NOT a good sign here.

 

Fear not however, it's is home in one piece now. The ECM picked a rather foul time to cash in it's chips. On another note AAA ROCKS! :hail:

 

oh man that sucks, I passed you guys, but by the time I was about to stop and signal my GF it was too late.

 

N/P man, I thought that was you. It's not a party until I break something!

 

FWIW,

You can grab a spare ECM usually for $50 via EBay or the junkyard. I keep a spare one in the back of my car. Of course, now that I said that .... my alternator is going to 'go' and I don't have a spare one of those in the car

Glad ya got home safe! Now turn over that hood

Tim

 

Cool beans Tim, I should have it put back together soon. At least with an alt failure the car does not just stop cold turkey on you.

Yep, did I mention that the hoods for sale, and it also comes with the car attached to it?










j/k

 

Oh yeah, thanks again to Steve86TA (&Kevin), TTA 1387, and Z28z for hanging out with me trying to figure out what went south! :hail:

 

Sorry I wasn't too much help. Its been quite awhile since I've worked on a tuned port.

Glad you made it home. Hopefully be back in action soon.

 

Man that sux. If my car had MADE it there, I'm sure I would have broken down on the way back. lol

 

well not as bad, my ses light came on when i hit about 70 on the main highway. i think egr problems.

 

Man, I love the thirdgens for their reliability

Maybe we should all just leave them stock. Never gave me problems then

 

Ditto. I put over 30k+ miles on my car that first year when it was stock and never had a problem to speak of.

 

yup. I've had 4 years behind the wheel and never a problem except for little stuff until I start tinkerin ( ) then the car doesn't run for 4 months.

 

Yeah it sucks to try and figure out whats wrong with a car on the side of the road. But glad to see you made it home ok. Oh yeah my car has never given me a proble yet, crossing my fingers .

 

Oh NO my favorite thirdgen of the meet broke down

That sucks. Least you werent very far away.

Oh yeah...remember when you said "oh 89 octane will be fine"

hehe it wasnt. Car jumped time somehow...I had 18 degrees advance without the vaccum advance. I had detonation the entire 6 hour drive.

I got the timing back down again. I hope its still ok.

Good luck fixing the car man. Ill give you $50 as is for it.

 

sorry to hear about your luck ES87iroc..mine has been there 3 times ....sorry to hear about you other guys luck

 

well if i had made it down i would have had the same fait. at the last min i backed down from coming. good thing i did. it would have been a hell of a tow bill back to Canada.

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Well, I should've gone. I was sort of afraid to, I haven't driven more than about a 50 mile round trip since the 355 went in. Since I didn't drive down to MD, I felt I needed to go for a drive yesterday anyway, so I took the car for just a long drive. I ended up going nowhere, and clocking about 150 miles. It felt good to go for a nice drive like that, and also nice to see that out on the road it will get more than 12 MPG! I actually got about 18, and the last 50 miles was playing around in town here, about 10 MPG doing that!

 

I managed to avoid the Wrecker,......... One stopped to get the tow job - but I sent him on his way.

My Ride was pulled off the side of the highway for about 45 minutes to allow it to cool down. The Temp Spiked due to the Horrible New York City traffic and the radiadiator bottle was bubbling away for awhile.

I managed to get thru New York by shutting off the Car (while in traffic) after every pitiful 100 foot advance in the traffic line. The whole time the Temp guage was showing 220 and the warning Light was blinking away !!

** The 'Hayden' electric fan relay kit SUCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was the longest 5-6 miles I can ever remember driving !

 

OMG....quick take it in to the mechanic LOL

Dude....thats not even condisered a problem, its more of an annoyance!

 

LOL thats what I told him....but he won't just take it off of there.

 

I at least consider when the ses is on a problem

 

hey...at least it looks good up there!!!....

 

I was worried for a while, I went home by myself, got to the PA. state line and developed a spooky sounding intermittent vibration. Then it turned into an exhaust leak, and I knew. Stopped and checked the pass. side Y-pipe bolts, sure enough one backed out about 4 turns. Mine was easy to fix.

 

N/P I am getting used to it I will dig an ecm out ASAP

 

I'm sorry dude we actually pasted you when we left the race track later that day with someone else following me and the TDS guy following them. I saw a white camaro in front of you with someone on a cell phone so we kept going. Glad you made it home ok.

 

Erik do you need a new ECM? I have a 165 if you like.

 

If you sold that car Id drive up there and buy it. I love that blue IROC. Like I said at the meet your car is what my wet dreams are about lol.

