Kalmaker

A long time between posts, I know, and phew, things have been hectic as usual.
It was a huge move with Zared Fox moving into his new workshop, but its back to business as usual and now a distant memory.
I'm mostly tuning 5L and V6 stuff but also tuning all Zared LS conversions and of course all the guys I'm doing LS harnesses for
The photo is of my 36 Chev I've been building over last 18 months when I get a chance....
It is a Holden built Chev, build number 308 of 435 made, and so I decided to do a 308 lookalike LS2 with a 6 speed 6L80e auto, where I've fitted a 4 barrel manifold and fitted the FBW throttle body vertically, with a Cadillac air filter at present, but looking for a 308 type if any of you have one...
I bought the LS to tin rocker cover adapters out of Melbourne and had to make the alternator mount to clear the higher covers.
I've mounted a 5L fake dizzy at the back where the leads pass though to the coilpaks behind the firewall.... along way to go yet..
The majority of my work is making from scratch, brand new 6L, LS3, LSA harnesses mostly to suit 6L80e autos and everything to make them work in all types of vehicles, from Patrols, Cruisers, to street cars to hotrods.
I also make new, or convert LS1 harnesses, as well as a few 5L or V6 harnesses
I have ads on Gumtree, and have a turnaround of about 2 to 3 weeks

Lately I've been "upgrading" several LS1 type VZ's from fbw back to cable throttle either in actual VZ models or in conversions.
It's dead easy to do, and I've made a patch harness to suit with IAC and TPS connectors one end and the other end with LS1 terminal cut and crimped to length, and its as easy as opening the ecu plugs and inserting into the empty spaces.
Obviously you need a cable type pedal and cable, along with earlier same 3 bolt style throttle body, or even larger 4 bolt type if you have LS2 cathedral port type manifold or FAST etc..
The tune only needs a couple of things changed and doesn't affect your existing stock or cammed tune whether mafless and includes info how to mod tune in either HPTUNER or EFILIVE, so if ecu is tuned already, you can just take ecu to ecu to your tuner to update.
I'm doing these for $110 incl postage and gst
As you can see in photo, it's easy and easy to copy if you don't have a hundy spare..

Paul brought his HG ute up from Albany with a nice 355 in it with all the fruit and ported heads running a hi stall 4l60e and it pulled 361rwhp with a wicked bark and tough as...
All these earlier pre LS engines are tuned with realtime Kalmaker software this one running our W30 Operating system

I've been doing some really nice 5L's lately and there's nothing like working on well prepared cars
This is Geoff's LH with cammed 284 5L manual, and it knocked out 261rwhp which with that power to weight ratio, it goes very well
Beautiful car with the right bits on it.

Time for a very worthy post
This is Jon's VS SS with a 355 built by Brian of Outlaw Performance and fitted with a Crane 288 solid cam with 4 barrel throttle body and manifold backed up to a T400, and big hi stall converter...
Not sure what pistons, but can't be flat tops as the comp wasn't too high, which meant, (once again) that I could get some advance into it, as you can see by the hp, and 356 ain't too bad through a t400 with 20 inch rims...
Definitely a LS slayer with torque over 400 ft lbs on the hit...
The video has that unmistakable Holden V8 sound, and sounds good on big screen with good sound..