Discovered my largest windmill palm tree is flowering for the first time. Its producing female flowers which look like green corn kernels. I have two more windmill palms but they are not big enough to begin flowering yet, hopefully one is male so I can get some palm seeds.
The car needs to be on all four wheels on flat ground to perform a fender alignment. Frame sag will throw your fender adjustment off along with bad body bushings. The door alignment must be good to get a good fender alignment. I had to hammer the fender lip by the door in a little to get the gap...
Put the ignition back together yesterday after performing the valve spring and stem seal replacement a week ago. Cleaned the oil fouling off the spark plugs with a MAP torch to see how well that trick works. It did clean them pretty well visually.
Replaced the driver side inner and outer tie rods on the Crown Vic, the inner was loose and had a flat spot. The passenger side rods were still tight but smooth. Took it in for an alignment.
Another issue with aftermarket EFI is that most of them lack knock sensors. Knock sensors are a major tuning aid and the lack of one really handicaps a computer engine management system.
True, but OEM has many more hours and dollars of R&D put into it than aftermarket. OEM systems are also designed more specifically for certain engines while aftermarket EFI is generic one size fits all design. Its similar to OEM carbs vs aftermarket carbs.
Surprised they didn't have cop springs installed as most taxi packages are similar to police packages. With being designed for a desert environment you would think they have HD cooling for the engine too, which most taxis have anyway.
Best way to convert to EFI is to get a complete OEM EFI system out of a donor like TPI. Aftermarket EFI is not the same quality as OEM in more modern cars like you are more used too. A good Qjet setup correctly will drive just as well as EFI anyway.
Chinese knockoffs are cargo cult reverse engineered, its similar to cheating on a test with a answer sheet with little to no understanding of the questions or why the answers are right. They just pretty much blindly opy whatever they are cloning.
It seems like according to Lars in the link...
With the Caprice 8.5 rear axles they had two different wheel bolt patterns. Normal Caprices had 4.75x5 wheel bolt pattern while the police package 9C1s had 5x5 truck wheel patten.
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