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

[motorheadmike]

Drove it and it's friends.

Seemed to make a lot of people happy to see and hear them rip around.

Expect to have the Monte moving around the beginning of next month.

 

[pontiacgp]

worked on the sound system, modifier the front door pod I made for 6" components to install the 6.5" Phoenix Elite, secured the box and two amps in the trunk along with the battery and cap. For the rear I just run the Phoenix Elite mids and save the crossovers and tweeters for spares. I don't like the sound of tweeters in the rear competing with the tweeters in the front. I adjusted the new amp for the sub and that system really sounds good even though I could not get into my Alpine app on my cell for the saved set ups so I quickly set the crossovers and eq for now......

 

[scarborough]

Got the carpet started finally after I got my Air Ride to link up with my phone, got the sides cut down and all but one of the front driver seat holes cut in it. I was also doing some painting on trim which turned into also finishing something for the bathroom at the same time since it was using the same color.
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nice job on the interior panel. i want to do the same to my car soon as the weather warm up around here . are you doing the dash also, if so please posts some pictures. any detail you would like to share on prepping and the brand of paint used to redo your pieces will greatly appreciated. where did you purchase your carpet from. stock interior has a sale on their molded carpet for $138 bucks that i'm thinking about ordering this week. what ply carpet did you buy.

 

[DSPbuilt]

I was able to go pick the Holley and intake gaskets. Bolted the intake down. Got most of the wiring on the engine side hooked up. I need to trim some of the fat from the harness. They all come prewired for the DBC but the DBW is a sub-harness. I need to cut out the leads for TPS and IAC. I believe there is one more I need to take out as well. It actually tucks in rather well. I turned the injectors is so the connection was showing as much.

 

[MrSony]

Was able to get the last two broken sub frame bolts out. But had to do it the hard way from the top.
Today spent the morning doing some surgery on the rear frame

I thank the car gods everyday my car isnt that bad.

 

[MrSony]

(started writing this last night, fell asleep, finished tonight)
My car loves to surprise me.
It also loves to endlessly piss me off.

Fitting I replaced on rad is leaking. Guess that pipe dope I used isn't coolant safe, for long.


----today-----
RTV fixed the leaky fitting. Shouldn't be a separate ****ing piece anyway. WHY. If it leaks again, then I will permanently fuse that b*tch to the rad.
Also fixed a stripped 1/4-20 timing cover water pump bolt. Got a helicoil installed in the cover without taking the water pump off. That's a win imo. The tool supplied wasn't long enough, but the tool for my adjustable part throttle pipe plug tap kit thing was. Like a giant valve stem tool.

I'm switching to electric fans very soon. Pretty sure the heavy 7 blade fan with an HD clutch and a spacer that I have is cracking my water pumps. Every pump I've had has cracked in the same place. I always assumed it was because I had the belt too tight, but this past pump I purposely left the belt a little looser than I normally do, still cracked.

Electric fans it is.

Intrepid fans the way to go? Or taurus? Thunderbird???

Also tore apart my old rear bumper to get the reinforcement out of it. **** them carriage bolts. Just used an angle grinder and grinding disc.
Off to menards tomorrow for a new bench grinder and a sh*t ton of bolts. Hopefully new bumper will be on by tomorrow night. 😀

 

[oldsmobile joe]

Pretty sure the heavy 7 blade fan with an HD clutch and a spacer

get rid of the spacer. i've never seen a clutch fan with a spacer. if your fan is not properly placed in the shroud, try extending the shroud with sheet plastic or sheet metal.

 

[MrSony]

get rid of the spacer. i've never seen a clutch fan with a spacer. if your fan is not properly placed in the shroud, try extending the shroud with sheet plastic or sheet metal.

i'm using a 307 cutlass shroud and top plate. the spacer puts it in the correct location. the 350 buick is like 5" shorter front to back than the 307 or a 305 is so the spacer is needed for proper depth.

 

[oldsmobile joe]

i'm using a 307 cutlass shroud and top plate. the spacer puts it in the correct location. the 350 buick is like 5" shorter front to back than the 307 or a 305 is so the spacer is needed for proper depth.

yes, i understand the principle, but the added length of the spacer is possibly increasing the leverage of the clutch fan weight or is out of balance and causing the water pump to crack. so instead of extending the fan to the shroud, try extending the shroud to the fan.

other possibilities that are causing you to go through the nation supply of 3.8l water pumps; over tightened water pump bolts, mating surface not flat and true, cooling fan out of balance, aluminum water pump used in a cast iron application.
your going through too many water pumps, its not the pumps its something else, time to work on the other variables or continue pulling your hair out. your choice.

 

[MrSony]

yes, i understand the principle, but the added length of the spacer is possibly increasing the leverage of the clutch fan weight or is out of balance and causing the water pump to crack. so instead of extending the fan to the shroud, try extending the shroud to the fan.

other possibilities that are causing you to go through the nation supply of 3.8l water pumps; over tightened water pump bolts, mating surface not flat and true, cooling fan out of balance, aluminum water pump used in a cast iron application.
your going through too many water pumps, its not the pumps its something else, time to work on the other variables or continue pulling your hair out. your choice.

Going to electric fans, so that should alleviate the issue.