Build Thread Dustys has a new friend

I've made up my mind....from LMR -this is one of the next things to go on Dusty....after he's running and driving.

The other picture of the package tray kinda sucked. This one is only marginally better.

Davedacarpainter said:

Good job on the package tray Scott. You've done what i'll probably do now.

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Thanks, man ! It worked out well. Wish I could've found a thin plastic like the old tub surround material...about the thickness of poster board. The reason is because I had to pull the sail panels to get the board in.

If it was more flexible I could've put it in without taking anything apart.

The Loctite heavy duty spray adhesive worked good...I'm pleased with it.

New tail lights for Dusty. Got them in a trade.... They're better than the cracked lights on him.

They tail lights look OK. I've got to reseal them but it gives me time to fix the stock ones....let super glue do its work !!!

I may put a light coat of tint on them....

RaggedGT said:

I don't man-the car's color mixed with the stance and wheels- I like 'em

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Thanks, man. They take a little getting used to for me. I'll leave them alone until I touch up the black on the car and get a buffer on the paint.

Not much going on right now.

I wired up a Sony 1200 watt amp to my Kicker 10 that resides in my dusty trunk. I don't have pics of the process but I'll try to post some eventually. I soldered all my wires and tried to hide as much as possible. The gain is turned below halfway but this little speaker really kicks.

I tell you one thing....Black Label Society sounds pretty good turned up. I just need some tweeters on the dash to even it all out.

My thermostat housing showed up so I'll probably get after that this weekend. The other one has the BMW fan switch tapped into it. I'm not going that route...so....its a polished paper weight.

A couple more weeks and I'll be back to my old self again. I can't wait for warm weather

Went out the junk yard and found a TFI heat sink for 5 bucks.

FFinally, got the 195 thermostat put in. The bottom bolt is a real pain in the @#$. I was cussing and about to throw $#&t all over the freakin' place. The other thermostat was a 160...thought it was a 180

This little speaker puts out more bass than I'll ever need. This thing fits perfect in a notch. I'm very pleased.

Had a good day helping out a new mustang owner. Helped to fix the sunroof, put in a 140mph gauge cluster, aligned the hatch so it latched, and he did a couple other things.

Today I'm helping another buddy with two of his cars.

How many if you remember these old dinosaurs ?

If you can find one, they help out a whole lot... This thing has been one of my pride and joys for the last 20 years.

I also did this today...

That's an AGM battery....to replace my 5yr old Gold series battery from Advance Auto.

The 65 series battery fits perfect in my battery tray. It fills it out a lot better than the puny 58 series battery that was in there.

The only thing I modified was that sticker that was on the top....that thing had to go.

Bought this gas welder for 50 bucks...wooohoo !!!

Couldn't pass up the deal from a buddy. He's bringing the regulator down tomorrow. He only used it once to weld floors in an old pickup truck....15 years ago.

I'm sure it'll weld circles around my Harbor Freight special. Now maybe I can weld some subframe connectors on Dusty.

That brings me to this....my car trailer is open center and level. Couldn't I just park the trailer on level ground and crawl under it to weld in my SFCs. Seems like it should work, right ?

Good grief !!!

Finally got Dusty back running today. Somehow I screwwwed my Megasquirt tune up. Also, screwed the timing up.

Oh...and I burned the number 4 plug wire...dangit

But, all in all, today was a good day.
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Here's a pic of my car idling....and my repaired tach works again.

Everything looks like its working....until my idle shoots to 2600rpms after about 5 minutes idling. I'm sure it'll get figured out...

a91what said:

I'll get on my computer here in a bit and see what's going on. Things you can check,.....idle rpm curve, swap iac polarity.. also check to see if it's running on closed loop idle, if it's not then your warmup duty cycle table needs some love.

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Seems like when I leave the tune alone you sent me my car fires right up. As soon as I start d##kin' with it I get problems.

It starts and runs...when I get the idle surge fixed...I'll be able to get it to auto tune. I'd hate to be in traffic and have the rpms spike. I'll check for closed loop...I think it was set to close at 180 degrees....I'm running 198- 203