Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #45 – April 15, 2008, 04:49:14 PM Chuck,Sorry to hear about the hood. Glad you are being able to exercise it though; I too am jealous !I can't wait to see this "visual tweak" you speak of. Brent:cougarsmily: Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #46 – April 15, 2008, 05:57:40 PM Well just to prove that it is out and getting driven The pics aren't all that great as it was mid-day and sunny, but at least it's not sitting in the garage.And here is the chip/dent... :(It got a bath when I got home today, and I'm going to take the laptop with me to work tomorrow to see if I can fiddle with the tune a bit. Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #48 – April 18, 2008, 09:22:30 AM Well I've driven it every day since Tues and have been slowly working on the tune. Nothing scientific as I haven't had much time aside from driving back and forth to work, but I have improved the warm-up strategy a bit and worked on a couple flat spots in the VE table. I got antcy this morning and pushed it to 17psi in 4th...no noises and no smoke...so after a little more VE tuning, I'll get back to adding more spark advance.The tune is all goofy because as I was trying to tune it the past couple times, it was either running on 3 cylinders, or burning oil...so that never helped matters :pThe rains are supposed to return tonight, so it will go back into storage. Hopefully it won't get any new dents... Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #49 – April 18, 2008, 07:57:45 PM Man, I really love that car. Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #50 – April 18, 2008, 08:12:09 PM Beautiful car, ChuckAny inside shots? Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #51 – April 18, 2008, 09:11:33 PM Just a couple. Hasn't changed much in there yet. Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #52 – April 18, 2008, 09:16:44 PM I can't believe how small the top of the dash is, in that car.I like those seats too. Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #53 – April 26, 2008, 06:33:09 PM Ok, well I spent a little time with the car today. The first task was to work on the tune a bit more. Made some pretty good improvements in that repsect.Second I swapped the Pro 5.0 stubby shifter handle for a stocker so I can actually reach the shifter in all 5 gears.I put quite a few miles on the car today, as opposed to just driving it back and forth to work.When I got back home again after some errands I did a bit more work on it.See if you can guess what is different on the front of the car...Yes, it's the foglight covers... I have been wanting a set of the white covers for a while now, and I found a set...that came in this...I got them out of France. The lights are new and unused and basically came complete with a little "install" kit in a neato plastic package. The yellow lights will probably wind up on the '80.I know the cover change on the fogs is a trivial thing, but I always liked them over the later grey covers.Then I finally did some "real" work and finished off the exhaust with a new stainless tip.I found it online and is an 11" long 3-1/2" dia tip with a 3" inlet. It was the PERFECT length to finish off my Stinger tailpipe. It was also only $20...bonus!While I had the car up in the air I also snapped a pic of the exhaust that I installed at the end of last year. Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #55 – April 27, 2008, 02:10:37 AM Its about time you got to drive that car and fix it up some more looks good. Keep up the work and i can't wait to see more pics. Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #56 – April 27, 2008, 03:20:52 AM Lookin' good chuck W. I like those white covers as well Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #57 – April 27, 2008, 07:09:23 AM oooooh, pretty tires!kinda surprised to see a single exit tip on there; looks real good.now, about that under car shot.....youve got jackin rails and SFCs, but your jack is under the LCA pickup??? Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #58 – April 27, 2008, 09:31:05 AM Well I thought about the twin tip, as I really like that look. When it came down to it though this was just much cleaner and easier (and cheaper, as the twin tips I was finding with a 3" inlet were 2-3x's as much as this one was). This one was perfect though for the install with the Stinger tailpipe. I cut nothing to install it, just placed it at a slight angle and welded it in.As far as the jack location...I said the same thing to myself as I jacked it up. I did place the stand under the JR though :hick: Quote Selected
Chuck's '83 TBird Reply #59 – April 27, 2008, 01:21:28 PM ^ Drools at those foglights. You wouldn't be interested in selling your old covers would you? I'm missing one. Quote Selected
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