meanchicken
gallo vicioso
- Joined
- Oct 6, 2007
The following commentary is directed only towards me....
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OK
I feel much better now that that's outa my system.
Good news. Problem solved.:biggrin:
Turns out a rotten 4" piece of vacuum hose was the root of all my problems.
Getting through this has been a great learning experience for sure. Whatever hair I still had in September.....gone now.:redface:
I replaced the hoses from the WG solenoid to the WG and the turbo. The one to the WG was ROTTEN!!!
Glad I fixed this before it led to a blown head gasket.
It tore apart with ease when I was pulling it off the WG. The last 1/2" stayed on the WG nipple, so I gad to rip it off with some long needle nose pliers a chunk at a time.
Went out driving around and let the computer relearn. The first time I went WOT, I got 3.0KR. I drove around some more and went WOT a few more times.....absolutely ZERO KR now.
Engine pulls pretty good and runs great! I even did a couple foot brake launches. Built up about 10 pretty lights and then let go of the brakes....smoked 'em OK....still nuttin like nailing the go fast high volume switch on my ZZ502:biggrin: , but respectable. She'll get there.
Here's a pic of the satanic lil' piece of hose.
I'm thinking about wrapping these new hoses under the turbo in heat shield to protect them better.
Everything I've done as you guys guided me along has improved the performance of the car or fixed part of it's issues, so absolutley no wasted $$$.
Spring cleaning, Spark plugs/wires, coil pack, fuel filter, walbro pump, hotwire, 60lb injectors and TT chip, AFPR, ScanMaster, and a few vacuum hoses.
Next on the to do.
1) Install boost gauge:tongue: and oil pressure gauge and replace the rest of the vacuum hoses.
2) Replace leaking original shocks and broken trans mount.
3) rebuild rear brakes
4) valve sporings and timing chain/gears.
After I do all that, I'm going to go log some track time to baseline the combo.
Then I'll start with the performance enhancers (beginning with the exhaust) to get the car to the low 12 high 11 range. I'll probably have to spring for that new tranny along the way.
Thank you all for your help. This is a great message board and the GN community is a great crowd. Looking forward to meeting more of you SoCali guys.
I hope this string is a good reference for others who come in new to GN's.
My next post....
Why won't this pokey grocery gettin' old mans GN go faster than 85mph????
My 68 Camaro will go at least 160mph on a wide open South Orange County toll road:biggrin: ...don't ask me how I know that.
Tim
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OK
I feel much better now that that's outa my system.
Good news. Problem solved.:biggrin:
Turns out a rotten 4" piece of vacuum hose was the root of all my problems.
Getting through this has been a great learning experience for sure. Whatever hair I still had in September.....gone now.:redface:
I replaced the hoses from the WG solenoid to the WG and the turbo. The one to the WG was ROTTEN!!!
Glad I fixed this before it led to a blown head gasket.
It tore apart with ease when I was pulling it off the WG. The last 1/2" stayed on the WG nipple, so I gad to rip it off with some long needle nose pliers a chunk at a time.
Went out driving around and let the computer relearn. The first time I went WOT, I got 3.0KR. I drove around some more and went WOT a few more times.....absolutely ZERO KR now.
Engine pulls pretty good and runs great! I even did a couple foot brake launches. Built up about 10 pretty lights and then let go of the brakes....smoked 'em OK....still nuttin like nailing the go fast high volume switch on my ZZ502:biggrin: , but respectable. She'll get there.
Here's a pic of the satanic lil' piece of hose.
I'm thinking about wrapping these new hoses under the turbo in heat shield to protect them better.
Everything I've done as you guys guided me along has improved the performance of the car or fixed part of it's issues, so absolutley no wasted $$$.
Spring cleaning, Spark plugs/wires, coil pack, fuel filter, walbro pump, hotwire, 60lb injectors and TT chip, AFPR, ScanMaster, and a few vacuum hoses.
Next on the to do.
1) Install boost gauge:tongue: and oil pressure gauge and replace the rest of the vacuum hoses.
2) Replace leaking original shocks and broken trans mount.
3) rebuild rear brakes
4) valve sporings and timing chain/gears.
After I do all that, I'm going to go log some track time to baseline the combo.
Then I'll start with the performance enhancers (beginning with the exhaust) to get the car to the low 12 high 11 range. I'll probably have to spring for that new tranny along the way.
Thank you all for your help. This is a great message board and the GN community is a great crowd. Looking forward to meeting more of you SoCali guys.
I hope this string is a good reference for others who come in new to GN's.
My next post....
Why won't this pokey grocery gettin' old mans GN go faster than 85mph????
My 68 Camaro will go at least 160mph on a wide open South Orange County toll road:biggrin: ...don't ask me how I know that.
Tim