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New build, old school vibe... that’s been the mission.
There is much going on in this office chair pic.
Street Car... albeit a safer than most street car..
I just looked at a Calendar... it read, August 2018... uhhhh!!!
Apparently 8 months later things look again like I’ve put 2 and 2 together... 427 of them.
This time, Oil Pressure is being monitored from the LS2 valley cover, aft OE location - using thread adapter and nice sensor and wiring and gauge from Longacre... Same for Oil Temp - location for sensor is down by my oil filter on the modded LS1 pan where my Lingenfelter Oil Cooler block is located.
Lastly, another gauge I’ve added is a 2ndary Coolant gauge - sensor located on pass side head near Cy. 8.
Im lacking the effort of merely terminating the power and ground of each gauge to be ready to backfill pressurized oil to the oil pump and up in to motor. Then, reinstall my Alternator, Pwr Steeing Pump and hoses, water pump, tensioner, etc.
Im pretty sure I should start it after that.
Different than last time, I’d really like to have this car on a dyno with someone who knows computer stuff looking at car as it maybe rolls the rollers in a gear while breaking motor in.
I like in Okla where apparently guys like to “go fast”... now I don’t have 3,000hp - so maybe they won’t talk to me - but it’s nearly time to go door knocking.
Glad to see it coming along nicely. Two thoughts -- 1) did you think about a small heat shield -- header awfully close to oil temp sensor/wiring.....; 2) safer street car in terms of going, stopping, handling, safety shell/cocoon for the driver -- just remember, any part of the roll cage within reach of an un-helmeted head or a hand or a knee or another 'hard' body part has the ability to inflict a lot more damage (even death in the case of your head) than you'd face in a normal street car. There's a lot of "rock and a hard place" spots in the pics. Needless to say, I'm afraid of roll cages being used without a helmet on. Hopefully lots of padding to come. Food for thought.... Car looks fantastic.
Navy Bootcamp Lesson #1 - Wrap Your Sh:t when in Port...
Things are lookin’ up... 🤓
Bubble level.
NASCAR parts Jegs BimmerWorld LongAcre Smileys Oreilly Lowe’s More... what an odd combo of names needed to create this.
Oil cooler hoses going out to Improved Racing Oil Thermo thing.
1/2” bolt/lock washer/nut holding the gauge pod to that beefy clamp - I can rotate gauges towards me if I feel like it’s necessary once all going.
Creative use of a Smileys dirt track cage bar clamp normally used to hang weight on one of them thar dirt cars. Along with Lowe’s bar stock and AutoMeter gauge pod, this was ‘meant to be’ 🙀
... same goes for cars and wires in Hot Spaces - I for sure must heat protect numerous wires going both to Drvr Side and Pass Side of block near headers ... as well as dual O2 wiring as well as Vehicle Speed Signal wires, etc!
I also Must protect occupants in this car with top level sfi protection padding (which is friggin hard to the touch) - it’s nice to have a hatchback bmw which comes with a taller swooping roofline than a sedan or coupe... plus the low mounting of seats, plus 6pt harnesses, plus halo seating - and for Track the dual nets can help if ever needed.
I certainly recognize and appreciate someone observing a danger to another and having the gumption to say what needs said - Yessir, padding is a must and not an “I’ll get to it” matter - same with wiring protection from heat - So, thank you very much!!!
Kids begin school this Thursday - opening up a few more hours per week of car work opportunities.
Yeah I need to put doors, hatch, hood, glass in - but as for firing this car up (at a dyno shop with a tuner on hand) looks like it can happen before End of this month. Ohhhh Boy
I should have started my new engine by now. I should have taken car to dyno for tuning / wear-in by now. I should have gotten an alignment by now - and driven car down the street.
Instead, what has happened, is that I cannot find a water pump solution for my PWR water pump that I upgraded to during engine ‘upgrade’.
The LS2 OE water pump and it’s serpentine bell / taper-shaped pulley was what I designed my radiator/e-fan around.
The PWR water pump came with some massive honkin’ square-faced pulley... that is HEAVY and shaped in such a way that my radiator-electric-fan combo now “touch” the outter diameter of the leading edge of the face of the pulley... whew that’s tough to describe clearly.
