Black Knight
I Glow Therefore I am
After a year and a half my truck started and idled (quite well actually) under it's own power! I did take some video, but it's too dark to see anything so I'll get more later.
This has been one hell of an project that I will admit I tried to take on too many things at once and baried myself in a truck that needed too many things tended to.
Final result is now a Syclone with
-Vortec head swap (yeah, yeah I didn't change the cam. I had enough shit to deal with :rotf: )
-Ported and polished upper intake
-Ported and polished T/B (got lost in the mail, for a month)
-A2A conversion
-Solid motor mounts
-ZQ8 steering box
-Coilover suspenion w/ tubular control arms
-All poly bushings
-R/R front diff (both new CV axles) full synthetic
-Upgrade front brakes (F-body) w/ DOT 4
-Redid my ABS delete lines
-Gilbert drive shaft
-Changed rear U-joints, changed rear diff fluid to full synthetic
-Waller's TD06-GT30 turbo
-Scrub, clean, and paint frame from firewall forward (17 years of grim and grease it was nasty)
-Carbon fiber dash gauges w/ all carbon fiber pillar gauges
-Bigger trans pan, S/S lines, giant cooler, external filter, and a gauge
-A/C, ABS, C/C, EGR, W2A I/C delete and were talking everything down to the pins in the wiring harness. This became the biggest nightmare and ended up being one of my biggest problems. I had the entire wiring harness out of the truck exterior and interior and removed every wire that I didn't need, cleaned it, and tried to reinstall it. Still not 100% happy with where everything is, but it's close.
Now this list isn't too long, but it was plauged with problems, half of these parts had some issue that held me up for way longer then thay should have, and a couple had to be redone 2-3 times.
Big thanx to Nolan Nykyforuk (many, many late nights on the phone trouble shooting), Jeff Scott (one sick azz 3" downpipe), George Blake (lots of transmission stuff, the C/F gauges, and lots of great advice), Mike Renz (super light weight turbo reclock bracket), Mike Lee (motor mounts, vortec conversion, lots of other stuff), John Waller (turbo), Scott Golembiewski (all my tuning equipment). I'm sure there are more but it escapes me so if you helped thanx :tup:
Few loose ends to tie up and Nolan and I are gonna start tuning this beeyach. Now this isn't no 10sec monster, hell I'll be happy with mid 12's, but it's so nice to put all this blood and sweat into something and finally see it come together. I'm just really glad I didn't end up giving up and parting it out 'cause I couldn't figure it out :roll:
Ok enough of me freaking out, time to start tuning :myclone:
Oh and only take on one thing at a time :lol:
This has been one hell of an project that I will admit I tried to take on too many things at once and baried myself in a truck that needed too many things tended to.
Final result is now a Syclone with
-Vortec head swap (yeah, yeah I didn't change the cam. I had enough shit to deal with :rotf: )
-Ported and polished upper intake
-Ported and polished T/B (got lost in the mail, for a month)
-A2A conversion
-Solid motor mounts
-ZQ8 steering box
-Coilover suspenion w/ tubular control arms
-All poly bushings
-R/R front diff (both new CV axles) full synthetic
-Upgrade front brakes (F-body) w/ DOT 4
-Redid my ABS delete lines
-Gilbert drive shaft
-Changed rear U-joints, changed rear diff fluid to full synthetic
-Waller's TD06-GT30 turbo
-Scrub, clean, and paint frame from firewall forward (17 years of grim and grease it was nasty)
-Carbon fiber dash gauges w/ all carbon fiber pillar gauges
-Bigger trans pan, S/S lines, giant cooler, external filter, and a gauge
-A/C, ABS, C/C, EGR, W2A I/C delete and were talking everything down to the pins in the wiring harness. This became the biggest nightmare and ended up being one of my biggest problems. I had the entire wiring harness out of the truck exterior and interior and removed every wire that I didn't need, cleaned it, and tried to reinstall it. Still not 100% happy with where everything is, but it's close.
Now this list isn't too long, but it was plauged with problems, half of these parts had some issue that held me up for way longer then thay should have, and a couple had to be redone 2-3 times.
Big thanx to Nolan Nykyforuk (many, many late nights on the phone trouble shooting), Jeff Scott (one sick azz 3" downpipe), George Blake (lots of transmission stuff, the C/F gauges, and lots of great advice), Mike Renz (super light weight turbo reclock bracket), Mike Lee (motor mounts, vortec conversion, lots of other stuff), John Waller (turbo), Scott Golembiewski (all my tuning equipment). I'm sure there are more but it escapes me so if you helped thanx :tup:
Few loose ends to tie up and Nolan and I are gonna start tuning this beeyach. Now this isn't no 10sec monster, hell I'll be happy with mid 12's, but it's so nice to put all this blood and sweat into something and finally see it come together. I'm just really glad I didn't end up giving up and parting it out 'cause I couldn't figure it out :roll:
Ok enough of me freaking out, time to start tuning :myclone:
Oh and only take on one thing at a time :lol: