What did yo do to your car this winter?

Great to see such skilled members here.

I'm not doing much this winter....dropped it off for a major service. Will also swap wheels and maybe do some LEDs and a stereo before spring....maybe some CF wrap on some interior pieces.

 

Wow, great work. I am slowly building up my confidence to take on bigger projects. So far this winter (is winter officially here yet?):

• Took the door cards off to rebuild the OEM speakers
• Refresh all the tired, broken, or missing hardware in the engine bay
• Took out the ECU for reflash

 

Already done:

1: Manual Conversion from F1
2: New Clutch incl HE TOB and HE Clutch Release Bearing Flange
3: New Pads for motor mount
4: New Gearbox Bushing
5: New bolts and nuts (various positions)
6: Reupholstered Seats (Daytona)

To come:

1: New Variators, Belts and Gaskets
2: Upgrade Brakes (Calipers and 2-piece Rotors)
3: Original 360 Rear Black Grille (CS style)
4: Nouvalari Exhaust
5: Respray Side Skirts

 

Motor mounts and headers as soon as they arrive. Have fun with the projects and don’t cuss too much!


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I added the top gear cats to my 360 love the sound they put out. You wont be disappointed
Cheers

 

Headers and carbon diffuser so far this past week. I'm sure I will find more. I always do. It's a long winter....

 

Cam cover gaskets
Fuel pump (fuel leaking)
Engine mounts
Elastic bands for canvas top
Open headlights and clean inside, HID
Custom front splitters/bumper protection.
Paint correction and Ceramic coating


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• New clutch/flywheel/thrust bearing/pilot bearing
• Headers
• 30k service
• New rear tires
• New ball joints
• GiroDisc conversion
• Raise height to stock (to come)

 

Bunch of busy bodies on this site.....

Here in southeast Texas, I've got my car pulled in the garage to do the following over the long hard cold winter, where temps can drop down to the frigid low 40's.....

-30k service incl. timing belts, tensioners, etc.
-F1 actuator leak
-detail engine incl. repainting of some items
-Install Scud wheels
-Lowering to CS height
-Replace faux leather straps in boot
-Paint correction
-ECM reprogram
-CS MAF & airbox lids
-CF engine bay shields
-Suspension decouple mod
-Rear foglight mod

 

LOL....i know the feeling .

I was just going to write "drive the heck out of it"

 

Pictures please. Curious on F1 to manual conversion level of difficulty.

 

In CA... still driving it and with the top down in the afternoons.

Been working on the other vehicles... 70 F100, 73 F100 4x4, and an 81 Rabbit track car that is slated to receive a 2.0 liter engine swap.

 

Can you post some pics when you do the suspension decouple? I’d like to see which wires are involved and where they are. Thanks!


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I guess in California there is no such thing as winter we can drive our cars year round


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In California we drive to our seasons, I drove up to Winter for some Christmas skiing at Squaw. Might drive to Spring on the North Coast next week.

 

I've been a busy beaver this winter as well.

Mechanically, I had a new timing belt installed, new cam cover gaskets, all new Hill Engineering ball joints, all new tie rods and four new tires.
I accidently spilled some polyurethane adhesive all over my drivers side carpet last year trying to develop some speaker pods, so I swapped out the carpet this winter for a new piece. I purchased a Mosconi digital signal processor. Oh my goodness, what a difference in sound! You hook up a network cable between the DSP and a laptop, and tune your system using their software. All six of my 500 Watt amplifiers are in the trunk, and my amplifier cradle only held my equalizer, so I managed to shoehorn the DSP inside of the cradle. I mounted the DSP preset selector switch on my OEM switch panel by drilling a hole in the blank area on the lower left hand side. I used a new switch panel (only 25 bucks from Daniel @ Ricambi) and saved the original. I swapped out my Focal 5 1/4" midranges in the doors with Focal 6 1/2" FX units. I also installed Dynamat in both doors as well as both door cards. And finally, I replaced the cheap pillow filler in my subwoofer enclosure with that new "Black Hole" material. It's expensive, but I have much tighter bass now, and more sound pressure.

Up next is to have both seats fully reupholstered. I hate the black piping, so I'm having them redone with tan leather, tan stitching and Daytona inserts. I'm also having the leather on the dash replaced.

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Wow... you guys are amazing.

I put gas in the car, dropped the top and drove it. In the Bay Area today it was perfect weather.

 

So far:
Fabspeed Headers
Topspeed High Flow 200 Cell Cats
Ball joints
Challenge Grill on rear

Plans:
New wheels
upgrade sound system (head unit, amp, single subwoofer)
Replace Tubi exhaust with Fabspeed X-pipe

 

I'm pretty sure everyone knows how nice California weather is - no need to gloat about it. It's not perfect all the time as I wasn't driving top-down a couple of weeks ago when half of our state was burning down.

 

Lol good point it rained ash for a week and I evacuated the Porsche and Ferrari during the Santa Rosa and Napa fires. Fire never got closer than about 1.5 miles though.

 

Had the drivetrain restored and drove it home yesterday. It was misting and my temp plate was expired, so I just drove it home. Cruddy weather again today, but I probably won't be able to resist taking it out.

 

We get 1 to 2 days of snow a year and that's about it . The rest of the time it's just chilly to cold during winter.....which the turbos love