10-22-2013, 09:44 AM
This project took a backburner for a couple weeks as I got real busy, but is back on the list.
Next on the list was to get the rear suspension together. New ball joints in the rear and rear suspension assembled.
I also got to work on the cooling items, and picked up all the coolant hoses needed to run a heater core in the car. Took some time with all the hoses (3 out of the heater core, 2 heater hoses out of the water pump alone, 2 radiator hoses out of the water pump, 1 to the coolant housing..etc.
I also mounted the euro coolant housing, it moves it off the radiator and into the corner where emissions equipment originally lived. That now means it is self-bleeding like any half-respectable car. Taking off stock mounts and mounting new ones before cleanup...
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And a quick picture of our section A exhaust. This is only the second exhaust I have built with Paul Galleron and it came out ridiculously well considering our experience. 1-ubend and half of a straight section built this entire pipe. 2.5" dual piping to cats with oxygen sensors and and x-pipe. V-banded to the headers.
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Also finished up 99% of the wiring and was planning on firing it last night, but it had other ideas. It turns over very cleanly but isnt attempting to start. I started with fuel. No pressure at the rail..okay. So I started going through all the relays I had wired up. I found no power going to the fuel pump, heck even no power relay itself. Turns out the main unloader relay was dead. I had just popped in relays I had laying around, so maybe just a dead one. Replaced and I got power. So now I had power to the relay, but still no power to the fuel pump.
There is a signal 12v+ from the ECU to fuel pump, which I threw on a relay to provide more power to the pump. Unfortunately the ECU is not sending out a 12V+ signal. I had the ECU tuned to remove VATs (GM security), but the ECU is acting like it is still on. Sending an email to my tuner today for some ideas. It was late, so I called it a night anyway. May just be ECU is not getting proper ground or power somewhere.... or that the ECU didnt get VATS deleted like it should have...
Next on the list was to get the rear suspension together. New ball joints in the rear and rear suspension assembled.
I also got to work on the cooling items, and picked up all the coolant hoses needed to run a heater core in the car. Took some time with all the hoses (3 out of the heater core, 2 heater hoses out of the water pump alone, 2 radiator hoses out of the water pump, 1 to the coolant housing..etc.
I also mounted the euro coolant housing, it moves it off the radiator and into the corner where emissions equipment originally lived. That now means it is self-bleeding like any half-respectable car. Taking off stock mounts and mounting new ones before cleanup...
And a quick picture of our section A exhaust. This is only the second exhaust I have built with Paul Galleron and it came out ridiculously well considering our experience. 1-ubend and half of a straight section built this entire pipe. 2.5" dual piping to cats with oxygen sensors and and x-pipe. V-banded to the headers.
Also finished up 99% of the wiring and was planning on firing it last night, but it had other ideas. It turns over very cleanly but isnt attempting to start. I started with fuel. No pressure at the rail..okay. So I started going through all the relays I had wired up. I found no power going to the fuel pump, heck even no power relay itself. Turns out the main unloader relay was dead. I had just popped in relays I had laying around, so maybe just a dead one. Replaced and I got power. So now I had power to the relay, but still no power to the fuel pump.
There is a signal 12v+ from the ECU to fuel pump, which I threw on a relay to provide more power to the pump. Unfortunately the ECU is not sending out a 12V+ signal. I had the ECU tuned to remove VATs (GM security), but the ECU is acting like it is still on. Sending an email to my tuner today for some ideas. It was late, so I called it a night anyway. May just be ECU is not getting proper ground or power somewhere.... or that the ECU didnt get VATS deleted like it should have...
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