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Car: 82C900T
Condition when bought for a song in Dec on 2000: dreadful
Condition to date: vastly improved
Repair/replacement tasks: many,including head gasket, exhaust system, steering rack, radiator, AC system.
Modifications: mostly stock, but have done a few minor performance additions/modifications such as installing sway bars front and rear, updated vented rotors, a boost controlled warm-up regulator, intercooler, extended range distributor vacuum control unit.
To install the intercooler required moving the stock 8V engine oil cooler. I opted to install the 16V version oil cooler which mounts beneath the left side bumper. This requires cutting the plastic air damn and afixing the plastic mesh vent in the proper place so the cooler has access to air. Then the car body and frame need to have holes cut through them in the appropriate places for the cooler connecting hose fittings. Holes must be drilled also for the oil cooler mounting bracket bolts.
In an effort to keep the turbo as cool as possible, I also added an oil cooler for the oil sent to the turbo, doing so by cutting the metal feed tube and splicing in hoses which ran to a flat cooler located behind the front grill in front of the AC condensor. Some time back I decided to mount a right side below the bumper oil cooler that automatic tranny equipped 16V's have as a stock item and use that as the turbo oil cooler. I figured the less hot air that flows through the AC condensor and coolant radiator the better.
That's what I did Sunday. It took me all day. Cutting out the plastic air dam and afixing the mesh grate took a surprising long time. I also ran into a snag with the new o.c. bracket and the AC condensor hose which connects to the receiver/drier. I had to notch and file the bracket in the proper places so the hose would fit. (I lined the sharp cut metal edges with rubber trim so the AC hose wouldn't get cut through) Cutting the holes through the body and frame were the usual pain in the back, and any exposed skin got peppered with hot metal filings falling all over the place as I drilled from beneath.
As the sun set, after a needed shower I enjoyed a delicious taco dinner with beer to celebrate the installation success.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot what took some 15 minutes of my time - at one point as I went to grab another of the flattened cardboard boxes I use as ground mats, I was startled to see a very large snake winding around my work area, tools and car parts! I'd never seen one that large before (probably 4 feet) or of that variety. I'm guessing it was one of the rattle variety because it did have a tiny rattle on it's tail. It certainly didn't have the typical large head/jaw or coloring the common brown rattlesnake have. It had a small head, was a dark brown/red with a yellow stripe pattern. Very beautiful I had to admit, but not at all welcome! So I spent the next 15 minutes trying to get rid of it. I used one of the longer spare AC hoses as a stick. I wanted to get it on the other side of a nearby chain link fence and onto the adjoining property which is lower than mine. As I would chase it one way, it would backtrack around the toolbox, through car parts, then crawl underneath an upturned bowl I use to drain fluids, or try and crawl beneath the cardboard mat. Just watching it manuever really gave me the heebie jeebies. Then I thought to force it into a box and carry it away, but I just couldn't get it to obey my directional commands. I finally managed to prod it toward the fence and it slid through and dropped down.
Anyone have any idea what kind of snake that might have been?
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