Cross-6>8 swap

[Dan_]

Great thread mate!

[IJ.]

Thanks Dan,

Pity about the distance or I'd drop both cars in for some TLC!

[IJ.]

Parts I collected yesterday!

[IJ.]

Today End!
Ordered a new Foot Pedal for my Tig a couple of weeks back....

Was meant to be posted out so 5 days go by with a trip to town each day to check the po Box and nada, ring today and they tell me it's sitting there do I want them to post it out now?......

Jump in the Wagon blast up there (had planned a VEG day after driving all day yesterday chasing parts) get it home and it's WRONG.... BOC Genius..

I need it to make a Sump Baffle for the new sump as it has none/zip/zero/nada and will be the PanOslosh for Track days followed by the rod knock of doom...

Looks like I go back to programming the panel on the TIG..

[IJ.]

Today!
Returned the incorrect pedal to BOC this morning then repaired the remote on the Torch so it's all good!

I'll make a start on the new Sump baffles on Monday as there's racing on this weekend so it's a good excuse to vegg on the Couch

[IJ.]

Quick question: Where does the other end of the Purge valve connect to on a VZ?
(Also the Fuel feed with the blue cap if anyone knows?)

[IJ.]

^ Disregard

Pulled the Clamshell off the VY and found em both!

[IJ.]

Today!
Should be a good parts week, my PCM from Turbo Industries, HP Tuners from VCM Suite and an order of parts from Holden are all due to arrive, also have some gear coming from a mate in the USA that Holden couldn't supply...

Going to make a start on the Baffle/trap door setup for the Pan as I couldn't find anything on the market and the way it is will be an engine killer for track days..
(guessing it's because there's no stock provision so nothing to bolt to in the Cross8 Sump)

[IJ.]

Today Lunch!
Pulled the F Body sump and Improved Racing baffle off the engine then installed the stud extension from Holden for the CrossTrac pickup, turns out you have to remove the Auto drive plate to wiggle the sump into place due to the Axle tube through the middle of it hitting the Pickup tube...

This in turn is going to make a baffle for it "interesting", I pulled the stock baffle out of my VZ sedan sump and it's very basic so I might end up copying that and running an Oil accumulator again as my Canton remote adaptor from the F Body sump fits the new one.

Zipped into town and collected my PCM from the post office so that's another piece of the jigsaw sorted.(ended up with a "121")

[IJ.]

Today End!
It was tight but I won in the end, ended up with a simple labyrinth baffle.

[Jonesy40]

loving this thread mate keep up the good work and the updates.

[IJ.]

loving this thread mate keep up the good work and the updates.

Glad you're enjoying it

Once it's rego'd as an 8 I'll gear up for phase #2, that's when the fun stuff happens!

I have to go out tomorrow take it off the stand so I can align and torque the Sump bolts.

[IJ.]

Today!

Did the T&A on the Sump then started draining the V6 of fluids ready to pull it out when I get enthused

[IJ.]

Today End!
Did the 300 Km round trip to the Holden dealer today and sorted out the Mystery of the AWD LS Left side engine mount....

I bolted it up the other day only to find it was smack bang in line with the Axle tube, rang my Holden guy and he got me the "correct" one.... I arrived there today to collect it only to find it was identical to the one I already had, checked the Wagon but it's PCM mounts right in the way so you can't see diddly, went out to the workshop found a V8 car on a hoist and checked, there's a second set of holes further back so they mount the big cast iron bracket there and the actual mounts are assymetric...
(just been out in the shed fitting the mount back on to verify it's right now)

Also called in to VCM and picked up my "HPTuners" kit, on the way back I arranged to hit the Japanese place for dinner and caught up with a Bud, gotta love the wagon for this sort of driving!

[IJ.]

Chasing a pair of stock engine pipes for this thing (ad in classifieds) also need to know what sort of pipe/hose goes from the right side rocker cover to the intake if anyone has a pic?

Feel free to jump in with questions/advice whatever, don't be concerned about taking my thread OT as it'll find it's way back sooner or later, I use threads as an interactive extension of my real shed and welcome any input.

(past threads on another forum have always ended up as 4000 reply monsters before I knock em on the head and start a fresh one)