Hi everyone, my name is John, I live in Buffalo NY and I'm planning to paint my '85 T-type.
I purchased this car last year in august, I went through some of the basics of converting it to 86/87 ECM. The used ECM I bought from here worked in the sellers car but gave me high BLMs, it had an old hyper tech chip. The seller sent me a known good stock '87 chip it the car runs pretty decent right now, although I haven't gotten to really enjoy the car, due to winter and moving.
I plan to first do a compression test and get an oil pressure gauge on the car to make sure the engine is fairly ok. It has around 98k Miles on the car, it was a salvage car from like '94. When I bought it the title had '94 on it as that is when he bought it, so its been on the road for a long time, even up until I bought it.
So plans with the car performance wise, if the engine checks out ok, I'll at least run E-85 this year and up the boost as much as it will handle safely. I plan to do the dynamic EFI ECM so I can basically have the car tune its self.
Body wise, Its pretty darn rust free, the guy I bought it from he was planning to work on the car in sections and paint it himself. So he put a lot of puddy on the doors, and primed some areas. I will have to probably remove most of what he did so I can make sure its done correctly. I've never painted before so it will be a learning experience, I hope it goes well
Car is originally black so it will remain. Chrome bumpers are in good shape, the front isnt as good as the back but I don't think I will paint them black, I want to keep them chrome but everything else will be black. I was even thinking of painting the plastic headlight and tailight trim pieces black same as the car, I don't know if this has ever been done before.
Enough Talking... heres the pictures. From when I got the car til now... All I did today was remove the bumpers and fillers lol, also grill.
I purchased this car last year in august, I went through some of the basics of converting it to 86/87 ECM. The used ECM I bought from here worked in the sellers car but gave me high BLMs, it had an old hyper tech chip. The seller sent me a known good stock '87 chip it the car runs pretty decent right now, although I haven't gotten to really enjoy the car, due to winter and moving.
I plan to first do a compression test and get an oil pressure gauge on the car to make sure the engine is fairly ok. It has around 98k Miles on the car, it was a salvage car from like '94. When I bought it the title had '94 on it as that is when he bought it, so its been on the road for a long time, even up until I bought it.
So plans with the car performance wise, if the engine checks out ok, I'll at least run E-85 this year and up the boost as much as it will handle safely. I plan to do the dynamic EFI ECM so I can basically have the car tune its self.
Body wise, Its pretty darn rust free, the guy I bought it from he was planning to work on the car in sections and paint it himself. So he put a lot of puddy on the doors, and primed some areas. I will have to probably remove most of what he did so I can make sure its done correctly. I've never painted before so it will be a learning experience, I hope it goes well
Car is originally black so it will remain. Chrome bumpers are in good shape, the front isnt as good as the back but I don't think I will paint them black, I want to keep them chrome but everything else will be black. I was even thinking of painting the plastic headlight and tailight trim pieces black same as the car, I don't know if this has ever been done before.
Enough Talking... heres the pictures. From when I got the car til now... All I did today was remove the bumpers and fillers lol, also grill.