Thread: What did you do to your car today? Vol 2.0

bought this cute little adapter for the oil pressure gauge.






also sealed off my coolant ports, quick steel and dimes, also sealed off the egr port.

Lookin good scotty, whens it going in?

maybe this weekend. i need to get the welder lined up so its all done at once. i got a new flex pipe v band clamp and i need the cat welded in.

Gonna detail anything under the good? Power wash, paint ect.?

not really. my friends not gonna let me de grease it on his paver driveway. ill be doing brake cleaner and rags to clean stuff up as it is. the trans id like to paint silver, same with the headers. other then that nothing else is planned. i could always spray some new black paint at the bay after the fact. or if its clean enough looking touch it up now. all depends on this and that....

Originally Posted by sdavis11b

I like the Orange/Black instead of the Orange/Orange(Caliper bracket).

I dig that, looks good.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggs

bought this cute little adapter for the oil pressure gauge. also sealed off my coolant ports, quick steel and dimes, also sealed off the egr port.

Like the dime store plugs.... Beeee careful with that OP dilly bobber, man I'd snap that right off on the way in with the mill. i can't believe you're not using a mechanical gauge, wtheck?

those leak, screw it. and your not allowed at the track with a mechanical one, because they leak.

they will do that! You took the OP safety out of the ECU right? Reckon you can use whatever. Was not aware tech won't pass a mech OP gauge these days, thats kinda harsh.

what o/p safety? the stock pos sets a light at 5 psi, and its already to late. unplugging the stock sensor does nothing, mines been unplugged for 4 years now and has a brass plug in the hole lol after 3 blow out, you fix it right lol50 cent plug and some teflon tape.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggs

what o/p safety? the stock pos sets a light at 5 psi, and its already to late. unplugging the stock sensor does nothing, mines been unplugged for 4 years now and has a brass plug in the hole lol after 3 blow out, you fix it right lol50 cent plug and some teflon tape.

OK OK I'll stop saying things that sound wrong to you, jeez. I didn't figure a Buick would pump gas at under 5 psi, as in shut off, not set a light. And I knew you had a plug in yours. I've never trusted electrical sending units so take me out back for a bullet thru the noggin.

idiot lights are just that, for idiots. never liked them one bit. ill take stock cluster gauges any day. but them dummy lights just piss me off.

Originally Posted by ScottyDoggs

idiot lights are just that, for idiots. never liked them one bit. ill take stock cluster gauges any day. but them dummy lights just piss me off.

Agreed 10000%

One thing that I love about my Stealth is there is an oil pressure gauge, voltmeter, and temperature gauge. The oil pressure gauge just shows ticks, and not actual pressure, but it is still better than nothing. Once I looked over and saw the oil pressure dropping and even though the idiot light didn't trip I freaked out and pulled over. After a few seconds of looking I saw that the wire came off the sending unit. Grabbed some pliers and pinched it so it would stay on, put it back on, fired it up and oil pressure on the gauge showed rocked solid.

What brand gauge you going with Scotty


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Gave it a quick wash.

Not 5 minutes after I put everything away I found bird sh!t on the roof and I wasn't even parked under a line or anything. I'm ready to sit outside with the 9 and shoot anything that even tries to crap on it.

Fuel pumps taking a dump so I'll park it for the week and get a replacement ordered soon enough. Needs a good cleaning but with it raining everyday.. Won't happen for quite awhile.


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How did we transition to idiot lights? Those use electricity too, no thanks.

Dumped A/C pro in my junk yesterday, appreciated it today. Ripped a good loud unintentional peelout this morning trying to break away from all the clumped-up traffic. Didn't lift FTW. Parked over Lake Pontiac in the garage again, thats it. Moved the 69 to mow.

I'll take an electric oil pressure gauge over mechanical any day. Most factory oil pressure gauges are electric anyway.

After having built a decently powerful motor, having had all kinda of gauges (Oil press was stock in the Bonne cluster fwiw) I've found that the best oil pressure gauge is the engine itself. Surely that doesn't make sense at first, when you hear the knockin...you know pressure is low. When the motor sounds good, all is well with pressure.

Also.. there is nothing in a 3800 that an oil pressure gauge is going to tell you, that you are going to fix fast enough to save the motor. Hence.. no need for the gauge.

Meanwhile...knock yourself out. Make her pretty, put all them fancy gauges in like the Honduh guys. I bet you'll still use the knock knock knock sound coming from the engine to know for sure if the oil pressure gauge was reading correctly.

Replaced axle seal, still leaks from the axle seal.