L31MaxExpress
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So this swap is about to get more interesting. I thought a modified L31 distributor with a 4X reluctor was on the market and one was. However Mike Noonan and the EFI Connection gang has dropped the product and screwed me in that regard. I have no desire to buy a $290 modified weak ass wear prone double roller timing chain and a matching $450 timing cover to get the 4x crank signal since EFI connection has discontinued their 4X crank signal L31 cam sync distributor....THANKS for the screwing guys from your older magazine and project outlines of having it available and dropping it!!!
I think what really irked me the most was the condescending, arrogant response I got from their customer service help named Chris today, considering I have bought 2 of their 24x setup reluctors, brackets, etc in the past, but such is life. I have spent a ton of money with them since that company was founded on that stuff and to be talked down on was surprising. My buddy Kurt also has a 24x setup on his 95 from my word of mouth as well. To get treated poorly after 3 setups alone that I know of that I have had a hand in, YIKES!!!
That being said I have 2 different GM 4x trigger wheels on the way. I am going to either try to modify one to replace the 1x wheel in a L31 distributor or create a new one entirely. A $5 piece of cut-out steel is all that I am lacking to turn my L31 distributor into a 4x cam sensor. EFI Connection would rather sell me $800 of one off stuff that will probably end up discontinued in the future if a replacement was needed rather than a $5 piece of industructible steel that last forever. They claim lack of interest in the product because guys want the aluminum cover and double roller sets anyway and the 24x is their bread and butter anyway because the sarcasm said who would want a 6L90E anyway.
This reluctor should be here Sunday but it is inverted/upside down from the GenIV LS one. That is ok, nothing some good measurements, some graphing paper, a protractor and a compass cannot resolve to cutout a template that matches the diameter of the L31 distributor reluctor.
This one is off a 1.4L and I have another from a Duramax on the way. These things are like $4 ea. Nothing that will prevent this project from working but annoying none the less. I will replicate the degree dimensions of the trigger slots to the necessary diameter, since the L31 cam reluctor is likely a different diameter, fabricate a new trigger wheel, then pop rivit or screw it into the OE distributor cap bolt holes.
I think what really irked me the most was the condescending, arrogant response I got from their customer service help named Chris today, considering I have bought 2 of their 24x setup reluctors, brackets, etc in the past, but such is life. I have spent a ton of money with them since that company was founded on that stuff and to be talked down on was surprising. My buddy Kurt also has a 24x setup on his 95 from my word of mouth as well. To get treated poorly after 3 setups alone that I know of that I have had a hand in, YIKES!!!
That being said I have 2 different GM 4x trigger wheels on the way. I am going to either try to modify one to replace the 1x wheel in a L31 distributor or create a new one entirely. A $5 piece of cut-out steel is all that I am lacking to turn my L31 distributor into a 4x cam sensor. EFI Connection would rather sell me $800 of one off stuff that will probably end up discontinued in the future if a replacement was needed rather than a $5 piece of industructible steel that last forever. They claim lack of interest in the product because guys want the aluminum cover and double roller sets anyway and the 24x is their bread and butter anyway because the sarcasm said who would want a 6L90E anyway.
This reluctor should be here Sunday but it is inverted/upside down from the GenIV LS one. That is ok, nothing some good measurements, some graphing paper, a protractor and a compass cannot resolve to cutout a template that matches the diameter of the L31 distributor reluctor.
This one is off a 1.4L and I have another from a Duramax on the way. These things are like $4 ea. Nothing that will prevent this project from working but annoying none the less. I will replicate the degree dimensions of the trigger slots to the necessary diameter, since the L31 cam reluctor is likely a different diameter, fabricate a new trigger wheel, then pop rivit or screw it into the OE distributor cap bolt holes.
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