What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]

mclellan83

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Got the other side mocked up, not liking that it looks more and more like I won't be running a hood or will be having some large cuts to them. At the moment I don't want to drop the couple thousand dollars to get some headers that would make everything fit better. Also worked on the fuel leak, ended up replacing the fitting
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Texas82GP

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Got the other side mocked up, not liking that it looks more and more like I won't be running a hood or will be having some large cuts to them. At the moment I don't want to drop the couple thousand dollars to get some headers that would make everything fit better. Also worked on the fuel leak, ended up replacing the fitting
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You don't think it will fit under a cowl hood?
 
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mclellan83

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You don't think it will fit under a cowl hood?
No, the wastegate once its on there is going to be pretty far up there and outside of the cowl I believe
 
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CopperNick

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Haven't had to hold a Delco Plug up for a mark 0 mod 1 eyeball lookee-see in more minutes than I care to remember. I do know that I still have a few decks of them down on the saw table but would have to check them for new or used. I ran Delco R45TX back when I still had the Monza and either the guides or rings had started to wear out. That little care got to idle a lot and idling in the cold tended to load up the 44's so I went one step hotter. Could have possibly gone to 46's but getting them was the kicker. The car itself is long gone; the motor remains though, sitting on an engine dolly, getting more and more dusty, under the shelving on the south wall. Some kid came onto me about buying the car cause he wanted to build a street machine out of it. He didn't want the motor so I retrieved it and mothballed, The car never did get built to the best of my knowledge. They were a total unibody and it would have literally taken a gut dissassably and installation of a complete custom full frame to do what he was thinking of. Back then the theory existed and if the welding technology had matched it then things might have been different. I didn't have my MIG's, never mind a shed to park them in or the wiring that would accept them. That and the door skins contracting a terminal case of acne due to being made of recycled metal that had not been properly purged of rust by means of the correct resmelting temperature pretty much put the period at the end of the sentence for me.

Only new car that I ever owned.


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Supercharged111

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They say that a bad day at the track is better than the best day at the office, but last weekend was rough. I forgot to tighten 2 caliper nuts and they left the chat in the 2nd session of practice Friday. I managed to borrow a pair to forge on with the weekend. Later that day I purged in some fresh brake fluid and a new set of harnesses for myself the driver to pass tech which required a few adjustments. On the outlap of qual Saturday I lost a cylinder so I did one hot lap and came in. Qualified 4th for R1 and didn't find the problem in time so had to run on 7 cylinders that race. So lame. Yanked all 8 plugs and found that #7 had roached a wire so back on all 8 for R2 which I won. R3 about 2/3 of the way through I snapped an axle shaft on a rumbly exit curb and my weekend was over. Slap in a not broken shaft with new seal, replaced the brake rotor I ruined, fresh rear pads, get the wheel on and WTF.

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That's -2.1* of camber and 1" of toe in on that wheel on a stick axle. I'd say this housing is f00ked. Lovely.
 
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mclellan83

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You wanna talk about exciting, let me tell you how the T56 clutch replacement went. Only good part is that I was right that just the clutch wouldn't fix my issue
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Supercharged111

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Yep, that'll take out a pilot bearing for sure. What exactly is cracked there? Tough to tell what bit I'm looking at on my phone.
 

mclellan83

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Yep, that'll take out a pilot bearing for sure. What exactly is cracked there? Tough to tell what bit I'm looking at on my phone.
I think that is a photo playing tricks, that was just the gasket maker seeping out. I took a pic of it because we had thought that the dealership snapped a bolt and just shipped it that way when it was rebuilt last time under warranty. Turns out they may have just lost the bolt and not put one back in, there was a variation of crazy tight bolts and some just barely over hand tight so anything is possible
 

Supercharged111

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I think that is a photo playing tricks, that was just the gasket maker seeping out. I took a pic of it because we had thought that the dealership snapped a bolt and just shipped it that way when it was rebuilt last time under warranty. Turns out they may have just lost the bolt and not put one back in, there was a variation of crazy tight bolts and some just barely over hand tight so anything is possible

Ahh. Well I do know that rear main seal cover was prone to porosity issues that would lead to leakage. I wonder if your little pocket bearing didn't leave the chat inside the trans? That's an awful lot of input slop, too much to be chalked up to improper shimming.
 
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