{"id":385,"date":"2016-06-28T15:40:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/?p=385"},"modified":"2016-12-09T12:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:47:31","slug":"z06-ecm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Gen V LT 4 ECM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hold on to your hat boys, this thing is huge. Compared to the ECM (E38\/67) on the LS3, the new generation ECM is more than double in size. To get this thing to fit, I cut off the back side of the heater and boxed it in. You have to use a big block heater system because the small block core coolant pipes exit in front of the back of the block.<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_180546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-384\" src=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_180546-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20160624_180546\" width=\"593\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_180546-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_180546-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_180546-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you don&#8217;t want to mess with that approach, it&#8217;s best to install a Vintage Air system, throw away the old school heater core and install a blanking plate. This is what the factory did on the 1970 SEMA Camaro<\/span>.<a href=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_183133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-383\" src=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_183133-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20160624_183133\" width=\"593\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_183133-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_183133-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160624_183133-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After much deliberation I decided to drill mounting holes through the thin sides and use the existing heater box mounting bolts. Add a nut union and you&#8217;re good to go.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold on to your hat boys, this thing is huge. Compared to the ECM (E38\/67) on the LS3, the new generation ECM is more than double in size. To get this thing to fit, I cut off the back side&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/?p=385\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-z06-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/automobileman.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}