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Hi all, So this is a bit of a megathread. It's all to do with the mods i'm making to the LLT that's in my ute.
Part 1: Active Exhaust McGuffins.
So I'm in the process of developing a few things for my Ute's LLT. I've recently installed HSV Bimodal mufflers, and wanted to actually get them working. I hear running straight pipes on an SV6 makes it sound like the farts of a deadbeat dad, so I decided to go with something with some form of active noise control to reduce drone and keep the boomer farts out of the exhaust.
Hence, Maloo mufflers. There's only one problem though. All the vacuum lines going into the Alloytec are solid, and I'm not game enough to cut them up and risk creating unnecessary vacuum leaks.
"So, drill and tap the manifold" one might say.
Well, me being an anxious little so and so, I also did a run around to try and find a wrecker who'd sell me just an intake manifold... No dice. Wouldn't separate them. Only sold with complete long engines. Rats!
So after downing a cup of Joe, I cracked out the verniers and came up with this...
It's a spacer which goes between the TB and the Intake manifold, and it's designed essentially to add three NPT ports to the Driver's side of the intake. I did it this way as I don't really want to drill into the IM and potentially balls it up, and I want to reverse it if I do decide to sell the car or transplant the engine into something else.
I'll keep you all posted on the progress of things here. There's big plans for this engine. Boost? SC? Who knows? I'll keep you posted.
Part 1: Active Exhaust McGuffins.
So I'm in the process of developing a few things for my Ute's LLT. I've recently installed HSV Bimodal mufflers, and wanted to actually get them working. I hear running straight pipes on an SV6 makes it sound like the farts of a deadbeat dad, so I decided to go with something with some form of active noise control to reduce drone and keep the boomer farts out of the exhaust.
Hence, Maloo mufflers. There's only one problem though. All the vacuum lines going into the Alloytec are solid, and I'm not game enough to cut them up and risk creating unnecessary vacuum leaks.
"So, drill and tap the manifold" one might say.
Well, me being an anxious little so and so, I also did a run around to try and find a wrecker who'd sell me just an intake manifold... No dice. Wouldn't separate them. Only sold with complete long engines. Rats!
So after downing a cup of Joe, I cracked out the verniers and came up with this...
It's a spacer which goes between the TB and the Intake manifold, and it's designed essentially to add three NPT ports to the Driver's side of the intake. I did it this way as I don't really want to drill into the IM and potentially balls it up, and I want to reverse it if I do decide to sell the car or transplant the engine into something else.
I'll keep you all posted on the progress of things here. There's big plans for this engine. Boost? SC? Who knows? I'll keep you posted.