Rally Pat

Probably gonna catch flack for this one, but the car I have didn’t come with a brake master cyl or the reservoir that goes with it. I need the reservoir more than the master, since the res feeds not only the brake master but also the clutch master. I found a 944 S2 one on ebay for pretty cheap, and picked it up. I am actually considering running the master as it came if it functions, otherwise I will pick up a new one. Its more money than I want to spend, but I will if I have to. To add to that, because the Hydroboost ads a few inches to the firewall to tip of master cyl length, I need to figure out a way to extend the stock brake lines to the master. I know there are products that do this, but I haven’t purchased anything yet.

 

I put in an order for a few things to make the rest of the gauge cluster work, as well as a brand new clutch master cyl. The heads on an LS are ambidextrous, they are the same casting no matter what on both side and can be switched around. As it also turns out, the Porsche coolant temp sensor has the same threads as the GM sensor, so in order to get the temp reading on the dash, all you have to do is remove a plug and thread in the Porsche sensor. Now, I have mine cut out of the harness, so I need to figure out how to wire it back up to whats left of the body harness, but that is an easy win.

 

 

With that working, I wanted to take a look under the car to start planning out what Im going to do for the exhaust. One reason the ECU is so unhappy right now is that the O2 sensors are not plugged in. I still had the manifolds and O2 sensors that came with my engine, and thought maybe the 3 bolt flange on the truck manifolds were the same as the 3 bolt flanges on the headers froim the kit. They are not. Still not sure what to do with the exhaust at this point. Do I pay to have someone do it? I called a few places last year (when I took these pictures), and I think I was quoted like $2000. Will have to revisit this when its time.

 

For aesthetics and cost savings, I’ve been talking about going into a Y and into a factory 944 Turbo muffler I have. I asked around, and general consensus seems to be that it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if I had that setup power loss wise.

 

Last part of this was finding a cable stop that would fit and making it work. Once again, the ‘kit’ just comes with a bunch of off the shelf stuff and expects you to figure it out.

 

One of the things I hate dealing with on any car is a throttle cable, and the stop that was the perfect size for the 4.8 throttle body had a hole that was too small to fit the cable through. Drilled it out, get it hooked up, seems to work good. Tossed the cluster back in to see if the tach would work now that I could make the engine run.

 

Heres where the cable comes out through the firewall. Attaching it to the pedal wasn’t a big deal, just had to drill out the nubbie for the stock cable and fit the pin through. The hardest thing I actually had trouble with was getting the pedal out and back in.

 

Just needed a couple of washers to help get it to fit the bracket, and it was good to go.

 

Since the next part involved getting under the dash, and I am not exactly a gymnast, I took the driver seat out. Of course, the damn allen bolts were pretty stripped out but I somehow got em out. Under the seat was all sorts of crap, so I took some time to clean as much up of it as I could. Put down a pad to lay on, and started work under the dash.

 

With the issues I was having starting the car by myself, I turned my attention to the throttle setup so that I can operate the throttle alone. The kit comes with a pretty generic carb throttle cable, which is really disappointing, and another thing on the list of stuff from this “kit” that I could do better and cheaper if I did it all over again.

 

Trying to be as frugal as I can and keeping in the spirit of Matt Happel’s builds, I repurposed the truck throttle cable mount. Flipped it upside down, massaged it with a grinder, and drilled a couple of new mount holes through where the corvette one would normally go. Its not pretty, but it’ll do.

 

Alrighty, lets do this. These early posts are literally from a year ago, so hopefully I don’t forget stuff.

 

Picking up from the first start following Scott tweaking the ECU.

 

I decided to turn my attention to the cluster and getting everything working on it, starting with the tach. This was pretty simple: Find the wire for it, hook it up to the tach line on the LS harness. For some reason, LS’s put out a 4cyl tach signal, so no weird adapter/converter is needed to adjust the accuracy or anything like that. Will have to verify with HPTwizzlers at some point to make sure, but it seems accurate as is. The green and black wire is the tach input.

 

I hooked up the appropriate wire, and got the tach to bounce, but suddenly the car wouldn’t start. Given that this was a year ago, I can’t really remember why, but I think it may have been the fact that I couldn’t yet manipulate the throttle from inside the car. If you recall, Scott turned off just enough nannies for the car to run, but it is very much still unhappy.

 

 

Its been nearly a year since the last time I posted in this thread and even longer since I updated on the car itself, and I really feel like I owe you guys an explanation. Its been so long I had to have a mod reopen the thread (thanks Mitch).

 

Around this time last year, things started to go sideways for my wife and I. First, my cousin was landscaping our house and in return I was servicing his vehicles and this took a few weeks. Then, shortly after that, our oldest dog that my wife had for 14 years got incredibly sick and had to be put to sleep, which took a pretty big toll on us. At the same time and after that, I was spending literally all my free time in classes online to expand my skillset to try to reach the next tier of my career in IT. Literally go to work, work, come home from work, study till bed, repeat.

