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What did you do to your Car today?

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What's in it if you already flushed it? I know most suggest green, but I have decided on name brand universal coolant. No matter what you add to it, it won't sludge. Bad part of green is there may still be techs out there that know its a car that came with dex, and may add it not realizing what he's doing.
 
I did two long flushes when i did my heater core. I went with prestones new **** along with more cleaner and drove around again i had my cap open wia. Hose leading to several jugs while running water through the heater hoses. I had the engine at operating temp to make sure the thermostat was open.
 
Well I just open everything up, and free flow the rad, engine, and heater core with a hose, back and forward flushing. Add water and two bottles of cleaner, add t stat, and drive for a week, full flush again and add proper coolant mix. If the water turned a horrible color with just cleaner, another flush is recommended.
 
I drove today. Unless something breaks or it gets back above 40 degrees, I'm done wrenching for the winter.

In the spring, I need a new hood, maybe some HID's, and then strut towers welded, because it's starting to get rusty up in there. And a front sway bar, because mine's pretty crappy (although not snapped yet). And some new struts while I'm at it... 4x4 status ftw

Then, money permitting, ported heads, 1.8 roller rockers, 130# springs, and e85. 400 whp or bust
 
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Navy, maybe take a crack at retroing a matchbox projector in the fog housings. Me i was going to try to see if i can grab a broken pair spyder headlight cheap and rob the projectors out of them just to tinker around with. TRS also sell like cheap mini H1s for like 30 bucks each.
 
I heard some horror stories of these cars being rusted in the rockers, but thanks to Zeibart and spending time in Florida the rockers are solid.

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Man you only take Florida cars huh? Lol. Those rockers look a lot like my uncles 68 fastback, but less rusty. Still for a car as old as his is, the rockers look better on his than most 98 gp's in michigan. His has been in Michigan all its life as well. I should take off those covers and really look. Crazy how a car so much newer can rust out so much worse.
What's your next plan for the tbird?
 


I don't mind cutting the whole thing up and stuff. What I'm concerned with, is that the lense is not plain and clear, there is some odd lines in it which may shape the original fog light beam. Can't have that with the projector.
 
I saw on an f150 forum a guy retrod matchbox projectors in there fogs. Which look similar to ours kinda, you have to cut a ton out of the fog and jb weld the crap out of it.

He was charging like 650 bucks which I thought was crazy. The mini h1 is probably just as big as our fog housings but im not sure. I was just thinking of ideas.
 
I might get some of that yellow film and put over my fogs for yellow just for looks and maybe some more powerful bulbs and hope I don't melt them.
 
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I might get some of that yellow film and put over my fogs for yellow just for looks and maybe some more powerful bulbs and hope I don't melt them.
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I would recommend the film over yellow bulbs. I have yellow bulbs in my HID fogs, and the light output is nowhere near what my yellow lensed halogen fogs on my truck would put out.
 


The way I did my fogs (Piaa 510 sandwiched to the factory housing) leaves me with twice the room, yet not a chance of a Matchbox projector going in. The Matchbox's are 110mm/4.25" in length; I might have 3" max.
 
Oil change and replaced a strut to swaybar link, greased the other link before it pops and hit the outer tie rods with some grease too. Oh and new headlight to replace the one Bambi destroyed last week.
 
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