The 93 GM "Tank of Justice II" (TOJ2)

[01Townie]

what kind of paint did you use for the plenum and intake manifold?

[sxcpotatoes]

what kind of paint did you use for the plenum and intake manifold?

Green paint, of course! But seriously, he's powder-coated a lot of the parts.

[SVT98t]

Yeah, they're powder coated.
Most everything on/going on the car is or will be powder coated.
The color is Lime Green. It's a damn near dead-on match to Dupli-color Grabber Green. That's the spray paint I use. The 500* engine paint.
The stripe around the car and my current CAI are sprayed Grabber Green.
In order to do the aluminum crossover, I had to remove it from the manifold to powder coat it. When I put it back together, I used blue RTV because I could not find replacement gaskets.
If you want anything done, let me know!

-ryan s.

[86VickyLX]

I want mah wheels done

[01Townie]

yeah..i cant afford powder coating, haha. im gonna stick with wood stove paint, or that engine paint that you were talkin about, whichever is cheaper and has whatever colors i want

[SVT98t]

I forgot to add these from before.
I installed LEDs in the interior and third brake light. The overhead has natural white as the dome and cool white as the map lights. I also put cool white as the license plate lights as well.
Kinda crappy, but, dome light:

With map lights:

Showing how much the map lights produce. I guess:



-ryan s.

[SVT98t]

I put the snow tires on the other day. I was coming back from my parents house and as I drove over a bridge, the rear end decided to get a little squirrely.
So they are one. I need two new snow tires so I can throw those on the new steelies i have.
I still need to find 2 more aero steelies to complete "the look".
I was up on the highway balsting along the other morning. Man, I forgot how much this car likes the cold air!
I also like the fact that it doesn't shift into 4th gear until AFTER the speedometer stops moving. It's great.

-ryan s.

[SVT98t]

The Tank is broken. I went to start it last night after a week of sitting and it made loud metallic sound. Kinda like a wrench striking metal.
Then it wouldn't turn over.
This afternoon, I got to troubleshoot it. I took the belt off and all the accessories spun by hand. SO it must be the crank.
After about ten tries, it finally sputtered to life-ish. Hacking and shaking, trying to achieve idle.
It was pumping out the normal "haven't started in a week" smoke.
Then came the white awesome smoke out the driver's side exhaust.
I'm putting money on the #8 cylinder.
So the video and pics.


It starts like this...


Then a bit thicker:


WOWSERS!!


And the smoke show continues:


It made it 214,752 miles before failure. I cannot wait to tear it apart to see what went wrong.

-ryan s.

[MrMarquis]

It's simple really.

It's the jealous of the Town Car.

[tjc78]

Well that just sucks......

[Grand Marquis GT]

Now it's time for the new engine!

[sly]

93s seem to be able to manage about 200-220k before self destruction... at least between our two cars.

get that engine swapped and prove the further indestructibility of the tank!

[sxcpotatoes]

That's not too bad! At least you don't have to drive behind yourself. I'd say run it around town on 7 cylinders until it quits.

[miamibob]

At least the area will be mosquito free!!

[SVT98t]

Better idea. Put a gallon or so of fog machine fluid in. Proceed to watch the best smoke show ever.

-ryan s.