Some mileage

Well this week saw me off to Durham and York from my base in the South East. Over 1000 Miles, Looks like I might have to update my annual insurance miles. I managed to get some good runs on the way back the car drives fairly well.

The oil light turned out to be the oil level as suspected. I threw 2L in and will monitor useage over time. I know its common for LS1's use oil so we will see how bad it is, so far so good.
The plan this weekend is to lose the large plastic engine cover and do the throttle body bypass mod as well as look into the 2nd hole mod for the cold air box. Some searching for a vacuum or hose connector pipe will be required to find something that fits.

2nd gear whines somewhat, so Ill do some research. My old 6speed Camaro was a little crunchy and noisy too and that lasted over 3 years till I sold it, so Im not too worried.

Spoke to Steve at Moving Parts they have a great idea, basically for us UK based sods they provide a US delivery address then bulk ship stuff to the UK and do all the customs paperwork etc. Steve said as long as the stuff was over 10Kg it would be worth talking to him and even engines via air were fine. Im still chewing over my list of parts and deciding what I should get if anything. Still waiting for EFILIVE to show, the LC-1 is at the couriers. So Ill collect that on Saturday. Picked that up from a German company, so saves on paying VAT on US sourced items! So far the most sensible idea seems to be a Crane 216/224 Cam. Vinci Performance in the US like them and sell a wide range for 1.8 Rockers.
Failing any sense or at least following a nice month of overtime and travel allowances a set of AFR205 heads (Part #1510) could be on the cards, the only problem with that is where to stop seeing as the intake and everything else needs to come off it seems a good idea to replace the intake manifold and throttle body as well. Means that should the engine blow, Im good to go with a 402 short block!

Im going to wait until I get to grips with EFILIVE and can do a reasonable MAFLESS tune first, then at least if I change anything I can get the car running well afterwards. It looks like a fellow Pistonheads member may be able to provide me with a suitable old connector to wire my LC-1 up to the PCM as well as the EFILIVE scanner. This reminds me. An Over The Radiator Cold Air Intake (OTRCAI) looks like a very good idea, they ram cold air into the intake giving excellent results. I might try my hand at some fibreglass sculpting and save a bit of cash.

After the 1000 Miles, I thought it would be good to see if the indicated 20L/100Km was accurate as this is shocking! So I reset the mileage and now have the figure of 10.33L/100Km (27.65mpg), still not brilliant but not bad considering there was some city driving in there. Ill check out the air filter over the weekend as well and make sure its nice and clean, the screws on the filter housing have just about rusted out and look like nobody has opened it in years. Apparently its a K&N so a clean and re-oil may be in order Im pretty sure I have some oil left over from the Camaro.

The basic plan now is to monitor everything to make sure its all sound and no major expenses are required of a higher priority than a new camshaft or whatever takes my fancy next.

I also plan to use my G-Tech meter to measure 0-60 times and the indicated BHP. Apparently these are quite accurate, but Ill just use them as a relative measure of whats going on. I guess I should "baseline" the car before doing any mods including the throttlebody bypass, so that will be a plan for the weekend too.