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General Buick Tech / Re: 1985 Grand National will not start.

« on: October 07 2020, 06:40:11 PM »

1227148 should be the correct ECM for 86-87s.

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General Buick Tech / Re: Bradys build

« on: October 07 2020, 06:17:08 PM »

IIRC the 2.2 chip only talks to the PL. The 2.1 chip talks ALDL to the ECM

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General Auto Tech / Re: nocooler's firechicken thread

« on: October 04 2020, 09:06:50 AM »

Nuts. 25 years ago when I built my cottage I was paying .25/ft for 2x6 SPF

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General Auto Tech / Re: nocooler's firechicken thread

« on: October 02 2020, 05:21:10 PM »

Funny how things work- last year a friend built a house in Huntsville and drove and picked up all his wood panel siding from Menards in Detroit.

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General Buick Tech / Re: New Cooling System what to use?

« on: September 25 2020, 03:46:23 PM »

David,don’t be a cheap bugger! 😉
You’re spent a bundle on the car and replaced the radiator , Heater so why not replace the steel coolant line with a stainless steel unit .
you’ll never have to worry about it again !
I’m with Steve on this one, I run Prestone antifreeze Plus RMI 25 and have so for years with no ill effects 👍

How long do you guys expect to live?   We got 30 years out of the originals- I would like to think I still have my drivers licence at 95 yrs old but dunno....

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General Auto Tech / Kinda unique design

« on: September 25 2020, 03:29:03 PM »

New transmission concept:

https://www.inmotive.com/

Confession- I have some involvement with these guys

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: The Day a V6 ran in Pro Stock

« on: September 25 2020, 03:19:55 PM »

Make you want to do up a car in the Ingersoll colours/theme

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General Buick Tech / Re: 1985 Grand National will not start.

« on: September 22 2020, 10:15:01 PM »

Has anyone actually had the ECM go into limp mode? I think you can run without one, you just an error code.

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General Buick Tech / Re: Saving ecm memory

« on: September 22 2020, 06:19:21 PM »

Interesting, I never did measure the current draw on the orange wire. I would think a 9v is marginal since some guys have gone to a small race battery and find they lose their setting on start because of the dip.
A 9v is about 500mAh so if it drew 1mA ~ less than a month. Suspect it is higher draw than that.

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General Auto Tech / Re: Mopar swap

« on: September 20 2020, 07:39:45 PM »

Looks like a place to use a shifter cable

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General Buick Tech / Re: ?of the day loll

« on: September 20 2020, 07:26:48 PM »

Get a hold of Norby to figure out that XFI stuff, he lives and breathes it nowadays.

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General Buick Tech / Re: 1985 Grand National will not start.

« on: September 20 2020, 07:23:53 PM »

The 60lb Seimens Deka are big -yet well characterized injectors. I would buy once

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General Auto Tech / Re: Mopar swap

« on: September 11 2020, 10:23:28 PM »

Time with your son is always great, sarcastic repartee not withstanding

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For Sale/Trade/Want To Buy / Re: WTB 87 project car

« on: September 11 2020, 10:02:49 PM »

Blue Sea stuff  seems pretty good.

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General Buick Tech / Re: Powermaster issues

« on: September 09 2020, 09:00:06 PM »

Earl sent me some things - he made it seem painless ( I'm sure it wasn't)