I've gone through about 4-5 getrags in this, still just a getrag haha, had a 5.5 inch quad plate, was just NPC clutch at this event.

It happened on my last motor, few perfect conditions I guess haha.

We had a 260 Rwhp that was completely N/A, the 300 goal is off the bottle, it's a goal we don't know if we can achieve it but I believe we can if not it'll be close.

@@CHR0M3x wow thats alright, but how was more power achived on n/a? head work and cam is all I can think of? exhuast and header would be obvious

@@mydogzty Bigger cam, compression, good exhaust, e85 etc

@@CHR0M3x ahh yes e85 sure thing. Sorry for late reply.

The goal is 300, the motor isn't even running yet to know, but last motor went 260 easily and this has a lot more done.

Oh ok love too see it mate 😎

If you wanted to change the timing above that rpm yeah.

I can appreciate someone trying to do something themselves cheap but honestly easier just to get an NVRAM off pcm hacking

@@CHR0M3x yea you got a point there as its turned out alot more technical then I expected to begin with haha you could replace the standard memcal with a SST flash chip right ? Is there a way I can make or use the current items I have to be able to read my standard memcal to look at the tune / bin

@@OldStyleGarage I don't have much of an idea on that, you can buy SST chips for $25 off pcm hacking to replace the memcal as well.

@@CHR0M3x ah yep are the sst chips flash programmable and eraseable or do you still need the eprom burner and uv some say they don't need the uv eraser but do need the programmer like the gq4x4

You will need the programmer still but using that you will be able to erase those SST chips, they're an EEPROM (electronically erasable) whereas memcal are just EPROM.

I wouldn't personally recommend attempting this unless you can test on bench etc and know exactly what's going on, I'm willing to take the risk myself but yeah still there are a lot of unknowns in this.

Yep certainly do, they see the same issue at around 6600 RPM.

Haha, trust me, I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, that's why I didn't go into full detail in the video, I don't fully understand it myself currently.

Cheers, still not perfect and I feel like I still don't understand it 100% but a bit more tweaking I reckon could get closer results.

Haha yeah he's been on a bit of a cleaning spree, always a good idea to have a clean area to assemble a motor haha

Maybe you should watch the whole video and see the difference for yourself, the difference is not just a sticker at all, the hardware is a lot better on the genuine, been tried and tested multiple times, fakes give codes, misfires and just general weird stuff the genuine does not, that's if the fake even works, nothing is staged or sponsored the eBay one legitimately didn't work out of the box. Give this video because the exhaust is so stock etc you can't really tell the difference but on a car with open exhaust etc the difference is huge, the genuine is a lot faster responding, sounds better, doesn't cause codes etc.

@@CHR0M3x I did watch it to the end. But you weren't clear if you got the product for free

@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 I didn't get either of the products free and if I did I would have said so as I do in all my videos.

From my experience and I've done this a bit, the cheaper ones wear out quickly and don't work anywhere near as well, this $50 cable is a mid range, the high end are 150+, I have a lot of people messaging me having issues and a lot of the times it's cheap cables.

Hahaha neat little reference I chucked in, I get creative sometimes 😅

It actually wasn't too bad from what I recall haha, emptying the oil out of the original VT diff that was feral.

I don't see why not, but I don't have experience trying it.

I felt pretty cringe for saying that but it just slipped out 🤣

Different method, watch my memcal video for that one.

Cheers!

You're better off sticking with the VT ecu and running an NVRAM, real time tuning then.

@@CHR0M3x thx u. I don't know wot nvram is. But try googling it thx

You and me both! Just hope I can get it to where I want it, thanks again for giving us the car and giving it another chance at a life!

Cheers, ahh next weeks video we will be mainly covering the remainder of the trans cooler install, we only have 4 weeks left now, a lot to do and a few companies have helped out and sent us parts, we hopefully have a high stall to put in, a full spool with 3.9 gears (that's gonna be a fun video), motor to assemble and show more of.. There is a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it 😅

This one is a .500 boost valve, a bigger boost valve essentially increases the pressure to all components, so increases shift pressures etc across the board marginally.

