Coupid
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- Santa Barbara, CA
that looks good, your heater controls look a lot brighter than mine.
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that looks good, your heater controls look a lot brighter than mine.
I forgot to mention that I bypassed the rheostat entirely, so all the bulbs are getting full amperage. Maybe that's why my heater knobs are brighter?
Where is that harness getting power? My GT cluster didnt have a place to pick up the power so I used the clock wiring.
I picked up power from the 12v pin on the back of the circuit board. I forget which one exactly, but I found the wire that was switched 12v when the lights are on, and soldered my harness to that.
This thing is badass man keep it up I'm in the eastbay if you need anything
I'm changing up the 142 a bit. I had these Ford 16x7's leftover from my 144. They're 5x114.3, so I had to run adapters on the 144 and they always poked WAY too much on that car. The fenders were aggressively rolled and they still rubbed. I always loved the wheels, though, so I had them redrilled to 5x108.
California Wheels on Capitol in San Jose. It was a bit spendy at $75/wheel, but it was my best option since I already had the wheels and tires.
Ah ha! So you're the guy that I heard about driving a lowered 142 to California Wheels! Your car looks awesome on the Crown Vic wheels, BTW!
California Wheels redrilled my Style5 wheels, and they used the same conical inserts. Be sure and retorque them a few times once you drive around a bit. Mine settled, and I ended up retorquing 3 times to find a couple of slightly loosened lugnuts.
Just FYI, I got a slightly cheaper quote from ET Mags in San Leandro, at $250 to redrill all 4 wheels. That included dismounting, mounting, and balancing as well.
http://www.etmags.com/wheel_repair.html
Happy with the work they did? That seems pretty reasonable to me.
$75 a wheel ain't that bad, they charged me $100 to fix an ovaled hole!
Looks great!!
Ha, yeah that was me. I also met a guy at the VW shop next door who has a 140, and a 240 with an LS swap. He told me his name on T-bricks, but I can't remember.
That price from ET Mags is good. my price didn't include dismounting or mounting- I had to strip the wheels and remount them myself.
Thanks for the heads up on the steel inserts. They definitely settled when I first torqued them, but I'll keep rechecking them.
BTW, those Style 5's look REALLY good.
Thanks man!! I can't wait until I have a chance to take them apart and refinish them.
Yeah, I was a little shocked when I retorqued them the second time. I thought I was just being paranoid, but they did move a bit more. They didn't move the 3rd time, though. Rock solid now, and no vibrations or anything.
That's Jeff at Bugformance, and he's the one that told me about seeing your car. His screen name on here is 55superbeetle. His turbo V8 242 build thread is pretty awesome:
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=222596&highlight=55superbeetle
Looking forward to watching the progress on your 142!