IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by Amskeptic » Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:49 am

tommu wrote:Some more photos after a deserved clean.
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That is a beautiful car. We need to up-fresh your coil like I did with Chloe's engine. That's a Bosch blue coil under the paint:

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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by tommu » Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:53 am

That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?

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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by airkooledchris » Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:33 am

That's a beautiful job on the coil. I think mine is supposed to be blue, which of course means I have a black one. go fig.
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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by Bleyseng » Thu Sep 01, 2016 11:00 am

Note the Throttle Positioner which on "over run" holds the throttle open a bit and stops that awful "pop pop" when you decelerate.
Geoff
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by Amskeptic » Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:06 pm

tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by Amskeptic » Thu Sep 01, 2016 9:09 pm

airkooledchris wrote:That's a beautiful job on the coil. I think mine is supposed to be blue, which of course means I have a black one. go fig.
All original coils were black with brown phenolic, even the high-output Hall Effect coils:

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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by Bleyseng » Fri Sep 02, 2016 6:58 am

Amskeptic wrote:
tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.
Colin
What is a safer replacement?
Geoff
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/

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Re: IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:40 pm

Bleyseng wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:
tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.
Colin
What is a safer replacement?

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/e ... 24MJP62Rgl

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Truck bed liner has been used to paint over thin styrofoarm/aluminum laminate . . .

Check out the Lizard Skin site . . .

http://www.lizardskin.com/
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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