Ice Ice Baby build thread

re; those lenses for the courtesy lamps at the door bottoms; to keep them from falling out, did you mod/repair broken ones? or just get lenses that still had all three tabs in place?

One of the tabs broke on mine..I just put a dab of clear silicone on it and it holds it in there just fine.
 
re; those lenses for the courtesy lamps at the door bottoms; to keep them from falling out, did you mod/repair broken ones? or just get lenses that still had all three tabs in place?
I snagged the good one out of red car. But other side of red car I just drilled tiny hole in lens and screwed it on.
 
Ok wanted to get some stuff done on Ice. I have a friend that just picked up a 1998 39K Trans Am WS6 Auto with long headers full exh and intake kit and tune. Car is torch RED and mint. He wanted a piece of Ice I had to ween him into being beaten by Mk8's. LOL He had to go against Ice before he could step to Red Dragon.
I stripped out car. Out came exh,tank,pumpkin DS and trans. On Thursday.
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The exh all needed the blue wrench. I don't even bother to touch exh stuff with out torch because if you round something off you can be in for more of a fight. These 3 areas need to be taken apart to pull all exh down.
Middle one.
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Drivers side front
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Pass side front up high
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Out comes tank and removed the pump. Always use a non sparking drift to remove ring. I still don't know where I got this screwdriver. I put dykem marks on all stuff so it drops right back in and no guessing.
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To drop a Walbro 255 in you need to open up bottom here more round to fit the bigger end "nipple" of the 255 pump thru. The stock pump is much smaller in this area. The 255 pump plugs right in. Cut the new "S" hose into a "L" to connect pump to pump hat.
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You need to cut 1/4 off bottom of the black rubber that goes around pump. This is done to let the white pump nipple stick out far enough to get sock strainer on. You also install the new rubber "washer" on end of pump that comes with pump. This keeps pump off metal bottom.
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Sock is offset and needs to fit in baffle inside the tank so needs to be put on pump clocked correct to sit inside basket. You can see stock pump to right with the tiny inlet hole.
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Did my cut pass side lower control arm bolt to pull pumkin. And pulled pumkin.
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Pulling trans half the bolts came out like a B. The top one here was so hard whole way out it broke block. That was snafu #1.
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Then I went to remove EGR tube and SNAP. The EGR tube snags an ear and trans and is a B to remove trans. So I wanted to get this out of way. But SNAP. You can see silver mark where trans ear strikes EGR tube. 2 inches up from nut.
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Its 2 am and that set me off LOL Go up stairs find old broken EGR tube with good acordin part on it. Cut broken one off and cut right thru the internal restrictor. Opps. Now I had to copy restrictor and double step it and put it in same spot as it was and have it all welded in.
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Here is it all welded back together and no codes after running her. YES!
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Slipped in my spare pumkin with gears and posi Temp. Installed white 23 tooth speedo gear.Green is 17T stock and Black is 20T
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Here is Speed sensor with stock green gear pulled from side of trans. White gear went on and back in.
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Here are those NEW 20 dollar O2 sensors going in. Plug right in. They just have longer whips.
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10 inch converter goes in and trans gets popped back in. Welded EGR tube clears. All bolt holes tapped clean all bolts ran die over them everything coated in "robot blood" (anti seize) Also dowels and converter snout.
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1 piece DS goes in
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All the stuff that went back in on Fri starting at 12 noon because I got call that everyone was going to track. I say F it I'm going. I got all this stuff back in from 12 till 6 hoped in shower and took out the 1998 TA. My 14.41 to his 14.7. We raced together first round I 1.999 60fted him and he freaked that I jumped out 4 cars and slammed loud pedal and spun and could not catch me. Could not beat my time all night and I had to fix his car next day. LOL. I will post vid when I get it.
 
That's awesome!

Tell us more about these $20 o2 sensors? And where did you get that converter?
 
That's awesome!

