Murcielago311's City/standard build - 06 SS/SC - Chassis #177 *REGISTERED*

[JBINTX]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!
And congrats on another milestone hit.
Better find a booster seat for your son, because there is NO WAY he will let you take a ride without him!!!!!!.............

 

[Zoom Zoom]

I knew you could do it, I had faith in you the whole time, I like the end of the video when your wife says it’s all done and you give her that look owe no, Don’t say that

 

[Rttoys]

“The wiring is done perfectly”

famous last words there.

 

[Murcielago311]

famous last words there.

Haha, When it doesn't start now I can blame someone else at least.

 

[G Atsma]

Very cool video! Always nice when the family is on board with it all!

 

[Murcielago311]

She thinks it's going to be her winery-trip-mobile. Guess I owe her that much for putting up with all my garage time.

 

[G Atsma]

She thinks it's going to be her winery-trip-mobile. Guess I owe her that much for putting up with all my garage time.

Could be worse! LOL

 

[Rttoys]

Looks like you are going to need a trunk, for those trips.

 

[Murcielago311]

Anyone using the cobalt seat belts have problems with them seeming to be locked once removed from the car? They worked fine in the cobalt.

 

[Rttoys]

There’s a swinging pendulum in there that’s probably in the lock position. It’ll take some finagling to get it rotated back and release the belt, mostly putting the base in a level position and slowly pull the belt.

 

[Murcielago311]

Thanks, I'll give that a try!
Edit: got it. When it's fully retracted into the housing, there's teeth that engage so you can't pull it back out, but you can push the teeth down with a pick to keep them from engaging until you get the belt started back out.

 

[Murcielago311]

This is some nerve-wracking work reattaching the valve cover baffles. Self tappers wouldn't eat the metal and two broke off, having to drill n tap. Not sure if the risk and trouble were worth having a flashy cover. Should have just painted it. Plus it's delaying the first start.

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[JBINTX]

This is some nerve-wracking work reattaching the valve cover baffles. Self tappers wouldn't eat the metal and two broke off, having to drill n tap. Not sure if the risk and trouble were worth having a flashy cover. Should have just painted it. Plus it's delaying the first start.
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oh dang! it just hurts seeing shavings in an intake cover!
Not many have ventured as far down that path.

 

[Murcielago311]

Anyone with solstice rear rotors have problems getting the pads over the rotor on install? I have the piston turned in as far as it will go but the pads just won't clear the rotor. The outside pad (dg1095) is angled from hitting the end of the channel it rides in.

At least I finished the valve cover.

 

[Ross]

I heard that the solstice rotors need the e-brake mechanism manually backed off. They are different, so read up! Sorry I didn't read what was different.

 

[Murcielago311]

The only thing I can find is to turn the piston in clockwise all the way, which I'm pretty sure I've done. If I then turn counter-clockwise the pistons start coming back out.

It's so annoying I'm so close to finished and getting held up by something I've done a million times. Argh!

 

[Zoom Zoom]

I have the emergency brake and didn’t have a problem, I thought you only used solstice DG 1095 if you had emergency brake other wise normal DG956

 

[Zoom Zoom]

Anyone with solstice rear rotors have problems getting the pads over the rotor on install? I have the piston turned in as far as it will go but the pads just won't clear the rotor. The outside pad (dg1095) is angled from hitting the end of the channel it rides in.

At least I finished the valve cover.

What do you mean the outside pad is DG1095 they should both be if you have e-brake or just regular cobalt DG956

 

[Murcielago311]

I thought you only used solstice DG 1095 if you had emergency brake other wise normal DG956

This is the solstice parking brake setup.

What do you mean the outside pad is DG1095 they should both be if you have e-brake or just regular cobalt DG956

The pad set is DG1095. I was just talking about the outside pad getting hung up there.

 

[Murcielago311]

I got it. You can't have the outside spring-clip installed until after the pads are in, duh. Slipped my mind because usually I would pull that to remove old pads, which obviously I didn't need to do in the case of a new bare caliper.