Teh Official "Dude Where's My Forum?" Thread, Brought to you by the minds of Box, and her fiancée, Lorelei Options

[Box]

I used ATC fuse holders to make life easy too since that's what the car uses. Doing it the way you're talking about I'd get the fuse block you linked to and then you could label DH, DL, PH, PL or something similar so it's easy for anyone to look at it and know what's what. I would go a step further and use red, yellow, white, and green wiring on each filament's power feed and brown for triggers and black for grounds so everything is nicely colour coded. Could do the labeling so it's colour coordinated with each circuit as well.

[Bitter]

I have red and black 10ga, yellow and brown 18ga, for power and for trigger sides of things. Brown will be relay ground, yellow relay triggers, black and red are self explanatory. You're right about more colors though.

[Box]

I hate when people just use one colour wire for everything, I like colour coding to make life easier. Also that moment I rather do electrical than upholstery. Have everything cut out just need to sew it together and onto the boot retainer, the microsuede should work better since it's so pliable. Last night I washed the factory boot in warm water with Dawn which softened it up a fair amount then after drying used the Black Max to condition it and it's nice and pliable again, but even then it still provides resistance just not as much as it did before. Long story short was cleaning it to try and sell since it's still in really good shape and someone somewhere out there wants a factory boot, should probably clean up and sell the shift knob as well. Once the new boot is on and works as it should will have to get a picture for the project thread.

This post has been edited by Box: Oct 2, 2016 - 3:33 PM

[Bitter]

With plastics and vinyl 'mold release' chemicals and heat go a long way to rejuvenate them. I bet dousing the boot in some vinyl restoration stuff and warming it up with a hair dryer would get it to absorb the chemicals and be soft and supple like new again. We use a heat gun and WD40 to make hard rubber intake parts soft again at work, it works nearly every time and gets the parts to fit and seal again or even come apart in the first place!

[Box]

I thought about coating it in the Black Max and using a hair dryer or heat gun on it to try and make it even better. I find washing with warm water and Dawn when possible is good prep though since it'll remove the years of crap that gets put onto rubber, vinyl, and plastic stuff. Griot's makes an interior cleaner/prep that works along the same lines but dries without residue where with Dawn it needs washed off.

This post has been edited by Box: Oct 2, 2016 - 4:56 PM

[1994Celica]

Last week my father traded his STi in for an 06 GTO. Not what I would of done but it seems to suit him better.

[Box]

I can only approve if the GTO has the 6-speed. What's funny about them is they also have a T-56 like my Firebird but instead of being a toploader it's a linkage shifter, feels like absolute crap in comparison.

[1994Celica]

He got an auto but he seems happy with it so hopefully it sticks. It's pretty nice, but I preferred the sti haha

[Bitter]

Your mom might be upset if your dad came home with a STI.

[1994Celica]

Your mom might be upset if your dad came home with a STI.

Haha I remember I'm high school when the said it was STi day and I was the only one excited because I didn't know that STi had another meaning..... I expected a Subaru day but what I got was very very wrong

[Bitter]

Expected turbo, got blue waffle.

[Box]

Meh autotragic... I will say the GTO I tested had pretty nice interior and it seemed like a solid car.

[1994Celica]

Expected turbo, got blue waffle.

I expected some sick rally action but all I got was some sick action.....

Meh autotragic... I will say the GTO I tested had pretty nice interior and it seemed like a solid car.

Eh my father seems happy with it and it suits him much better than the Subaru. Plus he's 55 so maybe a stick is too much for him these days.... The previous owner kept it super clean, it's very very nice.

[Bitter]

That 4L65E is about 1/2 done if that thing has been to the strip :lol:

[1994Celica]

That 4L65E is about 1/2 done if that thing has been to the strip :lol:

Don't think it's been abused. It's lightly modded. Intake, catback exhaust, and some minor suspension stuff.

[Box]

The clutch in the GTO was even lighter than my Firebird's, but the Firebird's is slightly lighter than my Celica's oddly enough. They're all hydraulic but LT1 cars have a conventional slave cylinder that pushes a clutch fork, whereas on LS1 and later cars it's a hydraulic throwout bearing.

I lost track of how many 4L60E transmissions my father's '96 Z28 went through, I want to say 3-4 including the original one all before 200K miles.

I'd love a 6-speed GTO in Cosmos Purple, then again I'd love a '98 Firebird in the Brilliant Purple Metallic but it'd have to be a hardtop 6-speed too and there might be one with that exact combination out there.

This post has been edited by Box: Oct 4, 2016 - 8:46 PM

[Bitter]

You don't need to abuse the 4L65E to start to break it, just driving the car and romping from time to time will do it, they're just not up to the task they were assigned.

[1994Celica]

Guess we will see what happens....

[Box]

I'll never understand why they just didn't use the 4L80E behind V8's in the cars, all of my father's driving in the Camaro was highway/interstate so it was always in overdrive with the converter locked so the transmissions shouldn't have been wearing out as fast as they did even though he'd get on it occasionally. Then again Ford's AODE isn't any better either.

[Bitter]

They didn't need to be better, they just needed to be as crappy as everyone else cause whaddayagunnado buy foreign?