Nov 30 - Major advances

Hi all, it's been a while since my last update.  Seems linger than it has been.  Anyhow, there have been multiple advances all done within a week or so.

They are:

Oil pan tightened
Oil Filter relocation kit installed
Transmission bolted/torqued to engine adapter plate
Starter shimmed and transmission clearanced for it
oil added to transmission
oil added to engine
PS header installed for fitment check and removed
exhaust manifold reinstalled
PS main frame rail replaced (tons of fab and welding)
new bubbler picked up and tested on motor
shot video of motor running on fumes now that it is installed in car
1st run with starter being moved to other side of engine

Transmission is brand new
it's never been in a car before
it's first drink of oil. Mobil1 for my baby
G6 6-speed F40 as they're typically called on the forums

It's all 5w-30 anyway

motor oil goes in here. :-)

Gotta get the throttle-body back on it

Look at them coils.  mmmm

grrr a bit

Sometimes ya gotta grrrr a lot

Look at that frame rail.
awww yeah
aint pretty but it works
frankenghini

A video of it running finally.  It's been a while since this was running on the stand.  Needed the oil circulated again of course :-D

Nov 10 - Places where axles will go

Here are some pics of where my new axles will live. First the drivers side, then the passenger side.

 

 

Nov 5 - I still need complete axles!

Another 6 weeks later and I still need axles!  Killing me.  I'm going with RCV Performance (more than likely).  Heard good things about them. 

I've got a conference coming up this month that I will be attending, and probably speaking in.  It's about all kinds of groovy stuff, HHO, fumes and more.  I'll speak on fumes this go around.  Would like to have had my kit car able to be driven into the trailer so I could take it up there and show it off (running).  But it isn't going to happen this go around.  Am excited about the trip and look forward to seeing all the groovy stuff there.

Will post again once I have an update and hopefully some axles installed!

Sep 17 - S10 Blazer stuff fits!

So I slid one of the blazer axles on to check the spline alignment and it looks good. When I grip the inside bit (on the axle) and twist it, with it in the hub, there is a very slight bit of play in it. I'm hoping that's normal, I'll read up on it. Or if I put some anti seize on it it'll take out that little bit of movement it has.  I'll ask others on another forum I'm on to see what they have to say about it.

I tried to test the length of the drivers side but I can't get it in there with the blazer axle. Not enough room to get past the transmission. I'll pull those big pieces off before I try again on that one.

Oh yeah, and the axle end pokes out too far for the wheels' center cap. I suspect I can cut it down and bevel the edge again.   The other picture still has the shipping plastic bag over the axle so it doesn't get all nasty while I'm poking around.  I'm sure it won't be long and those will be out of the bag and separated so I can join them back together with the G6 axle parts.

 

 

 

I'm having issues getting my axles apart.  Any suggestions?  This is the wheel end of the deal.  The tripot was easy.

Sep 15 - Some axles came in

I got some axles in today.  The G6 ones.  I also got the axle nuts.  A plug for the transmission so I can add fluid now. 

Won't get to work on it any until Friday (if I'm that lucky).  So I'll have the other axles (the S10 Blazer ones) by then so I can start working on axle lengths and such. 

I'll also have my new 3D printer in here too.  So I can start to get good with that thing and begin some smaller parts.  Maybe work my way up to making my own intake for the vaporizer.  :-D

Sep 3 - Motor is finally in!!!

I'm so proud to say that I have the motor in the car now.  Of course there is a ton more to do, but at least I finally got it to fit in.  I'll have to go back and weld in more metal where I had to remove a good bit, but I'm on my way now.  So crucial getting past this step as it was holding up so much other progress that could have been made but was unable due to not knowing where things would go relative to where the motor/transmission were going to be.  Here's a few pics of it in there.

Aug 23 - Finally! An update!

Man it has been a long time now.  Life happens.  Things need done more than spending time on the build.  Anyhow.  Here is what has transpired over the last couple of weeks.

I've got the motor/tranny on the cradle up onto the front mount locations and started working on rotating the bottom up into place so I could see how much metal had to make way for my motor to get in there.  It was a lot.  A lot of metal needed removed to just have a good look at it.

Once I did that, I found out that this isn't going to work where it sits on the the cradle.  Now way around it.  Unless I want to seriously cut away my shock tower within an inch of its life.  So now that I've done all that you'll see in the pics below, I now have to go back to square one and pull the engine/tranny from the cradle and start over on it's location on the cradle.  Before I actually measure everything, by a quick look, it looks like a full inch forward of where it is (maybe an inch and a half).  And as far left as I can afford without hacking up the other side of the car any more than I have already.  Meaning that I don't want the left side to look like the right side does now.  You'll see what I mean.  :-)

The throttle body and water pump isn't going in there as is.

The tranny output looks good where it is, but it must go forward due to the other side.