Carroll
SILVER, 85 GLH-R/T, TIII powered, Fueltech, ID1300's. PTE5857
RED, 91 Spirit R/T - Holset HE351 - 12.6 @ 107...R.I.P.
Made some progress already.....
Whoever bought this car originally got the car rust treated it which really did a good job at keeping the rust away. Unfortunately, they put globs of that tar crap all in the engine bay So i spent all day today scrubbing the tar with Kerosene trying to get the stuff off. PITA!!!! made progress though. Also removed the wiring harness and I am in the process of eliminating everything I don't need.
More car pics....man this thing is CLEAN!
Carroll
SILVER, 85 GLH-R/T, TIII powered, Fueltech, ID1300's. PTE5857
RED, 91 Spirit R/T - Holset HE351 - 12.6 @ 107...R.I.P.
Looking good!
Wow Awesome!
Mike Marra
1986 Plymouth Horizon GLMF "The Contraption" < entertaining sponsorship offers
Project Log:
http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/showthread.php?69708-The-Contraption-2013-14&highlight=
So are you doing a complete restore or just dropping in some power and a cage?
Man that thing looks nice!
Very nice!
There's not much resto to be done. I will weld shut all the holes that are in the engine bay that I no longer need, sand prime and paint underhood(it will make my R/T underhood look like crap). I will remove the entire interior and clean it good(it doesn't need much). While the interior is out I will POR15 everything and add a cage. It will get the R/T brakes and new suspension. I had bought but never used all new Polybushing from Johnny for the R/T, he told me I could exchange them for Omni stuff(thanks again Johnny). Car already has a brand new fuel tank and I will be replacing the fuel lines with bigger ones. Still undecided on Fuel pump, twin walbros or A-1000 or other? Probably will get a new IC and sell my 3-core. Everything else after that........you can wait to see in person.
Here's a shot for Pat...............since he's gonna be seeing a lot of it at SDAC20
Carroll
SILVER, 85 GLH-R/T, TIII powered, Fueltech, ID1300's. PTE5857
RED, 91 Spirit R/T - Holset HE351 - 12.6 @ 107...R.I.P.
Sounds like some fun. You should take a look at the Bosch 044 pump. Looks like it is a larger version of the 255 that doesn't peter out on the top end. SRT4 guys seem happy with it and I was considering putting one into an auxiliary race fuel tank I want to do.
http://www.srtforums.com/forums/f187...l-pump-514531/
very popular in europe...most of the audi and cosworth guys have been using them for years with great success.
i'm currently building a fuel catch tank system with twin 044 inline pumps....should provide plenty of fuel!
Carroll
SILVER, 85 GLH-R/T, TIII powered, Fueltech, ID1300's. PTE5857
RED, 91 Spirit R/T - Holset HE351 - 12.6 @ 107...R.I.P.
Carroll
SILVER, 85 GLH-R/T, TIII powered, Fueltech, ID1300's. PTE5857
RED, 91 Spirit R/T - Holset HE351 - 12.6 @ 107...R.I.P.
Carrol,
is this your car? There was a guy in the Steel City Chapter trying to sell a Santa Fe Blue GLHT shell a while back. He was from Virginia IIRC. If so, now you have a few more pics.
Yep and I was the one selling the car. Glad Carroll is bringing it back to life.
Been making progress and hording parts. I got the wiring harness done and I will say that that was the most un-fun thing I have ever done to a car but, I'm so glad I did it. I owe a big thanks to DJ for answering some questions and his excel sheet, Jeremy aka iturbo for the L-body wiring diagram and Brian for answering some more questions and helping me trace some down circuits. I ended up using the same power distribution box that DJ did from a crown vic. I search the junk yard for about an hour and in the end it was the perfect solution. Getting rid of the fusible link garbage really felt good. I took every wire I didn't need out the harness and in the end that was a lot. Here is what I started with......
Taking off all the old tape and loom is probably the worst/messiest part. After I had everything removed and triple checked, I test fitted it to the car - gave it power and crossed my fingers. EVERYTHING worked, light, heater, turn signals, wipers, gauges, etc so I was very relieved. To anyone doing something like this just take your time and take good notes, don't rush! Only thing left is to cut the starter wire, reverse switch and fan to length and add the connectors. Here is the test fitting and semi-finished harness.......
Car is in the Body Shop now getting some work on the A-pillars, all the holes i'm not using under hood welded shut and filled, and base + clear paint under hood and pillars. I had to go there today and remove the windshield. Windshield shop wanted to charge me $125 to take out and reinstall the windshield so, I went to Harbor Freight and got a trim removal tool and windshield removal tool for about $15 and took it out myself. I got a bunch of misc under hood parts being powder coated by Rob right now also. I will be picking up a new manual rack and coupler and tranny mount from a buddy in VA this week too. I hope to have the engine in the car this month. Hopefully things start moving really fast. more to come
Carroll
SILVER, 85 GLH-R/T, TIII powered, Fueltech, ID1300's. PTE5857
RED, 91 Spirit R/T - Holset HE351 - 12.6 @ 107...R.I.P.
already said it on the other site but very nice work!
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