F40 replica aka "operation turd polish" (Page 59/62)
shemdogg MAR 29, 03:26 PM
Whatup Trinten! Top monitor is for the rear view, lower one is for tunes. Its a rear view camera cuz the blind spots are big on this. Have to pull an ace ventura and stick my head out the window and look back. Just got it hooked up, I may need to move it further up the roof.


Still raining here, trees falling everywhere its crazy. Got the front end all wired up w a fan relay, and I can see the finish line on this rewire job. Interior hookups almost done. Burning thru butt connectors n heat shrink like crazy. They sell these "assortment kits" of heat shrink, but only 2 sizes are needed. The rest are too small for anything! But its very cool to see things lighting up


Still plenty more wiring to do, then its onto harness cleanup, then the engine sensor connections n battery cables n im done wiring. Found a good shop to get the motor rebuilt at, they say they can knock it out in a cupla weeks. Told him ill bring it by in a cupla weeks lol, so Im off to get in some crazy cramped position to run some wires n wrap this chit up.

Headlights are different colors, doh! lmao


shem
zkhennings APR 04, 06:01 PM
Nice work, Digikey sells spools of heat shrink so you can get a buttload of the size you need. I like to get some larger stuff with a high shrink ratio so that it can be used with a large variety of wire sizes. A lot of the assortment heat shrink has a pretty low shrink ratio and has limited use.
shemdogg APR 23, 09:38 PM
Good to know but after I bought this assortment kit, I found 2 more in the garage lol. Rain started showing signs of letting up (been raining since thanksgiving), so I started that big roof job. My buddy owed me for that truck paint job n bodywerk, blew his back out in 1.5hrs lol. Rocked the whole thing solo, tons of setbacks. The day to start the plywood I was ready to throw down the 67 sheets. I keep a few racks of nails in my framing gun case, got halfway thru those and the gun jammed. Had to stop everything run to home depot for a new gun. Out of a selection of 6, 1 is in stock. Get back to the job, burn thru my nails, go to get some from the new box I ordered. Guy sent me 2 boxes of shingle nails. GAH! Worked on other stuff the rest of the day. Next day I have a box of gun nails, get halfway thru. Cust now wants hanging lights over the porch. So I gotta pull 6 sheets up, put in jboxes n wire. Nicest old lady, till something goes wrong. Then the mask comes off and the f bombs start flying wow she lights up quick. Not at me so far lol. Roof delivery truck backed over one of her small trees, she lit them up like the 4th of july lol. As usual, she just got a "no englich". One of the guys started chatting w me in espanol and i told them it was ok, I was gonna buy her a new tree. Tree was worthless, 4 ft tall, grew 1" in the past 5 years lol. Roofs done, almost done w the solar arrays. Gonna talk w her tomorrow to see what she wants to do, 36 panels and theyre all fried- ~40% output. I can string em all to one inverter. She saw her meter spinning backwards again n gave me a huge hug. Heres a progress pic, got all the shingles down in a day n a half


So not any time or energy for the car. To slow things down even more, I got a fiero to love Did do a wee bit on the car tho, got the new oil pressure gauge n sender kit and installed it. Also figured out why the old one didnt work, I didnt put in the sender durrrrrrrrrrrrrrr lmao. Started wiring up the pcm, injectors, obd port, and fuel pump relay. Got the cluster stuff installed, then realized this kit didnt come w dummy light wires. Gonna hafta figure something out, no free cpu time to throw in that direction lol. Working on eliminating the red and ferrari emblems from the car, I decided to give that steering wheel I bought awhile back a try. Looked good but didnt fit the adapter on the car. Bought one( damn adapter cost more than the wheel), and installed it. Love it!



Glassed up some damage on the fiero and glassed up a pod on top of the hood scoop for the rear camera. Pics to come, almost caught up on all the work I ignored while doing the roof. Be able to throw some time at the cars soon.

shem
shemdogg JUN 06, 10:12 AM
Took a brief hiatus to acquire n fix up an 88gt for me.



