Whoops.....

My damn hood was in my front yard today.....

Hah, what'd ya do, leave it out there overnight?

Hah, what'd ya do, leave it out there overnight?
Naw.

Brought it inside for the night....this is what it looked like earlier though...

http://www.knighthawkvideos.com/albums/swap/Swap033.JPG

YEY!!!! Progress.

http://home.comcast.net/~mrluos/Swap069.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~mrluos/Swap066.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~mrluos/Swap062.JPG

Aw man, some sexiness right there. Engine stand looks just like mine, Harbor Freight?

Aw man, some sexiness right there. Engine stand looks just like mine, Harbor Freight?
Of course!! It was like $30 or something.
Problem is....I think I need another one. :icon16:

Next sunday I am tearing the stock LS1 completely down, and hopefully I can start installing parts onto my new block. Oilpan, sensors, and the like.

Hah hah, yeah. Mine was about that price too. I was up at Pep Boys yesterday and saw they had a clearence for cherry pickers. Only $60. I'm eventually going to need one, but kind of don't wanna spend the cash for it right now. And the one I saw at Harbor Freight was about $80. So, kind of debating about that.

Good luck with the tear down. Gonna be some fun for ya right there. When I tore down my other engine I bought, a freakin cylinder head screw broke off in the block. Man did that piss me off.

Yeah, that would ruin a day.

So far, I have not had any problems with bolts. Probably because the car only has 29,000 miles.

Wow, I missed my opportunity for a trade-in :grinyes:

Luos walks out to his front yard, remembering that he left his Ram Air hood on the lawn and spies not his hood but a stock maroon firebird hood.

Next Day: Fellow AF'ers in the area read in the local papers of some poor kid getting kneecapped, tied to his V6 engine block and then dropped off the edge of a cliff into shark infested waters.

On the high side, it looks like you're making excellent progress. Hopefully my car will last me a good bit longer, the V6 has hit just a little over the 100k mark, but the auto tranny is just crap. I'm thinking of tracking down a V6 Manual in the area and try and get a trade in for mine (Why no V8? Insurance $$$). I want to participate in Auto-X and some other SCCA stuff in the area to boot, so the auto-tranny wouldn't take the abuse too kindly.

:lol:

I had a friend here helping me with a non-WS.6 black Trans Am. He joked about stealing it as well.

Well, I'm glad I wasn't the only person thinking about that. I won't do anything along the lines of installing a Ram Air hood until I actually turbo charge my car, but I need to figure up the final designs for the setup before I commit to that install. I don't want to order a setup from somebody just due to the fact that I don't exactly like the style of some of the V6 Turbo kits for the F-Bodies. It'll give something for my dad and I to finally work on as well as get me prepped for the final crunch of my mechanical engineering degree