May 12 2019 was my last message its may 19th now its getting summer slowly and i found some time to work on my project,and since day one the engine/trannie where in the car there was a problem with the starter motor it would barely engage and 90% of the time do click click click..
This car will be my daily wenn its ready with the holden v8 on LPG.
Since it worked great wenn the engine was on the floor running:
I found out that the solenoid would not pull hard enough to make the connection internaly so the starter would not start to spin and engage the flex plate,it only worked wenn the starter and flexplate would line up 100% and it would fly out without any resistance,so i wired my startermotor solenoid with a thick wire straight from the battery to the starter solenoid and a relay connects this wire wenn i start the car,it works great now.
To find this out i took the starter out like atleast 4x witch is a pain in the ass cause there is barely any space meaning i needed to take my own made exhaust manifold off,torque converter cover needed to get loosend up and then undo the wires from below and start wiggling to get it out and then i glued shimms on it hoping it would fix the issue cause i could never put the shims between block and starter so thats why i needed to glue them on.......
Untill i read about voltage drop cause of bad connections i had no idea what caused the click click click so i though why would it crank over 100% without a problem wenn its out of the car and not wenn its in the car and then i though lets try a wire straight from the battery and it cranked over each time i connected the wire to the plus terminal.
2 things need to be fixed: exhaust pipes need to made more or less cause i made 2 manifolds that ended up next to the torque converter and i need to connect them with the original Monza exhaust system witch is twin 2inch or 2x 50mm or 2x47mm,this is piss easy cause there so much space
And the speedo need to be hooked up (my abbot cable x thing took me like 6 months to get back and it was brand new and it cost me like 300$ to get repaired and shipped so **** Cable x i will never buy anything from them ever)
Once thats done its a reliable stock 304 with a memcal tune that shut give it around 180kw/400nm at the crank...Nothing compared to a LS1 or a BMW v8 or or but still more then enough to handle modern traffic with a nice sound,i really like the torque,wenn u tick the pedal u start to move thats awesome.
