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Anfurnyy
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- Jul 4, 2020
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Rapid City,
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After getting them shifter cables situated i took the car out to the gas station to fill up with E85. Took a buddy for a ride and he recorded a pull on the way home.
Since going for my first drive in the car i noticed that the tach drops out while giving it really any sort of acceleration or turning the blinkers on. its still the 90 cluster.
After doing some research i decided to swap in the 91+ cluster and that fixed the issue. Figured it wouldnt have mattered since i have the 91+ harness but apparently it still does.
During that pull mentioned above the tach wasnt working at all and i had no clue what RPM i was at so i short shifted into 3rd and 4th. Definitely had some RPM left after re-watching the video.
Took the car to a meet also for its first official outing. Didnt get any pictures but had some fun and ate some food truck food. Car drove there perfectly fine. There is some squeaking coming from under the car. I think the exhaust heat shield is rubbing on the exhaust since i didnt trim it to fit like the blue car had.
Over the weekend i spent a few hours getting the dash out and swapping the VIN tags on the dash so they actually match the cars they are going in. Riveted the plates back on and painted the rivets black and it looks pretty OEM.
That same day after getting the interior back together i decided to try and fix up my Pillar covers a bit and see if i could get them to actually stay on the pillars. I ended up using some sticky velcro and adhesive promoter or Fuser. The driver side held up great but the passenger side didnt have any clips left on the trim so the velcro actually separated from the adhesive on the backside on the passenger side and fell down again.
Last night i decided it was time to try and tackle some cooling woes with the radiator. I have that ebay radiator shroud sitting around and got around to making that fit. Big issue with these shrouds is that they just sit on top of the radiator and not on the inside, so they end up adding a few inches overall. I did a bunch of test fits and ended up trimming mine down quite a bit and it sits inside the radiator and seals off the sides quite nice. Only one of my fans fits as the other is way too big being a 13". Ive ordered up another 12" fan to get installed to replace the bigger guy.
pretty please with how this turned out. Id wager that by having the shroud you gain about 20% of cooling when the fans come on that you lost by mounting the fans right to the rad with all the area between and around the fans.
Before:
After:
I think ill probably take care of the exhaust heat shield next, and then i think ill focus on making some ducting for the intercooler/radiator.
Since going for my first drive in the car i noticed that the tach drops out while giving it really any sort of acceleration or turning the blinkers on. its still the 90 cluster.
After doing some research i decided to swap in the 91+ cluster and that fixed the issue. Figured it wouldnt have mattered since i have the 91+ harness but apparently it still does.
During that pull mentioned above the tach wasnt working at all and i had no clue what RPM i was at so i short shifted into 3rd and 4th. Definitely had some RPM left after re-watching the video.
Took the car to a meet also for its first official outing. Didnt get any pictures but had some fun and ate some food truck food. Car drove there perfectly fine. There is some squeaking coming from under the car. I think the exhaust heat shield is rubbing on the exhaust since i didnt trim it to fit like the blue car had.
Over the weekend i spent a few hours getting the dash out and swapping the VIN tags on the dash so they actually match the cars they are going in. Riveted the plates back on and painted the rivets black and it looks pretty OEM.
That same day after getting the interior back together i decided to try and fix up my Pillar covers a bit and see if i could get them to actually stay on the pillars. I ended up using some sticky velcro and adhesive promoter or Fuser. The driver side held up great but the passenger side didnt have any clips left on the trim so the velcro actually separated from the adhesive on the backside on the passenger side and fell down again.
Last night i decided it was time to try and tackle some cooling woes with the radiator. I have that ebay radiator shroud sitting around and got around to making that fit. Big issue with these shrouds is that they just sit on top of the radiator and not on the inside, so they end up adding a few inches overall. I did a bunch of test fits and ended up trimming mine down quite a bit and it sits inside the radiator and seals off the sides quite nice. Only one of my fans fits as the other is way too big being a 13". Ive ordered up another 12" fan to get installed to replace the bigger guy.
pretty please with how this turned out. Id wager that by having the shroud you gain about 20% of cooling when the fans come on that you lost by mounting the fans right to the rad with all the area between and around the fans.
Before:
After:
I think ill probably take care of the exhaust heat shield next, and then i think ill focus on making some ducting for the intercooler/radiator.