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ODO: 104802 Some leaves are beginning to fall and Silvia has been sucking them up and plastering them on the front of the AC condenser, so I thought it time to do something to prevent it. At Home depot I found a piece of black plastic coated metal mesh screening that is meant for covering gutters. I...

I've been seeing a spot of oil on the garage floor so I followed the oil trail forward to the Crank Position Sensor under the timing cover. It pushes in and is sealed with an O ring. It's held in place by a single screw. This is a new sensor I installed previously. Back then, I did the installation ...

Very cool, BP! Without the head wind I'm guessing you would at least hit 140 mph. This prompted me to do some searching for Silvia's top speed. A few guys are claiming 170 mph for the '96 LT4. Not sure if that is stock or not.

ODO: 104745 (August 2nd, 2023 was my second year with Silvia) Status update of recent activity: - Last Saturday I had the battery go dead on me after I accidently left the key on for about an hour. Some testing showed that the battery was on it's last leg so I installed a new replacement. Silvia rea...

ODO: 104724 As the miles pile up in this hot weather, I've tweaked the fuel pressure again to 55 psi. Even at this pressure, with the AC running, if I don't keep the revs up to a level that Silvia will tolerate, she will suddenly cough, or backfire through the intake. As time goes on, I'm learning t...

What a sweet and amazingly talented bass player:
https://youtu.be/EIf8U-mKdXw

ODO:104565 It appears that the rough idle on a cold start was corrected by increasing the fuel pressure. It's sitting at 52 psi right now. I've also removed the vacuum hose to the fuel pressure regulator and plugged the port on the intake. Watching the fuel pressure on a cold start revealed that the...

I had an opportunity to hook up the AFR meter today, but then I realized that I would have to remove a working O2 sensor to do it. That won't work so that plan was cancelled. I also fired up my AutoTap app on my laptop. It's a longshot, but AutoTap can read and log info from the OBDII port. So now I...

Did the console already have accommodations for installing the gauge?

ODO: 104412 From recent driving experience in the heat of summer, I've decided to chalk up this "hot start" issue to alky fuel vaporization and move on. I added some insulation to the fuel lines that are exposed to the heat of the exhaust manifold. Heat shield2 (Medium).JPG I don't know ho...

Today, I was finally forced to tackle the AC leak. The outside temperature has been hovering in the mid-90's for many days. I had in stock the needed AC low pressure line to replace the leaking one. The job wasn't really all that bad. Once the new line was hooked up, I evacuated the system and it he...

ODO: 133522 Just as a followup on the previous post about the whistle when applying the brakes, it appears to be temperature related. Likely a problem in the vacuum booster. It will have to wait until it gets more annoying. Its summer now and the problem disappears. Yesterday, I corrected a problem ...

Definitely not moving the way it should (like mine does).

Nope. The entire fuel system was cleaned, flushed and new injectors were installed just after I got it. It was job 1. I've changed the fuel filter about 3 times now and cut them open. Very little to see inside. I went out to do some testing about 1.5 hours ago. Once it got hot (197°), I came home an...

Well, here's the thing...there is a history related to the hot start issue, but the facts are muddied by other issues going on at the same time (fuel pump problems and changes). Right now things have settled down enough to allow me to concentrate on only these two matters. Consequently, I don't have...