Author Topic: What did you do to your Kappa today! (Read 1262897 times)

chuckdoc · « **Reply #250 on:** January 17, 2010, 08:51:59 AM »

2kwk4u, that looks great. I am still thinking about the heated seats but the dash is fantastic.

Fireman Ed · « **Reply #251 on:** January 17, 2010, 09:51:36 AM »

Yesterday I installed the new license plate, the stubby 'g' antenna, and the wife drove it to a birthday party with the 4 y/o. Today, I am going to fill it up, and put it away again for another winter weather stretch, thank God for the warm up so we could do more than look at it in the pole barn.

2kwk4u · « **Reply #252 on:** January 17, 2010, 10:11:33 AM »

Quote from: chuckdoc on January 17, 2010, 08:51:59 AM

2kwk4u, that looks great. I am still thinking about the heated seats but the dash is fantastic.

Thanks, doc. I still have some tweaking to do. The needles don't quite match one another.

jonymac · « **Reply #253 on:** January 17, 2010, 12:50:06 PM »

I know it looks like my seat is outside the car and facing backwards, but that is just an optical illusion...

TomatoSoup · « **Reply #254 on:** January 17, 2010, 01:53:42 PM »

Quote from: jonymac on January 17, 2010, 12:50:06 PM

I know it looks like my seat is outside the car and facing backwards, but that is just an optical illusion...

No, it's a TIME WARP!

1LILNDN · « **Reply #255 on:** January 17, 2010, 03:57:14 PM »

Its one of those After / Before Pictures . After he took it out but Before he put it back in .

TomatoSoup · « **Reply #256 on:** January 17, 2010, 05:51:24 PM »

OK. Finished my Bluetooth kit install. Works great. See installation writeup here: http://kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php?topic=3698

Critterman · « **Reply #257 on:** January 18, 2010, 12:24:45 PM »

Chuck the heated seats are great, Scott did mine.

TomatoSoup · « **Reply #258 on:** January 18, 2010, 12:52:33 PM »

Got my tomato soup-colored headlight covers/eyelids back from the paint shop today.

Think I'll leave them a while for the paint to harden before I mount them, but here's a photo meanwhile. IMO I think these will be a much better effect than painting the insides of the lights black...

Treeman · « **Reply #259 on:** January 18, 2010, 06:02:19 PM »

Took it out for a 2 hour top-down romp through western Howard/Carroll Counties. Roads still wet in may places so it was a bit of a cautious romp

, but much better than all the commuting nonsense I had been limited to. Had a blast!

lil goat · « **Reply #260 on:** January 21, 2010, 01:10:37 PM »

Dropped it off to have the replacement clear bra installed, and some stripes, hope I like the stripes.

Critterman · « **Reply #261 on:** January 21, 2010, 02:29:42 PM »

You gonna be a bumble bee?

TomatoSoup · « **Reply #262 on:** January 21, 2010, 02:55:51 PM »

Quote from: The Comedian on January 21, 2010, 01:10:37 PM

Dropped it off to have the replacement clear bra installed, and some stripes, hope I like the stripes.

So that's kinda interesting. Do they put the stripes on first and then the clear-bra? Or the clear-bra on first?

In either case, how's the transition from vinyl-on-paint to vinyl-on-vinyl gonna work? I.e. how will they overcome the tenting effect at the boundary line?

(I ask because I would like to do stripes too, but already have the clear-bra on.)

lil goat · « **Reply #263 on:** January 21, 2010, 03:40:17 PM »

OK I will 'splain it, I was going to have the clear bra over the stripes, made sense to me. Then I decided to get matte finish stripes, he told me if I did that the matte finish would become shiny, so we are doing the stripes over the bra. Yes it will be a bumble bee. They will be dual stripes with pin stripes down each side so a total of 6 stripes 2 wide and four very narrow. He is going to run it all the way down the front down to the lower lip, even going to do the part behind the seats that is already painted yellow. all the way down the back. The guy doing them was recommended by the insurance company and I asked the body shop about him, he is supposedly the best guy in this area. Does store fronts and semi's - Zebra Stripes

DeepBlueGXP · « **Reply #264 on:** January 21, 2010, 03:46:08 PM »

Quote from: chuckdoc on January 17, 2010, 08:51:59 AM

2kwk4u, that looks great. I am still thinking about the heated seats but the dash is fantastic.

Chuck, I'm going to be installing mine with the switch in the tulip panel on the door, the piece in front of the handle. They are going in this weekend.

Treeman · « **Reply #265 on:** January 21, 2010, 04:33:11 PM »

Quote from: The Comedian on January 21, 2010, 01:10:37 PM

Dropped it off to have the replacement clear bra installed, and some stripes, hope I like the stripes.

