WarShrike's Project Thread - V6 Firebird

[Whelk]

A reluctor ring on a ring gear is new to me. What does it do?

[TheSilverBuick]

Typically for ABS and traction control.

[WarShrike]

A reluctor ring on a ring gear is new to me. What does it do?

Yeah, this one is for a 3-channel setup so it is the ABS tone ring.

4-channel for ABS + Traction control will have the tone rings on the ends of the axles.

[WarShrike]

Made a little progress a few days back. Got in some good Daddy-daughter time as well, she was pretty excited to get to work on stuff for the car. Just been so busy with everything else that life throws at you...

[DanStokes]

There's something adorable about a girl in a Hello Kitty shirt operating a ratchet! Lucky Dad!

Dan

[WarShrike]

Been busy with school, since it's out it is time to get back to wrenching. Still have a long laundry list of things to accomplish.

Finally got the k-member aligned as well as the trans cross member:




Still nothing to attach wheels to:


Gonna clean these things up after I do the new collectors:

[WarShrike]

Did some repairs to the harness loom and started plugging things in. I feel like my knees have been hyper-extended from leaning over the fender for so long...

Really wish I had been able to spring for the Painless Performance wire loom that isn't this crazy plastic, but that will have to wait for later a later project with fresh connectors and all that fun stuff.

[WarShrike]

Finally got the spindles opened up to accept the MASSIVE CTS-V 6-piston brakes. Spindles are currently drying from a few coats of primer. While waiting on that, I prepped the UMI Performance Inc. front control arms and loosely installed them in the k-member and pointed the zerk fittings out to where I could easily service them.

Still waiting on a set of 18" wheels, have to send out my injectors to get cleaned and a list of other items. A whole lot less boxes filled with parts though. This thing is getting closer...

[WarShrike]

Not blazing through it, but getting some of the finer points taken care of. Finished spraying the spindles, should be able to install those sometime tomorrow.



Finished connecting some of the harness to the trans. Installed the longtubes for a temporary fitment check with the new exhaust. More on that soon.



Test fit the UMI A-Arms, they're pretty nice, and finished setting up the Global West upper control arms that were modified by Blaine Fabrication.

[WarShrike]

Kinda got stalled on a few things that took longer than I had really hoped to, but it's down to just chipping away at it all now.

I need to find longer shock bolts for the A-arms, I forgot that I had read a thread awhile back, so I need to go to the local hardware store tomorrow after work.

Exhaust is just loosely mocked up, will install rear end and stuff when I get a chance in the next few days.

[WarShrike]

Made some nice progress today!

Rear axle assembled, e-brake lines run, installed and loosely bolted in with UMI Performance Inc. Torque Arm and Poly/Roto-joint rear LCA's.

Drive shaft is installed, have to reconnect the rear brake lines (notice the stainless axle to chassis line?), sensor harness, mount up the springs and swaybar from Strano Performance as well as the Fays2 Watts Link. After that, it's back to the front suspension while I wait on a few last ditch items!

[WarShrike]

Well, I got a phone call with some bad news about my injectors. I bought those things after the completion of my last build, supposed to be LS6 injectors all around. Turns out 2 of them weren't the same, were of a different part number even though they looked exactly alike externally. The guy doing the match/cleaning found them to range from 240cc to 270cc in flow after cleaning and when he couldn't figure out why the flow was so far out of spec, he noticed the part #'s were different.

This explains a few things that I had noticed while doing scans w/ HPTuners where my fuel trims would bounce around a ton. I might just get some injectors to handle the necessary flow for E85 (something around 42lb/hr).

I'll post up whatever transpires.

[Deaf Bob]

Bummer...
Downside of used parts..

[DanStokes]

If you hurry to the mall there's still time to hop on Santa's lap and place an order. Lets us know if the 'Ol Boy comes thru for you.

Dan

[WarShrike]

He said something along the lines of, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."