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RSFreak
The other "John"
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1989 Chevrolet Camaro RS
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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:32 pm Post subject: What to do when you have a Volvo and an excess of GM parts?! |
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Upgrade! The S40 has two small horns. The one working horn made Vespa owners laugh with it's feeble honk. It really wasn't much more macho with both horns functional, but I needed at least that. So I mention to James that we need to grab a Volvo horn next time we're at the yard. But wait, James has two 3rdgen horns stashed away! The mounting bracket was easily bent into the correct shape and a few minutes of wire modding later, we had one Volvo horn and one GM horn making beautiful music together. But I play bass in a Heavy Metal band. This just wasn't gonna work for me. So off with the other Swedish POS and on with the second man-horn! Bingo! Now I can't wait for someone to cut me off in traffic! In the first pic, the wimpy stock horn is placed next to the 3rdgen unit for comparison. Yeah, it's just a horn (2 actually), but I'm digging it! 
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aaron_sK
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1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Fantastic. Now if only the car ran right! 
I actually need to do the same thing on the Mazda. Damn Japanese horn sounds like the road runner.  |
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RSFreak
The other "John"
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1989 Chevrolet Camaro RS
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We pulled the plugs and they all looked great. Slight white ash residue which I believe is normal. Swapped the 1-4 coil with the 2-3 coil and it seems to run better. Think I need to bite the bullet and spring for another coil. 
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DBL_TKE
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Location: Aloha, OR
1991 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| RSFreak wrote: | | We pulled the plugs and they all looked great. Slight white ash residue which I believe is normal. Swapped the 1-4 coil with the 2-3 coil and it seems to run better. Think I need to bite the bullet and spring for another coil. |
Are they individual coils on the plugs, or are they remote coils? If they latter, why don't you consider converting to GM coils? They better than even anything MSD has to offer.
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aaron_sK
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1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| DBL_TKE wrote: | | Are they individual coils on the plugs, or are they remote coils? |
Both!
The car is fawskin Swedish, man! Of course it has both types at once!  It uses a twin-coil wasted spark setup but the coils are on the plugs. Check it out (best pic I could find):
http://www.instructables.com/image/FIYS1GFGZ0MMDYD/Remove-the-wires-from-cylinders-1-and-2.jpg
Coils are $33-$60 off RockAuto, wires are $25-$55, OE plugs are $4 each, so at least it's cheap to fix! |
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fiveoformula
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Location: OR
1988 Pontiac Formula
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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Jeez... when americans do something like that its called "half-ass" but europeans do it and its "innovative". Lol
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chevymad
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Thats not as bad as the new hemi's. They have 2 plugs per cylinder with 8 plugs having COP and the other 8 waste spark. So there are 8 wires crisscrossing the engine, 8 coils, and 16 platinum spark plugs. |
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Twilightoptics
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1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Volvo makes some cool shizzle once they stopped relying so much on Bosch Mechanical Fuel Injection....
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chevymad
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Twilightoptics wrote: | | Volvo makes some cool shizzle once they stopped relying so much on Bosch Mechanical Fuel Injection.... |
Now thats something I agree with completely! That fuel injection system is enough to make me dislike any car! |
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91RSVert
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Location: AR
1991 Chevrolet Camaro RS
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| chevymad wrote: | | Thats not as bad as the new hemi's. They have 2 plugs per cylinder with 8 plugs having COP and the other 8 waste spark. So there are 8 wires crisscrossing the engine, 8 coils, and 16 platinum spark plugs. |
That wont be cheap to do a tuneup on  |
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RSFreak
The other "John"
Joined: 23 Jan 2004
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Location: Renton
1989 Chevrolet Camaro RS
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| DBL_TKE wrote: | | RSFreak wrote: | | We pulled the plugs and they all looked great. Slight white ash residue which I believe is normal. Swapped the 1-4 coil with the 2-3 coil and it seems to run better. Think I need to bite the bullet and spring for another coil. |
Are they individual coils on the plugs, or are they remote coils? If they latter, why don't you consider converting to GM coils? They better than even anything MSD has to offer. |
Yeah, There is one coil on the #3 plug with a wire to the #2 plug and a coil on the #4 plug with a wire to the #1 plug. I replaced one of them last year, but guess I should have done both. |
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aaron_sK
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1987 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| RSFreak wrote: | | I replaced one of them last year, but guess I should have done both. |
Replacing parts in pairs or sets?! What a concept! 
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RSFreak
The other "John"
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Location: Renton
1989 Chevrolet Camaro RS
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I figured only one was bad. |
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Quasi-Traction
"I have petals"
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1986 Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Twilightoptics wrote: | | Volvo makes some cool shizzle once they stopped relying so much on Bosch Mechanical Fuel Injection.... |
 (except LH 1.1 wasn't much better....ask me how I know) |
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