Turbo Fairlane Build - Installing a Haltech 750

[@haltech]

Love your work! If you ever get stuck give us a call:) Looking forward to seeing the car driven in anger!

[@HackshopGarage]

Haha thanks guys, much appreciated! And thank you for answering our questions so far 👍🏼

[@JTECH7766]

If you haven't it's highly recommended to ground the coils to the head not the ecu and NOT signal ground. I was in the same boat as you guy's except I used the premium harness, daunting! But made it happen. The only piggybacking I did though was tps and crank sensor, the factory ecu runs the trans, fuel pump, thermo fans and cluster etc. But I plan to run everything from the haltech down the track. I also tapped a thread into the thermo base housing and used a barra head temp sensor to run to the haltech so I could keep the factory au sensor. I didn't want to risk sharing that sensor as they can get grumpy sharing. Daves wiring vlog was a big help for me.

[@HackshopGarage]

Yeah awesome, thanks for the tip mate, we did ground back to the ecu on the coils, so we might look at grounding them to the head instead. Is it just due to current draw on the ecu?

[@JTECH7766]

@@HackshopGarage correct. Anything that isn't sig ground you should ground to a star point (good solid ground point) or head. From my research ls1 coils should always be ground to cylinder head or you can have problems. Mainly they either won't fire or have weak spark.

[@HackshopGarage]

Right ok, that’s really good to know. Thanks mate, much appreciated

[@JTECH7766]

@@HackshopGarage also I know the early e series has a temp sensor in the lower thermo housing, not sure if yours has that? If not you can use those housings for a second temp sensor to the haltech. Again just so you're not sharing that sensor and so you can retain the cluster gauge. Using the barra sensor in my case worked out well because the haltech has the calibration file for that sensor so it's very easy to setup.

[@crip3309]

@@HackshopGarage yes defenantly ground the coils to the head or block. I had the coil ground in the loom and I was getting bad spark blow out. Had me angry for weeks... haha

[@culpritmedia7026]

Yeah boy. Thursday just got a whole lot better. Thanks, fellas!

[@E-Z_Gaming]

You can just put the 6mm cut off Allen key piece in a 6mm socket lol

[@haydenknowles7798]

Very under rated channel guys. You will go far keep up the good work 🤙🏻

[@rayseal1099]

You wouldnt be laughing if u had too start rippin the car apart. To get that little screw. Its great watching u guys having fun

[@MrFordy90]

I agree with the removal of the butterflys. If they stopped working (like my old EL XR6 did) they can really screw things up (and just another potential vacuum leak)! When you add boost to the mix, depending on the spool threshold they become fairly irrelevant. If you are already in positive manifold pressure by 1800RPM they are fairly pointless. If you were looking for fuel efficiency then maybe they might have a point but I still wouldn't bother. A longer intake runner (when closed) will require more air volume to reach full boost, thus increase lag. While the added intake velocity they add may provide better off-boost torque (same as not going too big on exhaust diameter when N/A) to get the best response from a turbo, lower pressure is better. There is a reason why the small displacement turbo engines like the WRX with 2L have 3" exhaust systems. Or why the turbo Barra's have a less complex intake and why they run 4" exhausts. In short lower pressure and a shorter length is the best thing for a turbo car = Less lag more turbo response. You would have been better off getting a new manifold with short runs rather than the elaborate N/A style manifold. Or just make a basic log manifold with short runs at a reasonable size diameter.

[@ethanburgess8355]

watching this helped me out heaps! i have a turbo ed falcon and was tossing up on what to do ecu wise might have to go haltech

[@leightonB69]

Great work guys

[@adelaideinvigilation5230]

I ended up buying a roll of wire used for trailers and then cutting off the plastic coating that gave me at least 7 different wires to work with.

[@chrispapadopoulos3058]

I enjoy your channel haven't miss a episode keep us entertain with your laughter n neat work doing a great job👍

[@HackshopGarage]

Thanks mate, much appreciated and glad you are enjoying the channel

[@the-THORNSPAWN]

Why pull the broad band butterflies out? With them in and switched by the haltech you will have better bottom end torque and quicker spool, when they're open they are not a restriction. Some people think that because the XR6T didn't have them then it must be better but in actual fact they were only left out as a cost cutting measure and in testing they did make more low end with the BBM functional.

