LS-Ace

Ok now that those are read. Party time 🥳 ✌🏽

Ended up finding out this 68 th400 is one of the best cores to start out with. Lucky for once. Has most of the stuff the later 400s upgrade too and a smooth drum so I don’t need the 4L80 one. Just get a 34 element sprag, some good clutches and steels and a roller bearing and call it a day (I know I’m missing a few things).

Was thinking of going TransGo 1+2 kit but someone is going to teach me to do the valvebody mod myself. Going to be a stout transmission, a fun learning experience and more tools to buy 🙃.

Once I get a trailer for ole girl then I’ll go with a Manual Valve Body and spin that blower as fast as it will let me. For now, this will be more than enough to handle what I need to handle.

Excited to get this thing together!

Well book number 1 is here. Time to get to studying…

Covers off.. Paint still on point after all of those years sitting? I would call that a win. Time to get her in the garage and start getting everything prepped to go back together!

I have a little book coming later that will help me big time on this journey I’m about to embark on.

This new setup is strictly to take off some heads 🙃

It’s been a while….

If I am not the slowing moving person on the planet I do not know who is..

Just kidding. Been busy with work and finishing other small projects on my other cars so I can give this one my full attention.

Looking like a fun winter build!

2024 this car should finally be back on track.

The lift plate for my LS3 will be here the beginning of next week! Time to get another engine stand and see how bad the damage is…

Between moving back and forth to Florida and the s**tuation I was put in from “that shop” that built the car I have not had a chance or the motivation to look at this for a while.

I really wish I had a garage back when I was ready to do the build but s**t happens just have to learn from it and move on. Going to be changing the setup a little bit as I put it back together but best believe it’s going to be fun. Will definitely be going with a different transmission since Krysienski has been in the bushes ever since so I think I’m going to go with Auto this time around…. 🤔

Time to tear this thing down and build it back up the right way!

😡😡😡 Wasn't planning for this type of rebuild! BUT After Dave Krysienski from EFX Tuning (Now krysien_speed or some nonsense) decided to shut down out of the blue and leave me to pick up a car that is now missing a 35k 1LE 6 Speed transmission, brand new McLeod RXT Clutch/Flywheel, New Slave Cylinder w/ Tick Speed Bleeder, and hopefully no other odds and ends in the process, I guess we are going to have to start from square one.

It is bad enough that their lack of care was the reason my car was back there in the first place. Continuous oil leaks, major blow-by and car would cut off at redline (he said the car was supposed to do that- we all know that is not the case). I took consistent data logs and didn't get past that stage because I didn't feel right about the car before it eventually s**t the bed after hardly 700 miles. I had sent datalogs millions of times showing the difference between when I got it and how rich it was already running and he said it was supposed to run at that AFR (which is correct but he told me he leaned on the tune-which is verified by initial datalog on the first day I received it) and refused to put the car on the dyno to take a look at it no matter how much I offered him.

Feed line leaked (I had to correct it), drain line leaked (I had to correct it), front main seal started to come out (they corrected it from the outside) and said everything else was good and shipped it out of the door. Not even a couple of weeks later on a 3rd gear pull the engine let go before it even hit redline- luckily where I was I was able to coast back to my house where it sat until it was picked up.

On that day he said he was going to pick the car up and "make everything right"- now I understand this comes with me paying for parts and additional labor for things I may add but wanted me to pay over 1500 for them to take the engine out and tell me my crank let go- which I had suspected and told them from the beginning due to my nice "Stripper Glitter Surprise". On top of that it was a diagnostic fee but they didn't even look at the whole engine so had no clue what else could have been wrong or messed up so nothing was diagnosed other than it needs to be diagnosed :smh:.

Finally tired I just said whatever we gotta do to get this car on the road just let me know. He told me that they were busy and it would take about a month or so before they could get started. A week later I get an EMAIL of all things from the site saying they were shutting down business (as if he wouldn't have known the week prior- thing is then I would have been able to get it personally and he knew that but nonetheless here we are).

Could not get in touch with the guy and luckily was able to contact someone that was able to get me in touch with someone else so that I could send someone to pick up my car. That is when I was told that "they accidentally sold the transmission" (this party had nothing to do with it so nothing but respect for them).

Since then both Dave and his other contact won't respond, blocked me from his new IG page lol and I'm sitting here having to build over. S**t happens but karma is a mfer. I never gave anything but my utmost trust and respect and would even have them source the parts to get the business knowing I could get things cheaper elsewhere.

This spring starts the rebuild.

As soon as I get my one car put together and out of the garage the Camaro will be going in to go in and assess the damages and losses from bringing my car to this "shop".

The rest of the build and action will be filmed and documented for everyone including my th400 conversion.

Stay tuned

The comeback is going to be savage 😈

That is all for now.... 😂

🤷🏽‍♂️Not too bad for stock springs🤷🏽‍♂️
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Car is sitting right with these Strange Engineering coil-overs on the rear.
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Stay tuned. Bringing the car back in for some updates to get the most out of this setup. I’ll keep you posted with the content 🤙🏽
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🚦 What is this wheel hop you speak of? 🚦
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Strange Engineering s5090 double adjustable coil-overs installed.
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Every suspension piece swapped out with BMR Suspension components. Only thing missing are those cradle bushings 🤔.
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🔩Stay tuned... A LOT more content on the way!!🔩
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