Ethyl Returns as a Ford

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One thing about the headliners and roll bars, it ain't easy. Here is some Ethyl Porn

Ethyl NA SS

Ethyl 0-120

Ethyl NA 5.0
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Had Special Performance Coatings in Irving Texas do my strut bar to contrast the Vic Jr. and match the overall setup.

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Interesting weekend. Thursday night the car temp gauges went wild. Pulling time just acting smurfed up. I changed the ECT sensor Friday morning and everything seems pretty cool now. Here are so Vids from the weekend

These are the first GTG's I have been able to make it to. The coit meet is at 190 and Coit on Friday nights starting around 9 pm. Kellers is on NW Highway at Kellers on Saturday night. Got to stopp and goof around with Corndog at Coit. At Kellers it was a 20 mile down, there was no place to park and I couldn't/didn't want to heat the car up waiting on one so I just cruised through the lot and left. If you are not there by 7 pm you are not going to get a place to park.

[1 fast evo 2]

The car looks great. I have a quick question. Who's intake elbow and throttle body are you running ?

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That is a 6061.com elbow by Aaron and the TB is a PTM 102 mm from Texas Speed.

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Kind of a long couple of posts here and they may be redundant but I don't give a *** Reason for this thread was to document the build. So anyhow I have been wanting Aftermarket seats for years. Even realizing the GTO seats are better than most of what I could get, I still wanted something lighter and with a different look. SNL had a Camaro in with Corbeau Forza Wide Seats. I sat in one and my butt actually slipped in and out without a lot of friction. So I looked around for several months and finally decided there was never going to be any used ones come up that someone wasn't trying to rob everyone with. I just up and bought one from Racing Seats USA in Delhi. I got one with the double locking slider and a Planted bracket for GTO Driver's side, the Corbeau GTO brackets were on back order. Do not buy universal brackets unless you can weld. So the total delivery comes in two boxes and for a little under $425 bucks I am the daddy of a Corbeau Forza seat. I put it together in my office just to look at. Eventually I stubbed my toe and got mad and installed it. So here we go.

First problem was of course getting the old seat out. I have done this recemtly and it wasn't much of a problem.









Next thing was to turn the seat upside down and remover the base mount and the harness



The PIR on the right in the picture is the key part, it is hooked to the sensor that tells if there is a butt in the seat and to the belt buckle that trells it if the ass is buckled in.



This is the secret sauce, it is between the seat cover material and the foam cushion on the seat bottom, Dig it out carefully.



This is the PIR and those two wires are the ones that do all the work.

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This little sensor hooks to the PIR and lies on the foam seat between the foam and the cover. it is what senses someone in the seat with the belt buckled.


The little plastic frame is attached to the seat frame and the harness is attached to it. Many of the harness connectors drive the forward, backward, up, down motors so ther eis not need to hook them up. The ones from the PIR work on the airbags and the seatbelt. so I hooked them up



Scooted the loose wires under the frame, got to figure out a neater way to do it. I did tie them so they won't flop around.


Four bolts and she's in






All the other lights are on but know airbag light. The seat belt alarm works too.

[TheSilverBuick]

So it's not a seat heater? Bummer :'(

No matter how fancy and built up the car, always carry a spare gas can in the passenger seat Looks good

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Makes a bigger fireball

[SuperBuickGuy]

I need to do something about my passenger seat sensor. I want it to sense correctly, but when my English Mastiff is co-piloting, I'd rather the airbag not go off (along with not ding because that seat belt isn't fastened)... maybe I can just move the sensor to the back rest?

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Got the headliner back from Dee Trim in Plano. In lieu of a velvet Elvis motif I went with a suede black. Should have done blue

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Got the headliner in tonight, need to brush it and finish up some of the connections.









Need tyo do the visors too

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#### it Some people run towards the fire, some run from it. Depends on where you are sitting, in the fire or out of it that means the most to you about them.

[Casper]

That ####in sucks dude. Hopefully the damage wasn't that bad.

[SuperBuickGuy]

wow, sorry - what happened?