I've been slacking on my build thread post, between my digital camera disappearing somewhere and my constant non stop working on this car - so here we go:
after many hours of experimenting I believe to have done this also (95% done as of last night minus preping for painting) pics to follow further in thread
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10:16 PM
Back On Holiday Member
Posts: 6238 From: Downingtown, PA Registered: Jul 2001
Next was an unexpected road trip to get a set of T-tops, there was a list of people who wanted to get these but didnt come through, when he posted final bump I PM'd him with my cell number and he called, and I picked them up the next day. I was originally just going to keep the sunroof but I couldnt resist getting these
Right there is where I lost my digital camera, pretty ticked off that I had to buy a new one after looking many hours over several months for it. so now we jump to July '06 - I swapped this to an auto from a 5 speed getrag because I wanted my wife to be able to drive it, and she doesnt drive stick. I also drive a manual truck ALL day, so sometimes its nice to just relax and use a crapomatic for my 1 hour drive home.
heres my post about "Help I have auto harnass on engine, but manual harnass under the dash problem - no start because of neutral safety switch etc..."
heres pics of the 3rd brake light mod. I did not take "Final" pics yet, just test pics of fitting and things.
heres the wing showing the 3 access panels open (so that you can remove the LED light for replacement)
heres another view of the access panels
heres a view of the aluminum brackets inside
heres a view of the 3rd brake light basicly just "Sitting" inside, without being mounted all the way in.
heres another test fitting
heres a pic of me after measuring and having to sand 1/4 of an inch off the top part of the wing, and also round off the ends 1/4 of an inch also using the belt sander... lol hold your breath!
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Back On Holiday Member
Posts: 6238 From: Downingtown, PA Registered: Jul 2001
actually, this bumper has 4 layers of paint on it, my son is helping out although not much with a dinky mouse sander - thankfully this is the only MAJOR sanding we had to do (took a good portion of the day to do)
will be posting more pics, have yet to post pics of the car sitting out in the lawn (should have done it today but in a rush)
oh, and btw my 60ish year old house is the oddball house in the neighborhood surrounded by new development
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motoracer838 Member
Posts: 3751 From: Edgewater Co. USofA Registered: Jan 2006
Originally posted by Back On Holiday: oh, and btw my 60ish year old house is the oddball house in the neighborhood surrounded by new development
Don't ya just love it, when you buy a house in the middle of nowhere and a subdivision pops up around you! Iv'e got a friend that bought property , that at one time didn't have any other houses within 3/4 of a mile in any direction. Now he has to deal with covenent controls and ( Grrrr ) the HOA,homeowners asociation. He'd sell if it wasn't for the fact that he has a small fotune tied up in the place, he has two shop buildings totaling about 2500 sq ft. It's one helluva' home shop!!!
Looks like your project is coming along nicely.
Cheers Beers n Gearz. Joe
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Jul 24th, 2006
madcurl Member
Posts: 21401 From: In a Van down by the Kern River Registered: Jul 2003
That's nice. How much did you get the Caddy's brake lamp for and what year?
came out to around $30, they tried to wheel and deal with me and I told em I dont know if it even works. ended up having to repair a short in it anyway (prob why they didnt originally pull it off the car) I believe it was a '93 or 94 STS
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Back On Holiday Member
Posts: 6238 From: Downingtown, PA Registered: Jul 2001
Don't ya just love it, when you buy a house in the middle of nowhere and a subdivision pops up around you! Iv'e got a friend that bought property , that at one time didn't have any other houses within 3/4 of a mile in any direction. Now he has to deal with covenent controls and ( Grrrr ) the HOA,homeowners asociation. He'd sell if it wasn't for the fact that he has a small fotune tied up in the place, he has two shop buildings totaling about 2500 sq ft. It's one helluva' home shop!!!
Looks like your project is coming along nicely.
Cheers Beers n Gearz. Joe
im lucky, im not part of the subdivision just backed into the corner of it, thankfully the home owners ASSociation cant do squat to me, only the township ordinances and my old lady can force me into not keeping 10 fieros in the back yard!
thx joe.
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09:33 PM
88White3.4GT Member
Posts: 1604 From: Hayward, CA Registered: Dec 2003
New update, the delay: preping and painting. almost threw in the towel on painting! what a chore! I have great respect now for anyone who does thier own paint jobs.
oh, pics? had my dad help me, and we did a pretty good job. - btw just noticed the spots on the camera lense, so disregard them. finished up last night around midnight, gave it another 16 hours to dry and tonight my son and I started installing!
heres the parts out on the tarp (a standby place while I work in garage, when im done back they go in the garage for protection!)
heres a pic of the front fascia we just installed (mostly)
my son posing (this is 11:30pm) he is a big helper
another pic
son showing off......
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Fierochic88 Member
Posts: 4980 From: Staunton, VA Registered: May 2001
First thing we do, we remove the 3800 throttle Body and in the 3rd pic attempting to put on the N* throttle body adapter, woops we screwed it up, we need to remove the original studs and use the hardware provided.... lol. 4th pic im showing the adapter, with the studs still there. we then do it correctly using the hardware provided (hex) and finally done. next couple pics show the engine as we remove some of the uglier parts of the engine like the purge for the SC, the ugly over the top fuel rails, EGR and removed the bulky water part(dunno what its called) that sits where the alternator will go, tomorrow the engine goes down the road to have freeze plugs put in the two places that are now exposed, last pic shows a temporary engine eye lift i'll use to move the engine into the van tomorrow morning.
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Back On Holiday Member
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This afternoon we began the disassembly, first I had to clear the car bay and get the last of the fiberglass up in the rafters then move all the crap from that bay to the other side of the garage where the blue devil resided all winter (so far) out goes the blue devil in the driveway while we do that, almost done and GDI the first real snow this winter and its the few hours the blue devil sits outside...... yes theres an Amish buggy in the background!
Amish Buggy again:
more progress!
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