🔧 BUILD The seemingly never ending LSA GTO project.

[CMNTMXR57]

Same, mine is in the garage somewhere.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

New wheels look great !

 

[Ryebread]

1,806 miles later I made it back from power tour without a single issue, my left leg kinda hurts though.

 

[Ryebread]

Ben got a video of me making a pass. I really need a driver mod as that's still way too slow for this setup.

 

[Mook]

Hard to tell but did the car pull to the wall a bit?

 

[Ryebread]

Car went perfectly straight, but that one wall at Indy is at a weird angle.

 

[Ryebread]

Did an autocross today, was good to actually rag on the car a bit. It can turn more by using the throttle now. Placed last out of 7 in my class which didn't surprise me with the class I wound up in. Overall my average was near the middle out of 160 cars total.

I noticed the sway bar links were making noise on power tour when I had to drive in the grass and now they have left the chat after 5 hard runs. Gonna order some this week.

 

[Ryebread]

Threw the sway bar links on the other day so no more clunks. And then I happened to open Facebook the other night and I scored some VX taillights, according to the guy they were the last set available.

 

[IDAFC21]

Congrats!! Those tails are sooooooo much better looking than the standard GTO ones

 

[Ryebread]

Yeah it's a pretty big improvement. I like how the whole clear section seems to light up when either the turn signal or the reverse light is on. Might be because of the LED bulbs.

 

[IDAFC21]

I have no idea what bulbs are in my reverse lights, but they've been there ever since I bought the car all the way back in in aught 8, and they still haven't burnt out and they are BRIGHT as hell. Really makes reversing at night nice, especially w/ the tinted windows.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I think it depends on color. Silver, Blue and red they look great on. Some of the other colors, not so much.

 

[Ryebread]

It's been interesting this week. Finally got a purge valve back on so it doesn't smell like fuel any more, but it's never that easy. I lost a couple exhaust hangers and the whole thing was dragging. Not badly but it still had to be fixed. Fixed that but while I was under there I saw the pinion seal leaking. Ordered a new one so I get to do that this weekend.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Since you did the driveshaft, did you remove the nut holding the companion flange to the diff input shaft? If so, it may just need some additional grunt on the nut. Mine did the same after I changed to a U-Joint, and I gave it a little extra torque and no leak since.

 

[Ryebread]

I did not, but I checked the book I keep of maintenance and it looks like I did the seal at 55k and I'm at 107k right now, so I figured maybe it was the the lifespan of the seal.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Yea, I guess it doesn't hurt. I was just thinking if you were in there to do the shaft and undid the nut on the flange, it could be that simple.

 

[Ryebread]

After usps sent my seal from New York to Detroit to New Jersey and then to me making it days late, I got it changed out. It's not leaking anymore so that's good.

Then this happened, caught a pothole that was hard to see and messed up one of the wheels already. It didn't hurt the balance so I'll have to try and get it fixed over winter.

 

[IDAFC21]

damnit

 

[Ryebread]

Sometimes I think this car hates me. I kept smelling coolant and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out it was the coolant for the supercharger. I topped it off with water and ran the pump till I found the leak. Fixed the leak and went to drain the water, and the aluminum bolt that is the drain plug snapped off. Must have been cross threaded from the manufacturer. So had to tear it apart, drill out the broken part and re tap the hole. Got it back together and filled it with pink Audi coolant so not only it looks different but it smells different, should there be any future leaks.

Then I go for a drive yesterday on some back roads and everything was cool until I got on the freeway to go back home and a massive vibration developed over 55mph. Limped it home and somehow the driveshaft bolts had worked them selves loose. Retorqued them with red loctite and so far so good. Going to have to check them weekly and make sure they're good.

It's got probably at least 1000 miles to do next week between the Holden cookout in Indy and the LS fest in Kentucky. It just needs to stay together a bit longer.

 

[IDAFC21]

#GTOlife

 

[The Beast]

Sometimes I think this car hates me. I kept smelling coolant and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out it was the coolant for the supercharger. I topped it off with water and ran the pump till I found the leak. Fixed the leak and went to drain the water, and the aluminum bolt that is the drain plug snapped off. Must have been cross threaded from the manufacturer. So had to tear it apart, drill out the broken part and re tap the hole. Got it back together and filled it with pink Audi coolant so not only it looks different but it smells different, should there be any future leaks.

Then I go for a drive yesterday on some back roads and everything was cool until I got on the freeway to go back home and a massive vibration developed over 55mph. Limped it home and somehow the driveshaft bolts had worked them selves loose. Retorqued them with red loctite and so far so good. Going to have to check them weekly and make sure they're good.

It's got probably at least 1000 miles to do next week between the Holden cookout in Indy and the LS fest in Kentucky. It just needs to stay together a bit longer.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

There is a group from here heading to the Indy bash.

Would love to do, but too much to get done, not enough time.