Sunday, June 6, 2004

Parts Heaven hosted Concours and Swap Meet photos I went to the Parts Heaven hosted Concours and Swap Meet today. Took some pics. 12:31:12 PM

Friday, June 4, 2004

Quick FAQ 3.0/3.2 upgrades to 3.2/3.4 "Hi folks. There has been lots of confusion on this topic as of late. Although this information is included and well documented in my Engine Book (http://www.101projects.com), it's not always easy to find in there, or it's hidden away with some other information. Here are some facts on the late model (1976-89) 3.0/3.2/3.3 engines:" by Wayne Dempsey 12:09:32 PM

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

Numerical Oil Temp Guage Conversion I'll be doing this upgrade this upcoming weekend.. "I just "downgraded" to the numerical oil temp guage on my '81 SC and thought I'd post how I completed the job along with some helpful hints for anyone who is still considering doing this to their car: 1. Read project #90 in Wayne's book while the car is cooling down. 2. Disconnect the battery 3. If your guage doesn't just pull out, use a small old (ie, not sharp) flat head and work carefully around the outer rubber gasket to break that seal. Once that seal is broken then use incrementally larger flatheads until you have worked the guage out about 1/2 inch. At that point you should be able to pull it out. 4. BEFORE disconnecting any wires, draw a diagram of where everything goes. It is pretty simple but there are two red/black and green/red wires which you don't want to cross. 5. Carefully disconnect all the wires and bulbs and try and keep the connectors separate between the Oil Temp and Oil Press connections. 6. Once all wires have been disconnected, take the guage to the workbench and CAREFULLY slide a very small flat head through the top of the screws so that any of the original glue is pushed out. By not doing this you will run the risk of stripping the screw (which I almost did) because some of the glue is pretty deep. 7. Once the glue has been pushed out, unscrew each of the 4 screws, remove the original guage and slide in the replacement. 8. Tighten each of the 4 screws, reconnect the wires using your diagram from step 4 and slide the guage back in the dash. 9. Note: I did not slide the guage all the way back in because I want to make sure everything works OK just in case I need to pull it out again. 10. The sender unit can be hard to spot but it is just to the right of the lower pulley in between the AC belt. 11. Disconnect the wire attached to the tip of the sender unit. 12. Push a rag under the sender because some oil will come out when she is pulled. 13. I used a 19mm offset box wrench to loosen and remove the unit. 14. Be careful not to drop either the sender or washer, although you should probably replace the washer anyway (even though I didn't). 15. Screw in new sender unit and tighten (spec is 18.4 ft lbs but I couldn't get my torque wrench in there so I just did it hand tight and then cranked slightly with a 19mm open end wrench). 16. Remove rag and clean up any excess oil. 17. Reconnect battery and start car to look for any oil leak and then re-tighten sender if necessary. Even though some people think this "downgrade" is a waste of money, I wanted to do it just so I knew exactly what the oil temps are. All in all this was a pretty simple project and total time for everything was just under 1 hour. Hope this helps! __________________ Doug '81 SC Coupe NoVa Club Member PCA Potomac Region" 2:35:06 PM     1986 Carrera Coupe Taken in Sunol, CA...near Fremont. 11:22:51 AM

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Got the car back today after a 915 transmission rebuild and some upgrades. 1.) 915 rebuild, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear sliders and syncros replaced. 2.) Clutch, de-glaze flywheel, replace disc. 3.) Turbo tie rod upgrade. 4.) Factory short shift kit. 5.) All new headlight lamps. (old ones were dimming or blown out) $3300 ouch. $1800 of that was labor..the rest is parts. 8:54:41 PM

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150 "Wow. Both of these vehicles hit the exact same off-set barrier at 40mph." 5:17:23 PM

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Upcoming repairs and upgrades Next week the car goes in for some relatively major work and possibly a few minor upgrades as well. The major work will be a transmission rebuild caused by the 3rd gear syncro being shot. Upgrades I'm thinking of are the Turbo Tie Rod kit and maybe the Factory Short Shift Kit 11:21:02 AM

Monday, May 17, 2004

RS Carpet installation I've been tempted to install the RS Carpet kit in my car, but after considering the time, effort & cost, I've decided to keep my stock carpetting for now. I suppose when it starts looking scruffy I'll go the RS Carpet route though. 7:29:30 PM

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