Father & son having fun

This weekend was very exciting as we did the initial starting of the engine to make sure activity so far has been correct.  Since this was my first crack at weeding out and re-configuring the wiring harness, I wanted to make sure all was correct. Below is a video of the first firing of the engine. Since this was a success, I started to look around for the next steps and quickly realized I need to start back on the body of the car.  Aside from tiding up the harness and possibly working on the side exhaust, there not much else to close out the chassis. One thing I have been putting off was painting the brake calipers since the weather here has been hot and humid.  This morning was amazingly cool with low humidity.  So, I took this opportunity to finally paint. Here are some closeup pictures of the engine even though the wiring harness hasn't been tided up to the final configuration.  I wanted to makes sure the system was working fine before closing...

Lots of stuff happening this weekend.  The main objective was to start the engine but that was quickly changed by me not researching the required injectors for my intake manifold.  I learned this the hard way when we did the final purge of the manifold where it was clear there was a leak before gas spewed (hissing of air from places other than the port I had loosened).  Prior to doing the manifold, I ran the system into a bucket to ensure all debris was removed from the lines.  Since my engine came from a Silverado 2500HD, it had the shorter LQ9 injectors.  Upon the rapid purge release from the fuel rails, I came across this website to reference LS engine difference: http://nookandtranny.com/Info_LSx.php Well, the new injectors are on the way along with the EV1 pigtails since I'll need to modify the engine harness for the new style injectors.  At least this gives me more time to work on other parts of the harness and not rush to fire the engine. Since...