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They are certainly thinner. I think they could have done worse. I saw the video too. Personally I'm not sold on them. If JAL weren't an option this would be a very reasonable alternative to the old bulb style lights. Would be neat if they had some sort of light movement integrated into them.

I have not. I'm pending sourcing a replacement to partition it out and testing the TPS is not something that I'm familiar with. Not ruling it out entirely just yet. I'm somewhat confused why the ECU has an 8.5% set as minimum and 90% set as maximum for TPS range in either case. Once I get home I'll be doing more tinkering.

The adventures continue. Today on the way to work car started to idle out of control again when not in gear (switching between gears or at idle/clutch in). I think I narrowed down the sequence of events that lead up to this and cause it. Fairly certain it's my TPS sending a 90% throttle input to the ECU so the car starts to get more gas. This isn't real full throttle because the air trumpets are still closed and I no longer have any sort of IAC to be a potential issue. Also the car isn't really accelerating on it's own when in gear. In gear it It isn't accelerating because of 1 of 2 reasons. 1) Either the out of control idle isn't enough to push the car in gear 2) Any throttle input takes it back out of the 90% zone and puts it back into accurate reading zone. To verify this I would need to recreate the event and have my laptop on hand. Which is difficult because the 98 laptop has no good battery and always needs to be plugged in. I'd have to recreate the problem at the house. Reason why I think this makes sense. I started to mess with the TPS table yesterday. After playing with it just a little bit, I was unable to get the TPS to not be at 90% (which is set as maximum). Upon tinkering with it no matter what I did it was showing 90% unless I unbolted it and turned it drastically by hand. Not being able to figure out what the problem was I reverted everything back to the way it was and was reading around 10%. BUT here is what I've learned. just a 1.5% deviation down from that 10% causes the sensor to read 90% input. Anything below 8.5% (which is set as minimum) starts reading as 90%. When I bolted everything back together yesterday I was now at 10% to start (for the last month when everything worked I was at 12%). So now that I was so much closer to 10% when things get hot or whatever else might happen it's causing the sensor to start outputting 90%. On the side of the road I bumped the butterfly idle screw a little more and that allowed me to get to work. I must be just far enough away from 8.5% to not be triggering 90% input. I'll check to see what TPS % I'm set at now when I get home. It's definitely not the throttle cable. It's definitely not an IAC issue (it's not present) so I'm assuming that this is an ECU setting that's causing the car to idle out of control. Also I don't know if related but the car started to run hot again during all this happening. Would running very rich cause an overheating issue? Quick google search says it's very possible. Car has been good temp wise for last month, now with out of control idle event it started to get hot. I thought it was running hot that was causing the event, now I think it's the other way around.

Interstate transport has been the only company that was willing to accommodate extra material to transport for a little bit of an extra fee. As long as the trailer would fit inside I wouldn't be surprise if they'd be willing to entertain that. Overall was very happy with the company.

Even more interesting. Turning the unbolted TPS unit by hand gave me a sweep of 8.5% to 90%. Anything below 8.5% immediately switched to 90%. So 90%> 8.5% sweep bac, into > 90%. Not even sure what to make of that. Can't get sensor to output value of 0% or 100% at all. Still might be able to quick fix it by adjusting the TPS voltage table? Maybe I'll find another unit to order as well, just in case.

No Oregon advice but a cautionary advice. A loophole in registration/insurance that allows registration doesn't mean insurance will be happy or honor the loophole. Registration has to follow state of residence and insurance has to be matching as well. If you're a CA resident and car is registered in OR and insured in CA and a claim has to be made, it will raise some red flags and can cause payout concerns if elements run arounds are involved. I think an OR registered car would have to be insured in OR as well. @Croc can likely chime in with much better insurance knowledge

Found my TPS table. Is this something where I need to adjust it to my needs? I can get better screen shots if needed Throughout my pedal travel it never reaches 0 or 100 as is. I can slope this to be a sharper slope and ensure I hit both Any suggestions from experts? Closed throttle I'm at 4.37V at 12.8% TPS. 100% throttle would require 0 voltage. I never reach that right now with full travel in the ITB's as is. Butterflies are 90 degree turned at about 80% indicated TPS (1.25V). TPS sensor cannot be adjusted itself, not in any obvious manner. 2 bolts in plastic, going into 2 bolts in metal.

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I also think I found a way to solve my ITB issue for next year

Great shot ^

Also finished swapping the bonnet latches to all black. Made a few mistakes along the way but pretty smooth process overall. Gave up on trying not to have rivets in frame. Just let them plop in for the back lower mounts. Very happy with results. Definitely should have listened to advice and put tape around every time. Rivet gun always tends to jump

More maintained done today. 20 year old fuel filter replaced. Was probably fine but makes me feel better Was a bigger PITA than expected. Mostly due to the bolt heads being behind the carpet in cockpit while screw gun is in wheel well. Really required 2 people ideally.

About 4.5 pounds. Not counting the actual wiper blades. While savings are appreciated this wasn't done with that as primary intent. I just didn't like how the assembly looked sticking out especially when I was never using it. With that said, now I have to figure out the oval hole dilemma so the plugs sit flush.

Great find!

Another side project. Added more lightness. Wiper motor gone! Not sure if I'll ever bother trying to stuff it back in. New dilemma. I expected there to be round holes to fill with my round plugs from CC, however I was left with oval holes that don't really work well with round plugs. Still trying to figure out Pectel/ITB/Pectel situation. Found a voltage/throttle table that I might be able to modify to get to 0 and 100. Found out that I do read closed throttle when at 10% throttle, but Im also reading partial throttle even when WOT.

Thanks for sharing. Who knows what the future holds but all things considered we out of all are in very good shape. Plenty of different engine configurations have been used, many parts can be hand made which is pretty important for things like body panels and there is a decent after market community. The comment about survivors is pretty interesting. Any arbitrary older model that we see at car meets and shows must have had a long history of people keeping it alive and somebody sees some kind of sparkle behind it, even it's of no significance to us.

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Gorgeous! Perfect for the thread.

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