Well Bobby the brakes fit pretty good! I stuck one of these wheels on just to see that it will work ok. It will be coming off again until the body is back on. It appears that it will look nice.

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Yep, looks good. Did you have any problems installing them?

quote Originally posted by GSXRBOBBY: Yep, looks good. Did you have any problems installing them?

The concentric ring was a bit snug but with cleaning off the bearing hub and slightly filing the ring it went together very nice. I would prefer slightly snug over slightly loose so it was very good.

charlie

Hi Charlie,

Just went through your entire build thread.
Kudos to you for sticking with it - my build thread have been around that long too.
That was a long time before that first fire up - congrats as so many projects never get finished.
A couple questions that I may have skimmed over the answers:

1. What year Aurora engine?
2. Could I get a few more details or link to the aftermarket ECM setup? (in case I switch to fuel injected in the future)
3. How did you fix (or did you fix) the compression in the #8 cylinder?

Cheers,
Ryan

P.S. The speedo you sent arrived undamaged and looks good - thanks again, plus for you!

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Indy Northstar-Stretch ~ LT1-NOS Roadster

quote Originally posted by Fiero2m8: Hi Charlie, Just went through your entire build thread. Kudos to you for sticking with it - my build thread have been around that long too. That was a long time before that first fire up - congrats as so many projects never get finished. A couple questions that I may have skimmed over the answers: 1. What year Aurora engine? 2. Could I get a few more details or link to the aftermarket ECM setup? (in case I switch to fuel injected in the future) 3. How did you fix (or did you fix) the compression in the #8 cylinder? Cheers, Ryan P.S. The speedo you sent arrived undamaged and looks good - thanks again, plus for you!

Hi Ryan, thanks for the Kudo's! It was very rewarding to here it fire up finally!

My Aurora engine turned out to be a warranty pull because of the #8 cylinder. (which is why it has so few miles on it.) I am hoping it is just the valve seals or valve guides. The engine has date stamps on it that show both 95 and 96 so I am going to guess it is a 96. I suppose they could have switched heads attempting to fix the #8 cylinder problem but I doubt they would have bothered.

The Holley 950 commander setup is old-school but with a wide band O2 sensor and a laptop I believe it can be used with success. Ryan.hess's 7730 setup would be really nice but I had bought this one before he posted about his method. Check out chrfab.com for more info on the Holley and other engine management systems they sell. Allen will take the time to talk to you and give suggestions.

As soon as I get the body back on the car I will test drive it to see if any more mods need to be done while I have the engine out for repairs. Then when I get it back together it should be ready to go for a while. (then I can get the A/C lines hooked up to the compressor and be ready for summer)

charlie


PS, + back at cha.

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Just a bump and some rambling to keep the thread alive.

I have been working on getting the body panels prepped for paint. This is going to take a little while...

Also, I have been working on the interior. The gauge pod is out along with the dash-pad. I have been installing the wire harnesses for electric windows, locks and mirrors. These harnesses are all donations from the black 86GT (an early model with the coupe body and ribbed molding.) That car had 170,000 plus miles on it so I am curious if the power stuff will work ok or not. I am attempting to clean and grease what I can get to. The modded gauge pod is ready to install along with a different dash-pad that currently has no cracks. (I doubt that will last long once I start driving the car.) While I could get to it easily, I pulled the cover off the heater core box and looked in there for any leaks. There are some stains on the carpet but the area around the heater core looks fine. I guess it probably was from the A/C condensation dripping onto the carpet. I pulled the center skeleton and the shifter to clean in and around there (along with making room for the extra wires.) and what a mess! The P/O was a smoker and it looked like an ashtray in there. 20 years of cola products appear to have been spilled there also. It is clean now and the shifter has been greased so it should be ok now. Just need to do the temp gauge/temp light test mode mod and get all of that back together. I will need to do a little modding to the trim surround that sits in front of the shifter to install the A/F gauge. Then it should be complete. Ok, rambling mode off for now.