Home stretch bro, good for you guys!

 

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One minor hang up. I need a 1-5/16 x 11 tap to finish the job. So no noises today. Sorry guys.

Once I get that tap I'm two hours from starting the car.

 

Ok great.
I'm really looking forward to seeing it.
Tomorrow?

 

I doubt it. Been trying to find a local source for the tap. Looks like I need to order. On a used bottom end I would just start it and let it vent. But I would really rather have vacuum to help seat the rings on a new bottom end.

But the hard part is done.

 

McMaster Car. Will be there in one day. Order it today and it will be there tommorow.

 

Lol. Im worth it.

 

Yup been googling.

 

I always thought your car was a vette. Is the color the color you always wanted What color is that called?

thanks
jim

 

Pewter. Car is pewter. Used to be midnight blue.

 

McMaster Carr doesn't ship until today, but I'll have it tomorrow. So unless something unforeseeable happens, tuesday, might be popsicle.

 

Something I thought I'd bump. The kit did not fit my engine/trans/clutch combo. However, it was the closest one. It is the shortest kit offered, and it is supposed to work with the RPS clutch in a corvette. The HRB when fully collapsed was too tall no matter what I did. I verified against a stock HRB, and the stock fully compressed would barely clear. Verified everything with RPS and Tilton. Looked into other options, and it was all the same no matter what I did. And my stock HRB came out in pieces, so I was not going to use it again.

Wise man once said - sometimes you have to mod the car in order to mod the car.

So, I ended up cutting the baseplate supplied by tilton to fit inside the front face on the transmission. Then I built my own centering plate to center the HRB mount ont he transmission shaft and clamped it via the pipe threads on the inside of the HRB and outside of the adjustable mount. Not going anywhere. I was then able to mount the HRB in the transmission, and I had 1/16" clearance. between HRB and clutch fingers. Not enough, you say? I agree. Lazer and I measured and found there was .150" we could take off the back of the piston before it would bottom out in the inside radius of the housing. So we took .100 off the back of the piston and cleaned up all the edges, and now are between 5/32 and 3/16" clearance.

This hobby is not for the faint of heart.

 

thanks. I thought it might be (that color). I noticed the engine bay looked black or a dark blue.

 

I had a similar issue with mine... The Tilton was too tall to fit between the RPS BC2 and the mounting surface inside my T56 with F body bellhousing. It turned out that the *stock* '09 era Camaro throwout fit (it could collapse roughly half an inch shorter than the Tilton). The slave that was in the car came with my Mantic twin disc, and *looked* the same as the Camaro slave, but wouldn't collapse as far. Whoever buys my (barely used) Mantic will get that slave, too.

 

I've been using the same GTO slave across three different clutches and two different transmissions now and have never had an issue. I first had a Monster stage 3 pressure plate with a stage 2 disk and a GTO T56. Then I had an LT1-S twin with a T56 Magnum and now I have the RPS BC2 in the magnum. I never measured the clearance until the RPS, and it was right in the middle of the acceptable range. I'm not sure why I've been so lucky with easy setups.

 

Show that turd who’s boss!!

 

Bad luck only accrues to those of us who measure. :-)

 

Well I wouldn't say that.. Bad luck could also accrue from those who don't choose to measure..

 

No noise tonight. I am beat. Want to give car one last inspection when I am fresh before starting.

But it's looking really good.

 

Good luck!

 

Good luck also.