Buinicorn the 1964 Skylark wagon sleeper

[SuperBuickGuy]

Skid Factory Al, he would be proud of you

Another Youtube channel that has interacted with the Skid Factory are building a V6 Buick (Holden Commodore) in a new project they are undertaking. They are not too excited in this first video but by the 2nd they are a bit more keen.

Link to the first video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1byBuHY6hs

not proud now, last night I was shopping for all the connectors I need and stumbled across EFILive - who builds a harness. It's on its way. The 'other' choice that led me to spend the 16 or so hours this would take is that the price was 2k - efilive is 10% of that.... annoying that I didn't find it earlier, but it will save me lots of time - and in an effort to have the two projects done this year... it is what it is.... that and the cost of those connectors was $100 - which is 1/3 of the cost of the completed harness.

I'll check out the Buick - sounds cool.

*edit* Nugget Garage, those boys are nuts - I watched their delivery truck V8 Mazda build...

[SuperBuickGuy]

Been watching your progress. Also been see in the back ground your "Land Crusher"!!
Looks like a Excellent Off Road Rig. I have multiple addictions, and one of them is Off Roading, mostly Exploring! Have a mild built 87 Samurai that had been too some Great Places that people Have Nat. Geo. Subscriptions to see.

that build is FJ4Overland. I love Sammis at some point I'm sure I'll build one.

[Captain]

Been watching your progress. Also been see in the back ground your "Land Crusher"!!
Looks like a Excellent Off Road Rig. I have multiple addictions, and one of them is Off Roading, mostly Exploring! Have a mild built 87 Samurai that had been too some Great Places that people Have Nat. Geo. Subscriptions to see.

[65RHDEER]

Skid Factory Al, he would be proud of you

Another Youtube channel that has interacted with the Skid Factory are building a V6 Buick (Holden Commodore) in a new project they are undertaking. They are not too excited in this first video but by the 2nd they are a bit more keen.

Link to the first video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1byBuHY6hs

[SuperBuickGuy]

onward

the valve covers came with nice, aluminum brackets to mount the coils... they don't work, so cleanup the old stuff


oh how not much fun this is


it's really not hard work, basically you're just removing all you don't need (call it an even 2/3rds)

side note, I've been griping about missing parts - like the gaskets and the fittings for this... found them stuff inside the TB

this is supposed to be the MAP sensor.... too big, don't know what I'm going to do yet. fortunately I can mix and match sensors so it's not a huge deal, but it's still an issue

unneeded wires.... the problem is I have to add some back in because I changed sensors and I'm using drive-by-cable rather then drive by wire

[SuperBuickGuy]

Metropolitan interchange....

when gay spiderman went nuts.

[silver_bullet]

The ever popular "bundle of snakes" (or maybe "explosion in a spaghetti factory). I know you'll pull it together.

Dan

Metropolitan interchange....

[1946Austin]

The newer computer controlled engines intimidate me. All those wires are scary!

[DanStokes]

The ever popular "bundle of snakes" (or maybe "explosion in a spaghetti factory). I know you'll pull it together.

Dan

[SuperBuickGuy]

*sigh*

the longest/hardest part is getting rid of all the stuff I don't need

[SuperBuickGuy]

the most important tools to work with electronics


what grease looks like when it's no longer good.... not shiney


as you can clearly see in this picture, the head bolts have been torqued to 25/50/75 for the big bolts and 25 for the small bolts


more picture taking goodness, what you see here is a head bolt with 4 slots cut into it so it can be used as a ream.... ARP wants $53 for a ream, yeah, no



time to pull injectors and get bathed in gas....



pulled, this is the moment I realize I don't have new seals

[65RHDEER]

Finding a fix that was just something you missed that didn't stuff other things up is a win.

When something like this happens you think about the thinking time you've wasted working out how you were going to fix the problem you didn't even have!

I had one yesterday, a CV joint in a tailsharft, couldn't workout how the flange was retained, then it dawned on me, hit the flange with a hammer to compress the internal clip!

[SuperBuickGuy]

oops.... I thought I'd pushed the lifters down, I didn't... they work fine and I've ordered the upgraded pushrods

I'm not sure the gasket is going to work better then the o-rings.... fight for another day, though
you can see the valve covers don't clear - ordered new valve covers (which were actually cheaper then a 1/2" spacer)





in other news, I'm going to use the microsquirt to control the 4L80e - when I looked for a wagon before, I was thinking of putting the 430 TT motor in it; I may do that to break in the 430 motor - bonus is it would literally be plug and play since the wiring and sensors will be the same - I just have to think about wire length when I wire up the motor. The benefit, to catch people up, is it makes the motor or trans different units - to the point I may use two sensors (the trans controller needs water temp, rpm and tps) - if I use MS on all the various motors, it's a can bus connection; however, I may avoid that so I can keep the flexibility

[65RHDEER]

The issue with the rockers I think comes down to the final geometry. Looks to me like they would be easy to shim higher if they need that, they look to have plenty of bolt.
I assume the "sit to low" is regarding the pushrod length, shorter pushrods.

I feel I'm not telling you anything you haven't already thought about

As per normal they just doesn't fit like the stock ones did!

[SuperBuickGuy]

alright, here's your porn pictures....



and a gratuitous money shot


there, y'all happy now? good, now wipe the drool off