Ontopic The new car-seching thread

[Jehannum]

FUCK YES, my shitty math worked.

Position 3 on the cam gear, 1 tooth retarded puts cam timing right on at TDC.

Head's torqued down, the timing cover is sealed up, and all I have to do is set the valve lash and stab the oil pump quill, then I'm ready to prime the fucker and break in the cam.

 

[Jehannum]

Gah, I was turning the thing over just now, trying to prime the oil system when I noticed: there's a big fucking hole on the back of the cam.

No wonder I wiped the goddamned lobes, the oil that was supposed to be in the cam was just draining out the back. Just happened to have a couple 1/4" NPT plugs sitting on the bench, so those went in. Don't know how that fucking thing had any oil pressure at all.

Good thing it's mentioned fuckin' nowhere in the directions.

 

[Jehannum]

Well that's nice:




Cam's broken in, I reset the lash hot, made sure the cap in the cam is secure with some red loctite, and changed the oil.

 

[Jehannum]

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Fuckin truck. Fuckin leaks.

Yes, this looks very close to the smog pump, but it has gone 360+k like that. I think something got moved when I replaced the engine.

Second pic is how much it leaked during 10 minutes of idling while I let it warm up to degrease it.

 

[Jehannum]

Fuckin truck. Fuckin leaks.

Yes, this looks very close to the smog pump, but it has gone 360+k like that. I think something got moved when I replaced the engine.

Second pic is how much it leaked during 10 minutes of idling while I let it warm up to degrease it.

I bet it's the valve cover. It's always the fuckin' valve cover.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The smog pump did bork the line.

 

[Jehannum]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The smog pump did bork the line.

oh, bummer.

 

[Jehannum]

Finally got around to sorting out the disaster in my garage.

Started today organizing the bolts that have stacked up, by size and thread pitch. Turns out I have the entire strategic national reserve of M8x1.25mm bolts, which makes me wonder where exactly they've come from.

These aren't unsubstantial, they hold important things together, but I'm apparently doing fine without about 5 pounds of them.

 

[Jehannum]

Hey @shamwow your CTS got the 2.0 4?

Looking at a CTS to replace @AppleTurkey's 2006 M35x (which is both a little long in the tooth and starting to make uncomfortably tappety noises).

It'd be the sedan, and most of the sedans I see other than the V are now the 2.0L turbo 4, which I'm not opposed to (really anything but another VQ/VR/VHR at this point), but first-hand experience would be welcome.

 

[JAXvillain]

Hey @shamwow your CTS got the 2.0 4?

Looking at a CTS to replace @AppleTurkey's 2006 M35x (which is both a little long in the tooth and starting to make uncomfortably tappety noises).

It'd be the sedan, and most of the sedans I see other than the V are now the 2.0L turbo 4, which I'm not opposed to (really anything but another VQ/VR/VHR at this point), but first-hand experience would be welcome.

We've got the 3.6l V6. It's a nice engine. Basically an LS with 2 cylinders wacked off.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

And a whacked off cylinder is a happy cylinder.

 

[Valve1138]

Only if lubed with the proper weight lube.

 

[Jehannum]

We've got the 3.6l V6. It's a nice engine. Basically an LS with 2 cylinders wacked off.

Uh, a DOHC 60° V6 is in no way a "2 cylinder down version" of a 90° OHV V8.

 

[Jehannum]

You must be thinking of the venerable 90° OHV V6 engines that Chevy made under the Vortec line.

 

[JAXvillain]

Uh, a DOHC 60° V6 is in no way a "2 cylinder down version" of a 90° OHV V8.

I see the error of my ways. It came in the Camaro LS besides my car. I somehow conflated the 2.

 

[Jehannum]

GTO is up in the air to start converting it to fuel injection and put in the tilt/telescope steering column.

le merde bleue


Old and busted regular fuel tank (which for some reason had a kinked vent line in the trunk):


New hotness (Sniper EFI tank with Walbro 255 LPH in-tank pump):


T&T steering column:

 

[JAXvillain]

GTO is up in the air to start converting it to fuel injection and put in the tilt/telescope steering column.

le merde bleue
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Old and busted regular fuel tank (which for some reason had a kinked vent line in the trunk):
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New hotness (Sniper EFI tank with Walbro 255 LPH in-tank pump):
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T&T steering column:
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Dang, dude! Not really a vintage guy but that's fucking stupid. What's the powertrain?

 

[Jehannum]

Dang, dude! Not really a vintage guy but that's fucking stupid. What's the powertrain?

Pontiac 455 with a 9:1 compression ratio, and Ram Air exhaust manifolds, magnaflow exhaust, and an edelbrock performer intake manifold, on a muncie m22 4 speed and a gm 10" positrack rear end with 3.55 gears.

Makes 300 HP. at 425 lb-ft

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

There any options for larger fuel tanks with that setup? One of my goals with Susie was to get a larger fuel tank, went from 16 to 22gal