What is the plan for the reverse light lenses? The one looks intact enough to make a form if you are going to make one yourself?
I actually have a super clean set of tail lights for it. They showed up just in time for me to stick them in the trunk when I drove it to storage, so I didn't get any pics.
The LTD wagon reverse lights are the ones that people have a hard time finding (Same as the Fairmonts). I might try to make some for that.
I think the main problem with the fitment of the Y-pipe is that when it was originally done, all of the mounts, especially the transmission mount, were toasted. Now things are raised back up, and so is the Y-pipe. Just gotta get back under there and sort that out now.
Well, I had some time to work this weekend, but not much picture-worthy stuff.
Yesterday I spent some time under the hood, to limit my getting up and down from under the car. I got the sensor wiring and such where it needed to be. Had to extend a couple leads, as a couple things were in different locations from with the CFI set-up. I also got the battery tray moved from the PS to the DS of the engine bay, as the air box needs to live in the old battery location.
I test fit the throttle body with the stock adapter, and it does look like I'm going to need a plenum spacer for the throttle cable bracket to clear the valve cover.
Today was wrestle under the car day. Got the shift cable connected and was looking at the TV cable and realized that I don't have the correct lever arm on the trans for the cable, so I need to hunt one of those down. Next was reworking the old Y-pipe to fit the new factory headers. That turned into a fight, and I still need to make another adjustment. Just ran out of time today.
The only thing worth a picture is the intake plate I printed up. I got it in paint this weekend, so that'll be ready when it's time to put it on.
It's hard to say for sure what year w/o having it in front of me.
It's got the earlier AL valve cover and the square intake and a d T3. I see brown-top injectors, so it *might* be an 86 TC or XR4Ti motor. But people swap those things around at will, so it's hard to be sure. That PS pump is not found on the 2.3Ts.
Regardless of any of that, all of the Lima 2.3's, NA or Turbo with the single-plug heads, use the same front main.
Does the PimpX include any turbo control routines? What are you currently running? I know my T3 with the GN cold-side would definitely benefit from something besides a spring/ball manual regulator.
I know after messing with tuning on my Volvo 850 with the turbo control routines in the stock software, it's pretty easy to improve the drivability of a potential over-sized turbo.
I haven't dug into the Pimp stuff, as I just do the MegaSquirt stuff (And my current ones are too old.) so I don't know what he's got built in.
Yeah, I think everything will clear just fine with the stock spacer, and I shouldn't need any intake spacers.
I also have some downtime coming up this week that'll slow things down. Got to have cataract surgery on one of my eyes later this week, so that's going to limit me for a short bit. Hopefully I'll still be able to work on some of the underhood wiring.
No time to get on this until today. Of course it's the day the weather decided to take a turn and get cold and blustery.
I needed to get the driveshaft back into the car, but I needed to replace the u-joints first. During the RnR of the U-joints. One of the balance weights got knocked off of the shaft, so I welded it back on.
Got that knocked out and got the unit back into the car.
I did pick up a new rear sway bar for the car too, so I got that swapped in while I had things up for the driveshaft install. Went with a 24mm one over the 21mm that was in there. The 21mm will wind up on the wagon. (Unless I buy another larger one for it )
The next, tedious task was to replace the bad trans cooler lines. Which took much longer than it needed to. Just used a Classic Tube set.
By this time, the temps had dropped quite a bit, so I was done for the day.
Following up on the throttle body spacer clearances.
With the thinner aftermarket spacer, it clears the valve covers and such just fine. What doesn't clear is the throttle cable bracket. It hits the FPR on the rail. I'm probably going to just go back with a modified stock EGR spacer instead. It'll give me the clearances I need.
I need to get back under the car and reinstall the shift cable and the the TV cable.
I've also made the decision to just mod the stock Y-pipe to fit the factory headers and build the new Y-pipe later. Not what I wanted to do, but I'm just running out of time before it gets generally miserable outside.
