Steves tam project

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Don1 said:

Loving the Y-piece CDA combo idea.... I wonder....

shamelessly stolen from others......found them at 165 in the end. larkspur i think

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went to spin the motor over yesterday night with no spark plugs installed to get some oil pressure and check gauge reading ahead of getting ready to first run...(no exhausts, would have woken the neighbours but heyho)

click....nothing
checked all wiring and connections...working fine

changed the battery...been on charge, but its old and not been used for ages

click...nothing

removed starter to check...

click..... works......but not enough to spin the motor....

got to order a new starter motor dammit...

car is heading off to get exhausts made this weekend, so that wont be here before the exhausts are done, so they (or at least part) of them will need to come off before i can refit the new starter, which i am sure will be delayed in the post due to xmas....

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exhaust progress, dropped the car off sat, guys doing the exhaust just txt me some pics of progress......


additional 38mm cross brace welded in now we know where the exhaust is clear.



the exhaust is in 2.5 ss tube ......the gbox bracket worked out a treat....allowing exhaust to tuck up much better, and i can still use the under prop tray

so far, despite using the 6 speed 6060, ground clearance is only 9mm worse than stock, no dinks or dents in the tubing, anywhere, im a happy bunny with that!!




about as much silencing as i can get




rear is also in 2.5 tube. a little clearancing of the diffuser to ensure good flow was needed, but that will all be tidied up when were done



decided to stay with 2.5 rolled outlet, so itll look stock....

Edited by SteveSPG on Monday 9th December 14:56

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Don1 said:

Very nice.

ive only seen these pics, but so far the guy has done exactly what i asked, and the backbox especially i hadnt thought of how to do that and ensure you couldnt see the silencers through the opening, so he's added the curves to the inlet side to pull the silencer over to ensure they're hidden.

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neal1980 said:

who is making the exhaust steve??

jrfabrications derby

the usual chap that has done mine before (craig at dynotorque) cant fit me in a timescale that suited and i didnt really want to cut up and tack for him to tig it up (though he kindly offered to) as i was getting fed up with the mess it makes....so i went shopping and found these chaps. had a good discussion when i dropped the car off, and so far so good.

Edited by SteveSPG on Tuesday 10th December 11:09

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flyingdutchie said:

I didn't see any cats. Do i need new glasses?

yes, theyre in the silencer tubes

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Alexdaredevils said:

Putting my progress to shame Steve!

sold the griff....need it done!

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SteveSPG said:

flyingdutchie said:

I have the same ls7 exhaustmanifolds. Where are you getting the oval collectors from?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/290581125417?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649


give me a couple days and i will know if they work...they measure close enough.....



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Edited by SteveSPG on Wednesday 13th November 14:38

well these sort of worked, supposed to be 125mm, actually 115 mm across the widest part, so we ended up cutting them in half and using a small infill, but they worked out ok in the end..

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flyingdutchie said:

My T5 is out! Fitted the LS7 flywheel, clutch and the bellhousing even fitted without any real problems.
My exhaustmanifolds wil have to go out because there is no space to fit the startermotor with these on. Wil try to put the box behind it tomorrow and then it has to go to the specialist who has to make a new bracket to support the gearbox and shorten the propshaft.

good news!!

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couple more txt form the exhaust guys today

exhaust done (excuse the dirt...the rear cover has been stored in my shed for ages!)



silencers were a squeeze, but theyre in in. my rear panel has 2 sets of holes in it, so it looks like it ca be pulled much tighter back to the exhaust, but that might make it too hot....time will tell i guess?

i might turn the ends up a little, but not sure till i see it in the flesh. ive seen some where the exhaust exits horizontally like these, some where they exit parallel to the diffuser .....still not sure which is best, want it to look stockish not modified though


the rear panel has been trimmed in the past for much larger rear exit tips (and a little off square, so i might need to fit a std one and trim that to suit,. the exhausts are central to the rear of the car, rather than made to fit an already (poorly) trimmed rear panel that i may replace.


