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rbell2915
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OCT 08, 09:20 AM
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This weekend I took a trip up to Richmond VA to visit a few junkyards to find some parts to sell and to see something new, and I found out they had a 1991 Sunbird, looked like a turbo with the boost gauge (although it would've been the newer version with less hashmarks indicating the RPMs), in the yard. I head up there and sadly they crushed the car the day before I arrived (I checked the inventory the previous day and it was still on the website but when I got to the yard it was deleted) and unfortunately left empty handed. In my frustration I looked on Row52 in the parking lot and a 1988 Sunbird turbo was just put into a PNP in Calgary the day prior. I called them up and the cluster was there and they sent me a photo of it. A parts puller was able to pull it for me and he's in the process of shipping it next week. I've been looking for this for years. Unfortunately it's not in PSI but I don't care, each segment is 3psi so the conversion is easy, I'm just glad I have it. This is my first part acquisition for a 3800SC swap.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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OCT 08, 10:11 AM
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I'm super intrigued... what is it you plan to do with this? Will that gauge fit in place of the Pontiac Fiero's tach? That is super cool looking.
Also... it makes me incredibly sad to see cars like this get crushed. Believe me, I get it... but I saw so many fantastic cars get scrapped over the years in the local junkyard... just pains me.
Total tangent here, but the overwhelming vast majority of cars today seem like absolute garbage... as in, nothing that anyone would want to actually keep or restore in the next 25 years. But I suspect people said this in the 70s too... I don't know.
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rbell2915
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OCT 08, 03:40 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I'm super intrigued... what is it you plan to do with this? Will that gauge fit in place of the Pontiac Fiero's tach? That is super cool looking.
Also... it makes me incredibly sad to see cars like this get crushed. Believe me, I get it... but I saw so many fantastic cars get scrapped over the years in the local junkyard... just pains me.
Total tangent here, but the overwhelming vast majority of cars today seem like absolute garbage... as in, nothing that anyone would want to actually keep or restore in the next 25 years. But I suspect people said this in the 70s too... I don't know. |
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You can convert it from a 4cyl tach to a 6cyl tach. I plan to install it in the Fiero cluster and you can hook it up to measure boost. So I need to swap in a 3800SC lol but in the meantime it can measure vacuum on an NA engine.
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buddycraigg
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OCT 08, 05:39 PM
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css9450
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OCT 09, 04:32 PM
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I've seen a few of those in the junkyard over the years, but it's been at least a decade since the last one. All the junkyards around here have moved on to much newer stuff.
I love factory-looking mods like that. I'd never get a digital dash or aftermarket gauges but that gauge looks so cool I always wanted a turbo for the car just so I could use it with the gauge.
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rbell2915
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OCT 09, 06:55 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by css9450:
I've seen a few of those in the junkyard over the years, but it's been at least a decade since the last one. All the junkyards around here have moved on to much newer stuff.
I love factory-looking mods like that. I'd never get a digital dash or aftermarket gauges but that gauge looks so cool I always wanted a turbo for the car just so I could use it with the gauge. |
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There is a junkyard near me, my absolute favorite, that is like a parking lot. Most of the cars are still extremely complete and the cars look like they just arrived. They don't strip any parts off nor do they charge insane prices and they rarely junk cars so you can always find something cool. I couldn't find any Sunbird turbos but they do have an old V6 Sunbird that is very complete.
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kendell
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OCT 10, 01:18 AM
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That looks nice! Worth the wait
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