The firewall-side cylinder bank plugs can be accessed by removing the intake manifold and a bit of plumbing, which takes about 15 minutes. You can pull a distributor off any old 6 cylinder Toyota, just check that it's a rotor button distributor.
That intake manifold had everything else connected to it, Would've taken five minutes if the car was brand new, The amount of stripped bolts was amazing. Lesson learned, Never buy front wheel drive cars.
Ahh, Service Position!! There is a running joke amongst some of my mechanic friends that Service Position refers not the car but to the owner that brought it to the shop
I think I've finally mastered shifting smoothly and quickly in my '90 Prelude Si Got the times and revs memorized for each gear. 2nd gear, gotta wait about a second for the revs to drop to 2000 (heavy flywheel), then let the clutch out smoothly. 3rd I can shift twice as fast, and 4th and 5th I can pretty much just quickly kick the clutch and slam the shifter. Feelsgoodman Oh, and the driver door dome light stopped working again. So I poked the contact in the door jamb with my finger (again) and it works (again). I was afraid I'd have to source some rare old part, but nah... I got the midas touch. On Tuesday I picked it up from the mechanics - they fixed an annoying rattle that turned out to be in the rear brakes (needed to be lubricated and tightened or something). They didn't even charge me! Best mechanics in town. My Prelude's 3rd trip to them, and definitely not the last - I'll be back in a couple weeks for new rear brakes. - - - Updated - - - This wasn't "today"... in fact, it was about a month ago, but I replaced the OEM steering wheel with a custom deep dish suede wheel Took a lot of improvising and trial and error, with some help from my dad. Used a Momo hub adapter. The easy part was getting the OEM wheel off. The hard part was lubricating the plastic backplate, making a new horn wire, ripping the useless wiring harness out of the hub adapter, bending and repurposing the cruise control prongs as a retaining peg for the adapter, and then making sure the wheels were straight when I put the adapter and new wheel on. Then found out the front toe was off by about half a degree, so I had to take it in for a $60 alignment. Worth it. Also installed a chrome shift knob and leather shift boot. Ignore the dirty floors; vacuumed it since then. New wheel is way more comfortable for me. I'm 6' 3" and the car doesn't have a telescoping wheel function, so I kept banging my legs into the old wheel. Plus the new wheel is 13" instead of 14.5" (OEM), so in addition to a more comfortable driving position, it firms up the steering and looks rad. And no, the car had no airbags to begin with, so all I'm losing is cruise control. Horn button still works. Beep beep. I love this car. Best steering ever.
Nothing like an rear wheel drive Camaro in the snow... Im really interested in your camaro, Any work to it recently?
Nothing lately. Though it should have a new interior by the summer. Chicks don't dig my duct taped up 46 year old seats lol. Ive got the cash in hand but the guy im buying from is coming to the swap meet in march, and picking it up there is a hell of a lot cheaper than the $400 shipping. And MAYBE, MAAAAAAAYBE, a new engine. Something to the tune of a 383 or 396 small block stroker kit. Leaning towards the 396, because more cubes, and hey, it'd be a 69 chevy with a 396, fuelie heads and a hurst on the floor. But i don't know what opportunities i'll have between now and then so we'll all see how things go.
Finished painting the dashboard top black (its a metal dash) on the Sprinter, then tore down all the poly in my makeshift spray booth to replace it with new stuff before the final coat of red on the body. The old poly had too much dust and overspray from previous work, and it was flaking off and getting in my paint Also, I took a vanload full of old parts and metal to scrap, then my dog (long leg jack russell) jumped out of the van and got in a fight with a blue heeler dump dog. I managed to get them apart pretty quickly though, no injuries.
Gave up on diagnosing the fluid leak, set about buying a new grommet for the rear of the right hand cylinder bank; the current one is a leaky factory original and quite crunchy from nearly 20 years worth of heating and cooling cycles. Oil dripping onto the exhaust doesn't make the nicest smell in the cabin to be honest. Stupid Audi. jks I love it to pieces edit on February 5, 11:11pm AEST as I'm not a fan of double posting: AudiLog... 5? Bought and installed a handful of LEDs for my wing mounted chmsl as all 7 incandescent bulbs were toast. Bought a handful of incandescent T10 bulbs for my instrument cluster as half of them were also toast. Bought a new battery ($230!!!) as the outgoing one tended to drain overnight. Yes, I checked for abnormal power draw when the electrics were in standby; it was pulling 60mA, which I believe is normal. Good to know I won't be stranded in the middle of nowhere from now on. About to hit 170,000km.
Slightly warmer today. Was driving back down the hill (that's behind me in this picture) and saw a kid on a sled hit a light post.
Put an original steering wheel in my car: I hope I can raise the column about an inch so I can move my legs. Just need to swap the dash and paint the steering wheel then the interior will be complete. Anyone want to guess what the bulldog clip is for? (Hint: it's engine control related)
Its an Isuzu Frontier with the 4JB1-T engine, its supposed to make 100 hp stock, but it has an inter-cooler and free flow exhaust system so should be making more, I think my inter-cooler may be blocked a bit or something.
Got to remember manufacturers horsepower figures are at the crankshaft for just the engine and do not account for drivetrain losses. 4 wheel drive vehicle can easily lose 20% which would correspond to 80hp measured at the wheels. An exhaust, for a turbo car needs to run entire way from exhaust headers, can't just run a catback setup or there will be almost zero change in power, exhaust too big again causes a horsepower loss. Worn out engine, loses horsepower. Your figures aren't surprising.
