New Caprice - Discussion forums

Reminds me of my 78 Z28. Looks good.

Welcome! It is always nerve wracking buying something like this sight unseen. As soon as you are able, post up a pic and how the experience went.

Pollution mode. I just learned something today!

Welcome! I think you're the second Aussie to say that he's changing from a Holden to a Chevy. Maybe you can find someone here that wants a Holden!

The awesome crew at the dyno shop were the ones who squeezed every ounce of power out of this thing. They were having absolute fun working on this Canadian unicorn. Heck, they had a new Z06 Vette on there just before mine and were like "Ok, cool, made some more power". We were screaming at the scree...

Welcome! Normally we ask for pics but I guess you're trying to keep some sort of anonymity? I'm a retired Officer so I understand.

2012 and still in service. Lots of miles on it?

I just posted the results:
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Yep, it happens. I had an ACDelco reman that crapped out less than a month in and replaced it with a Chinese made new one that lasted the rest of the life of the truck. Go figure.

Put some heat insulating tape on the A/C muffler can that needed to be bent out of the way for the headers. It's still close and didn't like all that extra heat being put into the system. This stuff actually has an insulating material rather than just a simple reflective tape and should help. IMG_20...

Nice work! Just for my own info, how long did it take you from start to finish?

Are you also getting it dyno tuned? I just did it and it's worth it! In fact, if you don't you might destroy your cats as I found out it was running very rich with the stock tune and headers.