What did you do to your non-G body project today? [2023]

[Built6spdMCSS]

Went out to lunch with a few buddies..

Driver's window on the Z06 decided to stop working. I hear the relay in the module clicking so I'll have to pull the door panel and hit it with the multimeter, check over what I can before replacing parts. The fun...

 

[CopperNick]

Took a couple of short lengths of flat bar out to the welding bench and tacked them together to form the base for a jig that I have designing as a way to form and locate new sheet metal for the lost fender tip on that Indian fender that I have been playing with.

Also cut myself a couple of sanding blocks from an orphan chunk of 2" rigid styrofoam SM that had been squatting in my battery recycling can for ??? years or more. Little tags of cement make me think that it was a piece of cutaway from a forming project' the foam placed under the shop floor was pink as I recall, might be excess left over from that.

Anyway, I needed a small piece to use as a backer for the sand paper I'm using for the sanding out process on an aluminum brake backing plate. Up to 1000 gr at this point and I still have 1500 and 2000 left to do before introducing it to the buffing wheel again. The stuff is easy to cut with a hack saw and can then be shaped using a box cutter and a coarse file or rasp. It tolerates being wet quite well and keep the paper flat against the surface for a better finish.



Nick

 

[81cutlass]

Finished up the closet addition to the shop.

The white paint didn't match worth a crap to the room needs a repaint now which I don't want to address yet.

Score. Picked up a $100 set of qa1 adjustable coilovers for a new (old?) project Dad and I are going to try to get done this spring. Hopefully they don't need rebuilding.

Did some sledding. Friends bachelor party. I borrowed a sled, 165hp on a two up is insane lol.

 

[mclellan83]

Friday night stayed after work for a bit to try and massage the core support apart some more to squeeze in the new rad, still have some way to go but got tired of beating it with a hammer. Might try to stay tonight to use our shop air bottle jack to do it a little quicker and less work, buddy messaged me to go to the International Auto Show so wrapped up early Friday night to go meet him. Got to see the new ZO6 in person, my friends loved the red interior but I'm not a red guy

Then spent the rest of the weekend messing with a replacement drawer I got on Ebay instead of having to drop big bucks on a custom replacement since my tenant was an idiot and when he was doing the staining to my cabinets to pay me back for back rent he left them all outside to be ruined...... Would have had 3 drawers to make one work out of them but of course its never easy. Got it all in but the drawer won't go all the way back in, I think I'm gonna have to pull it all back apart and try to get the right side shim all the way against the cabinet. When I was screwing it in I noticed that there was a small gap, should have redone it then but had enough trouble finding some screws to put into it. So have to do it all over again then blow it back apart to stain the drawer anyways

 

[Supercharged111]

Didn't make it as far as I'd hoped last night on the dually exhaust but made necessary progress. Here's my biggest asspain, check out all the layers I unearthed.

Took some lovin' to glue that back together. The rest were super easy. Aligning the pipes to tack them together was a time blowing nightmare. Here's a before and after cleaning the midpipes up.

Here's the whole shebang.

I'll give the downpipes a whiz tomorrow so they weather the same as the mid pipes.

And the joints as it sits.

It's way easier to fish these pipes in individually compared to when they were bound together by a flange. I think I'll need to add a hanger up by the muffler too. Time to get off my dead @$s and finish it up.

 

[scoti]

Didn't make it as far as I'd hoped last night on the dually exhaust but made necessary progress. Here's my biggest asspain, check out all the layers I unearthed.

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Took some lovin' to glue that back together. The rest were super easy. Aligning the pipes to tack them together was a time blowing nightmare. Here's a before and after cleaning the midpipes up.

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Here's the whole shebang.

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I'll give the downpipes a whiz tomorrow so they weather the same as the mid pipes.

And the joints as it sits.

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It's way easier to fish these pipes in individually compared to when they were bound together by a flange. I think I'll need to add a hanger up by the muffler too. Time to get off my dead @$s and finish it up.

Factory dual-pipe, dual-CAT, single muffler w/dual ports, & dual exit exhaust set-up?

My '99 w/5.7/4l80e 8600# 3/4 ton was/is that way. I bought another dual in/out muffler & tubing for new tailpipes that will clear the 7" lower ride height. i was considering tweaking the pre-muffler pipe arrangement because of how they're tied together thinking it might make servicing easier in the future.

*EDIT*
Answered my own question. I missed that final post on the previous page somehow.

 

[CopperNick]

Four! O-2 sensors!! Thought I was having fun working with three. Think I lucked out by re-running the resident crossover/H pipe when I rebuilt my duals. Still a lot of work to undertake.



Nick

 

[Built6spdMCSS]

Got into my Z06 when I got home this afternoon. Pulled the Door Panel, pulled the Bose Speaker Unit, right behind that was the Window Motor. Pulled the housing and it was all full of gunk. Blew it out with some air, blew out the motor guts and contacts, greased the bearing surface of the shaft and put it back together. Checked for 12v at the wiring connector when window switch was pressed up or down and had that. Plugged it back in and window worked perfectly.

The Switch Panel in the door tho.. yea that thing is wasted. I pried on it with my plastic body panel tools in the correct places and it just shattered. There is a little black cover plastic that goes in the door panel to cover some screws, yea that broke too. Everything else was fine so I'll find new ones of them and order them.

 

[Supercharged111]

Factory dual-pipe, dual-CAT, single muffler w/dual ports, & dual exit exhaust set-up?

My '99 w/5.7/4l80e 8600# 3/4 ton was/is that way. I bought another dual in/out muffler & tubing for new tailpipes that will clear the 7" lower ride height. i was considering tweaking the pre-muffler pipe arrangement because of how they're tied together thinking it might make servicing easier in the future.

*EDIT*
Answered my own question. I missed that final post on the previous page somehow.

Not sure what this truck had stock, but a 99 that I flipped had a dual in/single out muffler stock. This truck came with some lame Walker stock replacement muffler that was way too small for a supercharged 454.

That muffler looked to be a dual 2.5" in (flared to accept the truck's pipes), single 2.5" out unit. I changed it out for a dual 2.75" in (stock truck pipe size), single 4" outlet with Diamondeye diesel tailpipe. Still nice and quiet, almost stock quiet, but the truck picked up some pep with it.

I got the exhaust buttoned back up today, it sure does clean up nice for as old as it is. All this is original to the truck.

I'll get installed pics tomorrow, it was pretty dark when it was finally all back into place. I want to capture it as it is, I doubt I'll ever take the time to clean it up the way I have it now.

 

[mclellan83]

Got 95% of the way to getting the radiator to sit all the way in, sawzaw'ed part of it out that had been cut from the previous owner. Still needed to get another inch or so deeper but couldn't reach it, went to borrow the bike shops body saw to get in there but they run different air fittings and couldn't find their adapter so decided to give up for the day. Got it off of him today and he changed it over to our fitting cause he couldn't find his adapter either