Tell us more about these $20 o2 sensors? And where did you get that converter?
Dan post 51,52,53 tell all. One bummer is the Ebay seller SOLD all 108 ones he had. I bought another one from him couple weeks ago for red car too. Lucky I got one of the last ones. That 20 was shipped too!
 
The converter is in post 52. Its suppose to be 2600 to 2800 stall. I blew the DR's off on second run, HARD tire shake and shot the stereo surround into me. I was like WTF was that. LOL Track was not 100% 60ft wise.
 
Gonna give everyone a tip here. If you ever drop trans make sure you replace the dipstick O ring. It bit me because of crunch time and I didn't have one in stock. Had to drop front exh again to replace the leaking Oring. It cost 1.01 from Ford.
 
Back at it. This came in today got it used for $40 off ebay. I put the spray can next to it so you can gauge size 22K GVW.
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Now I like to drill out 6 spot welds on hood latch and pull that and swing out of way to get cooler down in front of rad.
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I mounted cooler so all its barbs are on side of cooler. When you do this you want trans OUTPUT to go to bottom of cooler. I cut lines in this place because easy to get to. I also FLARE end of lines before sliding rubber hose over. I used roughly 4 feet of hose per line.
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I pulled out trans lines from rad. I cut fitting line off flush and then weld ends shut.This will not let fluid dribble out unused rad cooler.
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All mounted up and done.
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Back at it. This came in today got it used for $40 off ebay. I put the spray can next to it so you can gauge size 22K GVW.
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Now I like to drill out 6 spot welds on hood latch and pull that and swing out of way to get cooler down in front of rad.
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I mounted cooler so all its barbs are on side of cooler. When you do this you want trans OUTPUT to go to bottom of cooler. I cut lines in this place because easy to get to. I also FLARE end of lines before sliding rubber hose over. I used roughly 4 feet of hose per line.
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I pulled out trans lines from rad. I cut fitting line off flush and then weld ends shut.This will not let fluid dribble out unused rad cooler.
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All mounted up and done.
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I was told that when adding a trans cooler you are supposed to keep the radiator cooler in line with the new cooler. That way your transmission warmed and came up to temp much quicker with the new cooler keeping the temp from going over what the Radiator is able to handle?
 
I was told that when adding a trans cooler you are supposed to keep the radiator cooler in line with the new cooler. That way your transmission warmed and came up to temp much quicker with the new cooler keeping the temp from going over what the Radiator is able to handle?

If you are in a cold climate and drive your car in the winter that is a good idea, or a thermostat bypass for the trans line.
If you live down south or only drive the car in the summer I wouldn't worry about it.
 
Then I went to remove EGR tube and SNAP. The EGR tube snags an ear and trans and is a B to remove trans. So I wanted to get this out of way. But SNAP. You can see silver mark where trans ear strikes EGR tube. 2 inches up from nut.

All the 4R70W's I've installed I cut that ear off. Makes it way easier to install.
 
I was told that when adding a trans cooler you are supposed to keep the radiator cooler in line with the new cooler. That way your transmission warmed and came up to temp much quicker with the new cooler keeping the temp from going over what the Radiator is able to handle?

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Plus I don't drive my mk8's in the winter. I have a beater daewoo for that.
 
Got the vid today. It was taken by 12 year old, friends son with his phone. Its not great but still a run vid.
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Coming along nicely. And its good looking. Could you post a link on those valve springs please.
 
Just picked these headers for parts. Gonna chop them all up into tubes only. Nice buy find for 48 dollars. Now I can get on the longtubes for Ice soon.
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You paid $48 for those :confused:

Yep off CL,they where suppose to be $50 but I screwed up with cash I brought and only had 48 dollars in my pocket. He took it and said no problem. They are alumacoated and off a 396 Nova. I just kept looking on CL's for long tubes for 50 dollars. They are worth it totally for all the bends and tubes.
 

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