Tuesday June 16th:
The engine is all buttoned up, and will be running this afternoon!! One thing which you can see in the above pictures, and which was replaced....is that our cars have the OLD style chain tensioner! If you get into a cam swap, you MUST change that piece! Cam swaps done on the G8 w/o changing that piece have nearly a 50% fail rate...and for 20 bucks, you are good to go. Just a heads up to anybody who wants to do it the right way.
I hope to get some pictures up for you all this evening...Also still working on the exhaust upgrade, GM screwed us with these goofy mufflers.
The stage II cam is installed, and the car is running. It was taken for a brief test-drive and it idles and drove extremely well. Way to go guys at Vector Motorsports !!
Video of the cam at idle....this is still with the factory mufflers, not fully tuned, just enough to idle, and test drive to make sure all is working properly.
Wednesday June 17th:
After a slight delay due to shipping....The new LS3 throttle Body arrived from Jantzer Performance, and the new Cold Air Intake also arrived.
They are both on the car right now, and are being tested.
We have also decided to move ahead and alter the exhaust to a full 3 inch system with new mufflers. The final choice of mufflers will not be made until we get under the car, and see what fits best and what sounds best...we even have a couple resonators on standby if we need to get rid of some "raspy" sounds.
Also going to be testing the prototype Roto-Fab intake....should be awesome, and we will see these hit the market in a few weeks!!