1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #165 – February 10, 2011, 04:41:09 PM Spent some time re-forming the oil dipstick. I'll need to fool around once the header is on to get the hold-down to fit right. Mounted the FPR and started making the hoses. Just 1 more fitting to assemble on it now, and put in the plugs on the regulator. Then I can paint the bracket and tighten everything down. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #166 – February 10, 2011, 04:44:03 PM Stuck on the silicone to check the angles. It's gonna work OK I think! Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #167 – February 10, 2011, 04:55:38 PM What color should I paint the intake tube? Black, silver, blue? I'm not going with any red except the fittings.I'm leaning toward silver, myself. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #168 – February 10, 2011, 09:52:24 PM Silver is definitely the color I would paint it.flylear, did you wire up your Gentex mirror sensors? What did that entail? What model mirror did you get?Thanks, keep up the great work! Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #169 – February 10, 2011, 10:09:24 PM SILVER. Been following. Can't wait to see it running. Looks like your finally getting close.:D Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #170 – February 11, 2011, 09:04:12 AM Quote from: The Shredder;352565Silver is definitely the color I would paint it.flylear, did you wire up your Gentex mirror sensors? What did that entail? What model mirror did you get?Thanks, keep up the great work! Thanks for the input. I think keeping it silver will look pretty good. It's not a 'show bay' but I want it to look nice.Here's the bay on the TR7 from photobucket:And another with the Tbird in the background.The Gentex is a GEN-177 from a Chevy Silverado. It has autodim, autodim cancel on backup, temp readout and built in compass. The Ebay harness never showed up, so I made my own. Here's the documentation I used:I just bought a used temp sensor and pigtail off Ebay and ran wires for it. Nothing else is installed yet. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #171 – February 11, 2011, 09:18:51 AM Quote from: sarjxxx;352568SILVER. Been following. Can't wait to see it running. Looks like your finally getting close.:D Yeah, silver.Closer every day! I got the Ranger condenser in hand last night. I'll fiddle with that this morning. (Slept in until 8:00). I like the outlets on opposite sides of the rad for less AC hose, but the outlets will most certainly need to be re-bent to clear the IC outlets. Quote Selected
I think I got it! Reply #172 – February 11, 2011, 12:41:40 PM OK, got down to it and think it's a go.1. I removed all the brackets and braces from the top of the new condenser. 2. Bent the #8 line up and over the top of the core.3. Put a bender on the #6 line and curled it down under the IC inlet.4. bent the top IC brackets more forward to clearance the top of the radiator a bit and allow the condenser more room at the top.5. Add 1/4" rubber spacers to the bottom of the IC6. make new bottom mounts for radiator pins out of light angle, spacing in toward engine about 1/2"7. Add rubber spacers to radiator top mount, or possibly make new brackets on top to allow rad to drop 1/4". Not sure on that, but I'm going to try to finish it all up tonight. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #173 – February 11, 2011, 12:46:49 PM How the new bend and the pipe mod work on the #8 line.The IC more upright and a bit forward from before.The new stack Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #174 – February 11, 2011, 01:04:55 PM Looks like it will work to me.(Man, I wish I had a bigger garage, so I could make some decent headway over the winter.) Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #175 – February 11, 2011, 04:15:55 PM Quote from: Chuck W;352628Looks like it will work to me.(Man, I wish I had a bigger garage, so I could make some decent headway over the winter.) Yeah, the garage pretty much kicks ass. 32x40, finished, with a ton of lights, cable TV and ethernet. No bathroom, but running cold water.I sold my Porsche to build this sucker when I was about your age! It's something I don't regret, even though it costs to keep the heat on and extra money on the electric bill.Even though I loved the 951, this thing was worth the trade. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #176 – February 11, 2011, 09:30:03 PM Powder coat silver. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #177 – February 11, 2011, 09:33:16 PM Nicely done, the new setup looks great. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #178 – February 11, 2011, 09:42:01 PM Thanks, Bruce! I have a HF powder coat setup here I never got out of the box. Maybe after I get this done I'll go back and do things over in powdercoat. It seems like we all like the silver!The day ended with the rad mounts welded on the bottom, and the condenser lower mount pads in place. I used the old top rubber from the TC rad hold-downs trimmed down a bit for that. I then used some round rubber Triumph TR6 radiator pads on the lower pin pads, worked great! (I've got a -ton of old Triumph stuff around here).Ran out of steam before I got the condenser top mountings made, and still have to make and weld on new top radiator mount brackets. They are going to be straight-forward bits, pretty simple. I am finally happy with this setup, though.I have Med-Air CPR/AED/ First aid training tomorrow, so not sure if I'll be able to get this finished Saturday or not. Before it gets screwed down the last time I'll be cleaning and painting the IC. I'm tired of looking at it all crusty.The real downside to this configuration is the loss of area on the condenser. I may see the AC unable to keep up on really hot days. It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make, I guess, in order to get the IC I want. Quote Selected
1988 TC single Holset turbo 5.0/ 4R70W Reply #179 – February 12, 2011, 05:30:31 PM OK, all done with the mounting, and here are the final pics of the results.Braces on the #6 AC pipes and the rad mounts Quote Selected
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