Originally Posted by lewdog:
Ricer? I don't get it.
I think they are saying my seats are boring.
Went to my first car show today. Parked next to a heavily modified Hellcat. Which was ignored for the most part.
My car was a big hit. People had heard about the Scat Pack Shaker, seen Fast and Furious 7 or watched the episode of Fast & Loud where they put the new Shaker engine into the old Scat Pack. But, they had never seen one in person. They are asking me all these questions, taking pics and discussing it with strangers while looking at my car. There were tons of very high end cars around me. It was weird.
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
I think they are saying my seats are boring.
Went to my first car show today. Parked next to a heavily modified Hellcat. Which was ignored for the most part.
My car was a big hit. People had heard about the Scat Pack Shaker, seen Fast and Furious 7 or watched the episode of Fast & Loud where they put the new Shaker engine into the old Scat Pack. But, they had never seen one in person. They are asking me all these questions, taking pics and discussing it with strangers while looking at my car. There were tons of very high end cars around me. It was weird.
Originally Posted by hometeam:
Hood insulation, like any insulation, is there to block noise and keep in heat so the hood paint is unaffected, as well as helping in cold weather.
It also serves as a smothering blanket underneath the hood in the event of a fire.
Good to know. No cold here so just lessening the heat to my hood paint I guess. [Reply]
Starter went bad last week, didn't have time until tonight to change it out. I crawled up under the car and started removing the old starter. As I did so, I noticed the short mounting tab was actually broken off of the starter, and the bolt was still in the engine block, so the starter was not connected on that side. On the other side, I started to remove the long bolt, and much to my dismay, the screw mount on the engine block for the far side fell down with the starter.. screw mounting point broken.
This is fairly common on these ls1 motors. Its because the starter torques the little tab too hard and over time it breaks the starter, the other mounting point then takes all the torque until it snaps the starter OUT of the engine block, as it breaks along the thin threaded tab.
The fix for this, is BEFORE it happens, to install the 'truck starter' which has a different mounting point on the small bolt/tab side, where you use a long bolt on that side coupled with a stronger starter design. I already had the truck starter to put in it when I found out i had a broken block mounting point.
There are TWO fixes for this.
ONE, a single guy makes a bracket, that you bolt into the location, and it mounts with the trans housing bolts, and it creates a new, permanently fixed mounting point. $370 + shipping + install
TWO, have someone weld the cast aluminium block piece back on, and retap it. unknown price, but cheaper than 400 bucks, (im thinking 1-150 IF I can find someone to do it, and IF it holds. Depending on the quality of the wed, they can last forever, or 2 months, its a crap shoot.
The dilemma is the money. I cant really afford either, since I JUST got the car tuned, and JUST put brand new wheels and tires on it, to the tune of about a grand.
My question for CP is, what do ya'll think, and does anyone even fairly local to me know a welder that can do the job right, WHILE the engine is in the car. Or even better, can someone fabricate me a bracket for much cheaper that achieves the same thing?? SAUTO??? [Reply]
I would personally go with the bracket instead of welding but that's just me..I would have a little more faith in the bracket holding up
But if it boils down to the price I would do research on some local welders and find a guy who does it and see how much it would be..you might have some luck calling farm shops who weld on all kinds of different things..maybe you can luck into someone there who would do it [Reply]
