What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (80 Viewers)
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I think I still have a set of those billsteins for 0-2 inch lift that I removed from my 80. Only a year old. If you need them I will send them your way if you pay the shipping.
Drove it to see some family. I had a few extra hours to kill so I spent the time driving to the top of another mountain that was on my list of my mountains to explore. Nothing major on the short detour but I did find a really old carving in an Aspen tree. I am thinking 1931....
Got the windows tinted. I did need to apply some additional dark tint to the rears in order to get everything matched up. I think they did a great job matching that funky bronze reflective tint from the factory though. Also tinted the front windshield with ceramic 80% to keep the UV rays from blasting the dashboard.
Yup! Good on them. This is what my tint shop did as well to match up everything up with a mix match of reflective and tint etc. FWIW we did all our windows in home as well in a ceramic uv film. Really does help.
Did several winching exercises.... the food warming basket works better than I had hoped. It heats soup to the perfect temp.
Yep! We did the same with our home windows...really does make a difference. Same company that did the 80 did the home windows.
I feel so very lucky to have "Georgia" in my garage....she's my "forever truck"!
That is friggin awesome. Nice.
Same log as previous posts? You conquered it!?
Yeah, I was losing sleep over it so I went back....
Well done sir.
Slowly getting this 1FZ back together. It's the takeout from this 80 Builds - 1997 FZJ80 to HDJ80 1HDFT + Wholesale Automatics Extreme A442F thanks to @jmlockwood . Head was reworked and I'm replacing the seals and gaskets.
That's mighty kind of you unfortunately I have a 4" lift.
ElPolloBlanco
SILVER Star
Not this weekend, but I did just finish it. A couple of weeks ago I went out and made another video.
Went to the shop and put her up on the rack to soak down all the bolts/nuts to prep for a lift install
NLXTACY
Wits' End
Ok this isn’t specifically 80 related but it IS in an 80 and just something kinda cool I enjoyed coming up with.
I have a customer’s 80 in my shop that has an LS3 swap with a 6L80E out of a Camaro. The problem with the Camaro transmission specifically is that…there is NO freaking dipstick. The user/shop has to lift the car, feel around for the port at the corner of the trans pan and then fill from upside down. You then just wait until it overflows. Lame.
So the thought was, since this is in an 80 Series with plenty of room, lets get a dipstick in there. So a standard duty Lokar dipstick and tube was selected and…well, just kinda placed there. It was lame. Out came some CAD (Cardboard Aided Drafting) and a mount was made out of aluminum. From there it was mounted using the standard bracket mounts in the ignition coil bracket on the rear of the passenger bank. Super simple.
Its such a pointless endeavor but had a lot of fun getting all the pieces together and seeing it come to fruition. Again, its not earth shattering but it was a real fun thing to work on and who knows=, maybe its something others that have done engine swaps could find interesting. Hmm...
I have a customer’s 80 in my shop that has an LS3 swap with a 6L80E out of a Camaro. The problem with the Camaro transmission specifically is that…there is NO freaking dipstick. The user/shop has to lift the car, feel around for the port at the corner of the trans pan and then fill from upside down. You then just wait until it overflows. Lame.
So the thought was, since this is in an 80 Series with plenty of room, lets get a dipstick in there. So a standard duty Lokar dipstick and tube was selected and…well, just kinda placed there. It was lame. Out came some CAD (Cardboard Aided Drafting) and a mount was made out of aluminum. From there it was mounted using the standard bracket mounts in the ignition coil bracket on the rear of the passenger bank. Super simple.
Its such a pointless endeavor but had a lot of fun getting all the pieces together and seeing it come to fruition. Again, its not earth shattering but it was a real fun thing to work on and who knows=, maybe its something others that have done engine swaps could find interesting. Hmm...
NLXTACY
Wits' End
Final pieces
chatt100
SILVER Star
Im about to get this done, these summers in the south are brutal. Do you know what was used? How much did it cost?
