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:tommu wrote:Some more photos after a deserved clean.
IAC Greetings From BeautifulDowntownBurbank
- Amskeptic
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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
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
- tommu
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That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
- airkooledchris
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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.
1979 California Transporter
- Bleyseng
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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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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/
- Amskeptic
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Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
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
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
- Amskeptic
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All original coils were black with brown phenolic, even the high-output Hall Effect coils: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.
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
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
- Bleyseng
- IAC Addict!
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What is a safer replacement?Amskeptic wrote:Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Colin
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/
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/
- Amskeptic
- IAC "Help Desk"
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Bleyseng wrote:What is a safer replacement?Amskeptic wrote:Yes. Good time to replace your tarboards with look-alike safer replacement as discussed.tommu wrote:That is nice.
Question - should the engine bay be yellow? The same colour as the body?
Colin
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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
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