There appear to be three problems here:
Loss of coolant, and
Overheating, and also
No heat.
That's a lot of problems to have show up all at once, so it would be good if we could find a common element that would explain all of them.
Coolant loss means that there must be a leak someplace. If y...
Man... I leave for a few weeks in search of employment, and I come back to a bunch of hats. Are hats for non-beta stacks, or is this just new? Or were there always hats and I was in denial? Or are there no hats whatsoever and YOU are in denial? [sigh]
@Zaid - Do you have a cherry picker (engine hoist) or what are you using to pull the engine?
@Zaid - Also, will you have any help or is this all you?
You'll want to pull the engine out the top. Disconnect the wiring harness and leave all the wiring in the car. I like to pull the engine/tranny together on most pulls. If you are doing it by yourself and you have a good engine hoist, I'd suggest you budget between 5-8 hours if you are on it. If you are just taking your time, budget a bit more, probably 8-10 total. Mind you, this is a total SWAG as I've not done it with this engine on your car before.
GM is pretty good about only having one type of connector in the engine bay. You can mark all of the electrical if you want, but more than likely it will be pretty easy to find the proper home when you put stuff back together.
Too bad you don't have a block with 4" bores ... I'd highly suggest you get a set of as-cast LS3 heads to go on your engine. You can get them relatively cheap. Especially when you consider the potential HP numbers.
You shouldn't have to drain the PS fluid.
You also shouldn't have to disconnect them. Just take the pump off of the engine and set it aside.
Hah! It's snowing here right now. I woke up, put on my workout clothes, went to the gym ... and it's closed. I was a little miffed. There's maybe an inch of the white stuff and they close the gym ... absolute heathens!
They shouldn't be too difficult. There should be two bolts for the transmission side (just under the tail of the tranny). The engine mounts may be a bit harder because they are tucked up under the exhaust and out of the way.
Okay, on a stupid whim, I checked to see how much it would cost for a round trip ticket to Qatar ... Seems it's not nearly as bad as I thought. Only $817 for a round trip (with two stops).
Pull all your spark plugs, careful not to mix them up in reference to Which Cylinder they were IN.
Are ALL of them as BAD as That one you show us here?
and IF that plug is the darkest, IS IT FROM THE CYLINDER that your FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR gets its vacuum suction from on the INTAKE RUNNER fee...
I have two impact sockets. Both of them drive fixtures which have 19mm heads. Both are driven by a 1/2" drive impact gun. Here is an image of the two sockets:
The one on the left is an ordinary impact socket. It weighs in about 10oz (maybe?). The one on the right is one specifically designed t...
@Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 where I live, some people will swear by products made in country X. So I wouldn't be surprised to see a response like "because one is made in the US, the other in Taiwan" :)
@Zaid - I did (in my own mind) but I don't think I articulated it well. I'm trying to get some kind of physics backing (or disillusionment ... which ever way it goes, lol) for it.
And a greater mass will stay in motion longer until a greater force causes a change in speed. (Equal and opposite reaction thingy, I think).
Besides getting some physics terms and possibly equations thrown at me over there, I put it up there so those guys on Physics could think about something other than string theory.
I don't know enough about the physics of impact guns, but if they can spin up to the same speed then a heavier socket is going to have more angular momentum and will apply a larger torque
Wikipedia tells me that Power = Torque . Angular velocity. If the power is constant, and the angular velocity is less due to the higher mass of the socket then the torque must be greater
Good question. I suppose you'd use an analogy similar to linear dynamics where using the same power to accelerate two objects of different mass, the lower mass object will accelerate faster and have a larger speed at any given moment
The same concept you can apply to angular momentum
The injectors could be dropping fuel like it's going out of style.
It could be low during running, which is why it's only at 25 bar, then continues to dump into the cylinder after shutdown which drops it further down to 6.86 bar.
Did you watch the GDI video I posted yesterday (I think it was)?
GDI injectors don't run on an "on/off" basis.
They run at different flow rates depending on the amount of voltage/current which is applied to them.
F me. Finally got car back from shop. Today, it refused to start in a parking lot when I went out to play in the snow. Good thing the AAA lady was willing to whang on the starter for a while with her long breaker bar. Guess what I'll be replacing when the part comes in the mail....
There appear to be three problems here:
Loss of coolant, and
Overheating, and also
No heat.
That's a lot of problems to have show up all at once, so it would be good if we could find a common element that would explain all of them.
Coolant loss means that there must be a leak someplace. If y...
I have two impact sockets. Both of them drive fixtures which have 19mm heads. Both are driven by a 1/2" drive impact gun. Here is an image of the two sockets:
The one on the left is an ordinary impact socket. It weighs in about 10oz (maybe?). The one on the right is one specifically designed t...
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