Driveway rearranged, be back at it very soon. Gotta pull the motor for rebuilding, finish a few wires on the harness


excited to get to it

shem
shemdogg JUN 12, 11:49 PM
Dropped the motor yesterday, slid it out and pulled it from the cradle today. Got hf moving cart, added some 2x4s and it worked great as a cradle cradle. Gonna drop it off at the rebuilders tomorrah


Reading up on brazing fuel lines and doing research, dont want anything covering that blower. Plan on extending the harness in areas to go under it.

Shem
shemdogg JUN 19, 09:20 AM
So the rebuilder pretty much doubled his price to rebuild, I went and got another l67 the udder day

Guy had it at his shop forever, thinks its outta a bonerville
Had the wrong oil filter adapter but has 2 dogbone mounts. In much better shape than my last one, looks like bad vc only. Ill change them and the intake mani gaskets first. While everythings off im going to paint the blowers n vc in red.
Here it is pressure wershed

Came w a butchered harness, at least the sensor connectors are all good.
Hope to have it in this week

shem
shemdogg JUN 19, 11:10 PM
Drove to sac n back, started getting the motor reddy. Swapped the oil filter housing, damn gasket did not wanna come off. Wound up running it on the belt sander and had a new gasket. after cleaning it really good, looked like only the valve covers were leaking, so I put the ones from the other motor on and called it good. Doused the rockers w oil and filled the pushrod galleys. Ran my drill spinning the motor w the plugs out. Could smell that motor cooking lol. Saw lotsa bubbles so the pushrods r getting oil. Snapped a bolt off the exhaust, took a min but got it out and retapped. Got out the stud end out from the head I had to cut off, got my tensioner installed. Mounted the alternator and found a better way to run the belt, need a belt about 3" longer. Anywho, got er in and called it a day


Tried to save some time by removing the rear calipers, got stuck on the ds rear and wound up w a stuck caliper. Gotta get new ones. Wrapping up some small jobs tomorrow but starting a yuge bath remodel wed, only gonna have time to pick at the car lil by lil.

shem
shemdogg JUL 12, 09:11 PM
Finally got some days off, works comin in hot. Whole summers booked w big jobs, not looking good for the car. Got the engine fired up saturday, bad rod knock lol. Primed the hell out of it in n outta the car, has great oil pressure. Po is gonna refund my money ill be putting towards a rebuild. Got it in pretty quick n test hooked up.

Drove it back into the garage today, replaced it w the fiero that needs the flywheel swapped. While its out gonna change the cat n sway bar links. More to come

shem
shemdogg AUG 20, 12:10 AM
Drove this out friday and got reacquainted w what needs finishing up. Moved the rearview camera to the top center of the roof scoop, didnt like the view. Was staring at the bottom length of the scoop and the rear wing. Moved the camera back to the original location, just gonna live w it for now. Says its a fisheye camera but its really not. heres the view

Was trying to get a rear view and see the blind spots. Good enough for now, moving on.
Started cleaning up the wiring, adding connectors and heat shrink where I had wire nuts for testing. Long way to go before cleanups done. Made some labels for all the switches, and connected the starter to the over head panel. Got the oil pan off, gonna check the main n rod bearings to see if I can find whats knocking. Pulled the plugs off while running to see if the sound changed on any cylinder but no dice. Took the first engine all apart, looked like a good motor w 180k. No spun or damaged bearings, journals were smooth n clean, really nothing that would catch a fingernail. Plastigauged the journals, everything within spec. No wall damage and the bores were smooth. Took it to a machine shop for a second opinion, said it all looked great.

shem
shemdogg AUG 29, 12:18 AM
Finally figured out my battery cable dilemma, just made my own. Ordered some for a riviera but they were 4awg, Wound up getting bulk 2awg welding cable lengths from hd. Got some fittings from kragen and ran each line in its own jefferies tube from the spare tire area thru the heat shield. Hot cables close to the exhaust mani so I ran the conduit close. Almost done here


Cleaned up a ton of the wiring w connectors n heat shrink, wirings getting closer to being dunn.

shem

Was in sac a few weeks ago and saw this lmao. Chp had em sitting on the curb lol. I was doing an hd run about an hour later, was in the left turn lane right next to it watching while the tow guy destroyed the car getting it off the median. Hooked up chains and yanked it off the median w the truck.

Huge oil stain from the car to the end of the median, was going pretty fast for how far they went.

[This message has been edited by shemdogg (edited 08-29-2023).]