[@HackshopGarage]

Yeah we thought we would just try an idea we had heard, worst case we have another manifold to put them back in if need be

[@kwekuadoboli38]

This is what I needed today

[@cre8tivegarage157]

We Enjoy watching your channel 👌 Great vibes , We definitely support big time 🥂😎

[@habib_the_panda]

Looks like I'm not the only one that can't find forward facing plenum, TI used to have them stocked from spoolinboost maybe you guys could convince them to get them in again ? :P

[@clint.garage.6092]

Very cool....the haltech looks a bit more involved than the Holley pnp deal I just messed with but I want to do a intech or Barra so this is bloody helpful vid fellas.

[@slw0546]

Another great vid fellas... 🍻

[@parnis351]

Another great video guys!, try trailer loom wire from supercheap you can get it up to 7 strand I think and they are all individualy coloured, if that helps you out 👍

[@eddieshlips2871]

If you are after wiring. Look at Narva.com.au They have all the different colored wiring. and I just order it through my local Bursons. Not that expensive either. Or Jay Dee.

[@35wheels]

Jay dee auto cables sell striper wire in lots off sizes you can find them on google

[@1959VWBeetle]

Brilliant guys 😊 isn't wiring just the most fun any car guy can have 😆 Shame the Haltech wouldn't run everything. I do like Haltech yet one thing that really bugs me is having to pay extra for wideband that other ECU's have natively as a 5v input. Anyhoo, onwards and upwards 😉

[@nickscurr7062]

Jaydee electrical online sell multi-coloured wire, or you can buy txl wire online which is better for looms

[@HackshopGarage]

Awesome thanks for the tip mate

[@geoffjackson7894]

I watched with complete anticipation of the start up, rooting for you with the wiring, and___________________NOTHING 😕🙁🥺 But man I love watching you guys just commit and have fun.

[@HackshopGarage]

Haha sorry mate, still have the fuel system to finish off before we can turn the key

[@geoffjackson7894]

I will wait with baited breath for the next installment.

[@michaelo7600]

I see you have ignition coming from the haltech, and you said fuel pump is powered by the factory ecu, but what is powering the injectors? Or is that what you're talking about when you say you've still got to do the fuel system?

[@HackshopGarage]

The fuel pump is powered triggered by the haltech also, just utilising the standard relay, and the injectors and also powered by the haltech too. We tapped into the standard wiring look for the injectors down by the standard ecu plug for the negative trigger and the positive turned on by the ignition or standard wiring loom

[@michaelo7600]

Oh yea, of course. That makes perfect sense now. I got a little confused when you were saying there's only 7 wires coming out through the firewall. But yes, I see you're tapping into stock loom

[@E-Z_Gaming]

Also do you guys need trigger angle settings etc for the haltech?

[@HackshopGarage]

We might do, we havnt been able to open up the haltech program on a laptop yet as we havnt had a windows laptop handy as yet

[@E-Z_Gaming]

No worries, I also could send you my platinum map if you like, pretty sure you can import it into the elite software

[@HackshopGarage]

Hey mate, we might need the trigger angle settings if you have them handy?

[@justin3131ify]

Followed a video or two on the Q but the fairlane is what I'm here for! 💪😎 on another note Nathan you have some good leads for sale yes?

[@HackshopGarage]

Thanks mate, send us a message on our insta or Facebook if you are after some leads

[@furai-ingfalc-kuru8149]

Loving the EL vids! Keep em coming, hope to see this up at WSID soon! Is a trip up here on the cards at all once the borders open? WSID is gonna be open again in a few weeks after its resurfacing. You can Highway road tune it on the way up here then go to Haltech so they can fix it on their dyno then to WSID to blow it up! Drag week preparation! Hehe

[@HackshopGarage]

Hahah sounds like a good road trip

[@brucehowie579]

don't let the smoke out, it's very difficult to put back in lol

[@HackshopGarage]

Hahaha very true mate

[@brucehowie579]

@@HackshopGarage great work with the wiring and the out takes are bloody funny

[@HackshopGarage]

Hahaha thanks mate

[@freestyleskyline]

Unda da seeeaaaa (t)

[@neon4017]

i get all my electrical supplies through Baxters

[@lsgemini7686]

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[@coreyomara6564]

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