It is the stock original 1997 water pump. It's been off the car 4 times for various tasks and cam swaps and I just keep putting it back on because it WORKS lol.

@@PNW_Car_Modsok thanks for the reply ! I was about to send my mine out to okw and noticed the site said not for The early year c5 pumps . But glad to see it works !

don't want a wheel falling off cole! lol

@PNW_Car_Mods no, that would be number 10!

Always buy OEM when you can unless the OEM is proven to be junk. Not the case here. The duralast pump is still going strong here but I will say we had to pull the pump a year later and put a motorcraft oring on it as the oring that came with the duralast pump weeped. So annoying. Thankfully the pump just fell out making the rework only take about 45 minutes total.

YEah this pump had a failed bearing and was weeping very slightly out of the edge of the freeze plug on the bottom. On my Miata every parts store item I've ever used has either failed right away for within 10k miles. Made a big order of oem stuff and thankfully all is well. As someone who fixes my own cars and my friends/family I'm finding it harder and harder to source quality parts.

@@cbthethird yeah it is across the board. Don't know how much of it is related to post covid era nobody cares about anything or what is going on. There is a noticeable shift in parts quality across the board OEM or not.

Awesome! I think we are on our 3rd refill since this video!

Right on! This thing works amazing for the dollar!

I am running 7.385 pushrods only because the block has been decked and the heads have been resurfaced. IIRC I was at like .120" on preload with 7.4s I think this cam pulls harder across the board but there are so many variables to this that I may just be mind screwing myself lol. I need to make an appointment to put the car back on the dyno this spring!

@ yea, what were u at before 607 or something a little over 6 if i recall…….that will be the true answer come spring!!……either way I will be keeping my eyes peeled for that update for sure!!!!

Thank you, we appreciate that and thanks for watching!

Thank you. Literally just keeping the pair around as burnout wheels. The truck has black mustang wheels on it for normal street driving so when these are on there it looks kinda angry lol.

I say a lot of stuff that is intended to be sarcastic. This was on of them lol. 49k miles is just a youngin! Good luck.

It's pretty straight forward. I would say the hardest part will be getting the axle bearing out. I highly recommend just going to the parts store and getting their rental axle bearing puller and slidehammer tool.

You'll have to refresh my memory. Not sure what you mean.

@@PNW_Car_Mods just making a joke about how you gave it some gas after half a mile of driving

@@slowjok3r Now that's awesome! Thanks for checking it out sir.

You can do it at any time. Also, it is possible you just got a bad battery. The messages and auto start stop not working are always indicative of a low battery.

@ I already checked the battery and it is 75%

I only had P1516 ever. no other codes. The guys that know the system far better than me all swore that to be a hard failure likely something to do with the throttle actuator motor itself. After trying multiple different throttle bodies and a different TAC module I was down to wiring. Even though I could never find anything definitive we suspect the wiring got damaged behind the engine and the firewall either during the clutch change or engine change. Ultimately I ended up building a custom 8 wire wiring harness that goes directly from the TAC module straight to the throttle body and have never had another problem since. I am now back to running a gold blade LS3 throttle body for around a thousand miles since that video with no problems.

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That is a good question and I don't really know the answer to that. I think that it would start to build up to too much thickness unless you stripped off the old coats first.

I appreciate the vote of confidence, but we are just not set up to take on that kind of work at this time. Turn key with parts would be very expensive. almost cost prohibitive.

Yes combine. So basically there is now 3 mufflers. We are still running this exhaust to this day but it is going on the chopping block. We are going to start over and build an all new system out of the Speed Engineering true duals kit.

​@@PNW_Car_Modsthanks for your feedback I just rebuilt my LS1 and put a BTR stage 3 cam. And ported my 243 heads LS7 lifters and too much to list but I don't like the droning. When I saw your video I thought this might work for me. So I will try it and get back with you. Thanks again 👍🏾💈

@ Sounds like a beast in the making! We both really dug the sound of the loudmouth as it was but it is just not realistic to drive for longer than about 5 or 10 minutes lol. and if you live where there are hills (everywhere here) you will go suicidal. I think you will like this combo. It is still very loud but at least manageable. I've borrowed the car from my son a few times and drove it to work 2 hours or more and it is totally tolerable this way and still sounds very noticable.

That's pretty good. I'll wait and see if white vans start pulling up in the driveway!

No modifications at all to the shifter itself. The only thing I did custom was make a new bracket for the transmission pan itself because this is an electronic version transmission. Another commenter has said the B&M makes a bracket for the E transmissions sold separately. I have zero experience with the 200 series transmissions. As a matter of fact, I forgot they even existed lol.

DTR!!! always a pleasure sir.

