[HWYSTR455]

Engine is running as expected, the 'head drama' is behind me. Thankfully. Have one more hot rocker adjustment to do after a few heat cycles and should be good.

This allows me to get back on the tune, which was the point I was at prior to the head gasket issue, and since there was that issue, I kind of have to start over on the tune. Uhg.

Was getting it ready to get a state inspection done, and need to complete the brake bleeding and E-brake adjustment. It was all working well prior to the rear swap, so figured I'd just nee d to bleed it.

After multiple attempts at bleeding, I just wasn't getting the same pedal I had before, so I dug deeper and found a rear caliper was hung on the sliders.

The rear brake setup I have is based off the 93-97 LT1 Camaro, which uses a caliper with the e-brake built in. There's a funky e-brake cable bracket on it, and in order to take the caliper off the caliper bracket (sliders), that cable bracket has to come off. Many times, when the caliper is hung on the sliders, you pretty much have to destroy the cable bracket to get them apart.

All the reman calipers are now drying up from failures, and from multiple rebuilds. A lot of repop co's are offering them without the bracket, or, not at all. I had to go through at least 3 calipers last time I refreshed, and looking this time was even more difficult.

So I bit the bullet and got a new setup from Kore3, which uses the drum in hat e-brake, C6 based (and some Camaros).

I have a few other minor items I can do while I wait for the brake kit, which am hoping will show up before the weekend. But it's getting very close to being road worthy....


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