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Stomis' 94 Street Truck - Snail Trail

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Are you still running a pressure gauge directly mounted to the fuel rail?

I did that once and the constant vibration made it start leaking...
 
Justin V said:
Are you still running a pressure gauge directly mounted to the fuel rail?

I did that once and the constant vibration made it start leaking...
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Yes I am. No problems yet but also not many miles.


Finally got a real clutch master cylinder.




And it took me 1.5 hours to make a stupid new linkage for the pedal... I need vega taps damn it. Fine thread is grueling an inch deep...

 
So I pulled the trans down because I had broke the AN adapter in the slave cylinder when I went to take the line off...

I decided for shits and giggles that I would check the pressure plate to slave cylinder distance like I should have. Turns out the throwout was moving 1/2 an inch before it was even hitting the pressure plate. Bet that has a fair bit to do with the slow shifting issues... So Im going to make a 1/4in slave spacer to move it closer to the motor. Should be plenty of room for the fingers to come out with clutch wear and stop wasting so much pedal stroke.
 
Well all the new hydraulic stuff and the clutch works awesome now. The wilwood master having a bleeder is the greatest thing since sliced bread. On another terrible note something is wrong with 3rd gear. The shifter feels like it doesnt engage all the way. Its impossible to shift it quickly and still grinds sometimes when shifting it slow. The trans guy thinks it may have a bent fork causing poor engagement based on what I said about how the shift throw is. So that coming out to get fixed.

Im also strongly considering pulling the trigger on a holley efi ECU and harness. Ive had enough of the games with getting this truck tuned, part of it is my own fault, a lot of it isnt but Im just pretty fed up. I started shopping around for dyno tuning and Im looking at $400-$700 and I fear that trouble shooting my hanging throttle issue is going to add to the cost. Factor in that I want to add meth in the near future, nitrous in the not so distant future and have plans of going to a 408 in the distant future and the concept of spending the coin on a holley system that can self learn the base tune and I can learn to tweek from their starts to sound like a much smarter idea in the long run...
 
Damn apparently the ECU can run a two step for launch and control water meth... Thats like $800 in stuff I was gonna buy with separate controllers...
 
I have been looking at the Holley stuff the last few days. Definitely worth the money. Going to run the holley stuff on my 6.0 cutlass. It's expensive out the gate, but worth it in the long run.
 
beags86 said:
I have been looking at the Holley stuff the last few days. Definitely worth the money. Going to run the holley stuff on my 6.0 cutlass. It's expensive out the gate, but worth it in the long run.
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By the time you tally up dyno tuning, retuning, harnesses, boost controllers, etc etc that Holley can handle in one package its really not very expensive. Plus you get the added benefit of the self learning base tunes and a system that is very user friendly to learn. Im already learning a shit load just reading up on how different things get wired and corresponding tables.
 
So I spent about 4 hours trying to figure out why my truck had no brake lights. Turns out it hasnt since I did the LS swap since for some reason the brake light switch feed ran through the old TBI harness... So that wasnt fun and apparently Ive driven the truck a whole bunch with no brake lights O.o

I also ditched the LED front blinkers. Im sick of the backfeeding and dash lights blinking and all the stupid issues. Put regular bulbs back in and everything works fine...
 
The Holley Dominator ECU can do just about anything you can throw at it in one box. You can download the software for free if you want, and play around with the parameters. It is so custom programmable you can do way more with it than you think. The help menu has built in instruction manual that explains everything too, even has wiring harness diagrams. If you get the Terminator system with trans or DBW control (even though you don't need it) you will get the dominator ECU with it, which is much cheaper than buying it all seperately. Also, if you wait a few more weeks, they will have their Happy Holleydays sale most likely, and you can get 20% off MSRP.
 
folkenheath said:
The Holley Dominator ECU can do just about anything you can throw at it in one box. You can download the software for free if you want, and play around with the parameters. It is so custom programmable you can do way more with it than you think. The help menu has built in instruction manual that explains everything too, even has wiring harness diagrams. If you get the Terminator system with trans or DBW control (even though you don't need it) you will get the dominator ECU with it, which is much cheaper than buying it all seperately. Also, if you wait a few more weeks, they will have their Happy Holleydays sale most likely, and you can get 20% off MSRP.
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Damn it. I'm totally it itching to order I though!So the terminator uses a dominator ecu but comes out cheaper than buying the dominator ecu and harness separate?
 
Only if you get the terminator with the DBW or transmission control. If you don't get it with one of those options then it will come with the HP ECU instead. Now if its all custom then the difference to buy both harnesses may start to add up to to much. But if I were you, I would get the closest terminator kit you can (even if you don't need the DBW or trans control) and then just modifiy the harness or buy the extra one you need to make it work. You can price it both ways but likely it will be cheaper to buy the terminator kit first, then you get a handheld too, so minor changes don't even need a laptop, but you can still hook up the laptop to customize whatever you want.
 
folkenheath said:
Only if you get the terminator with the DBW or transmission control. If you don't get it with one of those options then it will come with the HP ECU instead. Now if its all custom then the difference to buy both harnesses may start to add up to to much. But if I were you, I would get the closest terminator kit you can (even if you don't need the DBW or trans control) and then just modifiy the harness or buy the extra one you need to make it work. You can price it both ways but likely it will be cheaper to buy the terminator kit first, then you get a handheld too, so minor changes don't even need a laptop, but you can still hook up the laptop to customize whatever you want.
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Yeah I did the research at lunch. Its $2800 for the DWB/trans kit for terminator and its $2000 for the dominator ecu and $900 for the harnesses for LS1. Im just gonna throw the HP on the summit card for now and upgrade later if I need to.

Also does the Holley sale translate over to summit? I cant really swing buying the thing cash right now so I gotta get it through summit. Im slipping the one past the goalie (wife) for the moment. :D
 
Stomis said:
Yeah I did the research at lunch. Its $2800 for the DWB/trans kit for terminator and its $2000 for the dominator ecu and $900 for the harnesses for LS1. Im just gonna throw the HP on the summit card for now and upgrade later if I need to.

Also does the Holley sale translate over to summit? I cant really swing buying the thing cash right now so I gotta get it through summit. Im slipping the one past the goalie (wife) for the moment. :D
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pretty sure the sale translates to all holley suppliers, it their sale not summit.
If summit doesn't have it find another supplier that does.
 
Throw up a list of everything you are going to add option wise to the HP system. VSS, Oil Pressure, meth..........

I'll write up a base tune for it. Also put up what injectors you have again...
 
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