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Cranky VSSSUTE 355 Twin Throttle Walkinshaw Build Thread

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Other thing ESSENTIAL is seal up any & all holes so no heat or wind gets in or you'll pull interior apart again just to fix it.

true this, a few cars me and the boys have stripped we've seen some shocking drop boxes.

one car we thought the shifter was installed incorrectly because how tight/hard it felt. once we pulled it apart we realised it didnt even have a front plate, so literally all dirt, dust, mud and **** were going in and just sticking to the B&M shifter.

i cant remember exactly with mine (was yeaaaars ago now) but im pretty sure we cut a slot in the front of the plate for the cable to run then used a bung and deadner to cover it best we could
 

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Yea got to figure out how to get cable through the dro down box as it has a tab that bolts to front of shifter. Would require large hole to get the lot through.
 

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So did a little bit more as have been busy with work, i took some others advice and sound deadened the box with spray on sound deadener. Also fitted couple of grommits in it for cable and dakota wires. Also got a mate to weld bolts to box so can just place the shifter on it and throw some nuts on rather than jugling nuts and bolts from inside/outside trans tunnel. You can see i am bored most of this probably not necessary haha
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I put the cable through a heat proof hose, on the of chance it hits something hot, also ran the wires for the dakota unit through it.
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Fitted the drop down box on a bed of sika, looks semi professional .....maybe
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So got it all in and just will not adjust correctly, dakota is all calibrated and working perfectly, made a custom bracket etc. So got the guru around to slide it through the gears whilst i played with adjuster…….more googling. Guru spun the gear selector leaver around backwards and got it working 99%. Then i noticed that with 4l60e bracket cable doesn’t run in line with box. Can see in pic if its hooked to selector cable will be on angle

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But its the 4l60e bracket,then ebay b&m 4l60 e bracket and different bracket came up. It is a bracket for 4l60e that has the prdn switch on it. Guru explained that switch goes over the shifter on side of box they were in vts etc.

I dive under ute, my ute is a vs 98 model!!!

Has a vt box in it minus the switch…..wrong bracket fml can i have 3hours of my life back
 

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Yep, the last of the VS utes had the later style 2 piece case transmissions same as the VT's. This is a good thing (other than the confusion for you) as there were a number of upgrades in these boxes.
 

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Lucky for me working on it wasnt too much of a bitch haha
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OMG dude, this is like my dream! Always said to missus I wanted like an old warehouse converted into a house so the car could be inside, she always replies with a flat 'no'.
 

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Add a hoist for car & stripper pole for when missus' friends rock up it'd be damn near perfect

*if they're easy on the eye
 

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So got the correct late model 4l60e bracket, was getting all the gears except wasn’t grabbing neutral from D properly. In pic you can see the dekota mounted on top of bracket, has an arm on side of the box with a linkage back to the dekota unit, took literally minutes to set up.
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After hours of playing around looked closely at the shifter its self and noticed the reverse lock out was stopping it clicking into neutral properly. So two minutes with the grinder and its all fixed.
So started on the LED display for shift positions, cut the bottom out of the original shifter display shroud. Cut up some alloy and drilled holes in it to house the LED’s that will be my shift positions running off the dekota unit.
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I then mounted it into the original position. The LEDS should sit just below the little shift position windows. May have to put little dividers in to stop the LEDS lighting up every window instead of the 1,2,3,D,N,R,P individually.
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Now just have to adjust the black slider that goes around the original shifter so that it fits around the B&M shifter, also need to wire up LEDS
 

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Yea you probably will need dividers, otherwise it will light up like 3+ at a time...
 
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