🔧 BUILD Twincharged 3800 Malibu

[Mook]

All we get it one pic?

 

[sktchy]

All we get it one pic?

Hahahaha now I wanna litter this place up with my hot garbage even more

 

[sktchy]

And those seats are sick.

 

[v6buicks]

TCG needs to know more about your madness. 99% done you say? I really hope you take some videos of this thing making all the wild noises. This car should be an animal.

 

[ASlowV6]

I had to do some modification to the terminator harness to make it work. I believe I have all the kinks worked out and it should fire now, but I wanted to wrap up my exhaust first so as to not irritate the neighbors too bad.

 

[sktchy]

Don't be a pussy, I'll fire off straight pipes at 3 am on a Friday morning once in a while to keep my neighbors on their toes.

 

[ASlowV6]

Don't be a pussy, I'll fire off straight pipes at 3 am on a Friday morning once in a while to keep my neighbors on their toes.

I used to, but one of my neighbors is an “I’m calling the cops” guy. Fat ass retiree with nothing better to do than sit around looking for stuff to get mad about. He’s bitched at me for using power tools on a Sunday. He knows all the laws and local ordinances and whatnot, so it’s easier to just not give him any reason to interact with me.

 

[v6buicks]

I used to, but one of my neighbors is an “I’m calling the cops” guy. Fat ass retiree with nothing better to do than sit around looking for stuff to get mad about. He’s bitched at me for using power tools on a Sunday. He knows all the laws and local ordinances and whatnot, so it’s easier to just not give him any reason to interact with me.

No power tools on Sundays? That's a new one.

 

[sktchy]

Yeah I'm pretty sure my neighbors pissed and won't wave at me because I was up til 2 with a die grinder the other night lmaoooo

No power tools on Sundays? That's a new one.

 

[ASlowV6]

Yeah the dude is a nut. Fortunately he semi-moved to Florida last year, but he’s back in Michigan for the holidays.

Here’s a decent picture of all the hot and cold side stuff.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

This is sweet, and I second that those seats are money!

 

[ASlowV6]

This is sweet, and I second that those seats are money!

Thanks! I’m trying to decide how to actually mount them. I’m thinking bend some brackets out of 1/8” steel, weld on studs, and then weld those to the floorpan so I don’t have to modify the seat rails.

I’m not sure if I should worry about reinforcing the floor where I’m welding in the brackets. It’s solid, but I think it’s 18 ga at best.

 

[1quick]

Looks like a bad ass build

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Another 3800 G-Body makes me happy. Keep the pics coming.

 

[IDAFC21]

oh

HELL

YES.

 

[ASlowV6]

Had the carpet pulled back to weld the seat mounts to the floor, and some jack your cock furry whore sluts took up residence.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Those look like black walnuts. Very tasty.

 

[ASlowV6]

Those look like black walnuts. Very tasty.

Yup. I get about 2,000 pounds of them in my yard every fall.

 

[Ktj100]

Didn't know you were on TCG! Good to see you here!

 

[ASlowV6]

I still keep a pretty low profile

I got the seat brackets built/welded in and the seats bolted up over the weekend.

I’ll update this more when more happens. I’m hoping to get going on building a center console and relocating/deratting some of my electrical this weekend.

 

[ASlowV6]

I’m getting my ass kicked a bit here. I cannot get it to want to fire.

What I’m running into right now is a weak/incorrect crank signal.

I’ve confirmed good 12v and ground at crank sensor, and good connection from sensor plug to terminator harness plug.

I’ve taken a couple data logs and I’m seeing 120-130 RPMs while cranking. The battery is fully charged, and it certainly sounds like it is cranking faster than that.

The best I can figure is either the sensor is bad or I have some parameter set incorrectly in the tune.

Hmmmmmmm…

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Does scanner indicate that the 3x and 18x ckp and 1x cmp are present while cranking?

7x signal present from icm?

 

[ASlowV6]

Sorry, in my frustration I left out a lot of details.

I’m using Terminator X.
3800 V6, ignition parameters:
LS coils, factory crank & cam sensors.
Firing Order to 5,4,3,2,1,6
Custom Ignition
Crank - 1 Pulse/Fire - Digital Rising
Ignition Reference Angle 75° and using the 3x reluctor on balancer.
Cam - Single Pulse - Digital Falling
Inductive Delay - 100
(This is information I found on the Holley forum from someone successfully running a 3800 on an HP)

I am getting LED 6 and 7 (crank and cam sense) flashing blue/green for about four seconds when I crank, and then 6 will turn red. It will not attempt to fire. Datalog while cranking shows max cranking RPM of 133 RPM. The battery is charged and it sounds like it is cranking at normal speed.

Crank sensor has good ground, is getting 12v with key on and cranking.