This is Pdad....Bill'* still a sleep, its 3:10am

I just wanted to thank everyone for a great meet, sure had a great time and some good laughs as always

Matt and Wendy it was pleasure meeting you two,look forward to hooking up again soon.
Mattski good luck in Fort Mac, see you soon
John thanks for dinner eh!
Mike, thanks for beer'*, the Rogue'* were tasty...burp
James, thanks for the bed pans and shop rags.
Bill, your wisdom is only faded by your hospitality, good luck with the new motor and see you soon.

And I'm off

One question, Did the work on PDAD'* car get done?

Paul, the smoke is from the motor swap. Typical fluid leaks burning off. Probably from Pdad dousing the rear bank of the valvetrain after he installed it (oil and cam/lifter prelube).

Eric, the valvecovers are F-body aluminum valvecovers with wrinkle coating to dissipate heat like the SC. Laser engraving as well, of course.

Intercooler isn't hooked up yet. Wiring and plumbing will be today, and will be covered in Performance and Brainstorming.

Work on Pdad'* car never happened. His needle bearing grease and TB adapter never arrived in time. Irony wil prevail, and they'll arrive today. I still have all parts here, so I can match the adapter to the GenV, and build the SC. Pdad and Pmom will make another trip down soon for the install, and some pre-arranged work underneath by my local exhaust guy.

Edit:

Vid of the startup (had been running about 10 seconds). Fired on the first crank, no lifter clatter at all (these are the lifters from the donor Riviera motor).

The smoke can also be outgassing of new paint too, and greasy palm prints all over the exhaust manifolds. Any motor will smoke after a swap, even brand new ones.

Sounds pretty spot-on from the video, but we are going to eventually want more...like a drive-by, or a Goodyear Roast. Yeah......

Damn hard to break these 245 T1R'* loose, but I'll do my best. Still have alot of PCM re-learning to do, and I'd imagine I have some minor tweaks and tuning as well. This motor runs totally different (much better compression, runs cooler), and flows FAR different now with the Intercooler machining.

I'm off to install the STB and a couple other minor goodies, then to the store for fluids and 1" wire loom to hide the tubing. Lots to do today.

Oh, sorry to hear O'Neil had to leave to attend to family matters before he could do his work.

What He'* gonna put in an exhaust cut-out auto dump valve :?:

Your new engine sounds sweet Bill. Can't wait to see it in action.

Neat (The valvecovers.)
if I can find some sooner or later, I might have a new mod.

Well that SUX. Pdad broke down in Arlington WA on the way home. Totally blown trans. He'* stuck there for a few days and out a ton of cash. :(

Oh man!
Thats awful about the trans!