NS F355 Project (Page 32/73)
Yarmouth Fiero OCT 06, 08:35 PM
ha-ha-ha-ha-ha....... Oops. Good catch Blooz........... 13" brakes...... not 17".

I better go back and edit that post before someone else thinks I'm a wack job....ha-ha-ha

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Klasse_GT OCT 08, 12:59 PM
Thanks for the update!

Edit my poor english :-)

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Yarmouth Fiero OCT 20, 07:05 PM
It's been a while since my last post but I have been working on a few items. One of these items involves reworking the windshield wipers to suit the extended windshield we are using. A few pages back, we documented making a template of the extended windshields we bought and the bright yellow object in my pictures is a pretty close replica of the extended glass. As can be seen from the first photo, the extended glass covers the stock wiper location, both driver side and passenger side. I laid the wipers on the template to show the stock locations.



My plan is to move the stock wiper pivots forward. The drivers side will move straight forward approximately 3 3/4" and the passenger side will be an exact mirror of the new driver side location. I then have to rework the linkages so that the wipers rotate from the center outward away from each other. My plan is to keep the stock wiper motor and location.



I'll also need slightly longer wiper arms and blades. There appears to be enough room to run the new wiper linkages through the Fiero airbox under the windshield.

Here is a picture of the stock linkage. I am hopeful that the stock wiper arm pivots can be reused as well as the stock linkage joints which are rivited to the current linkages.



I can only imagine that this task has been completed by someone before me yet I have yet to master the Search tool effectively. If some knows a link to a previous project, I'd appreciate a heads up.

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fieroguru OCT 20, 07:59 PM
Flip the lever arm on the passenger side 180 degrees so it points to the front (might need to lengthen the main cross bar slightly). Then when the motor pushes the linkage to the passenger side, the passenger wiper will rotate towards the center as will the drivers side.
RCR OCT 21, 07:54 AM
Great job as usual.... FWIW, I was keeping this mod stewing in the back of my head for the future, but my Aztek has a very similar wiper scheme, being on the out side. It might be worth while to see how GM did it.

Look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Bob
Yarmouth Fiero OCT 21, 11:10 AM
Thanks for the input Fieroguru and RCR. My last 3 Grand Caravans had the same set up so I am hopeful it should be an easy modification. I'll document with photos, drawings, measurements and materials along the way.
Yarmouth Fiero OCT 21, 01:14 PM
As Blooz mentioned in his thread, we are going to go with 300 ZX headlights on our builds. Its amazing how well the shape fits the 355 hood lines.

Mine just arrived. Not bad for $275 with pigtails included and the lenses are flawless.



We are hoping to avoid this down the road.



Klasse_GT OCT 22, 03:52 PM
All a real man needs is the right tools.......and some duck-tape.
Bloozberry OCT 22, 06:06 PM
Glad to hear yours are in excellent condition too... it's always a crap shoot when you order a used part on the internet. Do yours have the little round pads in them too... you know the ones that we hypothesized might be desiccant in mine?
Yarmouth Fiero OCT 22, 07:45 PM
You know it...........