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whoa! thanks for that info. mixed feelings right now... :eek:stupidity for not knowing, but then again how could I have known:confused:... and a little frustration because four out of four auto parts stores were stumped by my "problem" finding a square gasket. I hope my failure might inform...

waiting on the next stage of the build... few things to keep in mind that i have noticed & need to research more I'll edit with answers between each bullet point... eventually muffler support using the standard steering rack bolt locations... something akin to sway-bar in form, but will...

Disassembled Shifter Assembly with the major stuff out of the way and the engine purring like a tiger, the shifter can do for some attention as I just recevied a gift of a short shifter for my birth anniversary. with some care I followed the instructions for a typical cobalt short throw and...

Installed Seats The stock seats are labeled SS, so of course I would assume that they would slip right in... not so much... with help from previous posts and some tinkering, they are now installed. some notes on application: I do plan to initially use the stock seat belts, but will...

Rotated coolant bypass I had bought a new header to replace the cracked OEM manifold. when I went to put it in place i found that the manifold interfered with the coolant bypass pipe bending it and flexing it enough to make a leak in the system where it met the water pump housing. you might...

New thermostat is in, and i did a bunch of others things at the same time... too many variables. Replaced thermostat Rotated coolant bypass Swapped Radiator Flow "Purged" coolant line of air Installed Seats disassembled shifter assembly Replaced the thermostat with, what I believe is, an...

I need to ask to make sure I understand... is the flow going out of the engine on the passenger(right) side, and cooled liquid coming into the engine on the driver(left) side? EDIT: I FOUND IT!!! I did not realize that the fan only came on at such high temps... I suppose I had an...

sorta in the same boat, I experienced the same situation and thought it was my thermostat being stuck after being exposed to air for over a half a year... would be interested when you find the solution, it may be the same problem I'm having. I took apart the temp sensor as well as replaced the...

yes! to all of what you just said, ha ha :-D awesome info! thank you. now that you mention it.... I feel like an idiot.... that was one of the last things I did that prompted me to check the fan circuit in this post I was able to get temp reading via bluetooth OBD2 reader when the engine was...

that's correct! I did get the fan to come on using the jumper across the relay pins, so for me that is just something to eliminate as a problem. Also it is a good sign that I didn't screw up the wiring for that section, Ha Ha! I really just wanted to make sure that the sensor was not dead...

I pulled the radiator sensor and tested it as a resistor... sitting in the ambient air temp it registered as ~2.29 K Ohm sitting it on an ice-pak it registered as ~ 2.9 K Ohm holding it in hand it registered between 2.03 and 2.14 K Ohm I am not familiar with it's normal operating range of...

Thanks, I think my engine's sensor is rear left side... I'll try and boil some water and see if the fan comes on that way... will post results here

I've been trying to find a round about way of checking the radiator fan circuit to ensure that I wired it corrctly. Is there a way to trick the radiator fan to come on without having the engine running? I thought I could use the 2752 relay in the fuse box, can't confirm that is the circuit...

With a little research, my first step is to do the least expensive replacement part first... the thermostat. At some point, as I interpret it, I will want to do a timing chain and water pump replacement from what I see about timing chain and mileage. For now though, my main concern is that...

Pics now, & text in a bit... So I think I have clobbered a majority of the electrical gremlins for the time being, aside from the benign ones that don't effect anything yet... I realized that I had, at the time, an innocuous pair of connectors that were dangling and I paired them up... not...

Thanks! not enough pics of what things look like for this sort of stuff. This does shed light on how the stock ones should fit in! I am a notorious over complicating things and was considering options in mind for how a different seat could get put in. I am concerned that some day I might get...

could we also get pointed in the right direction? :-) I'm trying to find examples as well of how to mount the stock seats

Eureka! after finding the break in the circuit I soldered a short wire between the two most adjacent pins on that circuit. on Key "on" position the fuel pump primes and the car no longer has the P0230 code pulled. starts up with no issue and sounds great.... until.... it started steaming...

I had not even caught this the first time i pulled the fuse block out. I had only checked that the pin slots were not corroded and were still solidly soldered to the board. so I started to search for which harness wire had the relay low voltage signal to trigger the relay and ended up trying to...

Smoking gun! The trace on the fuse block had burnt up... fingers crossed this is the only thing holdong me up now.