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68firebird · #21 06-26-2012, 11:13 AM

Out of curiosity, you guys that use autometer guages in place of stock how do you wire in your turn signal indicator lights? do you just put an LED in and wire to that? same with the high beam indicator? One thing that I am very scared to screw up is the electrical, definitely not in my wheelhouse, and wiring in these guages is got me a bit nervous, LOL.

68firebird · #22 06-28-2012, 03:53 PM

small update, got my hotchkis/bilstein shocks in today. also took apart the rear drums to put new shoes and hardware in, but I don't think the drums and wheel cylinders are good enough to use, I'll have to pick some up.

Steve68 · #23 06-28-2012, 04:36 PM

is that a glass fuel filter, you should replace it, with plastic one,

sounds great, smooth, nice and quiet!!

68firebird · #24 06-28-2012, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve68

is that a glass fuel filter, you should replace it, with plastic one,

sounds great, smooth, nice and quiet!!

Thank you, Yea I already replaced it with an aluminum one by Russell. The glass one had started to leak. It is pretty quiet considering it has headers and a flowmaster exhaust. I have to adjust the carb, exhaust smells like its running rich.

Steve68 · #25 06-29-2012, 06:11 AM

cool, I've heard of them leaking, I never had it happen to me, but I heard stories, and of course headers and gas don't mix well,

couple of carb adjustment you'll be good, sound good,

like i said in a different post, running project beats a nonrunner, next week I'm going to try t get my Nova running,

68firebird · #26 06-29-2012, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve68

cool, I've heard of them leaking, I never had it happen to me, but I heard stories, and of course headers and gas don't mix well,

couple of carb adjustment you'll be good, sound good,

like i said in a different post, running project beats a nonrunner, next week I'm going to try t get my Nova running,

yep no doubt, the stupidest thing I could have done was take too much of the car apart and not be able to drive it over the last 6 years!! I read a post a few years ago after I discovered the forums, I believe it was by mary pozzi, and she said to never take your car off the road for a length of time, most times it stays off the road, and she was definitely right in my case. Now I've been struggling to get the money and time to put everything back to get it running again. Hoping she'll be at least road worthy by the end of summer to hit a few cruise nights and car shows.

68firebird · #27 07-01-2012, 10:56 AM

Just placed a small order with summitracing.com:

5 inch autometer phantom in dash speedometer
2 1/16 inch phantom fuel level guage
2 rear drums.

quick $270 gone LOL.

Steve68 · #28 07-02-2012, 05:54 AM

when your looking for parts, watch the fourms here and pro-touring, the high rollers let some good stuff go for cheap when there plans change trying to keep up with the Jones,

68firebird · #29 07-02-2012, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve68

when your looking for parts, watch the fourms here and pro-touring, the high rollers let some good stuff go for cheap when there plans change trying to keep up with the Jones,

HAHAHA, I love how you put that!! thanks for the tip!

68firebird · #30 07-03-2012, 05:13 AM

summit order will be in thursday night sometime, after that I can put the rear brakes together. last night I started into something I've been not wanting to do, try and fix this mess!!

this is the mess of wires I have to figure out, some of it I know what its from because I had put the 3 gauges in, but I have to put black wire for the negative wiring, I didn't do that on initial install a few years back. The nest behind the radio I have no idea what's what yet.

all that was on this pic below was some electrical tape, and it wasn't even a good tape job, kinda scary LOL, and of course of the course of a dozen years the tape started to fall off. I'm not that best at this and I could have done it better the first time around!

and there's some wires that I had just thrown some blades on for the gauges a few years back and wedged them on the side of the glass fuses, I have to figure out whats the best wires to splice into for the power to these gauges now that I have a tad more knowledge than I did back then.

should be fun!

Is there a company out there that just makes a blade fuse block to put in place of the glass fuse block? I'd love to get rid of the glass fuses.