When the gremlins come to call on race day, they love to find places to hide, in your LS1 electronics system. The last two times out, we have been "pestered" by the little buggers, that move around like cock roaches, in the wiring system. Six laps into the most recent SCCA Majors race, the car just decided to come to a dead stop, going around turn number two, at Gingerman Raceway. After considering everything, we plugged our code reader into the car, when back at the shop. Our crew chief, son, and full-time bread slicer assembler, "GT" had a great idea. The kid is sharp, and simply decided to erase all existing error codes, in the GM factory ECU unit. The car that would not go anywhere, quickly fired riight back up again, after the weekend was done.
Since we had already seem some burned wiring, and also smoked a brand new "pay it off monthly" racing battery, it stared to seem that we had a problem coming from only one place.
The alternator was removed, and tested for output. Our local electrical shop rebuilt it, and put in a new regulator, for a mere $85.00. The unit is back in the car, and we are pretty sure, that this was the issue causing the (most recent) problems that we faced. The moral of the story, always look for clues, that will lead you back to the root of the problem. Stay "tuned", for futher developments.
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