Mar 19 - blow it out your

Ass.  Got a good chunk of the exhaust done today. May be shut in tomorrow so May have to move on to something else for tomorrow's work.

Mar 18 - cruise in

If nothing else happens today, my day was just made. I've been looking for my cruise control Master for a very long time now. I came across it while hunting something else, isn't that typical? I just did a quick look for the 10 Way connector that plugs into it and don't see it on my harness but that won't slow me down.

Now if I can get my water pump installed today that would be quite a bit of progress actually. I still need the bolts for the water pump.

Pump is in. Torqued. Sensors connected. I cut the shock tower to allow the air intake temperature sensor to get mounted. It's in and connected.

Mar 17 - Final-frikkin-ly. . . assembled AXLES!!!

So the day has come.  I finally have my axles assembled.  I have hubs that will take those axles and now I'm on to putting them into the car.  But this has been such a long road to just acquire the axles and a full assembly to turn the rear wheels, that I want to take a pause and reflect on it all.

Ok.  That shit is over.  I'm ready to get this thing done!  :-)

So much so, that I'm currently overlooking a situation that I'm not happy about with my hubs getting cut to accept my axles.  The guys cut the splined area down within the hub to make clearance for the non-splined space.  I guess.  I haven't talked to them about it, but I basically got cheated out of almost a full half inch of splined space that should have been engaged with one another.  This would mean buying new hubs all over again and sending them to the same guys (only ones I've found with the broaching bar for the 30 spline G6 axle). 

But I haven't had a chance to call them yet since the discovery, so maybe they have a legit reason.  But looking back and forth between the two parts it looks pretty obvious.  Someone measured wrong and cut it too deep on the lathe.  No one offered up the screw up prior to shipping it back to me.  So we'll see what thy have to say for themselves soon enough.

So without further ado, the requisite pics.

I was also able to hook up some 1157 fixtures to my lenses and check them out.  They're so bright it was killing my aperture compared to my flash.  I had picked up 1156 fixtures but they wouldn't fit.  So I'm putting 1157 ones in and not lighing up the tail light portion of the bulb for the amber blinkers.

Thanks for your time.  Hope some of the info in these pages helps others on similar quests.

Take care,
Coop

Mar 13 - more of the little things

Today I cleaned up some sanding spots. Chased down a couple of wires on the steering column. Found some EGR parts and got those ready to go on. Cleaned up all the sanding dust off of everything. Found an old tail light wiring harness, I think it was from my 95 TA.  Still hunting the original power wire for the battery hook up in the old Fiero harness. I have the manual for that so I'm about to look that up.

I'm sure I'll update this post with more once I find where the battery goes because I should have a switched power available in the car now.

Success!  I can turn the key and run the starter now!

So on my next test fire, it'll be with the key and accelerator pedal!  Nice one!  Totally hip to that. B-)

Also adjusted the shifter linkage a bit.  I can now get a more positive throw forward into the odd gears, the even gears have always moved into spot plenty well.

 

Thanks,
Coop

Mar 12 - Plug it in

I got some wires on the steering wheel connected to the factory Fiero wiring harness.  Using the same pinouts over the years helped a lot.  I was able to plug in the harness that has the blinkers, hazards, switched power, high beam/dimmer switch and maybe the cruise control.  I still have to find out if the cruise was indeed a part of that connection or not.  Difficult finding some of these connectors in the manuals and looking up the pinouts.

But today (Mar 13) will continue that work with figuring out what I have and don't have so when something doesn't work I just assume it is already connected.  I haven't found the C217 harness connector where I can get my stereo controls from my wheel.  That one is elusive.  It was only on the Pontiac and I have that but not finding the actual connector yet.  I think it is a part of another connector is why I'm having such a hard time with it. 

It claims to have a yellow wire in it, so you'd think it would be easy to find.  I think I'm just going to take my multimeter to it and find it that way.  Can't go wrong there.  If it says it should be X ohms when connected, that's pretty straight forward.  Keep hitting the button and doing the color combos it says on the existing connector that hasn't found a home yet, and I'll be good.

Mar 11 - Those Intakes! ! !

One of the most focused upon aspects of the Lamborghini line is the intakes for the radiators.  I didn't have an up close 'before' pic of the passenger side, but I do have what it looks like now.  I did show the Driver's side before and after though.  I like the passenger side more, it is better finished I think.  I believe I will go back and better finish the driver's side yet.

But hey, like the real Italian car, those are hand made and not every one of theirs are perfectly symmetrical.  (prior to Audi ownership anyway)

So aside from some dinking around today, this was the major thing that got done.  I have half heartedly have always dreaded doing this step.  At some point, I quit worrying about possibly screwing it up and figured I could always fix it if it turned out like crap.  So from that point on I was always looking forward to doing it, just wasn't the time to do it yet.  But now I'm about to pull the body off and mount my ducts for the radiators and the radiators themselves, so it is time to do this step.  After this setup I'll lose the opportunity to get into places on here that will be covered up from now on once mounted.

So without further ado, here are the pics.

Passenger side I did first.  Inspirational work always flows well if I can do it when I'm wanting to do it instead of when I have to do it.

Next 3 are the driver's side 'before' pic.

Next 3 are the driver's side 'after' pics.

The dinking around today was two things, one was replacing the bottom bolt on my tail light bezel.  Old one wasn't long enough to protrude through the body so I could make it an easy bolt on part.  The other was getting my sterrng wheel electrics connected to the Fiero harness.  So supposedly I have a working key switch now for power and cruise control, etc should be there too.  I'll find out more about it over the weekend as I begin to break down the colors on the wires and see what's up.

So stoked this thing is happening!!!   :-D

Take it easy y'all.

Coop

Mar 10 - Steering pump has lines and fluid in it

So this will be a quick one as there isn't much more to say.  I have cleaned up the lines that went to my old LT1 steering rack, and thank goodness the LS1 steering rack uses the same lines so it has the same fittings on it.  They're different sized fittings on the rack side for supply and return, so you can't get them wrong.  That's cool.

So I have them connected up and tightened to that German torque spec, you know, guten tite.  :-D  Then I added the fluid and had my son keep turning the wheel lock to lock to burp the air out of it.  Looking good so far.  Looking forward to applying some power to it and seeing if it has any leaks under pressure.  So far no leaking with no more pressure than the wheel input is generating.  So stoked!

About to start some electrical work I suppose.  There are the beginnings of the need there.  ;-)

Tie wrap flags were left on for the pic so you can see where I needed to tidy the hoses up.  Didn't cut the pressure line at all, went right together.  Return line was cut to shorten it up some.  Still using the original hose clamp on the end that connects to the reservoir too.