My 1987 Two Door Crown Victoria AKA THE BROWN BLOB

[87gtVIC]

Here is a pic of my car while at SF.

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They last about 5 NYC minutes, most are all China garbage, the first breeze unside out they go, and you know what happens next! Speaking of rain...freak rains in the metro NYC area today.......cars on the SS Pwky and LI under three to four feet of water!!

Oh snap! How long does an umbrella last?

[sxcpotatoes]

They make a windproof brolly* (*lol douchey unless you're British way of saying umbrella) that works pretty well supposedly, but I don't know if they stand up to NYC windtunnels/canyons.

[87gtVIC]

My poor baby has been sitting since SF. Just got caught up in s much work. Well luckily all of that work pays for all of the goodies I picked up for her. Next batch of parts came in to sit on the shelf lol, Transgo Hi rev kit, BBK off road h pipe, and a easy o2 sensor bung kit.

Things to be put on car sooner then later include the modified sunpro light holders I fabbed up. Will now have 194 wedge LEDS in the sunpro gauges in the dashboard. Water, oil, volts and Vacuum gauges all getting the treatment eventually. Will probably put in the a pillar gauge pod a pillar trim I have and pop in the wideband air fuel ratio gauge I have.

Hoping for good weather this Saturday as that is the only free time I have. I gotta get the rust off the rotors on all four corners and burn off the dry rot on the tires. Smoke will be had, and rubber will be laid.

[slack]

I'm hoping for good weather this Saturday too. I have a bunch of stuff to get done on my car as well. Right now they're saying 75% chance of rain.... but hopefully that will change as the week goes on.

[sly]

easy O2 bung kit? What is this mythological beast you speak of? link?

[gadget73]

they're all easy. Just need a drill and a welder. Piece of piss as they say.

[sly]

I have both, but I don't think my welder can handle that thick metal. I was thinking it was like some screwdown type that you put a high temp putty (re: JB weld) on and is usable the next day. Still requires a drill.

[gadget73]

exhaust pipe is pretty thin. Shouldn't need anything special to weld that. The bung is basically just a large nut. I would expect most things could handle sticking a nut to exhaust pipe. A torch and a brazing rod would do it too. Might even be able to use MAPP or a plumber's torch. It would burn the coating off the pipe for a fairly large area though, larger than from welding I expect. Thats really the bitch of torch work, it puts a lot of heat into a large area.

[sly]

true.. I'm sure I could weld the pipe... it's getting it to stick to the bung that would be my concern. I guess I could try on some scrap with some of the large ass harvested nuts I've got on hand first and see.

[87gtVIC]

I have just a flux core welder as well and I am not the greatest so I picked up this: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-690125

[gadget73]

that looks like leaks waiting to happen.

[87gtVIC]

Yeah I am up in the air about it. Figured I'd give it a shot before welding. If it does leak I already have the hole I need and the wide band air fuel ratio gauge I purchased came with a bung to weld in so I can do that then.

[sly]

hmm... interesting.

[87gtVIC]

While back during the body mount swap I sorta stressed the two front filler panels. picked some good ones up over the years since and finally painted them up today. These were completely stripped, adhesion promoted, flexible primed, wet sanded and adhesion promoted and painted with A88 BMW Hot Chocolate Metallic Paint and then clear coated.







I think I will install then after I get the two fenders painted and the engine in.....