Mini update: Installed quite a few things since the last update, big ticket items would be the Grant wheel, red LED controls and a white SS cluster with red LED’s and Esky bezel. Also installed a NBS Esky shifter and a Elite Engineering Clean Side separator for PCV system. I run that in conjunction with the JLT can for the dirty side. You can see the install and routing in the pics below. The Clean Side separator replaces the oil fill cap and has mesh filter to catch any oils/vapors before going to the throttle body. With this piece you cap the factory passenger side valve cover vent.
Besides a winter prep with Shine Supply products and some maintenance with Amsoil from Eddie, fresh NGK plugs and the sweet looking green HD serpentine belts, the only other “mod” would be a corvette servo with a Sonnax billet 4th cover I had installed by a shop at last inspection date. Shifts firmer at all RPM’s WOT it chirps the serpentine belts so looking into doing a Katech HD tensioner.
Also on pump 93 in the upper RPM ranges it still has some detonation so I had been running 6 gallons of Sunoco 260GT, it’s 100 octane and I can get it right out of the pump locally. That with 20 gallons of pump 93 that puts the mixture at about 95 octane with no detonation to be found, stays in the high timing table and pulls hard. Not the best solution though since I can only get it in one place and travel back to NJ once a month and it’s also 8 bucks a gallon lol.
I’ve also been experimenting with Boostane recently to get the octane right at 95 which it seems to run the best. But I haven’t had it wide open on the Boostane yet.
Really the long term solution is to have a tune done. It’s possible but highly unlikely the truck may have previously been tuned and may need some timing adjustments in the upper RPM’s under load to be happy with pump 93.
Looking at doing Boost Autoparts K2xx mirrors with color matched caps and some sort of hard folding or retractable bed cover. Trying to find one that sits flush and isn’t a grand has proven to be difficult.
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