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Finally changed my rocker cover gaskets in my V7 wagon. Process wasnt too bad but i made some silly mistakes....oops

Mistake #1: gasket wasn't seated in the groove properly on the bottom so oil leaked EVERYWHERE when i started it up and it got oil pressure. Off everything comes again

Mistake #2: Snapped a rocker cover bolt inside the head....DOH! *cue expletives* Out comes the drill and the easy outs....didnt work. so helicoil it was. That worked thankfully

 

Anyway after two days its all done and im just that little bit closer to being prepped for the Megameet in a few weeks :D

 

Heres the pool of oil...

 

and heres that damn snapped rocker cover bolt

Lesson learned....ALWAYS USE A TORQUE WRENCH!!!!

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3 minutes ago, boyracer693 said:

Mistake #2: Snapped a rocker cover bolt inside the head....DOH! *cue expletives* Out comes the drill and the easy outs....didnt work. so helicoil it was. That worked thankfully

 

Dam you must have really tried to do it up tight. I think the manual says 18nm so not much at all

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So I fixed the electric aerial on the gc8 in the weekend, it was stuck half way out and all bent.

After testing and getting no power at the plug on the motor I pulled the radio out and found that whoever put the radio in didn't bother hooking up the aerial signal wire. I connected that and fixed all the other connections for the radio which were joined with the old "twist and tape" but the muppet used packing tape instead of electric/insulator tape. Who does that?? Then straightened all the aerial segments, used crc and manually moved them all to clean the grit out from the joins. I then moved it up and down a whole lot to get the thing nice and lubed up.

 

The aerial now stands very erect B| I never realised how tall these things were, seems every one I have seen is broken!

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8 hours ago, Kiwiflyboy said:

 

Dam you must have really tried to do it up tight. I think the manual says 18nm so not much at all

Nah, they break easy with age. When it comes time for me to do my rocker covers I'll be replacing bolts and rubber washers!
@IZichard The motor on my old GC8 one broke, just got a short rubber whip antenna; looked the part and effective- also never needed a motor.

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3 minutes ago, boon said:

Oh man having one of those break was pretty much my worst nightmare when I did my leaky rocker cover.

I figured it would be an engine-out job to fix properly :/

if it was a bottom one; yeah, if a top one- you should be alright to just remove all the battery and water reservoir stuff.
I removed a camshaft with engine in place once, so like it all depends how committed you are to being too lazy to pull the engine.

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12 hours ago, boyracer693 said:

Lesson learned....ALWAYS USE A TORQUE WRENCH!!!!

 

Tbh you don't need to use one, 10mm bolts require so little tension. I see people up there that the recommended setting is 18nm, you'd have to buy a small 1/4" torque wrench for that and they aren't cheap. You just need to learn to be sensible when tightening small bolts and nuts (such as suspension tophat nuts) and do them with a 1/4" socket just tight enough. 

 

I bought a parts car recently and the rear tophat nuts were so tight I had to use a 3/8" breaker bar to loosen them, and whoever put them on also managed to snap one of the studs, so one strut only had 2 studs holding it in place! Muppets

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16 hours ago, Batbaruman said:

gonna test it on the way to the meet today. dunno if it'll help much...  and looks super ugly. could it be a fire hazard?

 

edit : it didnt help :(

 

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Ditch. your. dinosaur. fuel. pump.

 

I did some hunting around the internets and a Aeromotive Stealth 340 will probably out-flow it and costs all of like $200.

 

You'll have to ditch the bling surge setup though.

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4 hours ago, boon said:

 

 

Ditch. your. dinosaur. fuel. pump.

 

I did some hunting around the internets and a Aeromotive Stealth 340 will probably out-flow it and costs all of like $200.

 

You'll have to ditch the bling surge setup though.

just spent some time researching this too. its damn cheap and the flow is more than what i'll need which is awesome considering how cheap it is : http://realstreetperformance.com/Fuel-Pump-Comparison-Test.html

 

aeromotives 'application table' suggests this isn't a drop in fitment however, is there an easy solution to this? https://www.aeromotiveinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Aeromotive_Stealth_340_325_Application_guide.pdf

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So the 'dinosaur' pump outperforms the aeromotive all the way from 55psi fuel pressure (15psi boost) to 100psi fuel pressure (60psi boost). So it seems disingenuous to claim the 044 is anything but the industry standard despite it's age or price.

 

Can you do as well with less money? Possibly. Is it worth ditching a complete fuel surge system which is an entirely functional safeguard for your motor? Questionable.

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On 4/13/2017 at 3:49 PM, Batbaruman said:

just spent some time researching this too. its damn cheap and the flow is more than what i'll need which is awesome considering how cheap it is : http://realstreetperformance.com/Fuel-Pump-Comparison-Test.html

 

aeromotives 'application table' suggests this isn't a drop in fitment however, is there an easy solution to this? https://www.aeromotiveinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Aeromotive_Stealth_340_325_Application_guide.pdf

 

Mine was drop-in, just put the factory sock on it and carried on. Had to change the connector on the power cable though.

On 4/13/2017 at 4:12 PM, GC8E2DD said:

So the 'dinosaur' pump outperforms the aeromotive all the way from 55psi fuel pressure (15psi boost) to 100psi fuel pressure (60psi boost). So it seems disingenuous to claim the 044 is anything but the industry standard despite it's age or price.

 

Can you do as well with less money? Possibly. Is it worth ditching a complete fuel surge system which is an entirely functional safeguard for your motor? Questionable.

 

Cool, it outperforms the Aeromotive for maybe 3% of actual real world driving, at the expense of sounding like someone drilling concrete in the boot.

Both pumps will flow enough for something like 700hp. 

If someone made a quiet, small, efficient in-line pump then I would recommend that, since he already has the surge setup.

But considering he could sell the surge setup and easily cover the cost of going back to a high-end in-tank, unless fuel surge is a serious concern for him it seems like a no-brainer.

 

And just for a laugh, here's a dataset showing the Aeromotive outperforming the 044 at everything except ridiculous fuel pressure:

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Replaced knacked front brake pads, fluid and bled the brakes, first time ever but managed to get it done in only a few hours!(lol).
They feel mint now.


Reminds me I have to do my front pads, almost 20,000km since I got my car new in September last year and they're starting to squeal.

Anyone got recommendations for good front pad replacements on Brembos?


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Well, got sick of my wireless phone charger dock not consistently charging the phone with it plugged in to the back of the head unit, so I soldered up some wires to a 12V USB car charger and stole the wires from the cigarette lighter light and hooked it up to that. Then I accidentally broke the knob on the drivers side Air vent, soo- I put the boost gauge in the vent.

 

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Also discovered that My spare wheel- which was a full size wheel, I hadn't bothered having a proper look... 
Turns out it was a curbed up GTB Rim with a flat, and chunks missing from the sidewall....., so 5x100, poked and flat tyre..
Made a weight reduction- cos I got to throw it in the skip bin.

 

Tune tomorrow :D

 

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