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Vs v6 to l67 conversion? Thoughts.,?

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The first thing I would do is the boost solenoid deletion, as it cost nothing do, then the air box mod to add an extra air feed, and then do a modular pulley upgrade to a 85mm pulley.

I would also be doing plugs leads, oils, fuel filter and get a good flowing air filter. Just make sure they give you the right plugs as quite often the idiots will give you ones for the ecotec.
Remember that you should always run 98 octane fuel or better!
 

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Sweet that I will be doing, the engine should be in the stato within two weeks , have already started, what's the first thing (modification) you would do once the engine is done? Thanks .


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Definitely go with with a 10psi pulley upgrade from Mace. Then I would start looking at cam and intercooler options and porting of the blower. Once cooled you can easy swap down to a smaller pulley with the modular hub.
 

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^^^And a adz_vy elbow with a 85mm TB!!!!
 

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Ok, sweet, so the boot solenoid delete mod, does that jut as simple as removing the bolt on the charger for the flapper valve? Is this to keep it open all the time? Is their anything else involved in it? I have a mace cold air intake sitting in the box brand new here shall I put that on ? Or is their a better air box mod that your talking about, ? :)


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You need the supercharged heads, computer & harness. I'd just take the whole engine & put that in.
 

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Yeah mate have that l67 engine ready to go in , started on it slightly, just want some info on what the specialist guys would do once engine is in, ta :)


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Ok, sweet, so the boot solenoid delete mod, does that jut as simple as removing the bolt on the charger for the flapper valve? Is this to keep it open all the time? Is their anything else involved in it? I have a mace cold air intake sitting in the box brand new here shall I put that on ? Or is their a better air box mod that your talking about, ? :)


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The following is taken from L67torque.com if you need any information you could have a look over there, heaps of info and diagrams to make things easy!


Ok there are two ways to go about this, depending on your set up. Both very similar to one another.
One way suits an L67 engine + conversions that are going to run or are already running a Super6 ecu & harness, the other is for an L67 engine that is not going to run the Super6 ecu & harness.

Lets start with the first one using a Super6 ECU & harness (includes factory L67 models etc) .
Because this set up has a bypass solenoid as part of its wiring circuit, if you disconnect the solenoid electrically the ECU can pick this up and set a fault code.

The second one being a super6 engine that is not using a Super6 ECU & harness. Electrically there is nothing to disconnect as the solenoid is not part of the wiring circuit, so the non super6 ECU wont miss it.

Electrically or mechanically the boost bypass SOLENOID seems to stuff up regularly for people, by leaking boost pressure past the solenoid & reducing their boost pressure when it is not required.

Ok basically the M90 supercharger has a bypass valve in its inlet. It allows air to circulate around from the discharge pressure side of the blower & back to the inlet side of the rotors via the small butterfly valve. This needs to happen when the Throttle Body is in the closed position. With the Throttle Body plate in the closed position & limited air from the Intake Air Control (IAC) able to enter the inlet tract, the spinning rotors will still try to paddle air forward as the M90 is a positive displacement pump. So with a bypass valve open the air pushed forward can recirculate back up into the inlet tract for the rotors to push it through again & again, around & around. Because at idle the engine is not using (or needing) the amount of air the rotors are pushing forward, there is enough lower inlet manifold pressure to return via the bypass valve to the inlet side of the rotors. Yet still have the inlet side running at enough vacuum without cavitating (rattling & heat production). The condition at idle with the Throttle Body being closed & the blower still trying to paddle the air inside it forward. Would, without a bypass valve, create a large negative vacuum pressure, (positive inlet air pressure starvation) on the inlet side of the rotors, & cavitation (an impolsion) rattling will occur. If you didn't have a bypass valve in play the air in the blower would also heat up unnecessarily due to the resulting cavitation.

Now the Boost Bypass Valve is operated via a mechanical means. It has a air (or really a vacuum) operated diaphragm actuator hooked up to it. There are two sides to the actuator which are divided by a diaphragm, a upper (Top) chamber with light spring & a lower (Bottom) chamber. A Inlet vacuum hose is hooked up to the upper side (Top) chamber. At idle when vacuum is highest & throttle bodys are closed, vacuum in the upper chamber pulls the diaphragm up against the spring, which lifts a rod linkage connected to the Boost Bypass Butterfly Valve. The Boost Bypass opens and circulates the air & reduces boost pressure in the Lower Inlet Manifold.
As the throttle body is opened, the rpm picks up & the inlet manifold vacuum drops. As the vacuum drops the spring in the Top chamber takes over and pushes the diaphragm back down, returning the Boost Bypass Butterfly valve to its closed position (full boost)
 

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Wow!! That's very thorough , as I have the supercharged ecu, what will I have to do to do the boost solenoid bypass ? Disconnect? Or like it said will the code come up?


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Long story short, you disconnect both the vacuum lines that runs to and from the boost solenoid, which is located on the back of the cylinder head on the passenger side.
Where you disconnect it at the boost actuator, you leave that, there is no need to cover the port back up.
The one that you remove from the boost tree on the side of the blower, you need to block that port on the boost tree, otherwise you will have a vacuum/boost leak.
Leave the actual boost solenoid connected to the ecu that way you will not get any errors.
 
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