Clear bras! OooLaLa!

Critterman · « **Reply #266 on:** January 21, 2010, 05:18:03 PM »

I got to get off the fence about my stripes, either %%$# or get off the pot

TomatoSoup · « **Reply #267 on:** January 21, 2010, 05:52:23 PM »

Quote from: kennysabarese on January 16, 2010, 04:11:53 PM

I really wanna see how this turned out at the mod meet!

Kenny, see my Bluetooth installation writeup here: http://kappaperformance.com/forum/index.php?topic=3698

Quote from: The Comedian on January 21, 2010, 03:40:17 PM

OK I will 'splain it, I was going to have the clear bra over the stripes, made sense to me. Then I decided to get matte finish stripes, he told me if I did that the matte finish would become shiny, so we are doing the stripes over the bra. Yes it will be a bumble bee. They will be dual stripes with pin stripes down each side so a total of 6 stripes 2 wide and four very narrow.

I really wanna see how this turned out at the mod meet!

1LILNDN · « **Reply #268 on:** January 21, 2010, 07:33:15 PM »

I took mine out ( Thelma ) with the Top down just to Air her out . some what like Pre-Spring Cleaning.

Gentleman Jack · « **Reply #269 on:** January 21, 2010, 11:25:55 PM »

I installed my TUNED ECM! YEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Roads were wet, so I had to be a little cautious, plus the misses was with me. What a difference. In a few more drives / miles my learn should be complete. I hope to have dyno results before / after prior to MMM7 for "show and tell"

I can't wait to get out on the open road... but first, and oil change this weekend.

GJ

Uranium-238 · « **Reply #270 on:** January 22, 2010, 12:15:44 AM »

Quote from: Gentleman Jack on January 21, 2010, 11:25:55 PM

but first, and oil change this weekend.

Looks like we have similar plans! I also plan of fixing a small coolant leak I've been tracking for a while...hopefully this will be the last one!

Today I purchased 5 quarts of Mobil 1, and a 50/50 jug of Dexcool. First time I've seen it outside of a dealership, so I had to buy it, prediluted or no.

lil goat · « **Reply #271 on:** January 22, 2010, 08:11:45 AM »

Quote from: Uranium-238 on January 22, 2010, 12:15:44 AM

Looks like we have similar plans! I also plan of fixing a small coolant leak I've been tracking for a while...hopefully this will be the last one!

Today I purchased 5 quarts of Mobil 1, and a 50/50 jug of Dexcool. First time I've seen it outside of a dealership, so I had to buy it, prediluted or no.

U if you didn't live just past BFE you would have seen it before, they have it at Walmart in the big city. Remember DO NOT REMOVE THE CAP with car hot and not running, BIG MISTAKE it will suck air into the system, been there done that.

Well the bumblebee is back home, new clear bra and stripes, as I was told this guy is good. The bra is installed 10 times better than when the dealer did it, and the stripes look great. Still thinking on the front may change them a bit they go all the way down to the bottom lip. The back looks amazing. He told me you should always put the stripes OVER the clear bra, if you don't it makes the bra "tent" just a little and dirt will get under the bra and look like ASS. He did the stripe on the windshield surround and on the yoke behind the seats looks fantastic with the top down. Next weekend the great stereo install adventure at Joe's Garage might be a 2 day event, a ton of work to do.

Ben L · « **Reply #272 on:** January 22, 2010, 08:14:22 AM »

Quote from: Uranium-238 on January 22, 2010, 12:15:44 AM

Looks like we have similar plans! I also plan of fixing a small coolant leak I've been tracking for a while...hopefully this will be the last one!

Today I purchased 5 quarts of Mobil 1, and a 50/50 jug of Dexcool. First time I've seen it outside of a dealership, so I had to buy it, prediluted or no.

Where'd you find the coolant?

lil goat · « **Reply #273 on:** January 22, 2010, 08:28:15 AM »

Quote from: Ben L on January 22, 2010, 08:14:22 AM

Where'd you find the coolant?

They have it at Advance for $12 a gallon, it's made by Prestone and has the GM logo on the jug Prestone Dex-Cool Extended Life Antifreeze Coolant Af888. Shell makes a version, Texaco, makes a version, Chevron makes a version. They are all Prestone, just like the stuff from the dealer is Prestone. GM doesn't make antifreeze they make cars.

Uranium-238 · « **Reply #274 on:** January 22, 2010, 08:32:45 AM »

That's the stuff, and yes I found it at Advance Auto Parts. First time I've ever seen it there, and I stop by once a month or so.

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