What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2020]

[57 Handyman]

Today, I finally decided to bite the bullet and make the swap from clutch fan to dual electric fans on my 87 El Camino. The dual e-fans and shroud are from a 2000 Camaro and provides 3-4" of clearance between the belts and shroud. After removing the shroud and clutch fan, I dropped the efans into place. The fit was amazing with only about an inch of the radiator fins on each side exposed. I probably will fashion a pair of blocking plates to form a better seal. Even without any lower supports, I was able to secure the fan/shroud setup using a stock radiator retainer from an 87 Olds 442. As you can see in the second picture, the edge of the retainer captured a raised ridge on the shroud.

 

[57 Handyman]

Sorry for the double pictures!

 

[Tomicamino]

Some media blasting, painting , polishing and new headlights

 

[Wageslave]

Got my new bluetooth module stuffed back into my new Delco radio. Still have to stuff it in the car to test it, since I don't have a complete set of pigtails for that style of radio.

Luckily, most delco radios have separate tuner and amplifier boards, so there will always be a cable that runs between them that has line level audio. With the help of a factory service manual, I found the correct wires and cut the L and R audio wires to the amplifier board. I then ran leads out from both sides of the cut wire out to a set of relays to switch the audio stream from the tuner board in the radio to the Bluetooth module.

I can add an Aux In through the Bluetooth board later if I want, but since my phone doesn't even have a headphone jack, it will probably not be messed with. There will probably be level matching issues since the Bluetooth board's audio is a little hotter than the tuner board, but I can add some resistors inline to balance it out, but in the short term I will just turn the phone volume down.

 

[81cutlass]

Got my new bluetooth module stuffed back into my new Delco radio. Still have to stuff it in the car to test it, since I don't have a complete set of pigtails for that style of radio.

Luckily, most delco radios have separate tuner and amplifier boards, so there will always be a cable that runs between them that has line level audio. With the help of a factory service manual, I found the correct wires and cut the L and R audio wires to the amplifier board. I then ran leads out from both sides of the cut wire out to a set of relays to switch the audio stream from the tuner board in the radio to the Bluetooth module.

I can add an Aux In through the Bluetooth board later if I want, but since my phone doesn't even have a headphone jack, it will probably not be messed with. There will probably be level matching issues since the Bluetooth board's audio is a little hotter than the tuner board, but I can add some resistors inline to balance it out, but in the short term I will just turn the phone volume down.
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That's really cool! Since you are splicing the audio wire how do you switch from radio to bluetooth?

Is it just a standard bluetooth board for like Arduino?

I have a eq. Delco radio that the display doesn't work on and I need to take it apart and troubleshoot and while I'm in there I'd like to add that board

 

[Wageslave]

That's really cool! Since you are splicing the audio wire how do you switch from radio to bluetooth?

Is it just a standard bluetooth board for like Arduino?

I have a eq. Delco radio that the display doesn't work on and I need to take it apart and troubleshoot and while I'm in there I'd like to add that board

I used the power pushbutton and a set of relays to switch the audio line. I wired the radio to always be on when the key was on, and used the 12v off the switch to fire the relays. You can get away with one DPDT relay, but I used 2 SPDT relays since that was all I had on hand.

The board is a CSR64215 based Bluetooth receiver board. I like it because it has APTX lossless audio, no push button needed to sync, and the ability to add Aux in.

Edit: I almost forgot, you can get these boards that handle media only or media + phone audio. I got a media only one and if a phone call comes in, the media audio is paused but the phone audio is still handled by the phone.

 

[BuickBroke$]

Damn that’s neat, I wish I could do stuff like that. I bought a redone AC Delco off eBay and has a cable to plug my phone in but the cable’s a pain in the butt. Great job!

 

[melloelky]

swapped out the plastic bushing on the lower end of my column for the jeep bearing.thanks for the video Hutch.

 

[500/600]

Started making another step toward traction by moving the battery to the trunk.

 

[Injectedcutty]

Got the Cutlass out of the garage so I could sweep it good. Then decided to go for a rip around the block. Finally able to get gas like a normal car again...