HX Sandman project.

[damienengland]

Sequential injection on VT 5LTR's so fuel economy will be great! Red covers will make it faster as well...

[wbute]

Sequential injection on VT 5LTR's so fuel economy will be great! Red covers will make it faster as well...

Yep, love the red covers!

[axistr]

Good choice of engine James, the only carburetted engines I have these days is the Van and my ride on lawn mower. You just can't beat E.F.I for economy, driveability, even power delivery and generally very reliable.

I had red covers on my 5lt SLR engine but decided to remove the paint and polish the hell out of them.

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[wbute]

That’s bloody neat. Did you do the wiring?

[axistr]

That’s bloody neat. Did you do the wiring?

Thanks,

Yep, I used the original harness which only needs a couple of wires changed to get it all to work. It did take a bit of thinking, but wasn't all that hard when you get your head around it. I'm still running the original HSV 195kw tune ECM/PCM computer. I got the engine and computer from a VR Clubsport, 4 bolt mains block. If you look closely in the photo you will notice I cut out the VR fuse box from the harness and wired it all into a VZ fuse box. I used this fuse box because its more compact and has more room for all the extras I had to wire in, and didn't want to put an extra fuse box and relays inside the car. With the A/C unit there was bugger all room under the dash and the Mrs didn't want me to remove the glove box. I also use the ECM/PCM to control my A/C, twin thermo fans high/low ect. Also wired in a manual fan override switch which I have never used.

You will have to remove the VATS system from your VT computer program. If you don't want to get the E.C.M reprogramed you can buy a 12v - 5v reducer and run it from the ignition supply circuit and into the correct terminal on the ECM. All the BCM module does is convert the supply to a 5v reference to cancel the VATS signal lock out.

Hope this helps.

[wbute]

Cut the rust out of the plenum non the passenger side. Made a patch panel but no welding because my helmet has a flat battery. I also pressure washed the whole ute and pulled the wiring harness and heater box out.
I am really starting to dislike the Deauville Blue colour now that I have had it out in the light. It’s very purple ish. B54B181F-3007-41B5-9D8B-66A32DC7E64A.jpeg

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[wbute]

I might have to check out your conversion one day. I will lose days working it all out.

[wbute]

Some small progress and some big!

There was a lot of work in shaping the patch panel to go in the windscreen channel of the cowl. I bought a shrinker stretcher and used a piece of the old roof skin. There is a compound curve in it which was bloody hard to achieve!
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I also drove to Sydney to pick this big box up! Hopefully I can have a crack at fitting it next week.
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[wbute]

Welded the piece back in the cowel. Haven’t got the patch fitted yet, but all the rust is gone from the plenum on that side.

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[wbute]

One huge step I guess, trial fitting the new quarter panel! Still heaps to do before it stays on though.

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