Went out for some folding chairs

The solenoid, controlled by a toggle switch, will decide if the cutout sees vacuum or not. That part is easy. The harder part is actually having vacuum available to the solenoid. Under WOT vacuum goes away, so unless you have a vacuum check valve installed the vacuum will go away and cutout will close. Luckily OEMs have been using vacuum to power things forever so we have a reliable inexpensive solution available off the shelf.

http://www.amazon.com/ACDelco-14047619-Original-Equipment-Control/dp/B000C982H2?ie=UTF8&keywords=vacuum%20check%20valve&qid=1459352185&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2

So let’s say you’re done tooling around with the valves open and want to shut them because your ears are bleeding, you remove power from the solenoid (again via toggle switch), but the valves stay open, because the check valve is still holding the existing vacuum to the valves. This is where I am on the fence, I could install a momentary pushbutton bleeder valve; either way that portion of the lines needs to be bled of vaccum in order for the valves to shut.

Spring pressure isn’t adjustable without some fooling around, they spot TIG’d the ends of the butterfly shaft so you can’t easily remove the guts

He isn’t reinventing the wheel here factory corvettes have this as an option…people add it on like this C6 Corvette NPP In A Box - Nakidparts.com | Nakid Parts

And you can do this

Sounds like a open wastegate

except that it’s before the turbine, so you wouldn’t hear as much siqqq noise as you would with an open valve downstream after the turbo

Im talking about a cutout after the downpipe whichis after the turbo. I already have one but its a manual one that i have to crawl under and unbolt.

Currently my car like most grand nationals has an internal wastegate which exhaust gases are bypassed into the downpipe so its basically recirculated.

so some ups and downs

got the fishmouths mocked up on the midpipes, traced out the insides, removed the pipes from the car. drove around the block with no pipes, wow it’s loud, should be fun. also tacked together fishmouths to v-bands, v-bands to valves. I forgot to order turndowns so I don’t melt anything, got a 180* mandrel bend on the way from summit, will be here in a couple days.

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clamps that come with the longtubes suck, leaked badly. will pick up some longer bad clamps, have had good luck with those in the past

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and the not so good. tires will need to be replaced this year. time to accelerate my wheel/tire plans

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most urgent is the front fiberglass leaf spring, this thing had a very fine hairline crack lengthwise when i first bought the car and got it on the lift, but this big crack is a new development. will either pick up another Z51 spring or throw in a Z06 unit

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The bands clamps i got that we used on the gto were from advance auto for around $12. In case you dont to wait for shipping. Theyre stainless steel.

I swapped my diff, so i need to change the diff fluid again, waiting on shipping as usual.

Those cutouts make me want to weld stuff lol

i plan on buying the band clamps locally, not worth the shipping on summit.

bring the goat back, we’ll throw some new honey in the diff and mock up some cutouts. did a new diff fix the “whine” you had?

Its better, not perfect, but i believe it could be the rear rigjt wheel bearing.

But new honey fo sho

those tires look like they needed to be replaced about 3K ago

SOUND CLIPS ASAP!!!

@cougarspeed is the man

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Coworker bought an '01 Coupe with a 6 speed, great condition, 60K

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then, this
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which works out fine because i’m gonna tear it down this week for the valve springs and intake, install exhaust, etc.

started working on stuff

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Got all the crap transferred to the new manifold, not bad for a couple hours of work. Need to mess with the steam lines next

Balllllllin

I may have missed it, but why are you changing the valve springs?

looking good I really dig that wrinkle paint.

because they have 106K on them and are 16 years old, I want to rev this thing out with no worries, I also bumped the limiter to 6500.

wife working late tonight and going to have a few drinks with friends afterwards. which means i’m grabbing a 6 pack of PBR pounders and putting in some quality time tonight in the man cave. hoping to get the rear sway bar out of the way, exhaust all buttoned up, and LS6 intake clearanced for the LS1 quad steam lines

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I need sound clips first thing tomorrow morning

i should have filmed it when it was open headers. loudest thing ever, enjoyed it for the first 3 miles and then hated it. it doesn’t run now so i’ll have to get it back together and snap a vid when I get the cutouts operational bruh.

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