Monte Carlo Z34 5-speed swap HOW-TO

[l67ss]

lol I dunno man I might when I destroy this transmission

 

Or mebbe after I swap to one up me

[nitehawkjcb]

Nah man never to one up... just to keep up

[l67ss]

Nah man never to one up... just to keep up

 

^this coming from the guy with the faster monte

[nitehawkjcb]

Hey I don't know it's faster, you could have a cam and some spray that I don't know about.....

[l67ss]

Not yet

Hey I don't know it's faster, you could have a cam and some spray that I don't know about.....

[carkhz316]

Just a little update. I finally got around to playing with HP Tuners a few days ago and turned off/ disabled all the trans codes and now the cruise control works. My wiring procedure for the clutch switch works as planned too. With a touch of the brake pedal or the clutch pedal the cruise disables as expected.

[nitehawkjcb]

Great to hear! Killer setup man. And cruise control? WINNER!

[Night Fury]

Epic.

[19Cutlass94]

That's one thing l wish my car had, was cruise control.

[pshojo]

so whats the desl with cruise control? do most of these swaps not have cruise? whats the difficulty?

[carkhz316]

I'm guessing some folks just have general problems with the cruise being inoperable. In the case of the manual trans swaps, it's a matter of either the range position switch being in the right position to enable cruise (drive range) and/ or the trans codes inhibiting cruise. My dumb ol' Haynes manual doesn't give pin numbers/ letters for most of the wiring diagrams (cruise control module included) so I had to do some digging to guess which one of the 2 dark green wires was the VSS and which one was the cruise inhibit. I thought if I bypassed the the inhibit signal that it would force the cruise to engage. It turns out I had pulled the VSS wire instead, because when I plugged it back in (after already turning off the trans codes in the PCM) it started working. Regarding the wiring I did in my swap: that was just for the disable to work with the clutch pedal as well as the brake. While not absolutely necessary, I wanted the redundant, factory like function of it; and for safety and stuff.

[l67ss]

if you go to print this thread its 102 pages long lol

[Nas Escobar]

if you go to print this thread its 102 pages long lol

 

You actually printed this thread?

[l67ss]

Yup i like hard copies of info i need in case the electronic source fails or i go very long w/o net service. Printed bumpin96montes l67 swap how to off mymonte.com, 6 monthes later the forum died

You actually printed this thread?

[Nas Escobar]

That is valid. I usually save stuff on my flash and SD card

 

Sent from my HTC Sensation using Tapatalk

[Cully77]

Yup i like hard copies of info i need in case the electronic source fails or i go very long w/o net service. Printed bumpin96montes l67 swap how to off mymonte.com, 6 monthes later the forum died

 

Ugh. We died a slow painful death. I wish chad would have switched over to here. I think he pops up on MCF every once in awhile, but I would love to know how he's doing with the whipple set up these days.

[carkhz316]

102 pages? Holy cripe. Must be all the pics and graphics or something.

[Go4DaMo]

On 7/29/2013 at 9:07 PM, carkhz316 said:

 

If you are using the stock clutch hydraulics with the accumulator, everything should just bolt right up. The accumulator bolts right next to the slave cylinder on the trans. If, on the other hand, you want upgrade the hydraulics to eliminate the accumulator, see this thread:

 

http://www.w-body.com/showthread.php/76462-Getrag-284-282-SS-braided-clutch-hydrualics-bleeding-procedure

 

I went head and purchased the following from the thread:

http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/Carkhz316/IMG_20130529_005140.jpg

 

Bought this today, as my accumulator has air in it.  Thank you!!

Edited December 1 by Go4DaMo
To be moar Pacific.

[Go4DaMo]

On 8/9/2014 at 6:24 AM, l67ss said:

Yup i like hard copies of info i need in case the electronic source fails or i go very long w/o net service. Printed bumpin96montes l67 swap how to off mymonte.com, 6 monthes later the forum died

Smart

[Go4DaMo]

On 7/29/2013 at 9:07 PM, carkhz316 said:

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http://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/Carkhz316/IMG_20130529_005140.jpg

If you follow the above thread, you'll be able to get rid of that crappy accumulator and have a nice firm clutch.

UPDATE:  This link proved useful: 

Did this link get moved somewhere?

http://www.w-body.com/showthread.php/76462-Getrag-284-282-SS-braided-clutch-hydrualics-bleeding-procedure

Edited December 1 by Go4DaMo
For the love of w-body!

[carkhz316]

On 11/30/2024 at 7:59 PM, Go4DaMo said:

UPDATE:  This link proved useful: 

Did this link get moved somewhere?

http://www.w-body.com/showthread.php/76462-Getrag-284-282-SS-braided-clutch-hydrualics-bleeding-procedure

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened with the broken link. The Deboss garage link is basically the same strategy though. One removes the slave and manually actuates it in reverse to bleed the system. Thats all one needs to do. Its just awkward in the car with limited space to work.