sweet. I may do that since I get paid today! I <3 pay day.

Steve-O

 

while your there snag the banjo bolt form the primary rail too, that way you can eliminate the FPD in case it leaks.

 

Meh I got the privilege of running the store while the manager is out with his new born so I had to cover the store for a scheduling error he made before he left. Needles to say I didnt make it to PAP. I wont have another day off till next week or the week after that.

Steve-O

 

um...what kinda hours do you usually work? they open at 9 and close at 5

 

9 till 8. ill be working the same shift today and tomorrow if you want to drop in and say hey. Radioshack on broadway by saint marys hospital.

Steve-O

 

thats some shitty shift then. But I cant really stop in to visit lol, I work from 12-9 today and tomorrow out at the dandridge food city....go me

 

Sounds fun. lol. work sucks but having money out weighs it.

Steve-O

 

weird, your thread is just as slow as the MA thread.

 

Yeah. Ill be on here more after Saturday. I get to stop covering the managers position and go back to being my slacker *** self.

Steve-O

 

lol yeah...I get to pull the motor and such out of my Conquest...

Here I thought rotaries were unreliable...fried the rings in at least one cylinder.

 

Finally got a tag for the 7. Ive been pretty much broke since I got the car but my fiancée surprised me last night with a licence plate and the paper work for the title. Pretty exciting. Now I can start working on the car and figuring out that 3800 issue.

Steve-O

 

The issue is more than likely a bad ground somewhere. Go over all the grounds, cleaning terminals and if you feel the need, run new grounding cables the the required spots.

 

unfortunately Ive already tried that and apparently so did the guy that had the car before me.

Steve-O

 

You sure he didnt remove much needed grounds? There should be a ground from the transmission housing to the firewall, a ground from the battery to the starter, battery to the chassis, then possible added ground from the alternator case to the engine, from the engine to the shock tower, and so on and so forth.

 

Cant be sure of anything but he did gut the cat so thats the most obvious thing to fix now. Ill either have it replaced of find a different way to open those ports.

Steve-O

 

Gutting the cat wont affect the ports, unless the split-air tube was took off in the process. Have you checked to see that the port actuators even actuate or move freely?

 

I was told that gutting the cat would cause it to not have enough backpressure to open the ports. Ive moved one of them but havent been able to get back and try wire them open to see if they were the problem.(I have the car at another location than my house).

Steve-O

 

Who told you gutting the cat would cause that? If by some miracle yo uhave a massive gaping hole in your cat..you have a serious exhaust leak. Numerous other members here have gutted their cats since they tend to clog and choke the car out.

 

lol. the more i read about this the more I am confused. Some people say its the injectors, some people say its the ports, Some people say its a bad ground. Ive checked the grounds using the aaroncake.net guide. I have not added a extra ground at the boost sensor on the passenger side wheel well. I put a multimeter on the secondary injectors and one read the correct resistance but the other read less than what the service manual said it should. So who knows. I might have some time to tinker with it today so Ill let you know if anything new comes up.

Steve-O

 

So, any progress?

 

holy crap what happened to this thread? 6000 posts wtf?

 

No progress yet. I got promoted to manager and have been working all the time. When Im not working im doing stuff with my girl for the weeding. After September 9th things should slow down hopefully.

Steve-O

 

Lol, yeah...its died off since most everyone has a job or has ventured away from 7's in general.

Ive gotta put a 'new' radiator in my FC monday or tuesday since mines got a crack in it the top. Then later this week my engine for the Conquest should arrive and ill spend next weekend and the better part of the start of the week putting it in.

 

Woot, got my powdercoated bits back tonight.

Lower control arms (minus new bushings) in red wrinkle finish




Dust shields in generic black gloss


Spindle/knuckles done in red wrinkle finish




Spindles and dust shields put back together






Brackets on the left are for the LCA's, Brackets on the right are for my manual steering rack (the big bracket is common to all the racks, but the smaller one is different between manual and power steering)

 

nice powercoating.... and does anyone have a turbo throttle cable bracket for the back of the motor..