause damage at least.

[Tkblazer]

I would love to see this car in person! Hopefully I can drive my car to mrls next yesr

[druz]

Hopefully my high fuel trim problem has been solved. I checked the injectors and it seemed like 1 wasn't clicking so I swapped them bank to bank and the problem followed to bank 1. I took the bad one out and it wouldn't open on the bench either so I have a new one in the mail and hoping that is the end of this issue.

In the mean time since the engine is down I was looking for something else to fix. I ordered a Joyfast long knob from Rod during the last gb but it didn't fit the shifter adapter I made, the threaded part was too short. Since I've been teaching myself to weld I fired it up and made a new one. So cool being able to just whip something out like this.



The throws are pretty long though so I'm looking into some kind of short shifter base, leaning toward the stock Hurst right now if I can find one.

A couple weeks ago I got a little something in the mail that I've been waiting for for like 10 years. I told myself I wasn't going to buy anything until all the bugs we're worked out and I was driving the car again but obviously I couldn't pass it up.



I had to pack it back away since it's going to be a while until I can get it painted but finally

[— Phatmiata —]

mmmmm are those Recaro Carbon Kevlar Racing seats from the RS-Limited Eunos Roadster I spy?

that YSCC ducktail trunk lid is icing on the cake man !!

[—atank—]

I love that Trunk lid.........

[druz]

Good eye as always Randy, yes that is a kevlar Recaro from a RS-Limited. I only have the one unfortunately. I picked it up a couple of years ago when there wasn't many around. I was tempted when pairs started showing up earlier this year but shipping is such a pain. For now I have a SPG for the passenger.

It seems like my fuel problems are over now that the new injector is in. I want to do a few more test miles but it's looking promising. Another thing I did at the same time was replace the fuel pump relay since that was on my list. There have been numerous reports of LS swap fuel pumps (Walbro like mine and DW) straining the relay. But apparently the relay is over rated and causes the main relay to fail. Cure seems to be wiring a new relay directly to the battery.

For the sake of convenience I mounted a 30A relay to the antenna mount next to the battery. I connected it to the battery via a 30A inline fuse and used 12GA wire to send the power to the fuel pump. The short term solution was to use the old blu/red 12v wire to activate the relay. This isn't ideal since now I have 2 fuel pump relays but I didn't want to deal with running wires front to back. I'll clean it up later. For now this should prevent any issues.

[— Phatmiata —]

I have a set coming on a slow banana boat from Japan, maybe get them next year. I have always wanted them, finally got a set when all those pairs starting showing up.

I really love your build man, I had reading your thread it keeps pushing me back over the fence to go V8. Maybe I should just build a V8, but everyone is telling me to order all the parts in first, otherwise it takes too long to build. And I already have like zero free time

[druz]

I initially planned on 1 year for the build with my very limited time but I'm at 2 years now. That includes many weeks of not touching anything. Given how little time in have small problems equal weeks or months to resolve. The leaky slave probably cosy me a month since I had to r&r the engine and this fuel trim issue was good for a few weeks.

The swap itself is pretty easy but definitely time consuming. I bought things in stages but it depends on your plan and where you are going to get parts. The new LFx swap is very interesting too. About the same power and price as a ls1 but much newer. Good condition ls1's are getting hard to find unless you rebuild at which point you might get close to ls2/3 prices. Lfx trans is smaller than t56 also which means no tunnel mods which saves time and welding.

I had a 200hp turbo and that was definitely fun, this 400hp v8 is ridiculous. Even at 50% throttle which is as high as I've gotten.

[druz]

The R-Speed dual hood lift has been on backorder for a while but finally came in. Now I can ditch the stake I was using as a prop since I lost my old lift kit between builds

[druz]

Did another short test drive to work out the bugs. My clutch was removed from a brand new Z06 so it only had delivery miles. I still need to break it in so I'm not pressing it, but it's difficult to not step on it a little



The drivetrain seems good so far. A couple issues I'm tackling now are my reverse light not working and front wheel bearings. I didn't have my GV reverse light hooked up prior but it's pretty straight forward. I put in a new Ford reverse light switch into the T56 so that may be the source. Also my front wheel bearings are on their way out. Unfortunately I didn't find the time to repack them before they started squealing so I have a new pair coming in that I'll repack with Amsoil grease.

[— Phatmiata —]

I should ban you right now for that 15 second teaser video!!!

more videos !!!! NOAW!!

[— fwdtamiya —]

I think I need a V8.

[— Phatmiata —]

I think I need a V8.

everytime I see this carp Im like, man I could've had a V8

[druz]

I wish I had more than 15s of video to share but the rest would be me just putting around and sitting at stop lights. There will be more soon

In the meantime I ordered a pair of $30 Rockauto front hubs and repacked them in Amsoil synthetic grease. I looked into also replacing the ball bearings with more precise G10 spec bearings but all of mine seemed to be pretty close according to my Mitutoyo dial caliper which is the best thing I have to try to measure something like that. Track guys who regularly abuse the front hubs with extended periods of high heat from the brakes are familiar with the process. I don't think V8 power will be very easy on the brakes on the track so I took the 2 hours to repack. Also I'm not sure of how the forces work and whether or not the Amsoil will help, but low offset wheels are also hard on hubs. The process is fairly simple, take them apart, clean, apply new grease and put back together.



I'll try to make a post in the DIY section that is a little more detailed.