What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2022]

[88AZSS]

The weather was nice so I took the Monte around the block and headed to the spot I do burn outs in thats away from everyone. Well on the way I heard a metal *tink* noise and didnt know what it was. I pulled over and figured it was the stock jack I recently installed just shifting around in the back. Went on my way and did some burnouts and went back home just fine.

I start to back into the driveway and notice a dragging feeling when in reverse. Not when going forward but only reverse. Dad was there and couldnt see anything when I tried it again in the street. I pulled it into the garage and took off the drivers wheel. The upper caliper bolt was gone and the lower was loose. The *tink* sound I heard was the bolt dropping out into the street. I went over to the street I heard that sound and there was the bolt still sitting there.

Went back home, threw some blue loctite on the bolts and tightened the sh*t out of them, then hit the passengers side just the same. All in all things were fine, just a weird thing to happen.

 

[CopperNick]

So just finished trying to navigate the Fel Pro site for those EV6 injector O-rings and what a disaster that was. Totally by OEM application and not by the injector itself. SEarch engine drove me nuts; almost every second entry was for Amazon. Anyone on the boards know a Fel pro or ? part number for the O-ring Kit for the USCAR EV6 injectors found on an Ls^ manifold?



Nick

 

[Injectedcutty]

So just finished trying to navigate the Fel Pro site for those EV6 injector O-rings and what a disaster that was. Totally by OEM application and not by the injector itself. SEarch engine drove me nuts; almost every second entry was for Amazon. Anyone on the boards know a Fel pro or ? part number for the O-ring Kit for the USCAR EV6 injectors found on an Ls^ manifold?



Nick

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[Injectedcutty]

So just finished trying to navigate the Fel Pro site for those EV6 injector O-rings and what a disaster that was. Totally by OEM application and not by the injector itself. SEarch engine drove me nuts; almost every second entry was for Amazon. Anyone on the boards know a Fel pro or ? part number for the O-ring Kit for the USCAR EV6 injectors found on an Ls^ manifold?



Nick

Nick, meant to ask....did you get the injectors with the ls6 intake? I can't recall how he packaged that deal.

 

[CopperNick]

I-Cutty, the package was a complete, ready to drop LS6 intake assembly that included the intake body, the EV6 injectors, the injector extensions, the fuel rail, the fitting for the fuel line and the screws and bolts to do the install. All I ever have done with it is to swap the intake port gaskets for new ones, which I had planned to do anyway, and for sure when I found oil under the old ones when they were lifted. I did have to take a machinists file to the valley cover on the mill because it had a ridge of casting flash along one side that was keeping the manifold from dropping down into position. That was just a little bit of file and fit work, nothing major or invasive.

The included injectors were Uscar EV6's. They vary from the earlie Multech units in height and in the shape and pin location of the sockets. They also don't want to mate to the -6 injector bosses; tried that as a test fit a few weeks ago. The plan for now is to use what I received. I just want to make sure all the seals and gaskets are freah, even though they may have only had a few miles or hours of use or operating time.

I've been meaning to compliment your buddy on how the whole thing was wrapped and packaged. Beautiful job, It would have taken a bomb sniffing dog to discover that inner wrapper had trapped some smears of oil from somewhere. No smell, no leaks, no hint of anything until I got it totally unwrapped, and that process took an Olfa box knife and a fresh blade to accomplish.

And USPS got it to me in about 10 days including the cross border transfer and customs clearance.

The only thing I am waiting on, apart from the O-rings for the injector and one for the throttle body, is an Inch-pound torque wrench to set the screws correctly. Oh yeah, and some seriously warm weather with sunshine and warmth so I can get warm, did I mention wanting warmth here?? and regain my body core heat. Right now it it s toss up what will whack us harder, the storms coming up the Mississippi river vallery corridor, or the cold front with several feet of snow that is dropping down from Arctic and headed East. They are both supposed to meet over the lake tonight and tomorrow. Motorhead thinks his next move might be over the border but I am not sure if the weather will be any better and as for the politics,......................

Oh yeah, did followup up on that link and bookmarked it; looks good. THANKS.




Nick

 

[Injectedcutty]

I-Cutty, the package was a complete, ready to drop LS6 intake assembly that included the intake body, the EV6 injectors, the injector extensions, the fuel rail, the fitting for the fuel line and the screws and bolts to do the install. All I ever have done with it is to swap the intake port gaskets for new ones, which I had planned to do anyway, and for sure when I found oil under the old ones when they were lifted. I did have to take a machinists file to the valley cover on the mill because it had a ridge of casting flash along one side that was keeping the manifold from dropping down into position. That was just a little bit of file and fit work, nothing major or invasive.

The included injectors were Uscar EV6's. They vary from the earlie Multech units in height and in the shape and pin location of the sockets. They also don't want to mate to the -6 injector bosses; tried that as a test fit a few weeks ago. The plan for now is to use what I received. I just want to make sure all the seals and gaskets are freah, even though they may have only had a few miles or hours of use or operating time.

I've been meaning to compliment your buddy on how the whole thing was wrapped and packaged. Beautiful job, It would have taken a bomb sniffing to discover that inner wrapper had trapped some smears of oil from somewhere. No smell, no leaks, no hint of anything until I got it totally unwrapped, and that process took an Olfa box knife and a fresh blade to accomplish.

