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What did you do to your Car today?

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Ohh yeah that would be a good drive lol. I assumed Lake, MI meant Lake Orion, Mi for short or something. Google didn't come up with anything for it. I've driven to battle creek before, not too bad.
 


Holy crap man lol. Yeah thats a good drive. A friend of mine goes to gaylord once in a while, that's all the way to the top pretty much
 
Yeah my driving consists of 5-10 mile distances so I'm trained to say that's a bit of a drive. It's an eventful thing at that point though, not something you'd drive daily. Maybe eventually if you're up to it one weekend. Not that anything would really be planned to do lol. All I got to do at my uncles is work. He's just got old fords there which is old school stuff I'm just recently learning about. Or we can top swap your car lol
 
I cussed at it. I was looking at relays and fuses under the hood and pulled the low beam relay only to have it slide through my fingers and fall into the abyss of the engine bay. Took my 30 minutes to find it.

I think my low beams cutting out relates to the relay though. It doesn't look original so it was probably replaced at a prior time and it acting up again. I'll probably replace it and go from there.
 


Got her washed and installed se door panels
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bought 40 bucks worth of the the good stuff. 3.31 a gal. down 6 cents form last week. that 40 filled the tank too form way into the red zone.

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also re gaped my 104's to 50. car likes it.
 
Filled up today. 15.10 gallons, at 3.19 a gallon for regular. Dorman sending unit is working good, no more crazy fluctuations. Still get the normal w body 2 line fluctuations though

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Last night I got a frantic call from a female friend who had a flat tire... she kept driving on said flat tire until the tire was forced off the rim. Shook my damn head a few times and put the doughnut on.

Today I went to Intense with Matt and we bought some go-fast parts. Then came back and flipped Nick's db mounts and installed a HAI in Tim Horton's parking lot while Matt put some poly db mounts in his car.
 


I finally got the balls to start the process of eating the rust on various parts of my '99 GTP with that Krud Kutter Rust Converter that I had to site-to-store from HomeDepot.com. 32oz. was ~$10. However, on Amazon you can get 2 gallons for $30. Find something else to buy that's cheap that's also "Super Saver Shipping" eligible so you don't have to burn $20 on f-ing S&H.

I went through most of the 32ozs after putting it in an empty Windex bottle & spraying several coats onto my passenger side side-skirt (on the inside of it & underneath it - it's off the car). That sh1t works awesome, just takes time to work & lots of coats and working it in with a wire brush. It will literally eat the rust & melt it off. Thinking of doing all the wheel suspension pieces next. They're probably gonna be much easier to work with since they're really HEAVY, FAT sections of chunky metal as opposed to thin panels with the side-skirt.
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You gotta be careful with this sh1t. Some people in my neighborhood came up to my garage to sell some f*ck1ng candy while the giant car piece was at the top of the driveway & I yelled at them over the chemicals and the fumes and sh1t. I did, however, proceed to come out to the end of the driveway, as I stated in my yelling, and did buy some fundraising candy, Lol.

Make sure to wear goggles while working with this stuff, wear gloves, long sleeves, shoes (I often work with flop-flops), and a WELL ventilated area. It contains phosphoric acid and it has a certain smell to it & the chemical reaction will produce an invisible gas as it works. Pretty cool sh1t. Looking forward to working it into the rest of my underbody.
 
Yesterday in the morning (or sh1t, maybe it was 2 days ago), I finally was able to get definitive, quantitative results from testing my two sets of spark plug wires with a multimeter. I have the stock-ish set that AutoZone sells & I have a pair of those FAT red 10.4mm Taylor Made racing wires, which run around $100.

You have to set the voltmeter to 20K Ohms & test resistance. Look for the Omega symbol. My particular voltmeter has 3-4 various ranges for testing resistance. The AutoZone ones would not produce a reading until the voltmeter was placed on 20K Ohms resistance. Test is simple, with all the wires out of the car, stick one probe where the wire goes onto the spark plug & the other probe onto where the wire goes onto the coil pack.

SO... the red ones are MUCH better. Much less resistance. I'd say on average, the red ones have 1/3 less electrical resistance than the stock-ish AutoZone ones.

My cylinder #1 red one required a jumper wire to finally get a reading off it. I've struggled putting it back on the spark plug in the past & I've had to use a pliers a few times to straighten out the inside of it. Everything's fine, no misfires, nothing like that. Just hard to press it back on the spark plug sometimes with the cramped space from the dipstick & how the speed daddy headers come out in that specific area.

Specific Readings:
Red 10.4mm Performance Wires:
Cylinder #:
1: 0.65
3: 0.66
5: 1.73
2: 1.0-1.5
4: 0.99
6: 0.99

AutoZone Stock-ish Skinny Dark Gray Wires:
Cylinder #:
1: 1.30
3: 2.06
5: 2.40
2: 3.75
4: 3.75
6: 10.78

You can clearly see that the AutoZone one for cylinder #6 (the longest wire), is REALLY struggling. Good deal of resistance, I would imagine. Perhaps that wire is bad, or even if it were comparable to the readings from #2 & #4, it still pales in comparison to what the red ones are doing for those same cylinders.

Gas mileage for the last few months with the red ones is exactly 20.0, combined highway & city. I did recently install a new fuel filter & did a partial injector rebuild: new injector upper screens & DIY at-home injector cleaning using a carb cleaner bottle, an ink refill kit syringe, a 9v battery, etc. I followed that with an overnight soak in fuel injector cleaner. 20.0 mpgs is on a 3.6 MPS with 1.9 rockers, headers, & heavy exhaust mods. AND quite a lead-foot. I do not baby it by any stretch of the imagination. Every chance I get I get into some nice BOOST :)
 
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