Nerd Racing's 94 Ford Aspire Work Log

[nerd racing]

a guy from work today was like wanna race that toy of yours against my 3.1L impala. I just laughed, I was waiting for him to say wanna put money on it.

[bomdoutscort]

wow thats isn't a race. Maybe he wants to race you while its down lol

[nerd racing]

first he said he wanted to race my "rusted piece of junk truck" and then I said well how about when I get my car back on the road? and he laughed and said sure thing. I bet I could get him to put money on it, he's not very bright.

[Damkid]

first he said he wanted to race my "rusted piece of junk truck" and then I said well how about when I get my car back on the road? and he laughed and said sure thing. I bet I could get him to put money on it, he's not very bright.

Do it!!! i know i would

[The Pile]

oh yea... make sure its locked in with a neutral party holding down the cash.

[nerd racing]

lol I probably will never race him anyway, I don't race on the street and I doubt he would go to a track.

[nerd racing]

Didn't get a whole lot done this weekend because I had a visitor most of the weekend and they got sick from all the driving and such...

A little Wal-Mart fun!



but I did find my protege lower rear trans mount and it wasn't going to work for me this time. So I made a template of what I am going to need to cut out of steel. I used cardboard because its easy to work with and if I screw up so what lol.



Then I started into my wiring, its really not that bad this time around. I just have to remove the smaller half of the harness so I can graft the aspire starting and charging wires into it and I'll be good to go.

[nerd racing]

I mean I'm no tony stark... need a better paying job first B)

I finished off figuring the wiring out so I have all the 626 sensors, electronic speedo, and cluster setup. :D

Here is how I ran it from the bay around the inside of the fender and through the hole for the speaker wire to the driver's door:



I have to extend a few wires that go to the dash, then I can finally bolt the fender back in place:



I am not going to miss having that jumpy cable speedometer, that's for sure!

I'll be hooking up the remainder of the wiring tomorrow after work, then maybe i'll hook up the y-pipe and fire it up... maybe...

[nerd racing]

Well I managed to get all the wiring into the cabin of the car and separated out the wires to the instrument cluster. Then I test fit the 626 cluster and well that was where it ended for the night.... my first snag, the cluster is too wide to fit in the aspire dash properly. Looks like I'm going to need an MX-3 GS cluster... and I need to find a pinout chart of the cluster plugs too, its not as easy to read the print board on it as it is the MX-3 one and the aspire one.

I also lost half of my shrink wrap somehow, so I could not get the engine harness wires going so I could attempt to fire it up... I hope I didn't close it up in the fender, that stuff is expensive...

[nerd racing]

I'm one soldering iron away from being able to fire it up, my tip melted off my soldering iron!!!

how does that happen??? :angryfire

[nerd racing]

well I have all my wiring up and it should fire, but its not, I am thinking bad grounds because it doesn't always want to crank. I am going to go through and strip all the surfaces down to bare metal and add a couple straps to see if that cures it.

I also trimmed up my dash and dash trim to get the 626 cluster to fit!



this makes me happy because now I won't have to buy a different cluster!

I also went yarding today and found two EGT 7 spokes with decent summer tires! $20 a piece! Now I just need to find two more and start stripping them down to paint gloss black and polish the lip up! I really like the rims in person and they are lighter than my 14" steelies! I'm also going to buy a set of 205-55-15's for it so the speedo will be correct and maybe I'll have decent traction!

[Damkid]

^^I'm hoping to buy a new set of rims for my festiva this summer, and the escort rims i have on it i'd probably be looking to get rid of them, if your interested

[nerd racing]

are they the 15" 7 spokes?

[Damkid]

Sorry they're 14's

[nerd racing]

I was going to go with some nice 5 spoke ones off of a ZX2 but the yard wanted $30 a wheel plus a $10 core so I passed on them and found a good deal on two 7 spokes, I'll probably car-part.com the other two.