i spent the last couple of hours working on my driveway ornament and getting it ready to send off to the garage. before i call AAA, however, i have a few things i want to do.
in the name of savings, of course. working on this beast is expensive.
i just got two new 'used' injectors for $20, and an entire wiring harness in the mail a couple of days ago. i'm having the injectors rebuilt and matched by my shop, which curiously had happened before. after a professional noticed two of my four were leaking, i found these in the internet. new ones are really expensive, the guy says these work, and they can't be worse than the two that spew fuel everywhere... i hope.
i have a little work to do one the harness before i send the car off. i need to swap my donor fuel injector harness with my new (and super fancy, red silicon heat sheath coated) fancy harness. Mostly because the current one is 24 years old, and due to some (repeated, apparently) overheating, cracking.
i figure that cutting out the old injector is easy, but i need to do (yet again) more homework to ensure i connect the right wires to the right connector.
of course, every guide i have found has a different injector harness (par for course) and the color of my new wires don't match anything in the guides.
note the trend here.
the new 'used' battery leads are in worse shape than my current ones, so i'll be asking one of my parts sources if i can work out a refund or trade for some other of the massive lists of things i need. at least i can measure the length and go buy some cable and cut it myself.
oh, and in a couple of weeks i should be getting in a set of brand new replacement connectors for the harness. that's about 243562 plastic plugs to replace, but again: think of the cash savings.
yep. i'm intelligent. i own a 24 year old, heavily modified german sports car and am working on a lot of it myself.
some day i'll take this damn thing to the track, even if i'm living out of the back and taking showers w/baby wipes. for now, it's back to asking for advice and trying to cherry pick the proper bits that are more useful than potentially dangerous. :)
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