Colby’s 88 Formula

Bought from Graeme...









Apart from the extra power, I think the thing I like most about this car so far compared to my old one are the pockets where the windows cranks would go. So handy!

Heh. Well on Saturday there'll be at least 3 of them when you're over, but I'll be selling the 2m4 eventually.

Oh god damn, another V6. I am now going to own slowest car out there (Thank goodness for Patty!).

Machine looks excellent (Absolutely flawless, really). Look forward to seeing it at the next meet or autocross, whichever comes first.

Wow....very nice.  This has got to be one of the coolest Fiero configurations out there.

This is turning out to be a big year for purchases in the club.  Things they are a changing.

Can't wait to see it in person.

The Dawg

Well, the small pictures do hide many of the flaws. 

I changed the front shocks today to some new KYBs, quite a noticeable difference. I'm pretty sure the old ones were done, I had a feeling the front end was moving around too much. I'll probably move over the rear KYB struts from my old car when Patrick is over on Saturday, assuming he doesn't need me to help with his car.

karnak wrote: Hey Colby, you should post your aircare report.

Uh oh...

 

Colby, these are your readings from Here.

Has this car never been AirCared previously?

Here are the readings from my '86 GT with no cat (which I posted about Here) just to compare with your readings.

Cheese wrote: I kind of thought it would fail, I just needed to do it since I couldn't transfer the last two months of insurance over from my old car without at least failing.

Are you absolutely sure you can still transfer the insurance? I was told I could NOT transfer insurance over from my '86 GT to my '84 unless the '84 passed AirCare.

 

Cheese wrote: Yep, first time through and first fail, that means I'm allowed at most 3 months of insurance.

Ah right, you're lucky!

My duke didn't want to feel left out, so here's it's readings compared to your duke.

The difference between 2010 and 2011 is a functional cat.

 

Yay, the car passed!



So, what changed with the car? Well, I had swapped MAP sensors with a known working one, and at the end of the last meeting, David had a scan tool with him and determined that the TPS wasn't in the correct range or something like that (Thanks! ). I think these things solved the richness. Rather than take it through again, my dad and I decided that we would replace the cat with one we had in storage here. When the old one was out, I decided to take a look at it and found that I could see right through it, it was empty. With a working cat and the car no longer running so rich, getting through AirCare was easy.