 

After that, we found out my wife was pregnant. My wife has health issues that make her a high risk pregnancy, so my time was spent taking her to doctors appointments and making sure she was as comfortable as possible. At the same time, my studies continued, and being an IT contractor it was time to switch clients again so I was starting a new job at Honda Research and Development, driving an hour each way to work every single day. \

 

We made it through every single milestone that we were worried about with regard to my wife’s conditions and how they could impact the baby’s health with basically no problems…..then we made it to the anatomy scan. To make a very long, crushingly depressing story short, we lost the baby at 20 weeks. This has messed us up pretty bad, and was causing me stomach issues so bad they thought I had colon cancer and I had to have my first colonoscopy at 32 years old. I’m fine, thank goodness. Things continue to get a little better each day. I am leaving the world of IT contracting to go back to a full time job with people I used to work with who sought me out to fill a specific role, which I hope will calm things down. I’ll actually have vacation and good benefits for the first time in years, which is great.

 

Anyway, a lot of you guys are my friends and know all this already, but I felt like I should recap anyway. I am starting to work on the car again because I really need the distraction and it sucks to not have anything to take to any of the car meets and whatnot. I still probably won’t have it done this summer, but I AM working on it semi-regularly again.

 

I have updates from stuff I did a year ago and never posted, I will start with that stuff and then we will see where I go from there. We are in the stage of the project where I have to start dealing with the little fiddly stuff like making the power steering/hydroboost work with a pump it was never meant to, getting the cooling system plumbed up, cleaning up the wiring, getting the clutch hooked up and bled, etc. I need to make a list, but thats where we are at.

 

Thanks for being patient.

Hell yeah! I thought we had gotten past the needing a VSS thing in GM tuning, but I guess not. My Porsche kit came with a VSS add on which I wasn't sure I was going to put in, but I think I will now.

People on the F150 pages are the worst. Everyone says the other person is a pussy if they don't have a lifted 5.0. Those with lifted trucks, never leave the pavement. If you buy a EV truck, you like dick in your butt.

 

"Be a real man, like me" is the theme to almost every post. Followed by can 35's fit without a lift?

 

I'm just trying to tow a boat to go fishing, or ride my side by side. I didn't realize I was supposed to hard flex the truck every time I drive it.

 

smol pp energy

I just watched the presentation, I really like it. Its actually everything I wanted out of the Cybertruck before it was revealed: I want a regular ass pickup truck, but make it electric. I think an early advantage Tesla had was that the original Model S looked like a regular luxury sedan. When the Cybertruck was reveled, I was really put off by the aesthetic. It seemed like the wrong vehicle to go nuts on the design, trucks are supposed to be about utility. I love that the F-150 has a bunch of extra storage where the engine would have gone, as well.

This is pretty awesome!

If it was winter, the shops on here would probably be all over it lol

Sad to hear this all went down yesterday. Since I usually detail on Saturdays I've not been able to get out nearly as often but they were good times from the very early onset of the get togethers.

 

 

Here are a few early day shots from the first couple events.

 

 

CC&C Meet #1

Meet #2

Meet #3

Meet #4

 

"Password Protected Gallery"

Thanks for all the years of holding this thing together Clay, lots of good memories. Hopefully we can respawn somewhere else and find a way to keep the idiots out. Maybe something app based?

IIRC, there was a kit for this back in the day and they were kinda popular for a hot minute.

Micro Center has been doing what they can to defeat the bots and miners. Just gotta go in and look.

I was gifted an low mileage 02 Tahoe and fell so madly in love with it I sold my 2017 Civic to Carmax. Kind of the same reasons Clay, I love being able to haul whatever. Few modern upgrades including a chinese 10 inch Android head unit and backup camera, front/rear dash cams, and I think its about perfect. Tempted to ruin it with either a turbo kit or a Cadillac blower.

That is terrible, very sorry to hear it. I loved this truck when I saw it.

Did they take it right from your house?

 

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According to his post, they stole it from his storage unit.

This is gonna be an awesome mission, and there are cameras on board so we we will get to see it! (probably not until after it lands, though)

 

Curiosity was to find proof that life could exist on Mars, Perseverance will actually look for evidence of life itself.

Nvm

 

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They have said this is just temporary during the beta period, I’ve read they will remove the geolocks and the end of 2021.

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126820

HOLD HOLD HOLD

 

The volumes don't indicate a huge selloff, it suggests fuckery more than a selloff.

In regards to Dogecoin, my $290 became $1200 briefly, now its floating around $700. Gonna leave it and see what happens, r/satoshisteetbets seems intent on getting it to $1.