What did you do to your G-Body today? [2019]

[motorheadmike]

i may or may not have been watching home improvement at the time..

 

[mclellan83]

Got some more done tonight, got the passenger glass back in. Then fabbed and covered these to fit into the door panel to replace the dark carpet that wouldn't match my new one anyways

 

[pontiacgp]

I changed the ATF in my transmission to a better grade and I added a couple of diodes to my headlight wiring. I got rid of the relay that you get with a bi xenon harness so I could use a standard 4 pin relay cause the pins in the bi xenon harness seem to corrode no matter what you do with them. I spliced in the wires to activate the hi beam in the bi xenon but the low beam wire is dead when the hi beams are on. I added a diode between the hi beam green wire so the current would pass to the lo beam light brown wire but the power from the lo beam would not travel to the hi beam when the lo beams were on. I also put in a diode in the low beam wire so the current would not flow back the light switch when the hi beams are on......

 

[ssn696]

What diodes did you choose? I am interested to see how they hold together under that amount of current.

 

[GroceryGetter83]

Added factory cross braces:

 

[pontiacgp]

What diodes did you choose? I am interested to see how they hold together under that amount of current.

I'll have to look at the box, I had them left over from setting up my front signal lights as my DRL's a few years ago

 

[MrSony]

Didn't feel like much progress yesterday since I had to remake the bottom spacer since it was too thin and split, now trying to fight the thickness of this one and getting the door panel to fit alright.
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Clean up the split and reinforce with some thin sheet metal around the circumference held on by tiny screws?

 

[MrSony]

This may be a dumb question but, did you make sure that your torque converter is seated all the way? When the converter is slid into the Trans you need to play with it until it has bottomed completely (generally 3 audible clunks).

In general you should not be able to slide your fingers behind the converter.

 

[mclellan83]

Clean up the split and reinforce with some thin sheet metal around the circumference held on by tiny screws?

Thanks, I already made bigger rings. Was gonna make it easier to mount the speaker and other spacer to be bigger anyways

 

[Injectedcutty]

Yesterday evening I finally got the Cutlass running with some changes to the map sensor and such! Sounds wicked with open headers!!!