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

[Jimmy]

Picked up the 4L80

 

[5spdCab]

Still need to torque everything down, cotter pins, and brake fluid, but here is the basic appearance. C5 rotors, C6 calipers, S10 Blazer spindles, KORE3 brackets and hoses, Summit UCAs, Proforged +1/2" upper and lower ball joints. I know somebody wants to tell me I'm wasting my time because the large single piston G body caliper has awesome clamping force, blah, blah, blah. 12.8" rotor vs. 10.5, twin piston caliper vs. single, looks cool, yeah this is what I want. FYI- Gbody spindle, rotor, caliper, pads=42.2 lbs., current combo=49.2 lbs.
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Hey, carnutjw, in the end, it's what you want. Consider the advice of others, but make your own decisions, build it the way that you want it.

 

[MrSony]

I think either my kickdown cable is siezed, or it got overextended and pulled the rod excessively, I guess that's the word. Can't pull it by hand, set it normally, it stops dead and I can't get to full throttle. Not the end of the world, mildly annoying if anything.

 

[pontiacgp]

I think either my kickdown cable is siezed, or it got overextended and pulled the rod excessively, I guess that's the word. Can't pull it by hand, set it normally, it stops dead and I can't get to full throttle. Not the end of the world, mildly annoying if anything.

I told them you could do it.....

 

[pagrunt]

Out of planning if I would change my mind, I made a new A/C compressor harness. Didn't have everything I thought when I found some for gotten wire stuff but got it done. Now I'll need 1.25" shrink tube, small conduit & a salvageable pressure cycling plug section from a A/C box side harness so I can make a plug & play section if I put A/C back in.

 

[1320John$$$]

Change the torque converter out today last time I attempted this I had to disassemble half the car so I made life a little easier on myself made the crossmember so it’s removable to band clamps to hangers and exhaust is off and out she comes while I had it apart I decided to touch the exhaust up with some header paint wire wheel the crossmember down and hit it with a fresh coat of paint while I was doing this I could hear the owner of Numidia dragway running his cars all day long must be nice to own a dragstrip

 

[Supremeone]

Moved it from the right side of the garage to the middle so I have more space to do the blower relay and a couple small hose repairs underneath for the safety on Monday.

 

[fleming442]

Got some redemption on a VR6 Jetta and a Veloster....street dominance continues.

 

[5spdCab]

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Holy crap, large picture. But it helps actually. My needle maintains itself inbetween the line for 190 and the dotted line, of which I don't know what it means. I was always under the impression a normal cooling system will always run around 5-10 degrees hotter than what the thermostat is rated at. I've got a 7 blade clutch fan from my suburban (only useful thing that pos did), new HD clutch, newer water pump (HD unit for an 85 GN, normal rotation), new heater core, new t stat, newer Champion radiator (not the frozen one), new belts, everything. Temp gun is consitent in 180ishto 190 temp readings as well. it never even cracked 200 (passed the dotten line) during break in. After shutdown it will climb to around 230, but start it back up it goes back down to 190ish within a few seconds. No weird temp spikes, heat works fine, everything seems to be ok.

Taking a guess that the three dots equal 212 degrees boiling point.

 

[1320John$$$]

Got some redemption on a VR6 Jetta and a Veloster....street dominance continues.

Still picking on old ladies and soccer moms in minivans