Thank you and thanks for checking it out!

That is correct All F body spacing. It is tighter than I thought it would be. I would not want to use Truck spacing in a Ranger.

I looked at the sheet. is +6 right?

@toddb3394 correct 6 degrees. Probably about the most I would want on a street car/driver.

Thank you nate! IMO there is nothing better than a PD blower for a street car. It makes the power where you can enjoy it!

@ exactly! Ive read all of your posts on making the LSA fit and for a fun street car that stands out from the crowd it seems worth it! That exhaust note with that cam is heavenly, perfect growl for a C5!

@ and the nice thing is it is still completely pleasant inside the cabin. I would easily drive this car from here to Florida if I had to.

@ My Z is awesome but its a stock ls6. The previous owner gutted the cats and threw some borlas on it and it gets obnoxiously irritating after an hour or so. Going back through your build posts and videos is getting the fire under my butt again to mess with mine

@@natek4741 Hell yeah. Now that's the spirit!

Not to sound like a salesman, you really can go wrong with these Summit Cams. Can't wait to here what you think of the 8709!

@@PNW_Car_Mods I think for my intention with this engine combo it will be good for top end power. Might sacrifice a little drive ability but it’s going in a track car.

COLE!!!

Thank boggs! I am sick of winter already.

MOAR POWER !!! lol. Very happy with the exhaust note now.

That is a fantastic question. We kept the Honda for another year after this until the lease ran out. Then the wife leased a 2020 Jeep Gladiator to replace the Honda with. The Honda actually towed this trailer better than the Gladiator IMO. The Honda also got better gas mileage while towing the trailer than the Gladiator. My insane state forced in another 50 cent a gallon gas tax in 2023 and that was the nail in the coffin after three years of Gladiator ownership. At 7mpg towing the Gladiator was sold off. IT also had horrendous range while towing. We used to have to carry gas cans in the bed of the truck. We now have (bought not leased) a low miles 2017 Platinum F150 4x4 with the 3.5 ecoboost and 36 gallon fuel tank. It is the best of all the worlds. More comfortable than both the Honda and the Jeep. WAY WAY more horsepower and torque than both the Honda and the Jeep and as shocking as this sounds gets just as good if not better fuel economy both towing or unloaded. The 10spd transmission is the best transmission I've ever driven. Even better than the Dodge 8spd. We still have the trailer in this video to this day.

I don't have anything specific that I recall. I will say if you look at the next video part 2 it shows the firewall brace much more in depth.

@ I’ve watched your videos very closely. Just didn’t get the length of the brace so I can recreate for my car.

In this video the car has 823 LS3 style rectangle port heads on it. When it had the original motor in it, it had TSP PRC 2.5 heads on it using adapters plates for the blower.

Gracias por comprobarlo!

It is absolutely counter clockwise. Direction of tire vs duckhead is the same as a commercial machine. I have seen a few videos in the last year or two where somebody ran the duckhead unintentionally backwards and it still seemed to work.

What do you mean?

Assembled in Canada with some or all Foreign parts, at best lol.

Good to know. I have not heard of using that vintage of mount!

@PNW_Car_Mods I searched a lot about it because the problem had been with me for a whole year

@@PNW_Car_Mods use the polyurethane trans mount for 65-73

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Yup, should say assembled in Canada. If it's even that lol

I agree. You would think in 2025 we could all be on the same page lol

There are definitely a lot of good cheaper options out there. They just might not have the stability or least amount of slop and play that some of the cheaper options do. Good luck with it! I think we've done about 6 full sets of tires already since this video. Love it.

@@PNW_Car_Mods I reached and watched a lot of videos and on the one I bought. As well and the bearing kits and collars. They work and save little money.

@@maddmikesmotorsports8909 If you found bearing and collar kits outside of Lucid that is awesome! Nice work. You will wind up with a top notch setup. Also my son and I have had much better luck since we switched to the Corgi head over the Hunter duck head. Might be worth a look at for you. The Corgi head is better at both dismounting and mounting in our opinion.

@ I subscribed to your channel. And yes, on the duck bill head switch. I'm a LS swap guy as well.

Thank you. Still using this trailer to this day. Love this mod!

IMO yes. It will either be good or very close.

Probably still better than french canadia lol.

In the grand scheme of things this video was for nothing other than sarcasm. I really do hope though, that the people that live here come to an understanding sooner than later that this nation is useless as a superpower when all we have here is a bunch of office workers.

Assembled in Canada with some or all China parts lol. I think all they did in Canada was bolt the pulley on that covered up the China part. That being said this video is just for Sarcasm. I really don't care

Soon! maybe this weekend if it is not 2 below 0 outside.