Thread: 2000 GTP: Still Alive! New Trans?

now change your gauges to match the pillar

I might, I don't know. I really hate taking the needles off, lol. I kinda like the flow with the headunit gauges, pillar gauges and the cluster. Who knows what I'll do.

Well after another 2 weeks the gauges are done for now. Oil temp is actually trans temp, oil pressure sender might be funky, and vacuum works great, lol. good news is my back held up find, so trailing arms should go in tomorrow. Here's some pics:


This is after warming the engine up to 190* at idle (for the oil pressure). I feather the gas and it jumps to 75+PSI. See:

That dash is a freak at night! Having OP gauge is cooh. Mainly glad your healing was a go. Easy to mess things up when you start feeling better, this I know.

So now whut? The worser tower? Aw thats right, moving. Either way, hope weather works with ya when you need it to. Been lots of cloudy mild days here in the region so far this year. Long spring and fall, thats what I like about here. Good for car fix/ enjoy stuff.

Yep, it's chill weather for sure. Figures now that my back is feeling better my left arm is flaring up. I broke it when I was 13 on the growth plate so one bone stopped growing and is 45mm shorter than the other. It gets some pretty weird feelings from time to time, lol. It's a 3 month without work ordeal and quiet a bit of $ to get fixed, so it'll come in a few years to say the least. Til then I baby it a bit and cry like a girl when I hit a funny bone.

Anyways, those poly trailing arms hopefully go on tomorrow, and tonight I'm working on the CS144 conversion write up. Once that stuff is done I hope to finish up the window rolling capabilities of the alarm, and tear into the truck. It needs a new transmission pan since I put a drain plug in and naturally it leaks, along with the lip of the pan being not-so-flat. I also need a new valve body, I put a Transgo kit in it and it never really shifted right again. Hold 1st's to long, slams into 3rd from OD under LIGHT throttle, fun stuff. I tried messing with the TV cable to help...I ****ING HATE THE TV CABLE...made little to no difference. Oh and a new oil pan because right by the RMS leaks. Oh and a new tail-shaft housing because my "External Lube Mod" for the AOD went to ****. I have a new tail shaft housing though. Oh and a new battery (one of them died). Oh and a few things I robbed for the car. Then just inspection\tags and it should be good. Not that bad, right? lol. I just need the $ to do it. Whew.

I heard that. I wish I broke them both on the growth plate. I could deal with a short arm (which it is shorter than my right by a bit) if it were at least even. I have nightmares about bench pressing or doing push ups and having my radius bow and snap, lol.

So it seems like 2 months later, but the trailing arms are going on. Passenger side is done, I just need to put the wheel on but it's lunch time lol. Everything went together pretty easily, just needed to bend trailing arm bracket a little since the poly bushings were a bit wider. Here's some pics, I love this weather and dirt roads. everything was so clean a few months ago:

They're both in, and on my initial test drive, I'm very happy. I didn't go all that fast, but I could feel a difference trying to whip the ass end around. No noises, and everything went together relatively easily. Here's some comparison pics and how far I have between the arm and tire.




Plenty if room:


I'll take her down a windy road when I know my back is closer to 100%, and I have more of a reason to enjoy myself.

Haha nice. I'll have to sleep on it to see what I think in the mornin'. I have driven it a bit and it seems good. I notice a difference, so that's a plus. No noises yet either so that's cool too, lol. A buddy at work gave me the fittings I need to get the temp sensor plumbed into the engine, and the temp sender gets here Saturday so hopefully I hope to have all that done. I don't believe my oil pressure gauge\sender so I'm talking to Glowshift about replacing it. They want Ohm reading which is fine, then they know weather to send me a gauge or sending unit, lol.

Then if all goes well and there's no rain, I'll get the sun roof wired into the alarm. If that works, I might try the windows. I gotta find somewhere in the door to stuff in that gigantic relay box. If I can't find anywhere I have 2 solutions:

Run the relay box in the dash somewhere, then run wires into the door from there.

Buy mini relays on ebay and a project box, then stuff that in the door somewhere.

No idea which route I'll take, hell I might be able to put the relay box somewhere in the door.

Got the the plumbing ready for the temp and pressure senders on the engine. Oreilly's had to special order the temp sender so it took all week, lol. They also didn't have a toggle switch I liked so that'll wait until the next Springfield trip so I can goto Radioshack. I don't want a monstrous switch on the pillar, I want something smaller, but still easy enough to flip. Here's the only pic so far, it's pretty intense:

I installed the oil temp sender and other fittings today, along with a new oil filter just to rule that out as a reason fro high pressure. No change, still shows 85+ PSI at idea, so I took impedance readings at the sender and will be sending those to Glowshift on Monday. I also got the sunroof wired into the alarm.

Open was easy enough, worked perfectly as I planned. Closing was a different story. The alarm puts out a 0.8 second ground on the lock pulse, the one touch module only "auto-closes" on a 0.4 second or less pulse. What's this mean? The sunroof closed about 2 inches, and that's it. I had to lock the car about 15 times to close the sun roof. After some invaluable help from my buddy Jeff (J57ltr) I was able to use a 1000 microfarad capacitor with a 10k resistor to shorten the pulse. I had talked it over with my dad and he said the cap trick wouldn't work, but I have some news for him lol. All I have left to do is solder up some connections and tuck it all back into the headliner. Everything works EXACTLY like I want it to. Next weekend I might do the windows.



Some of my friends say my car will become self aware soon, lol.

All done, and so far, so good. I'll let the video speak for itself:

Originally Posted by HighOctaneRacing

must have for the wife!

Lol yea, she loves it.

Autopage and Viper are made by the same company so they probably have very similar setups. I'll look at the manual for yours later and see what all it has to offer.

Yea leave the loom off til after the 4th... dash n wires look teets. I mean bewbs. Good idea on the HID delay, thats needed but ignored.

Spiffy


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I think so, lol. Next up is the windows, they'll behave the same way pretty much. I just will hold 2 different buttons on the remote and they'll roll all the way down. It'll be nice being able to get out of the car with all the windows down and such, then hit the lock button and it closes everything for me.

That's something I always wanted to do. To be able to crack or open the sunroof/windows without having to go out to the car to do so. Then being able to close them without having to do that as well. You'll be getting some questions from me when the time comes and I invest in a start/alarm setup.


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Fine by me. I know it seems like a lot of work in the this thread, but that's me doing the trial and error. Most of your descent alarms have aux channels, and all they do is ground a wire coming out of the alarm. That's all this is. I just had to use 3 relays, a 1000uF cap, and a 10K resistor. That is assuming your sunroof has the auto-close function. If not you'll have to install a one touch module from my how-to. Oh and I had to run a 12 AWG wire up the passenger side A-pillar (driver side pillar is full from the gauges, alarm, GPS, etc.) so the sunroof module has power at all times. The sunroof has power all the time, but one of the 3 relays I installed disconnects the sunroof switch when the car is off.

Whenever you need help, feel free to ask.

Gotcha. Yea when it comes to electronics/wiring your my go to guy lol. I never understand that crap lol. I'm leaning toward Viper 5806V


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