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Originally Posted by Alex3000GT
So is this car on the road yet!? How's that new suspension treating you? Is this the suspension you have? http://supercar-engineering.com/sc2/...roducts_id=195 My car is in the garage right now, so far I've put the new solid rear motor mount in, rebuilt heads are on, and I'm doing my oil pump and new timing belt tomorrow.
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Awesome to hear about your car.
Mine still
isn't on the road. I am now up North living with my girlfriend likely for a couple years until I return to the South (either LA or FL). My car sits with the battery cable pulled off the terminal at my mom and dad's house in their driveway. Got a nice $60 cover on it. I had built up hope to have it done to drive while down there for Mardi Gras, but then I found those wiring problems and that the brake booster is in fact bad so it was a no go and I really didn't want to spend all of my visitation time there working on the car. I was also sick the whole time there, so that didn't help things much either.
I will finish the car and bring it up here eventually (if I stay here and me and my gf don't break up; things are going well right now for that though), but at this point I cannot say when that will be though I am hoping for late Spring early Summer. If things with my gf don't work out though I'll be going home sooner than that and again living back in the New Orleans area (Laplace).
Having built hope and then to be let down with more problems I really am not too upset or rushed anymore about getting it finished asap. As my Dad has said, "You have to move on and -do something-." and that has never been the case as much as it is right now. I have to see if I can sink or swim with my new business ideas and/or get a new job and the car while was my #1 priority and mental goal to achieve before pursuing my own first time new business ideas I just can't afford to wait anymore. The reason the car was put as #1 priority was a mental "taking back time for me thing" if you will for all the years I have served the corporate world while it robbed me of life and time to do the things I love and want to do such as repairing and enhancing my car. Getting the car back on the road was and still will be a symbol of a new era in my life, but it much like this new era will just remain an ongoing project.
I'm gonna post some pics up of things I found where I last left off. Where I last left off basically is what I've been discussing in the past pages #19 up to this one in the thread.
Have left:
Brake Booster - See if this resolves brake pedal and idle issue
Idle issue - if brake booster doesn't fix (must be vac leak, throttle body, or ECU even though ECU is checking out to be running properly from electrical testing).
A/C - The A/C system much like the brake system did will undergo nearly a full overhaul. As this car will not be a race car, but one I want in tip top driving shape I must have my A/C because even in Central Illinois in the summer the temps get high like they do in South LA except without the humidity.
Recently repaired before I left:
Wiring harnesses which were causing ground faults and electrical arcing.