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Do you have some under the hood pics?
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Pete, my biggest mistake was to order from Fuddle and not you. At that time Fuddle had Christmas sale and their price was really good, and I was in not so good financial situation (with tranny rebuild) so I had to look out for every $. Their TC looked like quality unit for good price. I'm not 100% sure but I think full price was $590 and with sale I've got it for $490. So I went with their TC over what you offered to save ~$50. What a mistake to make! Don't get me wrong. So far, converter acts really good. It's not loose when cruising and when driving hard it puts smile on my face. It would be dishonest from me to tell that TC is junk. But "Fuddle Racing" company and it's owner are different story.
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I have received TC and I have installed it. So far it performs good.
At cruising arround it feels almost as stock and when driving hard it performs much better. However, stall is arround 2400-2500, not 2800 as I ordered. That may be because I ordered TC for 500HP engine that I plan to build in future, and I'm at ~370 now. But if it was the best TC in the whole world, if it was "the only" TC I'd rather keep stock one then go through dealing with Fuddle again. Please do extensive search on LS1 forum and LS1tech forum and you'll find that I'm not the only one who thinks that owner of "Fuddle racing" is a liar, and I'm certainly not the only one who had bad experience with them. Unfortunately, I found that out when I started to dig, when "Fuddle" stopped responding to my e-mails and phone calls.
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My experience with Fuddle You have to be registered to CF to be able to read this.
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I was thinking of install like in the pic below. If I understood you right, you think that better cooling effect would be to bring air from direction marked with arrow? Here is what I have ordered for cooling ducts:
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Problem is that I don't have much choice here in Croatia so I have to order from US. And if I order something that's not good then it really gets pricey. As for ducts, I have allready started to convert car for track use since I really rarely use it on the street. I don't mind driving track car on the street but vice versa isn't good for me.
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I'm pleased with mt C5 brakes, but I dont break hard from 120 to zero. I haven't tested brakes on track yet, but I'm trying to get the car ready for track days mostly. But from how it looks now, I don't think that I could make 2 hard laps and still have brakes. What about MC? Are you all using stock PBR unit? I ask because mine is ready for replacment!
Posted on: 2008/1/22 16:43
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The pads are likely your problem. You didn't state what kind you're using but try some Hawks and bed them in properly. I'll probably order new rotors and pads in near future. I've seen that everybody speaks good about Hawk pads, but what kind of rotors are recomended? Also I'll be adding some cooling ducts soon. That should help too.
Posted on: 2008/1/22 8:30
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I would say those are my brackets, but they are not stamped with PNWZR1 and I haven't sold any to Europe. I'm not sure if you made brackets but I bought those 2 years ago from Ed Salinas. I believe he was CF member also. Anyway, I took a closer look and it does look like there is scratching mark on rotor edge, so maybe you're right about metal tangs rubbing on rotor. Thanks.
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It's been a while since I installed front C5 brakes but I can't say that I'm
very satisfied. Problem is that after 1-2 hard breakings from ~120 to stop breakes get overheated and start to scratch on something and start shaking. If I let them cool down then it gets back to normal. Everything that I installed is new. Original C5 Z06 calipers and pads and I bought Durastop rotors (slotted/drilled). I know that rotors are probably junk but anyway I think that brakes should be better. I can't say that there is much improvement over stock 12" front brakes that I had. I still didn't install brake bias spring and I hope that it will improve things. Now, I have a few questions; 1. Are you staisfied with your C5 brakes? 2. Do you have bias spring installed? 3. Is there any kind of aftermarket master cylinder available that is better that stock unit and can be installed with not too many mods necessary? Here are a few pics of my install. before: adapter installed]http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/6642/adapterifu5.jpg[/img] after:
Posted on: 2008/1/21 18:02
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I bought new alternator but it's 140 amps instead of 105 stock.
Should I upgrade wire to the battery and how thick wire should I use?
Posted on: 2008/1/12 15:12
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I have recently rebuilt/upgraded my trans with all the parts that Pete suggested. Even more, he was kind enough to gather all of the parts for me and then send it all to me. Parts were somewhere in $900 range plus
$500 for converter. I also went with full manual Trans-Go shift kit option and it's totally different car to drive.
Posted on: 2008/1/10 13:22
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Alternator was $170. I bought pigtail separately for $10.
This is where I got it from: http://www.alternatorparts.com/CS-144_Special_offer.htm
Posted on: 2008/1/9 18:30
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I hope that I have finally solved my problems with alternator.
I have rebuilt my stock unit x times but it just kept failing. I guess that stock alt doesn't like high revs, because it allways broke when I reved engine past 6k rpm. Anyway, I bought CS-144 140 Amp alternator. I did some search and it looks like everybody agree that it's much better unit than stock CS-130. Maybe I could've played with larger alt pulley but I hope that this will be longer lasting solution.
Posted on: 2008/1/8 18:44
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81c3, that looks REALLY CLEAN!
I'll give it a try with your technique. Do you use nitro base thinner?
Posted on: 2008/1/4 14:51
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What do you guys use for Al cleaning? I'm mostly interested into cleaning
Al cylinder heads. I usually use some sort of degreaser but it allways takes 2-3 times to get everything clean and even then it's not the way I'd like it to be.
Posted on: 2008/1/3 11:13
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I'll be watching this as I also plan to add SC in near future.
I allways enyoj when corvette is being moded for racing. Good luck with project!
Posted on: 2008/1/2 11:03
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JMO, but it would be great to have "Members rides" subforum where members could introduce their car and mods that they have done to it.
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I have very similar (you can say that it's very common and proven) setup, except I have ported #113 heads and Hooker headers.
You'll love it.
Posted on: 2007/12/31 15:39
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I did it the same way. On first attempt I have tightened runners all the way but I couldn't get one of plenum bolts in.
Posted on: 2007/12/31 15:05
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Count me in.
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Same as on CF and DC. I do use different name (bvlahov) on some other forums.
Posted on: 2007/12/30 11:26
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Same here!
Posted on: 2007/12/29 13:34
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Thanks you all for your welcome!
Pete, glad to see you here. Now I can rest at ease and be sure that me and my tranny will get best tech support possible.
Posted on: 2007/12/29 13:31
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I heve been registered to this site since 2005. but I never posted since there wasn't much activity here before.
Some of you probably know me from CF as I use same nick there. It looks like a lot of good guys come here and to DC lately, rather than to CF. I'm looking forward to see this site grow, and I'll try to contribute in any way I can.
Posted on: 2007/12/28 17:44
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