And USPS got it to me in about 10 days including the cross border transfer and customs clearance.

The only thing I am waiting on, apart from the O-rings for the injector and one for the throttle body, is an Inch-pound torque wrench to set the screws correctly. Oh yeah, and some seriously warm weather with sunshine and warmth so I can get warm, did I mention wanting warmth here?? and regain my body core heat. Right now it it s toss up what will whack us harder, the storms coming up the Mississippi river vallery corridor, or the cold front with several feet of snow that is dropping down from Arctic and headed East. They are both supposed to meet over the lake tonight and tomorrow. Motorhead thinks his next move might be over the border but I am not sure if the weather will be any better and as for the politics,......................

Oh yeah, did followup up on that link and bookmarked it; looks good. THANKS.




Nick

Cool. Those are specifically LS3 injectors so you can search locally under 2011 Camaro SS and get what you need.

 

[MrSony]

Changed the trans pan gasket on sunday with a mahle one, cork with a steel core. i thiiiiink the pan leak is solved, now the dipstick tube is leaking. neat.
friday morning i think it was the god damn hood latch stuck so i had to take the grille out and unbolt the latch, clean it up, drown in it in graphite spray, and reinstall/line it up. also reinstalled the chrome rocker trim i've had off since last summer.

 

[CopperNick]

I-Cutty, Having the injectors id'd as 2011 Camaro SS helps; only problem now being the total lack of 10 year old Camaro corpses in the local yards. Thing here is that any wreck involving a muscle car usually ends up with the hulk being shipped down east for auction. We don't get a whiff of that action up here. My compadre at the yard explained the whole business and it involves a contract to go out and do the pickups and transport them; apparently there are a lot of performance conditions and clauses and penalties for missing deadlines involved. He refused to get involved with it all.

A Q. here. Would the 2011 LS3 injectors you mentioned be the same as 2010 ones? And by that I mean would they be EV6's? I am asking because I was able to score a harness from a 2010 GM pickup that has the same style injector plugs that match the injector sockets on the injectors that came with the LS6 manifold; for sake of reference I have been calling them LS6 injectors but for the sake of accuracy here I should probably be describing them as being LS3.

Apart from that I Have not had the opportunity to get out to the shop and harvest that sub circuit from the main section as the last two days went from cold and windy to snow/freezing rain/sleet/rain in no particular order. South of me has been getting tornadoes. I had had an advance notice for shift call for yesterday, Wednesday, and told the operations supervisor that I would be free to take a shift today if necessary. Me being polite. This AM just after 0700 the phone rings and "Can you come in?" South is stuck at home out in the county with no power and icy roads. So I spent the day dodging potholes and saltwater showers from passing idiots and ice shrapnel falling from trees; no agendas so that was a plus. Tomorrow is a stat so no shifts. May get the chance to do some harvesting on Saturday.


Nick

 

[84 W40]

It was time to replace the original factory speakers in the Hurst, my radio JVC KD-AVX77 was begging for new speakers. I had purchased it about 14 years ago.

My original plan 5 years ago was to purchase the Q logic kick panels and a three way component speakers. The component speakers I did purchase after helping a coworker install the same set in his car. I was very impressed of the clean sound and plenty of bass . The crossovers are a bi-amp and that's a plus, will get into that later. Speakers are Sony XS-GS1631C

Glad I never purchased the Q logics, last year went to a local car show and there was a few gbodys and one did have Q logic kick panels. More I looked at it the more I did not like it. To me it just didn't look right plus looking at the bent e brake pedal made it even worse.
I will be using the Sony component speakers but in a different way. Mid bass speakers are the same size as the factory dash speakers so they will fit perfectly there. The only thing I had to do was snip a small piece of the area where the screw would go so it will sit flush. There was no issues with the speaker grills.

Now it was time to wire up the crossovers, what's nice about a bi-amp crossovers and have used them in the past is you can use the woofers on a separate channel. So the way I will set this up is the front speakers coming from the radio will be connected to the tweeter/ mid inputs. The rear speakers coming from the radio will be connected to the woofer inputs. It still works like a 4 channel radio but you have bass frequency in the rear and tweeter and mid bass frequency in the front.

I did run into a problem with the crossovers, they are large and there was no room underneath the dash. I needed to put them in a place that was easy enough to get at and make adjustments to the tweeters. Only good place under the passenger seat with plenty of room. Ran all the wires in a black sleeving and tucked it under the center console.

I left the stock rear speakers in place for now. I have a plan to utilize the woofers that came with the components in the rear. Turned the radio on put a cd in Chicago greatest hits, what a difference in sound. Some Chicago's songs a great for placing tweeters in certain spots for imaging. After two hours I found the sweet spot for the tweeters see pictures. One problem not sure if Sony tweeter would look good since it's large over an inch. I found some pioneer tweeters in my stash radio parts that are smaller. Can't decide what looks better in that spot. Bye the way I will be using another set A pillar trim when mounting the tweeters.

 

[CopperNick]

Nice set of pictures. Sound for me is so far down the road that it doesn't even get a mention. Suppose I should because doing the rough ins would be simpler with the cabin empty as it is.



Nick