Location: Tampa, FL
Posts: 102
My VIN: 16995
Club(s): (DCF)
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
And today I got the leaking heater elbow fixed. I removed the press in fitting, tapped the waterpump with a 1/2npt tap, and used a 5/8 barb to 1/2npt to fit in there. Then just used a 90* 5/8 hose to finish it off.
Also got alternator and belt installed. Once I get my waterpipe, I can start it up and break in the rockers and rings.
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Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
ECU bay cleaned up. Used Tesa fuzzy tape to wrap harness.
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Also, put rear of car back on, recharged AC, put back interior trim.
Almost ready for first drive in 5 years.
Just need to hook up cruise control and go tune!
Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
Got my cold air air intake setup installed. It has CCV and I even have the carbon canister hooked up too.
Now I just need to connect cruise cable and fix header leak.
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Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3
Posts: 1,245
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
Seat of the pants it?s slightly faster, though I haven?t pushed it as I?m breaking it in. While book value is 150hp, I'm running a tweaked timing and VE table from Josh S, so no idea what he got. Maybe add or subtract a few from that.
In hind sight, I should've bought those forged pistons and rods that are on ebay.
My plan if this ever blows is a swap from auto to G96 manual and going with my original plan of a VR6. I still have all the parts minus block, crank, and turbo to make a VR6 12v.
Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
Was getting weird fluctuations in mixture when hot. It would go way rich.
Found it it went away when unplugging carbon canister, and figured it out. I had the carbon canister directly teed into the vacuum port for CCV. Thing is, the restricting orifice is on the CCV cap, not on the engine side like the 2.8. As a result, it was sucking too much gas fumes, which drastically richened the mixture when hot and low on fuel.
The fix was instead teeing the carbon canister line on the air filter side of the CCV. This sets it up the same as the eagle premier.
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Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3
Location: FL
Posts: 947
My VIN: Early
Installed this Hall effect speed sensor kit from Josh S yesterday.
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Need to wire it in to the ECU, then my cluster will receive speedo over CAN BUS.
Early 81 5spd conversion- DMCH Ground Effects, Double Din, Custom Instrument Cluster, QA1 Suspension, 3.0 PRV with MS3