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Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:41 pm

hey skid did you pick your paint to match your seats? haha looks like you did a pretty damn good job at matching them

Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:30 pm

The engine harness is ready to plug in. Having the right type of crimpers for the style of terminals I got made these a snap to install. I still need to do a major clean up on the motor before it goes in, so I think that will happen tomorrow after work.

Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:55 pm

drove the beast home,is yours done yet.

Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:16 pm

Just got back from the initial testing. Several trips around the block, finally chased down the small coolant leak and now all systems are sealed and working fine. The clutch needed absolutely no adjustment from where I installed it. :D The shifter took a bit of monkeying with though. It's working okay at the moment, but I think I will still replace this Empi trigger shifter. I took it on the freeway for ten minutes and it cruised just fine. I can already tell I like the new 1st and 2nd gear ratios... 1st is closer to second now. The new trans is performing as expected so far. Everything will have a close eye on it for the next two weeks. She has now been upgraded to daily driver until the Night Run!

Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:18 pm

Nice work !!!

Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:06 pm

wow looks great

Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:12 pm

You did remember to put oil in the transmission??

J/K

Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:14 pm

Triple checked my list of don't forgets!

I finished putting on all of the accessories - hi lift jack, fire extinguisher, spare tire, etc. It hums down the freeway at 80 mph quite nicely!

Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:15 pm

now its starting to look like a car my man....

Sat Jul 10, 2010 11:20 pm

give me some help here friend... looking at the pic, stinger? I dont know anything about this, is this a diy ecu, or... looking at megasquirt for mine but no customer support it seems.... did you map it yourself? I hadn't heard of stinger, or is that just a cover? Megasquirt is the first company I've heard of that sells a build it yourself ecu with a radioshack hobbybox kit (or so it seems?) can you tell me anymore about the ecu your using?

Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:03 am

It's hard to see under all that bling! :D Time to go get it dirty. Congrats on the transmission.

Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:05 am

STOICH wrote: give me some help here friend... looking at the pic, stinger? I dont know anything about this, is this a diy ecu, or... looking at megasquirt for mine but no customer support it seems.... did you map it yourself? I hadn't heard of stinger, or is that just a cover? Megasquirt is the first company I've heard of that sells a build it yourself ecu with a radioshack hobbybox kit (or so it seems?) can you tell me anymore about the ecu your using?

Its what outfront motorsports sells with their subi's. Cost-wise it is not very comparable to MS.

Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:09 pm

The ECU is from a company named EMS. It is a Stinger model. It came with the turnkey engine package from Outfront Motorsports. Prewired, only twelve to hook up with detailed instructions. It was clearly the easiest part of the wiring in the car. Adapting the Painless harness to this car was not near as easy since the harness was set up originally for a Dodge/Ford/Chevy pick up. After I first got the car drivable, Outfront offered turnkey engine purchasers a half off dyno tune session. We squeeked another 8 hp out of it with that session. Outfront Motorsports continues to have excellent customer service even after several years of the engine purchase. Mac and John are stand up guys in this sport for sure.

Wed May 11, 2011 3:34 pm

I haven;t been in here for a while! (coughing as the dust billows off the thread...)

It is almost all one color now. I still need to paint the windshield frame, and the gray will be done. Graphics of some sort is in the planning stages.

Wed May 11, 2011 9:33 pm

big brown strip.

Thu May 12, 2011 9:31 am

vdubduner wrote: big brown strip.

lol :shock:

Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:56 am

You can paint your Samba avatar in blue on the doors.