SATURN S-SERIES REARMOUNT TURBO UPDATE-STARTUP TIME??

[@constructdestruct360]

I've had my Harbor Freight 90 Flux Core Welder for about 8 years now. When i first got it, I read somewhere to throw away the stock ground clamp and replace it, which I did. They recommended not using HF wire but running Lincoln wire. And, the biggest thing that helped me was having a small bottle of map gas and torch to "preheat" the part I'm welding. That seemed to help alot with getting a weld puddle quicker with flatter, less lumpy welds. I'm 52 and feel 65 some days. Getting old is tough! I'm scaling back too and taking up smaller, less expensive hobbies these days.

[@kurtbennett1164]

Thank you for this guidance. I did update the wire and heard about preheating but not the ground wire! That makes sense! I see different tips, more pointy ones than the brass one i have. Is thatbsomething to try as well? I see pointier black ones and then bigger brass ones. I am really on the verge of getting an 220 amazon one Isaw but its gas.

[@jaxonbryks1085]

i really apreaciate these videos, to go through the trouble of building a Saturn and filming it and editing for KZbin, with that medical stuff is very inspiring hope to see many more of the saturn Build videos.

[@kurtbennett1164]

Thank you so much sir!

[@wyattfitzgerald8688]

Really beautiful color choice. I’m thinking of trying to diy wrapping my sl2

[@kurtbennett1164]

Go for it man make sure to take a video so we can see it when you're done I'm excited for you!

[@roxorz007]

Sucks getting old, the aches and pains are the worst hopefully you can get that sorted out. I went through a bit recently as well. Not many people left messing around with cars, the new stuff nowadays is just so much more efficient. Sorry to say but that is some of the worse welding I have ever seen lol there are proper filler rods that be used for dissimilar metals. Anyway look forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@kurtbennett1164]

Hahahaha! I appreciate the honesty of the welds. No push back here! Made me laugh though. 😃

[@BrianBigard]

I agree with your son. Silver rims

[@kurtbennett1164]

K Im keeping track! Thats 2 for silver 😀

[@bryceglover8161]

Great video man … I had an idea that I have been thinking about and wanted to run it by you are you familiar with hp tuners ?

[@kurtbennett1164]

Yes Ive heard of it. Friends at work use it on their gm builds. What idea you got?

[@bryceglover8161]

@@kurtbennett1164 well hp tuners covers a 97 Chevy cavalier and I have a 96 Saturn sc1 they are both single cams. Is it possible to take the cavalier ecu and plug and repin it to my Saturn so then you could tune it through hp tuners ?

[@kurtbennett1164]

@@bryceglover8161 I'm not that familiar with it to guide you. I'm not sure the cavy's mechanical timing is similar to just put in the pcm, de-pin/re-pin to the correct sensors as I'm not sure if the crankshaft sensors are the same from car to car, if the ignition timing would be easy peezy to just run over like that. Saturn's internally notched crank has a 7x reference. Not sure what the cavy's is. Man, you'd be a better man than me to do that and I have access to both car's electrical diagrams from prodemand (mitchell) and alldata. I think you might have heard me say at one point, IF I were to blow this motor, rather than build another s-series, I'd do a kswap or a toyota motor install and swap. THEN yes, using the donor car's ecu, wiring harness etc, that would be easier in terms of insuring it would work and run once you were done. Things like a/c, power steering, instrument cluster working correctly, etc.-basically anything electronically controlled, would take some time in pinning things out but could be done. Of course then, the big job comes in stabbing that motor and trans in and engine mounting it up. Either way, I like your idea only at this ripe old age, its better left to those with more than 20 Christmases left in their bodies. LOL

[@bryceglover8161]

@@kurtbennett1164 yes I would have to do a lot more research I just wanted to pick your brain about it and I was thinking ok keeping the Saturn engine just doing a computer swap and I have a junkyard semi locally that has the car and wanted some ideas on how hard that would be and it is all base model stuff on both cars and has no radio and ac so everything with the wiring would be semi minimalistic because where I’m at you can get a tag for anything doesn’t matter how many lights are on the dash hahah

[@kurtbennett1164]

@@bryceglover8161 I'd say if you're going to go through that level of work, I'd just as soon take on a K20 motor swap. That way, parts are stupid cheap and an N/A motor can be built to what, something like 400hp?