well Fellas it is in and feels GOOD. The install is finished and i drove it home. I would like to thank-Darren Blanchard, Service Manager for Ross Downing Chevy, and Owner of BPE for his help, My younger brother Nick- former GM technician, and new Police recruit, Jason at KATECH, Paul at Thunderand all of you guys. Now the meat---
Started at 3pm yesterday on the first crank, very smooth Idle, better and smoother, and waay deeper than a stock LS6, more like a LS1, no shake. now the LS^ i had had a cam so it had a nice lope at idle, the LS7 is going to get a cam but not yet, so the idle is like butter. To my suprise the brakes did not have to be blead, so we played with the programing and at about 5pm, we jumped in and went for a ride.
I have the LS7 clutch in, It came with the motor, and the katech spacer kit for the slave cyl. without the stock clutch set up the clunk is GONE, but you have to work a little more to get the car moving or ya get chatter, just like the Z06. put about 5 miles on it and did a nice 4th gear WOT. Freaking awsom, pulls in 4th gear like it the ls6 did iin 2nd gear, has LOTS of torque, espically after 4 grand. best way to describe it is a LS6 with a 150 shot of nitrous, actuall real close to a Stock LS6 with a maggie. This engine revs faster than anything I have ever seen those light weight internals WORK. I took video of it running, but it aint worth anything, sounds like a deep LS2, I think I will take some video of it reving, that is impressive, might do it today.
I have tons of pictures, i need another violenteer to host them to put on this forum. Moderatiors please dont delete the companies that helped, they are great friends of the cadilliac community. I am trying to get my wife to give me a weekend pass to go to The petit le mans at road atlanta, if she does i am going to bring the car and put it on display.
All in all not the hardest swap i have ever done, but it was not easy, a lot of verry small details sidetracked us, but we worked through it.BTY it holds 10 quarts of oil, take that Z06! only down side is that it takes 10 quarts of oil a long time to get to temperature, might have to change the thermostat to a hotter one to help things out! this is still a work in progress and I will be providing plenty of updated. those of you thinking of this type of swap, even to a LS2 e-mail me at C5racr1@ aolcom and I will give ya a laundry list of stuff you need , and more importantly stuss you don't need.
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