Cascade Crew

blue89 · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:25 am Post subject:

Well thats convenient. Drinkin and singin

QwkTrip · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:

Drunk employees make bad products. Happy employees make good products. If the drunk employees are happy then what happens?

iansane · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:50 am Post subject:

Spohn products?

Alphius · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:54 am Post subject:

So do they make good products poorly or bad products extremely well? Wink

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:18 pm Post subject:

I don't buy that one, Jon. I've seen a lot of good-natured guy's hack stuff together like you wouldn't believe. Conversely I've seen drunks do a good job.

I think the quality of work comes down to the pride of the craftsman, and the effect of alcohol is on a sliding apex. When you drink stuff gets real easy till you get drunk then it starts going sideways fast.

QwkTrip · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject:

I'm really liking the look of no coils. Smile

I have some red wrinkled paint I'm going to shoot the VCs with. The coils themselves are mounted down below the headers. Wiring harness is run up the front of the motor and I'm thinking about mounting the PCM underneath the battery tray area since I also moved the fuseblock to about the same location.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 11:11 pm Post subject:

New PS pump I see? Cool

iansane · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:49 am Post subject:

Yup! The part number you found had too small shaft diameter (that's what she said!) and I couldn't find a pulley for it. I think this is off of a new 5.3 impala SS? The reservoir line was a fricken snake but I just trimmed it up a little. Very Happy

iansane · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:30 pm Post subject:

Been a bit since I tossed up any pictures here. But I just cut yet another hole in my hood. What is this world coming to?

I also mounted radiator/fans/intercooler/all the cold side piping. Need a few tbolt clamps and my BOV to show up so I can finalize that and start ducting.

I think I need a real camera instead of just my cellphone.

iansane · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject:

You know what makes a weekend great?

A bit of TIG. Very Happy

The center collector piece was all MIG'd and looks like chicken shat but everything else is TIG'd and while it doesn't look pro, it holds and it will all be satin black anyways!

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject:

What's going on with that downpipe? Are you building a sled pulling rig and want a hood stack? Laughing

iansane · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:01 pm Post subject:

I think I'd call it more of an UP pipe. Laughing

I'm going to run it with the hood exhaust (didn't you see the hole in the previous picture?!) until I get a tubular kmember and then route the exhaust back.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject:

Totally just noticed that hole! Laughing

Looks like you have plenty of room for the downpipe over the passenger header and down the back.

iansane · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:33 pm Post subject:

About dang time.

iansane · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:49 am Post subject:

For whatever reason, after ceramic coating the crossover had warped about a 1/4". Not close enough for me to 'pull it in' with the vbands and it would've just cracked fairly soon anyway. I tacked in a flex joint on the longer side and am having a local buddy fully weld it together and I guess I'll have to have it recoated. Damn.

In other news I'm rerouting my front light harness all the way up to the front bumper bar and across since there is no upper core support anymore but I've ran into a hiccup. I have an stray black wire that I'm not sure what it goes to. My MO so far has been to cut random location grounds so I can extend and locate most of them in communal ground studs along the frame rail but for some reason I'm not sure if this is a ground because it comes out of the light harness in the wrong direction. Aside from powering up the car and seeing what doesn't work, or stripping back the looming and wrap is there a good way to figure out what this wire is? I'm drawing a black here for some reason. It's all the way up on the passenger side. I can't think of anything up there that would need grounding...

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:38 pm Post subject:

On a Camaro the wiper motor ground (yes, the wiper motor Rolling Eyes

) goes into the headlight harness and grounds at the communal ground on the radiator core support, but that is on the driver's side.

iansane · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:09 pm Post subject:

Found it. I'm retarded. It was the airhorn trigger wire. Very Happy

However, now I have an issue with the marker lights/turn signals. I added back in all the grounds I can find and fixed an extension I did back when I was 20 that was some regular butt connectors and cheap electrical tape. Now, with the parking lights on I get all the lights on but the left turn indicator on the dash is partially illuminated. I hit the left blinker and it functions normally. I hit the right blinker and it doesn't work at all. I hit the hazards and it functions normally. Embarassed

And I can't remember, do the rear quarter panel running lights blink like the front quarter lights with the turn signals?

iansane · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject:

Found a chaffed wire and fixed that. Now the blinkers, markers, and fogs all work correctly. I had forgotten how bright 55w HIDs were in a true projector housing!

Started reassembling all the hotside stuff and putting together the air intake and vacuum/boost hoses. I still haven't decided if I should run the 42lb or 60lb injectors. My turbo is pretty small and from most of the calculators I see my 42s 'should' support 500 crank hp. But I'm not sure of real world numbers.

I need to pick up a remote power steering reservoir and the adjustable thermo housing. I need a tune. I need to pop the plugs/wires in and figure out what I'll do about the upper radiator hose.