Cascade Crew

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: A little progress

The snow decided to set me back a little, but there has been some progress in the FoMoCo department:

I found these in the basement of Hap's Westside in Tacoma last year, I've just never gotten around to cleaning them up until now. I forget how much I paid, but I think it was his flat rate of $15 per (plus $5 for the breather Razz

). I have only seen one other set come up on eBay, and it went for around $120.

Pretty grungy, but a little brake cleaner and a fish knife will fix that. Wink

I'm nearly done with the underhood part of the rewire.

The dash, however, is an entirely different story.

This little wiring project has snowballed like no other. Originally I was just planning on replacing the fusebox. Then the fusebox and a few wires. Now a month later, 350 bucks poorer, and it's a top-to-bottom rewire of the entire car. Rolling Eyes

Ah well, it needed it. This car spent too many years sitting around without it's hood.

iansane · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

Those covers are cool! Paint match them to the car. Smile

I feel you on the rewire... I'm not even done with mine yet.

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:19 pm Post subject:

It's made out of GOLD... Wink

I'm not usually a guy who gives a crap about how the engine looks (one look at the IROC should confirm that) but I'm still pretty floored about how these came out.

I've already got a real coolant catch-can on order to replace the trendy Peak bottle (color matches the gold though Laughing

). Now I just need to dump the burned up log manifolds, and repaint the heads with some better hi-temp paint.

Al Hasse · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject:

WOW!! That looks awesome. Have you thought about coating the manifolds, or are you going for headers? Performance Coatings in Auburn does a great job.

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject:

Coating logs = good money after bad. I've got my eyes on a set of these bad boys:

That's a couple of paychecks down the road though... Rolling Eyes

blue89 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:58 am Post subject:

Looking sharp!

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:21 am Post subject:

Hows she run?

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:10 am Post subject:

Thought that underhood chrome = Work of the devil?

Thing definately needs headers.

aaron_sK · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:21 am Post subject:

91RSVert · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:12 am Post subject:

man that looks clean!!!

I feel the pain on the wire job.

blue89 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:48 am Post subject:

91RSVert · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:20 am Post subject:

I can do the wiring, I just dont like to.

I need more help on this tuning the pcm crap then anything. 2 years and I'm still Bashy Bashy

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:21 am Post subject:

I like wiring too. Seems to come pretty naturally for me. Just takes a long ass time to do it right with solder and heat shrink.

rjmcgee · The Hammer Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2328

I can do good with wiring if I take my time. I love solder and heat shink, you know your doing it right then. I hate forgetting to put the heat shrink on the wire before I solder it. And I do that all the freaking time. Laughing

When I was doing maintainance in the mill I used to work at I really enjoyed working with the 3 phase power. Alot of it was cool because of the size of some of the motors, starters, and wiring. Always cool to hear the sounds when you start a big 150 hp motor. Also spooky though, 480 volt can make you dead in a hurry if you don't pay attention.

mc6811 · Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject:

I agree, wiring is alright just takes time and patience. Nothing like soldering twice to put the heat shrink on though.
Looks good under the hood.