Anyone worked with the 16196397 yet?

[Xnke]

Thanks, Robert.

Looks like the Auto harness does not have the pin in the right place-even though it claims to use that pin for other stuff, there is no A22 pin in there. I'll have to repurpose one.

[Xnke]

Bought myself another truck to drive while I work on this-plan is to strip the engine bay out and paint the firewall, then get this ECU and engine combo installed. Wish me luck in getting it done before I sell the new truck!

[Xnke]

So, I'll never buy another GM product with the drive-by-wire throttle. Biggest nightmare I've ever dealt with...after replacing the throttle, throttle wiring to computer, accelerator pedal, ECM, BCM, complete engine wiring harness, complete body harness, AND the fuse block assembly...

The P2135 code in my "drive this" truck STILL plagues it. And on top of that the 2.8L 4-cylinder shit a rod bearing out, as evidenced by the knocking and glitter in my engine oil.

Soooo....Anyone wanna buy an engine swap canadate? 2005 GMC Canyon...I'll make you a sweet deal! (Or I'll do a OBD2 3500V6 swap...)

Back to your regularly scheduled (yeah, right) updates, I'm taking the afternoon to finish up the remainder of the wiring for the project truck. So far, not much has changed but I do have a complete(ish) fuse block connector, so I should be able to work on that some. Unfortunately due to the newly crapped out rod-bearing, I'll be driving the project truck. Not a good plan, but it is what it is.

Time to dig back into the wiring diagrams and get the harnesses finished 100%!

[Xnke]

So this happened...

There are some bugs to sand out. One bug in particular jumped onto the panel RIGHT as we were spraying the first coat of clear and I didn't catch him until we were done...he is perfectly preserved for eternity. The rest of them will sand out, as they're standing on top the clear.

Now THIS is what primer should look like off the gun, alright alright!



Sanded out to 600 grit wet, that spot of sanded-through-to-filler will bite me in the ass later:



Totally spaced on getting any shots of the sealer...it makes the whole thing feel like a grey plastic milk jug, and you totally doubt it'll look any good at all in that stage. Oh well. Also spaced out on getting photos of the minor color-because I'm a doof. I do have shots of masking over the gunmetal getting ready to spray today, though!



Taping over raw basecoat is not exactly recommended, but it works for me. I'll have to get a photo of WHY it's not recommended as I had an issue in one of the fenders, but it's way too late to fix it at the point I discovered it...I used the wrong type of masking paper and shot blue clean through it. One of the fenders has a tiny bit of blue overspray on top of the gunmetal, and since the metallic basecoat can't be sanded, nor wiped with reducer, and can only just be nibbed without fucking with it...I'll have to live with it and learn from it.



All taped up and ready to shoot the major color!



Blue is on, still taped up there. No clear on that yet...not too shabby for painting it on the loading dock!

Final clear on, letting it flash off here-the bugs don't show in the photos, but they're still there.



Drug the cab out into the sun to try and get some heat into it, and so we could see both colors together for the first time:



And the fenders under "streetlamp" type lighting, the sun was too bright to get a glare-free enough photo.



The cowl:



Pretty fuckin' stoked, guys. Pretty fuckin' stoked.

[Xnke]

Got this thing cranked over and ran a little tonight-having some fairly irritating issues with Tunerpro to work out. It cranks up and fires off immediately, but will stall out unless I keep the RPM's over 1800, anything over 1800RPM is fine. Could be a lot of things there, tuning, cam, blower in bypass mode, etc. Can't know yet. Still haven't got the O2 sensors in the pipes yet, that happens tomarrow. Tunerpro seems to have a very dirty data stream-it's somewhat difficult to connect(Easy to connect if I connect within a few seconds of turning the ECU on)but once connected, the RPM/CoolantTemp/BatteryVolts etc all will cease updating, drop to implausible numbers, and update slowly, then all the sudden back to normal for a few seconds, then update slowly, implausible numbers, etc. Gotta be a datastream issue. Need to mount the battery and actually assemble the vehicle, right now the battery is laying on the ground with the cables run out the fenderwell...it actually belongs behind the driver's seat. Once the battery is mounted and I have the exhaust roughed in, I'll drive it back to the house and get actual usable, data for you guys here to see what's going on.

[Xnke]

Have the exhaust finished up far enough to get the O2 sensors in it, that should take care of any DTCs that would be set-now to seal up the leaking accessory bolt to keep the coolant inside the engine, and things should be ready for the actual run-in. Hope to get better data regarding the Tunerpro connection issues this evening, seems that it might be the DIC chatter.

[RobertISaar]

that does sound like DIC messages, but you shouldn't really be experiencing that.... at least I never have using my definition.