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

**Badazz 97 TA** · 07-17-2015, 07:06 PM

Well the little LT1 did me proud today. I was driving behind a '13 Camaro SS 1LE today. He went into the passing lane on a back road out here and gunned it, so I downshifted into 2nd at about 35mph and stayed right on his ass until the top of 4th gear where we slowed down. I'm very happy with the way the car ran. It gives me a good indication of what kind of power I'm making. This was with 3.23's as well.

Seems Lloyd gave me exactly what I asked for, if not a tad bit more with this LE1 package. I'm a happy camper right now.

**Dan** · 07-17-2015, 07:27 PM

The little LT1 that could!
Sounds like a great package. You need some 3.73 gears now!

**Badazz 97 TA** · 07-17-2015, 10:51 PM

The car will be getting 3.90's within the next week or so. I just have to call the gear shop and get it done. And then some data logging by Solomon should help even more

**Soxxpuppet** · 07-18-2015, 07:28 AM

Great post OP. I love a good picture heavy walk thru video. Get some inside videos or her running.

**Badazz 97 TA** · 07-18-2015, 01:29 PM

I will try and get one soon of an in car acceleration video.

**Badazz 97 TA** · 07-18-2015, 10:24 PM

Little acceleration video. Bare with me, Its hard to drive, hold a camera and shift at the same time. I couldn't drive as hard as I wanted to. it still has 3.23 gears and needs to still be data logged.

**Noer** · 07-30-2015, 06:56 PM

looks good. congrats. Lloyd is great

**Camaro96** · 08-29-2015, 02:20 AM

Looks like the car runs,will. I we be giving Lloyd a call to do a some head intake and cam packag. I did the rear end gear change to 3.73 love them. If you could provide another video when you get the gear swap done.

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**Badazz 97 TA** · 08-29-2015, 11:16 AM

For sure, gears will be in a month or so. I Have a wedding coming up which took a lot of money away from the car for now. lol

**Not Dave** · 09-03-2015, 12:06 PM

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.