Everything is looking great..
I painted the engine compartment on mine "Aluminum" in color to match the 4.9L and then I also went w/ red but a darker red..
Looks very nice!

Steve

Till 4/5's of the way home, I boot it and POOF steam everywhere.

I chop it and force a small bit of it onto the pipe. (this is one of the hoses that has an expanded end on it. So you can just cut it and push the rest on. As the rest of the hose is smaller than the end you need.)

Fortunately this is a Caddy specific hose so I just need to order up a new one. It blew apart like a hot dog.

So that is what a 4.9 is suppose to feel like!!!

But we started on the tach mod today, and after 2.5hrs of trial and error, John came to the conclusion he did not have the correct resistor or pot to do what we needed.

So he ran two long wires from where we would need to put the resistor and ran them up so that I can put the pot on externally later. This will allow me to calibrate it later on without having to take it all apart in the future. I am going to hit up the electronics stores later on.

So here is todays progress.

Oh. P.S. The clutch is done. I cant even step on it 1/2 throttle in 1st gear anymore. So there is no hope of it getting better. I will be buying a new clutch as soon as finances have built up again.

Torn apart

John looking puzzled and frustrated

Well thanks to John soldering the wire pigtail on the back of the tach, I was able to run it out of the cluster so that I could add the correct pot onto it later when I hit up the electronics store.

I went to SMI today in Langley and got what I needed today. I actually get something much better than what I expected. It is called a High Precision Pot. Instead of a simple 1 turn full to min, it is 10 turns to go full to max. It is a 200K High Precision Potentiometer. I wired the bad boy in today with my $1 soldering iron I got at the dollar store and my 1.95 solder. Tweaked it up and it is prefect. You can see on the Scan Tool it is dead on. I love this pot thingy, you can tweak it almost 1 rpm at a time.

My soldering skills are a bit on the lacking side, in the first pic it almost looks like there is so much solder that it bridged the 2 points, you can see in the 2nd pic that is not that bad. It is just a simple matter of wrapping some tape on it and pushing it down under the panel and then torquing the panel down. It will be nice too, if I ever have to recalibrate the tach it will be a simple mater of popping the panel off and twisting the pot.

Oh it is so nice to have a proper working tach again.

Well here are the pics.

I have another set of 245/50/16's bald thanks to my new found torque.

Driving has became 1st gear clutch up, clutch down 2nd gear, accelerate, shift directly to 4th or 5th.

I recently made a huge run around and got roughly 30mpg on the highway so I am quite happy about that.

I will update more a bit later. But that are the quick high points.