What have you done to your vehicle lately?

[texasnurse]

Been coming home from work and heading to the car port everyday for nearly 2 weeks, but my '94 Chevy is now running smooth with a new (reman) long block. Picking up a new battery for it tomorrow morning. Rebuilt the throttle body and replaced the distributor as well. Both needed it. Removed all vacuum lines except for the brake booster and MAP sensor. EGR valve deleted.

Running like a new truck.

Spring for Holly EFI, you'll never look back


Sent with my IPhone with electronics and fuzzy logic...

 

[grasshopperglock]

Spring for Holly EFI, you'll never look back


Sent with my IPhone with electronics and fuzzy logic...

What'd you put a Holly fuel injection on? This is mental robbery unless you have pictures.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

What'd you put a Holly fuel injection on? This is mental robbery unless you have pictures.

Put it on YG's truck, but would only be truly beneficial if the HP was bumped up.

 

[grasshopperglock]

Put it on YG's truck, but would only be truly beneficial if the HP was bumped up.

I'm tracking. On the vortex. It already had throttle body injection. From what I remember, it's choice of heads and intake on the vortex that wake them up.


For $500....a LS1 can slide where the vortex was. A basic LS1 is everything that can be done to a vortex, plus some. Cross bolt mains, heat dissipating alloy, huge port heads. About a 100# lighter. And runs like a bat with 87 octane.

I have a neighbor that's into drifting cars. You'll see a Nissan 240 in his driveway. Some high winding Japanese motor? Nope, a junk yard Chevy LS1. They pull them out the trucks and stick headers on it.

They've made so many, they're cheap cheap and it's a brutal motor.

 

[Brains]

I'll just leave this here for your perusal:
Big Bang - How to Squeeze 1308 HP Out of a Vortec 5.3L

The LS platform is pretty much the best thing going in factory engine technology.

 

[TheDan]

The Land Rover developed a small coolant leak a few weeks ago and I've been having trouble finding it. I decided to add some fluorescent dye to help track it down. Wherever the leak is coming from, apparently it hits the fan, as the fan is streaked with dye and under blacklight the entire front of the engine bay now looks like Starry Night.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Wouldn't that likely mean radiator?

 

[TheDan]

Nope... looks to be a fitting on the water pump.

 

[deemus]

Been coming home from work and heading to the car port everyday for nearly 2 weeks, but my '94 Chevy is now running smooth with a new (reman) long block. Picking up a new battery for it tomorrow morning. Rebuilt the throttle body and replaced the distributor as well. Both needed it. Removed all vacuum lines except for the brake booster and MAP sensor. EGR valve deleted.

Running like a new truck.

I have a friend who is a mechanic. He said the Vortec motors put in Chevys from 00-04 were maybe the best ever made. He said they used the best parts, and rarely malfunction. He offered to buy my 02 Tahoe. He told me I should keep it forever, as it will likely run up to 500K miles.

I have over 300K on it now, and it runs like a bat out of hell. WHen I am on the interstate, I have to really watch my speed, or I will be going 90.

He also told me the motors after 04 have a part inside that breaks somewhere from 120-150K miles, and to avoid them.

 

[Younggun]

Had to concentrate on other priorities and remove upgrades from the budget.

Turns out I cranked the truck with the new motor 23 years to the day from when it rolled of the assembly line. Kinda cool I think.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I have a friend who is a mechanic. He said the Vortec motors put in Chevys from 00-04 were maybe the best ever made. He said they used the best parts, and rarely malfunction. He offered to buy my 02 Tahoe. He told me I should keep it forever, as it will likely run up to 500K miles.

I have over 300K on it now, and it runs like a bat out of hell. WHen I am on the interstate, I have to really watch my speed, or I will be going 90.

He also told me the motors after 04 have a part inside that breaks somewhere from 120-150K miles, and to avoid them.

What about transmissions?

I have 135K on my 2001, I still love it.

 

[deemus]

What about transmissions?

I have 135K on my 2001, I still love it.

We didn't discuss it, but I had to rebuild mine at about 250K miles. Those transmissions do have a flaw in them. THe yoke has a problem. The tranny guy told me the factory used a soft metal inside the yoke on some part. I had my tranny rebuilt in 2015, then it failed about a year later. THe guy who rebuilt the second time told me about the issue, and he was surprised my old shop didn't use the upgraded part.

With the upgraded part, he said it should last through the remaining life of the car.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Good to know.


My 1991 transmission lasted 150K, but I drove it like I stole it from day 1.

 

[rman]

changed the battery in my wife's car. 3rd Interstate in 2 years... so I returned it to Costco and got my money back (this one was dated 04/17).

I started thinking how weird, I miss the old Costco batteries, even though they all come from Johnson Control.

Anyways, put in a new EverStart Maxx or whatever from WalMart - main reason is for warranty purposes, WalMarts are 24/7 and everywhere....

Well as I pulled away from Costco... BAM! Atlernator light lights up LMAO.
Head to WalMart and buy a new battery tender (i miss my old $20 shumachers, gave them to the lady that bought my old powerwheels) and ordered up a new OE alt. off ebay for $125.... sometimes being a deal seeker means waiting lol.

 

[rman]

running interstates in my F250 as well. They started dying winter 2015 at about 12 mos old
replaced 04/16 and have recently seen the alt light for a few seconds.

Will probably replace them with EverStarts also, just for accessibility, and eventually upgrade the alt with something massive lol.

still need some trans solenoids and pan, a dual steering stabilizer, and install the front sway bar bushings.... Poor truck doesn't get much love

 

[F350-6]

Didn't do anything to my truck today, but did replace the HPOP and did an EGR delete on the nieces 2003 powerstroke. Does that count for anything?

 

[pronstar]

I cleaned out the evaporator box on my Suburban, was full of 19 years' worth of pine needles and debris. Was so full that it was clogging my drain line, soaking the passenger footwell. Filled an entire vacuum cleaner canister sucking it all out.

Since I have rubber floor mats, I have no idea how long this has been going on, but I suspect for a while. Thankfully, no mold...hopefully no rust under the carpet, either.

 

[Kar98]

In light of the recent rise in gas prices, I took out it of Sport mode, and turned on the eco function, too. Back to 27 mpg in the city, woot!

 

[rman]

Didn't do anything to my truck today, but did replace the HPOP and did an EGR delete on the nieces 2003 powerstroke. Does that count for anything?

what hpop? mine was relatively new when i bulletproofed, but want to put in a terminator one day as preventative maint...

Sent from my SIG Sauer

 

[F350-6]

what hpop? mine was relatively new when i bulletproofed, but want to put in a terminator one day as preventative maint...

Sent from my SIG Sauer

She went with the Bosch as it comes with a new case since the early models have a history of the case cracking. The T500 uses your existing case so the cracking is a possiblity. The Adrenaline was out of her budget, as was buying the Bosch and sending in for the upgrade from Terminator.