winter projects?

[aar0s]

What do you guys have going on this winter, car wise what is?
My original plan was to recover the seats and do gears, 2.73's are great if all you do is drive the interstate but in town they blow. My winter project has turned in to a late winter/early spring project! now im just doing gears and some small maintenance things.

[BlownFiveLiter]

Hoping to start playing with the car next month, if it warms up a little. I have a torpedo heater, but it starts smelling in the garage after a while and I start getting a headache, so I try not to use it often. I need to figure out why I'm reading full rich. I bet I have a bad injector on bank 1 that's stuck open. 60lb injectors spray quite a bit of fuel, so that would make sense why it's reading so rich, then trying to lean out and the adaptive strategy can't lean it out enough and the O2 sensor fails. It's just a matter of figuring out which one is bad...

[FrankenStang]

I need to get a catted X-pipe and a guy to put it on for me... I know Dave'll do it cause he's still cool like that but, I won't enjoy watching him anymore.

[aar0s]

Im wondering if i dont have a bad injector also. I've still got hte slight hesitation and sometime backfire at around 1500. how do you test them?
Lynn, your new avatar made my wife lol!

[94gtfreak]

Originally Posted by BlownFiveLiter

Hoping to start playing with the car next month, if it warms up a little. I have a torpedo heater, but it starts smelling in the garage after a while and I start getting a headache, so I try not to use it often. I need to figure out why I'm reading full rich. I bet I have a bad injector on bank 1 that's stuck open. 60lb injectors spray quite a bit of fuel, so that would make sense why it's reading so rich, then trying to lean out and the adaptive strategy can't lean it out enough and the O2 sensor fails. It's just a matter of figuring out which one is bad...

Sure NOW you get a good idea of what it might be! lol But wouldn't that show up during a datalog?

Originally Posted by FrankenStang

I need to get a catted X-pipe and a guy to put it on for me... I know Dave'll do it cause he's still cool like that but, I won't enjoy watching him anymore.

I'll do it! lol

Originally Posted by aar0s

Im wondering if i dont have a bad injector also. I've still got hte slight hesitation and sometime backfire at around 1500. how do you test them?
Lynn, your new avatar made my wife lol!

I think you can use a digital multimeter to test them....but I don't have any idea as to how that works either! lol

[94gtfreak]

OH! and my winter project has been to get it running I think I have a stripped spark plug hole...so maybe tax time will allow me some new heads? If it's still good I'm wanting to do full suspension. K-member with coilovers and a-arms up front and something equivalent in the rear?

[aar0s]

So im tossing some pallets away in the dumpster yesterday when i see this Summit Racing SUM-G1026 - Summit Racing® Creeper Seats - Overview - SummitRacing.com
sitting on top of the pile. It was nasty after many years of use and the seat was covered in yuck and cut and im guessing thats why it was tossed. I pulled it out and with less than 5 bucks worth of red vinyl material made it usable again (lots left over if anyone needs any). it was my first winter project, whoot!

[aar0s]

as far as the suspension, im a big big fan of my steeda sport springs and alum. LCA's! found them on the 'bay, look around and you can find them cheep.

[Torq armd twinscrew]

looking at going with boost and spray this year. I'm working on building a fuel system to handle e85 with a dry shot around 100-150hp. I might run the stock k for one more year than finally upgrade to the MM unit And then, that will finish up my entire suspension for the car.

[aar0s]

thats a little more ambition than i gots!