So after my last post I was feeling pretty defeated but I spent some time in the garden which helped get my mind off the car and show for a while. After getting a few tomatos and zuchinni planted it was time to think back on my morning issues to figure out what was going…

WOW.  I’m stunned.  No words.  This thing is cursed. So I have an explanation for my weird fuel and startup issues and it’s such an incredible story I feel the need to share it.  There are nuggets of knowledge sprinkled herein but most of it is just me sobbing at this point. So a few…

It seems I’m cursed when it comes to high pressure fuel pumps. The FiTech integrated surge tank/HP pump assembly I received broke before I even got the chance to start it up!  I had just completed plumbing the new fuel system – which was a task in itself (these hoses and fittings aren’t cheap so…

With the SLC down for fuel issues I thought it would be a good time to knock another item off my to-do list.  Something I wasn’t keyed in on when I originally installed my engine was the fact that these LS motors are somewhat notorious for oil ingestion via the PCV system. The LS3 has…

OK, so I’ve pretty much decided that my Bosch 044 pump is a counterfeit – a very good counterfeit.  I did a fairly thorough websearch trying to find out as much as I could about these counterfeit pumps but most photos/comparisons are a few years old.  I purchased this pump within the last year and…