LE1 Heads/Cam, LPP Headers install thread. Pictures!!

[Badazz 97 TA]

Thanks for this thread and the great photos you uploaded. This is pretty similar to what I want to do to my car, have the LE1 heads and cam in my sights. Not having any engine building experience is what I'm afraid of. I'd like to get the engine rebuilt completely which of course means yanking it out. We'll see. Your suspension upgrades are also what I'd like to do. Wanna swap cars? LOL The LT1 Pontiacs look much better than the LS1's do, in my opinion.

When I had intermittent high idle I traced it back to a bad ground in the wiring loom. Having not pinpointed where the issue was I added a ground to the existing wire off the TPS and that fixed the problem.

I didn't see where you mentioned the stock engine mounts, were they worn out? Having the same year car I'm also thinking of replacing a lot of the old rubber parts.

Headers are where we differ. I need emissions versions and want to avoid ground clearance issues associated with LT's. I have a set of SLP shorties sitting in a box, know they aren't the best but maybe better than stock manifolds. Also considering either AS&M or MAC mid length with custom Y and cats.

Thanks again for the writeup and pics.

your welcome man. it was the first time going this in depth with my car. Ive done a cam swap before but not heads or any suspension work. The car is nearly 18 years old so it was time to replace all the rubber stuff. I figured since I was doing headers and would only have them off once that doing motor mounts would be the wise time to do it. The car has a 105,000 miles so im sure they were past due. it was a lot of money but worth the results. The car is enjoyable again. I still need to get some data logging done from Solomon, just waiting to do gears before I do that so that the car can be done mechanically. Just needs some new paint.