From time to time you end up wearing the shirt you’ve been sewing..
This is a draft I had of this entry. The full story follows:
I robbed the exhaust from my brother’s Silverado in order to procure the correct catalytic converters and y-pipe. All this stuff has to be OEM to pass visual inspection at the state referee, and this S10 is wearing the same ECM tuning as the ’02 Silverado. I flashed the computer, started the S10 up and found the thermostat stuck closed. In with a Lingenfelter thermostat and a Corvette radiator. Now we’re at temperature. Got the hood mounted and have clearance to shut. Time to get a muffler on it and get it off to the smog referee for certification!
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Getting to this point was actually a long time coming. The shop is always very busy, and this job was originally a trade, labor for labor, from someone not in the automotive industry. He would get a truck with about a 125 hours in it, I would get 125 of his hours in trade. Since it wasn’t a paying job, the truck had to take a back burner to the stuff keeping the doors open. This led to a problem; namely, I had his only car and I wasn’t working on it. We struck a deal to back out of the labor swap and I would buy him out of the project. This isn’t how I pictured stuff panning out, but that’s how it goes. Needless to say.. once I owned it I had even fewer dollars and hours to spend on it. Nevertheless, I saw it through because I think it’s a really cool little project.. and because this swap was very difficult and I wanted to prove to myself that it could be done. So here she is before I drove her over to the muffler shop to have the cat-back stuff fabricated from scratch:
I know, I know. 1) I need to get better at filming and 2) Why would I cover up that beautiful roar? I’m still working on the filming bit.. but because the truck started life as a 4 cylinder it has 4.10:1 gears in the back. I drove the truck to pick up parts at a warehouse 30 minutes away and the freeway drone was absolutely terrible inside the cab. (Sorry guys, I know fast and loud is usually my M.O., but I actually like how this thing turned out. A bit of a sleeper.)
I had to do some tidy up work still. I had already tossed the driveshaft back in, but I did have to build a new battery tray for the truck. I chose to put the battery under one of the bedsides for weight distribution and because I needed the underhood space for the intake and the A/C. I did have to install a pair of ultra thin electric fans because no mechanical fan and clutch set up was going to fit between the engine and the radiator. So I made a paper mock up of the two fans and designed them to fit into the radiator shroud.
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With all the bugs worked out and enough miles on the truck to run all the monitors, I took her over to the local state smog referee. After I found out I was missing a crucial part of the exhaust, the pre-catalytic converters, she passed with flying colors and I became the recipient of his highest honor: a sticker signifying legality.
I slapped my own sticker on the back glass and celebrations were in order!
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