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was there on Saturday, what a fabulous day - mid 70s and bright sunshine!

Stainless braided lines need to be replaced every ten years, as Howard mentioned. I talked with a guy at Earl's who said that there are quite a few off brand hose manufacturers whose stuff will rot VERY quickly with ethanol in the fuel. I elected to bite the bullet and replace all my...

In a follow up on this, the wire break was not where I thought it was. Never did determine the location of it, so elected to splice a new wire into the harness and abandon the bad wire. Used these to make the connections, I have no long term feedback to offer but can say that they go together...

^ good catch. Maybe see about finding a G96/96 or something similar - they came out of GT3/Cup car in the mid 2005-8 era. Compact, robust, and good parts avail. The new tranx seem to be very good, but almost disposable. You might also talk with BMC&G in Ohio, they do a ton of Porsche tranx for...

You might want to be more specific re the GT3 tranx you have in mind. As a rule, Porsche tranx are quite strong and more importantly, have very good parts support, including gearing options.

^ have not done so, didn't even know what a growler was. I elected to reinstall starter after cleaning everything, will remove and have it rebuilt if problem recurs.

It was running an Omega ECU on Alpha N, programmable. Now stock GM E38 ECU as originally used to run LS7 with coil packs, a native installation with tons of manufacturer R&D behind it. Not the most up to date ECU, but very solid and has an OBD2 output, which is required in my neck of the...

Engine is managed by a GM E38 ECU, don't know what the start up timing is but it is stock programming, with a very mild cam. Ordinarily, the engine fires very quickly. I've only had the no-crank issue occur twice, both times after the car stalled (I have a small tuning issue to deal with). I...

I pulled the starter and partially disassembled to look at the contacts and brushes - pics attached. Nothing here seems too worn, so I elected to clean the contacts, plunger and rotor a little and reassemble. Does anyone see something wrong?

In both circumstances, the engine was fully warm. Starting up when everything has cooled has not be problematic. Routing of exhaust does not particularly heat the starter. Cables have full integrity and good connections/tight lugs. Any suggestions as to what failure heat could cause in the...

did a little research on this, I'm guessing advice referenced the solenoid contacts, which I should happily be able to remove and replace without removing the starter. Just have to try to track down the appropriate parts for the fix.

gents, resurrecting this thread, I ended up not doing anything with it, thinking it might be a one time thing. Well, it did it again. I'm pretty sure it's a Denso 2.3 heavy duty starter. To clarify the above advice, am I looking to replace the motor brushes, or another set of contacts?

Gents, I found the source of a non functional fuel level gauge - a broken green wire, right before the multiplug. Given it's proximity to the plug, it appears difficult to strip the wire back on the plug side to create a butt splice. I've discovered something called a Dolphin Displacement...

epilogue - found my leak, elected to use these clamps to improve sealing. I've heard good things about them - https://www.idealtridon.com/waveseal360-ideal-tridon-36003.html

The way I'm reading it is that the pilot bearing was not fully inserted into the crank, leaving it sitting "out of the hole". Thus, when the tranx was mated to engine, it was already hard up against the shoulder of the main shaft, loading the crank thrust bearing, leading to premature wear...

showing off is usually a bad idea. It's ALWAYS a bad idea in a high power car with no driver aids.

^ thanks for that. I stopped myself from doing exactly that out of concern for sticking later. One problem is that when the hose is pushed onto the nipple, it will drag the RTV with it, and I want to keep it off the clean aluminum as it can't really improve seal on virgin metal. I may elect to...

Gents, I've had a small weep in my cooling system, which believe came from the WP inlet nipple. It's tucked away in a pretty inaccessible place, and after pulling the coupling apart, I felt a little roughness on one side of the nipple. Getting a remote camera on it, it appears to be...

Hi Dan, I think it depends on the ECU. I have a GM E38, and I believe long term fuel trims get lost when it's powered down.

Hi Dan, one thing to keep in mind is that killing power to the ECU may wipe out adaptations. I have a kill switch in the car that I am not currently using because of this. I may end up plugging a 9V battery into my OBDII port to maintain juice to the ECU sufficient only to maintain memory, but...