EX5023 LT5 Start-up

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Well, Tyler is coming next week so we can try to get this thing alive again. It'll be nice to hear LT5 #043 fired up and running.

Tomorrow, installing fuel lines, brake lines, calipers, fuel tank/sender, battery, hoses and fluids.

Then, dash harness and forward lamp harness. Busy week.

Wish me luck......................LOL

[Daniel_Mc]

GREATNESS :dancing

Daniel

[RHanselman]

Luck...!!!

[FU]

:occasion1

[ZZZZZR1]

Hell of a project! Good luck. :)

[tomtom72]

:thumbsup: Oh boy oh boy....this is gonna be great! :dancing

Good luck Brett! I'll bet you can't wait.


:cheers:
Tom

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Gonna be a long day today. Here we go!

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Today's activities --------

* Remove rear bumper
* Drop rear suspension
* Remove old fuel lines (what was left of them anyway)
* Install used set of fuel lines
* Install fuel tank and sender with new pumps
* Fill transmission with fluid
* Check rear end fluid level
* Replace half shaft U-joint
* Install new fuel filter
* Install fuel lines from filter to plenum

Tomorrow --------
* Install battery
* Install hoses and Thermostat housing
* Install oil lines from LT5 to cooler
* Fill LT5 with fluids
* Install driveshaft
* Install dash harness
* Install forward lamp harness
* Install halo harness
* Install rear harness
* Install exhaust

The brake system will have to wait until after it runs. Maybe in a few weeks.

Tyler will be here this weekend. We'll install new calibration in the ECM and try to start.

[captcorvette]

Would like to be a fly on the wall for today and on start up day. Sounds like a really fun do. Best of luck but I am sure you won't need it.

[Hog]

Good luck!

peace
Hog

[USAFPILOT]

i'm ready for a burnout

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Finally got the wiring harnesses ran throughout the car today. Tyler will be here any minute. Tomorrow, the real fun begins!

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Look on Tyler Townsley facebook page (go to photos and prototype album) for new photos of EX5023 from England before and after crushing.

[Blue Flame Restorations]

All wire harneses have been plugged in and inspected for damage. I'll repair them so I can still retain the originals. Ordered another dash harness to use to repair the original. There were a few cut wires and missing connectors. The front end loader wasn't too kind in some areas.

We've been working hard at it for the past two days. Today we achieved fuel pressure and stopped any leaks. Testing the DIS module with a checker tomorrow. Tyler is amazing with the schematics of the PhaseII setup.

Thankfully, we have Tyler's "Queenie" car here with mine for a side by side comparison. Big help.

http://i47.tinypic.com/35cjy51.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/5eit75.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/2h5qkx1.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/vdplq0.jpg

The only two 1988 KOH Prototypes in the world, together at last!
http://i49.tinypic.com/34sgqqt.jpg

Other projects taking a backseat this week.
http://i45.tinypic.com/34rypv9.jpg

[vilant]

Looks like you got your hands full in that garage, lol. Very cool project, best of luck w/ it. Can wait to see pics of it finished.:cheers:

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Update 09-26.

We have fuel, power and spark!!!!!!!!!!! We'll button it up tomorrow and prep for start-up.

Going to the GM Heritage Center on Friday for a personal tour!!!! Woohoo!!!

[JThomas]

Wish I had been paying closer attention to this thread, I would have met you for dinner or a beer! Welcome to Michigan!

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Wish I had been paying closer attention to this thread, I would have met you for dinner or a beer! Welcome to Michigan!

You could have came with us on the tour! Wish I had been thinking clearer. We were on a mission to drop Tyler's car off at Jeal's house and cram a tour in all in one day. Got home around 11pm last night. Long day....

[Tyler Townsley]

High flying wreck.

Tyler

[Blue Flame Restorations]

High flying RUNNING wreck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 09/30/12 @ 6:15pm. The second running PhaseII LT5 is alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[USAFPILOT]

no video?

[Blue Flame Restorations]

no video?


Gotta change the oil before I start it up again. We had an injector stick open and put alot of fuel into $90 worth of new oil. :cry:

I'm no longer a virgin at the Plenum Pull. Had to pull it several times, plus change the injectors. Easy to do once you do it a few times. No longer aprehensive about tearing into my Turq car if needed.

After installing all of the original wiring harnesses, we had to trouble shoot all of the connectors that weren't hooked to anything. Still have a few to trace down.

TYLER IS DA"MAN!!!!!!!!! He's so knowledgable on the PhaseII that it's crazy cool. I never could have got this thing running without him. He's a true genious.

Next.....install a complete working braking system and then all new interior.

[LGAFF]

Congrats Brett thats awesome!

[Tyler Townsley]

Queenie says:
It's time to officially introduce my younger sister Elizabeth (Lizzy) to the forum. Unlike me her early history is known. She was used by Lotus for calibration work by Geoff Jeal and then used to test the 405 block before being humilitated.

Early pictures
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133024.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133052.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133223.jpg
Being rescued from the dark years.
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133147.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133241.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133521.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133539.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133330.jpg
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/20110422133438.jpg
She lay quiet for another 15 years until being sold to my current owner who undertook a restoration. Which is still in process.
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/001.JPG
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/002.JPG
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/003.JPG
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/004.JPG
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/005.JPG
http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/EX5023/006.JPG

Hopefully she will be talking in her own voice with additional pictures soon.

Queenie

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Well, Tyler finally backed me into a corner so I'd give my car a name. LOL

It's the least I could agree to do since he helped me so graciously to get "her" a pulse and bring her back to life. We worked 9am-9pm for a solid week until she finally fired up and cleared the debris from the exhaust....literally!

What a great feeling to finally have the car alive. I started with a wreck and brought it back to life. I had a lot of great help along the way. That's for sure.:handshak:

[tomtom72]

:handshak: Congratulations To you and Tyler for breathing life back into Lizzy! :dancing

That is totally awesome Brett! :fahne:


:cheers:
Tom

[A26B]

Well done Brett!! Thanks for taking us along on the ride.

[RyanChappel]

The first photos literally made me queasy...to think how you have been able to put this thing back together is incredible. One wonders why GM and the developer of the car destroyed the earlier test mules..even GM had to have had someone around who realized how valuable and unique those early specimens would be....I don't get the corporate mind sometimes....lol!


RC
'91 SN#1929

[vilant]

:jawdrop: Wow! Can't believe you guys transformed that pile of junk into a beautiful car. Congratulations, it looks awesome. Have to ask, how did you even track it down? Must of taken some serious research.

[Blue Flame Restorations]

:jawdrop: Wow! Can't believe you guys transformed that pile of junk into a beautiful car. Congratulations, it looks awesome. Have to ask, how did you even track it down? Must of taken some serious research.

It's a well documented piece of Corvette history and had been in storage for around 15 yrs or so after it was pulled from the UK graveyard. A Lotus engineer saved it after it was crushed.

[Tyler Townsley]

For those of you into these things. This is a Lotus developed daughter calibration card, never seen one before. The eprom AND resistors can be unpluged from the card.

http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/prototype/proto%20daughter%20card%20(Large).jpg

EX5014 and EX5023 togeather in one room, probably not happen again.

http://deliquescence.net/~tyler/prototype/Togeather1%20(Large).jpg

Tyler

[USAFPILOT]

looks like one of them is getting some lypo.