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inlet y is also done just loosely assembled





new starter has arrived, so just need to make

throttle cable bracket
alternator mount
steering pump mount (unless i can get the std one to fit somewhere)


then we can see if this thing will run

Edited by SteveSPG on Friday 13th December 10:46

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Not sure but is the spigot bearing same? 6060 is different from t56 and I think 56 is different from Tko but not sure

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pull the clutch and flywheel and check the spigot. no chance the flywheel has been shimmed at all? (shouldnt be but no idea who did the conversion).

try the bellhousing on its own, that'll tell you if its spigot/clutch related or bellhousing

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made throttle cable bracket, fitted CDA finally and inlets to the front of the car round the rad,

took the exhaust off (really nice workmanship, everything just fitted) refit the starter motor,

fitted a temporary oil pressure mechanical gauge as the tam one probably wont work till its electronics are tweaked.

cranked it over and got 50psi on 5 secs cranking (tam dash said nil...just as well i fitted mech gauge then)!!

fitted steering pump in a new SS cradle between the CDA units, (no oil tank) ..still got to fit the wraparound bracket to the pump, but its where it needs to be atm.

beaded the ali water pipes, mounted the new screen wash bottle (which has a sight tube so i can see if it has water in it without resorting to mirrors or dipsticks) refitted the bonnet, which still opens and closes, though is within 5mm of the CDA units.....

ECU is not picking up a crank position signal, which is either a muppet wiring fault on my part, or the ECU base map isnt quite right for my configuration......at this point was foiled as the data comms cable had a 9 pin serial connector, which my laptop doesn't......

off to maplins then!

Edited by SteveSPG on Wednesday 18th December 13:52

Edited by SteveSPG on Wednesday 18th December 14:54

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result i hope

spoke to emerald, wrong trigger in the baseman, 2 versions of a crank trigger 24 or 58??

ecu was set for wrong one, which also means the cam trigger which i need was not live.

so now i have a cable adaptor and can access the ecu , hope i can get things moving.

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after a bit of help from Craig at dynotorque today on pcm setup, finally fired up the ls tam today.

booked a dyno sesson to get mapped after xmas......

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ECU now sorted, combination of wrong map, wrong setup, wrong firmware and to top it all a faulty cam sensor. not surprisingly it took some head scratching to sort out

anyway with excellent tech support from emerald (sent me a revised config and other settings today), and help from craig at dynotorque (cam sensor and setup help) car is now running properly.

also installed a new ss bracket for the steering pump made by a friends dad.. along with tidying up some of the odds and ends around the front before i refit the bonnet

the square tank in the wing is a new washer bottle, no more guessing what the water level is!!

i will still leave tidying up the cabling till after dyne is done....just incase we need to amend anything

Edited by SteveSPG on Wednesday 1st January 22:41

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BuzzBillsberry said:

light at end of the tunnel?

Buzz

yes.

got to bleed clutch, refit handbrake (exhaust off again) and sort out a few wiring queries i have..

oil pressure gauge doesn't work, might try a pull up resistor, but maybe have to send the dash p[od off for rework as I've heard it reads wrong with the engine edu removed

speedo won't work as there is no trigger wheel on the diff (new btw diffs don't have the abs ring) so I've got to sort that, either from the gearbox or a new pickup wheel on the output or something

I'm sure there will be a few other things around the dash to work out but its doable. vv glad I've 2 electronic tech sons who help me, i would never have found the cam fault without their help

refit the various bits and pieces I've pulled off

dyne

then mot

i think after that i will leave it alone mechanically unless i need to sort anything, and cosmetically till next winter , hope get some miles to sort any issues, then ready for spring

Edited by SteveSPG on Wednesday 1st January 22:56

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took the tam for a quick run through gears to 120 mph yesterday

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pity it was on axle stands in the garage though. all was well apart from a slight leak on a slave cylinder in the bell housing, so box out, replaced the crimp hose which was leaking, and back together.... bit of a pain but rather find it now than later on the road with no clutch

getting closer....

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flyingdutchie said:

Steve, i think i've got it. My supplier sent me the wrong spigot bearing. I wil be needing the earlier type needle bearing. My box has the spec of the 2004-2005 gto pontiac. So should be out of a monaro instead of a vxr8. It is however the version with the better gearratio's.

good news.... i know the 6060 is different from t56 , but didn't knw there were variants in the t56 spigot setups.