{"id":185,"date":"2006-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:45","slug":"bel-air\/test-fitting-lt1-and-blower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Test fitting the LT1 and Blower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had been on holiday in Florida for a fortnight, and I got the LT1 back from Zane at Zannetec before I went. I&#8217;d test fitted the Street and Performance accessories quickly and found that I needed a spacer to get it to line up before I went away, and wanted to find out if I needed new headers as well. I swung it into place and test fitted the headers which clear the rack but foul the steering joint as I expected. I took a lot of pictures for reference and pulled it back out and put it on the engine stand. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/05\/TestingTesting.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"340\" alt=\"TestingTesting.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to mock up the Procharger too to see where that sat in relation to the pulleys, so I started bolting it all together. I had a bit of a panic when I saw how big this thing is bolted on, so mocked it up with the inlet elbow and hung the blower as well. As you can see, it&#8217;s huge, but there are pictures of one fitted on the Procharger site so I guess it fits. It needed a little bit of work to clear the water pump, but I wont finish it off till I get the spacer made and see where it hits. Looks ridiculous, but should be fun. Once it&#8217;s in the car I&#8217;ll see if I have enough space for an intercooler but if not I&#8217;ll just fit some bends to connect it all together. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/05\/Hairdryer.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"296\" alt=\"Hairdryer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had been on holiday in Florida for a fortnight, and I got the LT1 back from Zane at Zannetec before I went. I&#8217;d test fitted the Street and Performance accessories quickly and found that I needed a spacer to get it to line up before I went away, and wanted to find out if I needed new headers as well. I swung it into place and test fitted the headers which clear the rack but foul the steering joint as I expected. I took a lot of pictures for reference and pulled it back out and put it on the engine stand. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/05\/TestingTesting.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"340\" alt=\"TestingTesting.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to mock up the Procharger too to see where that sat in relation to the pulleys, so I started bolting it all together. I had a bit of a panic when I saw how big this thing is bolted on, so mocked it up with the inlet elbow and hung the blower as well. As you can see, it&#8217;s huge, but there are pictures of one fitted on the Procharger site so I guess it fits. It needed a little bit of work to clear the water pump, but I wont finish it off till I get the spacer made and see where it hits. Looks ridiculous, but should be fun. Once it&#8217;s in the car I&#8217;ll see if I have enough space for an intercooler but if not I&#8217;ll just fit some bends to connect it all together. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2006\/05\/Hairdryer.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"296\" alt=\"Hairdryer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}