Its Saturday and I ought to be out in garage... but no proper pulley - I bought a stand-alone billet pulley from Meziere... and funny enough it is not wide enough to work by exactly the 1/2 width of my Serpentine belt. Funny, less than one inch short is causing me to alter the course of my future - hmm, reoccurring dilemma in life :-)
Last edited by MUL8NO1; 09-22-2018 at 01:36 PM.
Reason: Add pics
Forrest Gump said it slightly differently than my today’s iteration; “I’m not a smart man, but I do know what an engine is”!
And to prove my age, while finishing up the water pump install and radiator and hose, etc, I began to Hum a mid-90’s song By Celine Dion (uhm, why would I even know that)... “all by myself, don’t want to be - all by myself”!!!
Good grief - THAT is the power of the mind traveling to La-La land while zoning out and doing car work 🧐.
I allowed myself to put my new OE water pump back on since I designed everything to fit around that - I’ll upgrade the pump once I know that I know I have ‘the pump and pulley’.
Tomorrow morning, I’ll add water & wetter and ensure new Deatchworks fuel pump wants to play ball. From there, I should just crank and fire motor - as I added my break-in oil a few weeks ago whenI thought I was ready upon installation of that PRW pump and it’s big honking pulley.
A tapered pulley is where I need to be. Clearance Clarence! PWR water pump removal. I had to give myself a nod of approval - my decisions and execution last year on much of this “make it work” pieces really is not crap! MUL8NO1 Yes yes... I need to dust the engine bay. Wifey will appreciate the front bumper for this vehicle to be On It instead of in the upstairs room 😵
Can't tell if that's with respect to Celine/Eric or the oil pressure gauge question....LOL!
So before start, I had to get under the car to hook up VSS connector and driver side O2 connector - and hook up the fancy (to me) Hydraulic t/o bearing line to clutch master cylinder firewall AN fitting.
Then adding water/wetter to system showed me I don’t have a “bleed screw” to help purge air bubbles - so I had to remove the small upper hose that my steam lines go in to at the radiator. That allowed water to fill in motor etc...
As for oil pressure - because I used my one-man brake bleeder to pump oil in to motor and that plastic pump only rendered 20psi at the bottle, my oil pressure sensor located up on the engine valley pan cover only registered 3-5psi... but I saw gauge definitely moving - lite up - full sweep - dual moved off of zero as per above.
I have added the 3 mechanical gauges since the LS2 debacle - Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, Coolant Temp... Plus I added a small mechanical fuel pressure gauge on the input side of my fuel rails - easily seen when standing in front of motor.
I -eeeeeee Thinnnnnk I should now test my DW fuel pump and see fuel spit out of fuel line coming forward from C5Z fuel filter/pressure reg... once I see that, I’ll hook that link up at the fuel rail where I said the new fuel pressure gauge resides.
Its surely start time after that 🤤
It won’t be too loud... but hopefully not too quiet either 🙀 Office Chair. Honey, I’m going to the bar to have a drink... or - Adult Monkey Bars... Pandora began playing a Prince song as I poured the rest of this second bottle of... Purple Rain - Ha...
Can't tell if that's with respect to Celine/Eric or the oil pressure gauge question....LOL!
“Houston, we have oil pressure”.
id stick a few quick videos up if I knew how to do it - pics of progress for now
Wood Piston Fikse U see the connection :-) I performed a garage floor front alignment... good enough to get car wrenched up in to buddy’s enclosed trailer soon to the visit local alignment shop. Yep. While standing on base of rear hatch opening - good time to snap a pic!!! Oil pressure shot up in just a revolution or two of the motor once my Fitech complete reflash allowed my fuel injectors to receive a gnd signal... the new motor fired off in like 1 engine revolution - wowza - u can certainly tell the computer immediately begins to do its “Math” to learn.
Improved steam line routing, fitting now with proper thread tape, leave cap off this time, 2nd break-in oil, added/bled new clutch fluid, blah... lots done today
Daaaaaaang!!!
Tomorrow morning I’ll do another full warm up session and try to properly bleed water/wetter... instead of puke it all out via massive air bubbles by leaving expansion pressure cap on —— oops...
Oh....and....if you can, have ride height, corner weighting and alignment with you or something that weighs what you do, in the driver's seat.
I will corner weight car with proper load weighting etc ... as I’ve done on plethora of other road race cars for self and others - and get align fo sho !!!
Updates this evening as car comes back together and I get my next heat cycle out of the way - hopefully more successful that first one from last week 🤮
08-13-2018, 09:54 PM
Power checks... Check 
