Nick's "lvndpst" Restoration (and Slight Modification) Thread

I am home with a sick kid today, so while he is napping I decided to go around the block. That adjustment trick helped a lot, now I think I can fine tune it with my FWA. I really wish I would have tried that before driving it yesterday. I wore the clutch quite a bit Im thinking.

My next issue is that it sounds like a deisel truck, meaning I must not have my rockers adjusted properly. It must not have been as noticeable when running with an open H pipe, but now its very loud. I need to retorque my lower intake anyway, but its finally going to start being winter tomorrow. Its 59 degrees now, and tomorrow the high is supposed to be 34. That kinda kills my motivation to be out there, lol.

Mustang5L5 said:

Come out under the axle. I've seen it done before. Looks cool

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Just stumbled on a pic and thought of your comment. I couldnt picture it in my head, but you mean this?

Gotcha. I was thinking the same thing about the mufflers. The car above also doesnt have a factory gas tank in the way. I do have a new idea though.

Mustang5L5 said:

With a fuel cell, you could almost do an 05+ style axle back exhaust and ditch the standard location mufflers.

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Honestly, after having my 2011, I prefer the sound of the fox/sn exhaust. I like how a length of pipe after the mufflers sounds versus the sound coming straight out of the mufflers.

In other news, I installed that IAC adjuster spacer dowicky. It really helped the idle, but when I went for a spin around the block I noticed the rpms now hang at 1500/1600 when I push in the clutch, until I come to a complete stop. I need to figure out how to resolve that, because I almost hate that more than a hunting idle.

Today is yard work day. I have to get the rest of the neighbors leaves up before we get the first snow, which has to be coming any day now. Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and 40 degress (today's high is 28), so tomorrow I will be out adjusting the rockers, running codes, and working on sorting this pig out.

Last topic of the day. I think I am going to make a splitter for under the front bumper. Nothing race car extreme looking, but the underside of the bumper hangs down wonky since I dont use the black lip, and I want to get it all sucked up and level under there. I think a very subtle splitter will do the trick.

Thanks for the salt reminder. My snowblower is always ready (my back). Here's hoping we somehow dont have a white Christmas.