1. We are almost there! Our Summit Racing– and American Heritage Performance–built potent street LS is ready for our ’55 Chevy wagon that it will be dropped into.
1. We are almost there! Our Summit Racing– and American Heritage Performance–built potent street LS is ready for our ’55 Chevy wagon that it will be dropped into.
Bare Block Performance Package
rapping up an engine build and strapping it onto a dyno can be an anxiety-ridden experience. But if you’ve been following our LS330 engine build process, you’ll know that between the quality of parts we’ve used from Summit Racing and the experience and expertise from the guys at American Heritage Performance (AHP), we had no worries when it came time to start spinning the motor up and putting some numbers down. But first, AHP’s engine builder-in-chief, Kyle Martelli, still has a couple items to install before Kohle Heimlich can slide into the dyno operator’s chair.
We ended the build process last time with a completely assembled long-block, so it should come as no surprise that the first task is to get the AHP-inspected Trick Flow cylinder heads assembled and installed. Once the cylinder heads were in place, Martelli measured for pushrod length before finalizing the valvetrain assembly. New sensors, spark plugs, AHP’s base dyno induction setup, along with the necessary wiring harness completes the preparation phase, and the engine is ready to be tested.
VOLUME 3 • ISSUE 25 • 2022