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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:49 am
by Amskeptic
tommu wrote:Some more photos after a deserved clean.
That is a beautiful car. We need to up-fresh your coil like I did with Chloe's engine. That's a Bosch blue coil under the paint:
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:53 am
by tommu
That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:33 am
by airkooledchris
That's a beautiful job on the coil. I think mine is supposed to be blue, which of course means I have a black one. go fig.
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:00 am
by Bleyseng
Note the Throttle Positioner which on "over run" holds the throttle open a bit and stops that awful "pop pop" when you decelerate.
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:06 pm
by Amskeptic
tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.
Colin
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:09 pm
by Amskeptic
airkooledchris wrote:That's a beautiful job on the coil. I think mine is supposed to be blue, which of course means I have a black one. go fig.
All original coils were black with brown phenolic, even the high-output Hall Effect coils:
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:58 am
by Bleyseng
Amskeptic wrote:tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.
Colin
What is a safer replacement?
Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:40 pm
by Amskeptic
Bleyseng wrote:Amskeptic wrote:tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.
Colin
What is a safer replacement?
http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/e ... 24MJP62Rgl
Truck bed liner has been used to paint over thin styrofoarm/aluminum laminate . . .
Check out the Lizard Skin site . . .
http://www.lizardskin.com/