racenmotorsports
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So as many as you know from following my posts, I bought my 95 v6 when I returned from being deployed in Iraq in 2011. It was an impulse buy, and looking back, I shouldn’t have bought it and got the 2010 GT my wife said I could have bought. Since I’ve had the car, I’ve replaced all the bushings in the front end, new ball joints, struts all the way around, replaced the transmission this past thanksgiving. I got 98 tail lights off craigslist and painted them and the bumper black again, but that has peeled. Not sure what I did wrong, maybe it’s just the hot GA sun. My daughter and I took out the interior, scrubbed the seats, the carpet and cleaned the floor to help get rid of the musty smell.
Now I’m trying to figure out how to fix the gas smell and the running rich problem. I’m running straight duals with no cats and 4 O2 sensors (No mil eliminators). Sometimes it smells like its running rich. Today I went to a shop to see about getting steel to build some subframe connectors and it smelled like it was running very rich. When my A/C worked and I’d stop I’d get the gas smell too. I don’t know what is causing this or even where to start looking. I’m not getting a code, plugs seem to look good, I pulled a couple after I get back home and it cooled off and quit raining. It doesn’t feel like it’s missing, I’ve thought about trying the other coil I have. Any ideas where to start looking?
I do plan on doing the following things to it over the next few months, but I want to get rid of the rich issue first. I’m trying to keep it cheap, since I may turn around and sell it to get a newer, better, or at least a GT to mess with (I got my eye on one locally already).
- Change odometer gear – it’s broken. Going to order them on the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] of the year.
- Headlights – see the pic, not sure try and fix or replace. If replace, with what? Like I said, I don’t want to spend a lot.
- Make a new armrest pad, mine is wore out and broken. I’ll do a write up when I do this.
- Replace window regulators. They are CRAP.
-Fix the door panels, See the pictures below. Don’t know how to fix this. Any ideas?
- Do the cup holder mod. I got the cup holder when I bought the car.
- Pull the upper intake, clean it, check vacuum hoses, pvc, etc. Change the injector o-rings and clean up the top of the engine. (I got the o-rings and upper gasket already).
- Fix the A/C. I replaced everything, it worked great for about a month, then between going in to work and coming home, it bled out. I think it’s leaking out an o-ring, but I got to suck it down and re-load it to sniff it out again. I sure hope it’s not the condenser, but I didn’t see any dye when I took pictures of it. It smelled like Freon when I’d open the hood. Need to get to the shop to check it out.
- Build my subframe connectors. A lot of research says they help and I can feel the seats moving when I take tight corners. I can build my own vice paying 3 times as much for them. (I have a dirt track car so I can fab at the house)
- Sooner or later I got to pull the motor to change the oil pan gasket. It’s easy enough to do, I just don’t look forward to doing it. I already did the rear main when I changed the tranny thinking that was it. The top of the block looked clean so I don’t think it’s the intake.
- Windshield – It’s cracked, going to replace in the next month or so. Anyone in Jax area know done this or have experience pulling one from the pick-it lot. I’m in GA so I don’t get the FL replacement deal.
- Body - I’m not sure what route I want to go with the body yet. I’m thinking about dipping it black with purple over it and then putting a color change in the gloss and spray it myself. The other option is to take it to the high school and see what the kids come up with.
- I want to get some stock GT wheels for it cheap to give it a better look, I don’t like the 15s on there, but it’s way at the bottom unless I come across a super deal on wheels.
- I’m also thinking about doing an 8.8 swap, with some 3.27’s if I can find them. I’d like to get out of the 2.73s. Not a big deal now.
Now I’m trying to figure out how to fix the gas smell and the running rich problem. I’m running straight duals with no cats and 4 O2 sensors (No mil eliminators). Sometimes it smells like its running rich. Today I went to a shop to see about getting steel to build some subframe connectors and it smelled like it was running very rich. When my A/C worked and I’d stop I’d get the gas smell too. I don’t know what is causing this or even where to start looking. I’m not getting a code, plugs seem to look good, I pulled a couple after I get back home and it cooled off and quit raining. It doesn’t feel like it’s missing, I’ve thought about trying the other coil I have. Any ideas where to start looking?
I do plan on doing the following things to it over the next few months, but I want to get rid of the rich issue first. I’m trying to keep it cheap, since I may turn around and sell it to get a newer, better, or at least a GT to mess with (I got my eye on one locally already).
- Change odometer gear – it’s broken. Going to order them on the 1[SUP]st[/SUP] of the year.
- Headlights – see the pic, not sure try and fix or replace. If replace, with what? Like I said, I don’t want to spend a lot.
- Make a new armrest pad, mine is wore out and broken. I’ll do a write up when I do this.
- Replace window regulators. They are CRAP.
-Fix the door panels, See the pictures below. Don’t know how to fix this. Any ideas?
- Do the cup holder mod. I got the cup holder when I bought the car.
- Pull the upper intake, clean it, check vacuum hoses, pvc, etc. Change the injector o-rings and clean up the top of the engine. (I got the o-rings and upper gasket already).
- Fix the A/C. I replaced everything, it worked great for about a month, then between going in to work and coming home, it bled out. I think it’s leaking out an o-ring, but I got to suck it down and re-load it to sniff it out again. I sure hope it’s not the condenser, but I didn’t see any dye when I took pictures of it. It smelled like Freon when I’d open the hood. Need to get to the shop to check it out.
- Build my subframe connectors. A lot of research says they help and I can feel the seats moving when I take tight corners. I can build my own vice paying 3 times as much for them. (I have a dirt track car so I can fab at the house)
- Sooner or later I got to pull the motor to change the oil pan gasket. It’s easy enough to do, I just don’t look forward to doing it. I already did the rear main when I changed the tranny thinking that was it. The top of the block looked clean so I don’t think it’s the intake.
- Windshield – It’s cracked, going to replace in the next month or so. Anyone in Jax area know done this or have experience pulling one from the pick-it lot. I’m in GA so I don’t get the FL replacement deal.
- Body - I’m not sure what route I want to go with the body yet. I’m thinking about dipping it black with purple over it and then putting a color change in the gloss and spray it myself. The other option is to take it to the high school and see what the kids come up with.
- I want to get some stock GT wheels for it cheap to give it a better look, I don’t like the 15s on there, but it’s way at the bottom unless I come across a super deal on wheels.
- I’m also thinking about doing an 8.8 swap, with some 3.27’s if I can find them. I’d like to get out of the 2.73s. Not a big deal now.
