55 in NH build

[daveshilling]

Originally Posted by Kevin_C

Ya I'm hoping the brakes are good. I just rebuilt the rears and I have a Wilwood adjuster off the the hydroboost. The PO installed the hydro and complained about the brakes but I believe he may have had his lines crossed.

I still haven't messed with my ebrake yet. I picked up a Camaro electric setup that I'm going to try to wire into the Camaro center console.

I haven't either.. I like that the later vette rears are setup for it so easily, but I'm wrestling with:

• A push-button "Parking brake" that would be essentially useless in an emergency, or
• A foot pedal "Emergency Brake" that I can control the amount of pressure with manually if something were to happen with my brakes somehow.

The foot pedal brake will attach right to the hood hinge bolts like it was made to fit there, but adds some clutter and additional installation complexity.

The E-Stopp style makes the remote mount easy, the button is cool, but if my brakes go out it just locks the rears completely...after seeing that video of the red Impala (I think it was) lose brakes and just smash into parked cars at a red light, the old school pedal brake feels like a lil insurance policy.

I guess have no reason to assume I'd lose all braking power front and rear, but with basically zero safety features in these trucks, maybe ONE feature is good?

[1project2many]

Originally Posted by daveshilling

I haven't either.. I like that the later vette rears are setup for it so easily, but I'm wrestling with:

• A push-button "Parking brake" that would be essentially useless in an emergency, or
• A foot pedal "Emergency Brake" that I can control the amount of pressure with manually if something were to happen with my brakes somehow.

The foot pedal brake will attach right to the hood hinge bolts like it was made to fit there, but adds some clutter and additional installation complexity.

The E-Stopp style makes the remote mount easy, the button is cool, but if my brakes go out it just locks the rears completely...after seeing that video of the red Impala (I think it was) lose brakes and just smash into parked cars at a red light, the old school pedal brake feels like a lil insurance policy.

I guess have no reason to assume I'd lose all braking power front and rear, but with basically zero safety features in these trucks, maybe ONE feature is good?

Hmmm....

Everyone loves electrical things these days. I wonder how adaptable a trailer brake controller is to an OE electric park brake. Or maybe a transmission mounted drum brake made from trailer brake would provide enough braking for an emergency?

Just thinking...

[dsraven]

If doing a driveline brake and you're fabbing stuff just use a disc brake. It will mount easier to the yoke maybe.

[Kevin_C]

Well lets just say progress has been minimal and my motivation has been dropping with the temperature. I've started installing my Vintage Air setup. Condenser and Evap is installed. I haven't decided if I'm going use their hard lines and relocate where I was planning to installing my overflow and washer tank or get creative. Do to the fact that my AC compressor is down low on the driver side I picked up some rectangular tube to make a cross bar that I can support the lines with. While looking at the mount that we made to adapt a SD7 compressor to a Gen V engine I realized that the ac manifold will interfere with the mount. I was able to redesign the mount moving it forward eliminating all the spacers and had a friend draw it up in cad. We 3d printed it just so I could test before having the parts laser cut. Parts are do to ship on friday. I think I may take some CAD courses in the future along with maybe a buying a 3d printer. ;-) it was pretty cool being able to print a mockup

[greystoke]

Very cool!!!

[6DoF]

3D to reality is super satisfying!

[57FleetsideC4]

Very nice fab work!! Steve

[Kevin_C]

Finally had a chance to get the bracket welded. I ended up making a front cross bar so the ac line will have something to mount to and not hang.

[Kevin_C]

well its been a while. Finally got the garage built but the summer when by too fast. I made all my AC and heater lines. Ran them similar to Dan's build. Got the stereo components laid out. I just need to finish a few things and then its off to get electrical done.

[Jason 56]

Garage came out really nice. I ran my AC and coolant lines in a similar matter. Yours came out cleaner than mine. A mechanic friend recommended I run an oil catch can in the PCV system. GM is having a problem with the direct injection. The valves are not sealing with increased mileage. With no fuel flowing over the valves, and only oil vapor from the PCV system. The valves get gummed up and can’t be cleaned. I was shock how much oil mine catches. Just thought I’d pass that along.

[Kevin_C]

Thanks Jason, been trying to build the garage for 4 years. The price kept outpacing my savings. Wife said this year or we are remodeling the master bath... They start electrical in a couple weeks.

I watched a lot of post on these new direct port injection engines. Its crazy the amount of oil the puddles in the intake. I ran a Might Mouse can running the valley and valve covers to the can and then exhaust back to the unused brake vacuum port on the back of the intake. I was able to buy factory push lock connectors so removal is a breeze.