And?

@@theaussienurseflipper.8113 And what?

Cheers, we are just learning as we go with some things, thanks for the tip :)

That it is, in 7-8 weeks you won't even recognise it anymore! ❤️

The dents are part of the cars character 🤣

That limiter is what everyone does, it's not a spark cut, it's more spark retard with a lot of fuel sounds awful imo, but people are free to like what they like.

Definitely not only a cam and haltech haha and the haltech has nothing to do with the power, went 260 Rwhp on a dyno on factory tuned ecu, if you go slapping this cam and nothing else on an eco I doubt you'd get close to these numbers. Had valve job, machined heads and manifold heaps of compression, e85 etc etc, there's a list in the haltech build video.

Yes but I've never played with it as it sounds horrible on Ecotec, it's just a fuel swing sounds nothing like cam in my opinion

Yes was about to ask same thing

You can use whatever software you like, it's the same principle, we had Photoshop so we did it with that but you can use any software that does photo editing if you know how to use it.

Cheers, it did until it ate a loose intake bolt 😂 it didn't like that.

Honestly I don't know enough about the Buicks to recommend anything, don't worry about power so much at first, get a good seat and locker and hydro, seat will help a load, get used to it at standard power level then bump it up.

224/224 stage 3 off shelf from mace, sorry for the late reply.

@@CHR0M3x that's alright, thanks for the reply matey!

All the steps are covered, what you are saying isn't covered specifically is covered 1:15 - 1:30, we literally open the haltech file and pull the PNG out, we even say it's this one and mention the name of it, so don't know how you figure it's not covered.

@@CHR0M3x ok then how do we open the file with winrow or whatever what software do i needto dowload? any way can pay you to upload logo and send me file ?

@@jesse3465 hey mate send me a email and I can help you out james.hearn@chr0m3motorsport.com

Cheers man, long story short that code was lost a long time ago, I was going through some legal stuff when I was working on that.

@@CHR0M3x Darn how hard was it to make the code just curious as ive been trying to find one for ages lol also glad to see alls getting better tho

@@leka2652 If I recall correctly I made it in a few hours haha, but honestly can't recall how or if it even work on the current build.

@@CHR0M3x True haha allgood also wish ya luck with your builds 👍

@@leka2652 cheers mate

Don't think it's possible mate, sorry

What kit sorry? I'm confused, what kit are you asking about?

Yeah well look at this one, was 250 Rwhp for like 2k invested in the motor, matched a stock LS1 Rwhp haha, next one will be heaps better.

Depending on what your setup is it might be fine haha, there's a few scenarios working together to undo mine, no balance shaft, more rpm then usual, sustained rpm, spacers etc haha all played a part.

Tilton 5.5 inch, not for the faint hearted don't really recommend it 😅

This took 3 years to happen haha, so guess I got it time out of it, but yeah it def sucks.

I am curious to see how much of a mess yours made though, as I caught this at idle luckily.

Yep, a valuable lesson learned..

Cheers, yeah look it doesn't usually happen but is probably common sense to locktite bolts that have a change to go down there, but seemed very far fetched and unlikely 😅 Next motor will be bigger and better and all documented on here.

@@CHR0M3x I recently had to take my top manifold off, noticed a bit of locktite on the threads, so I’ll make sure the threads are cleaned and it’s re applied when bolting it back on. I’m a bit nervous about getting the top spacer now after seeing that happen mate haha. Can’t wait to see the next video 👌🏽

@@Billi-JaiKnight You should be fine as long as they are locktite etc lol, but yeah just keep in mind those spacers is what allowed the room for it to happen, without them it would of just likely stayed in the hole.

@@CHR0M3x I bloody hope so lol cheers again mate!

@@Billi-JaiKnight Easy, worth mentioning I have balance shaft deleted too so that'll create more vibration etc which would of helped them come undone.