What did you do today to your 3/S?

Did a few more things.

- Painted the sunshade mounts, you can see the difference, ew!
- Changed all the window trim. Love having a clean parts car!
- Finished rear interior
- Did a VERY brief polish test run on the spoiler. I am talking about 30 seconds and look at the difference! Going to be hammering it with the orbital later this week.


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Pulled the drivetrain.:suspect:

Just got back from a over 1,500 mile round trip to and from my first NG. :cool:

Also averaged 19 mpg for the trip. Not bad for an 1,000cc E85 car running at 27 psi.

-John

I've been working on cleaning up the replacement front crossmembers I bought a while back in preparation of some time with a local powder coater...Almost happy with them, so they should be dropped off come Monday. :P

In the meantime, I've continued to prep some more of my core valve covers to get them ready for refinishing & finally get the damn things sold! :D i believe my running total for just front ones are at 12 covers now (but I'm going to hoard an OE black wrinkle one for myself).

Finally replaced the front sway bar end links. Thank you Forest Gump for the Moog part number:applouse: These fit WAY better than what came with the sway bars.

Checked the driveshaft while I had it up and noticed the carrier bearings have see better days, more to do.....it's a 3S:loyal:

Going to be taking it out for a drive to enjoy it!

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(Yesterday actually)

Swapped the driveshaft (propellor shaft) from the 99 and less vibs, BUT still getting knock counts I don't understand. When I watch my LCDBC I will see 1 maybe 2 counts while building boost in 2500-3500 range, but when I check the peak values (1 screen to the "left") it will show pucker amounts of knock, 20+

Going to hook up the HHH and get a log and I just have this uncomfortable feeling in my gut that it's the piston rings. As soon as the fun starts, the knock starts despite good AFRs. I have a couple of other items to try to "quiet" things down, but being completely honest....I am totally frustrated.

Going to get the boat out today instead of wrenching, the sound of 2 big blocks always puts me in a good place:)

Anyone else do any car work this weekend? That's half of the ownership experience, no?

Are you sure the knock sensor isn't bad?

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Originally Posted by DocWalt

Are you sure the knock sensor isn't bad?

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Replaced it with a new one last year during the VSS job. I'll get a log and post it up. Thank you for your help!

Got started on this fg hood that needed some work.. Needs some epoxy repairs in a few spots. And need to figure some way to get the main hood latch on there

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A new sensor doesn't mean there aren't wiring issues in the main harness. I've had several issues in the main harness myself.