It could use a gauge cluster tho.

 

Hey ES87 you should get the wiring under your hood together that could be causing the computer to take a dump once in awhile. It looked like some of the wires were getting hot.

 

Right on man. I rewired that mess with 12ga ecm feed. No go still though, and tried another ECM today, too. I can hear the pump running when the key is on. I am running out of ideas.

 

*cough* TMI! *cough*



The guage cluster is almost done, it's an autometer phantom setup. I really tried like mad to have it done before the show but ran out of time. It would be closer to done now, but I am trying to figure out what is causing the no start issue.

 

Still no spark?

 

Only if you were closer to my shop I could take a real look at it for you. Not an "on the side of the highway look" .

 

No sparky. I wonder if the pickup coil failed?? It has not been replaced in who knows when. Last summer I did a cap/coil/rotor/module but didn't replace the pickup. Hmmmm...

 

You have a small cap style distributor right? I happen to have one with the ignition module and everything out of a running car. Let me know If you want to try it?

 

Yep, sounds great! I just pulled mine out, and the p/u coil looks kinda buggered up. I really hope that's what the issue is, I am running out of ideas!

 

Glad to know you got it home OK. I just got back today, it was a little sunnier today...I have a nice sunburned "seatbelt track" down my chest from the drive...I look like a crossing guard. My car gave me no problems and 24.5 MPG from Fredericksburg, VA all the way home.


Ed

 

...Still playing with it... Sooner or later I will run out of things to replace!

 

Thanks folks for the kind words! All things considered, here's how I rate the who event:

 

Tony,

Thanks for the offer man! I actually dug one out of a box o' parts last week and forgot to mention it.

Did you get your car running yet??

 

Huston, we have ignition! The $5 pickup coil was the problem. Turns out when I adjusted timing at the track I didn't tighten back down the distributor hold down and oil got all over the p/u coil. It was old anyways, so it finally quit. From now on I am carrying a spare distributor, coil, and ECM in the car.

So, when rebuilding the distributor, do the -whole- thing! (The p/u coil is no fun to get apart)

 

Glad to hear you fixed it. BTW what hoods on the blue iroc? Im getting ready to get a hood and the high rise spoiler...and the 4th gen console and seats...basically im replicating your car besides the blue color...which is the best part..

I wish mine was blue

OooO BTW whats that cluster gonna look like? Im gonna try to make a new face and put white face autometer guages in it also.

ALSO how much did those 91-92 gfx run ya?

 

Thanks man. It's a cervini's cowl hood, you can check it out over at www.cervinis.com. I do have a spare -factory- 91/92 Z28 spoiler that I am looking to sell. (Not one of the crappy repops) Lemme know if you are interested in it. Here's the "cluster" as of today, I am still working on finding a suitable material to make the gauge plate out of.

The 91/92 gfx kinda vary, depending on condition. I have seen whole sets go for $250-550. If you are looking to put a little time into repairing a setup, I have seen them go for $125-200ish kinda beat up. Just have to keep your eyes peeled.

 

Yeah Im interested. I PMed you.

Im assuming its used which is fine. As long as it isnt busted up or anything like that. But let me know.

Oh and did that hood fit well? Thats the one Ive been looking into getting. I didnt look at yours at the meet but Im assuming its functional.

 

No prob bro. Yeah, got the car running about an hour after I got home from the meet I knew it would happen that way.

 

Hey erik...do you get summit magazines? They have a gauge plate for sale in there for 82-89 camaros. It holds 6 gauges...2 3 3/8s and 4 2 1/16 gauges. Probably exactly what you need. It runs 104$ tho.

But it probably has good places to mount the gauges in and everything. When I sell my 145 IROC cluster im gonna get the plate to see if its any good.

 

No kidding!?! That would be -perfect- for what I am doing. A little more scratch then I was figuring on though. Hmm....

 

Erik...get back to me about the wing.

Yeah no kidding I saw that in the newest summit and was happy. Because its hard to track down a sheet of ABS plastic for some reason.

I may just get it and see what it is. Because im sure it would look, function, and fit better than anything I could make. I can rig as well as the next guy but it isnt always pretty

 

I made a panel for a '98 Camaro that we had at the shop out of a piece of sheet metal. Mounted the gauges in it and painted the panel flat black. Looked pretty factory. May be a little harder since the thirdgen panel is a bit bigger.

 

i just saw that gauge cluster as well....

next time i'm down at summit, i can ask to take a look at the piece, and try and get some photos of it.