Courtyard By Marriott Mechanicsburg.

Reservations are to be made direct with the hotel. Call:  717 766 9006 and mention “Speedsters Group”. Check in is 3PM check out is 12 noon. Early arrivals are subject to room availability. Room block reservation cut off date is April 12th.

On Thursday 1:00 pm, the hotel will be providing welcome station in t…[Read more]

There are a few cars with bucket seats. On a VW pan-based car, the tunnel spreads out toward the back and makes it hard to fit a wide seat and impossible to move it further back, but you can lean it.

If you’re looking for more room, cutting the seat back for height and moving it back onto the storage area is quite easy. Just mount it where you’re comfortable. Perfect time to add seat heaters.

Unfortunately copy and paste have decided not to cooperate today.

The website is “www.carlisleevents.com”. Under event schedule you’ll find the “Import and Performance Nationals”.

We piggyback with another club, the “Speedster Owners Group”, and take over a local hotel for an extended weekend. Dedicated parking area with space for trailers and…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum, John!

Welcome, John.

Very pretty car. Love the color scheme.

Don’t know where you’re from, but the big meet at Carlisle is coming up May 14-15. If you can make it we’d love to see it.

Originally these were not painted. It’s gel coat.I painted mine in ignorance. The gel coat could probably have been brought back to life.

There is a thread or two in the forums.

Welcome…Enjoy!

Check the connections before replacing the switch. Grounds are gremlins on TDrs.

Also make sure the car is actually shifted into reverse. When I was putting together my Spyder the backup light gave me a heart attack when it wouldn’t work despite my shifting it into reverse to test. I checked the light, the wires, connections and even the switch…[Read more]

Same hotel. Probably no banquet again this year cuz it’s on me and I have not had the energy to do what I’m supposed to do. Will advise.

Al, that usually is covered by the Speedster group. Once they negotiate the dates and rooms they will post. Most likely we’ll be back at the Marriott in Mechanicsburg.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Don’t forget to register as a member of the Speedsters Owners.

Beats me. Im guessing the bolt worked loose causing stress on the non threaded portion.  I don’t know if the bolt was torqued properly by the previous TD owner, or Chevette owner for that matter.

What feeds the hot-ignition side of your fuse box?

(By memory; grain of salt) my car has battery + running to the big starter lug, Battery – bolted to the frame and feeding a grounding buss under the dash. Fat red 10g + wire from battery to the key switch at 30, then two wires that test + go from that. The key-on + wire goes to the fuse box to…[Read more]

Weird that it broke. Why would a pulley bolt break while just driving?

Update on broken pulley bolt.  Was able to extract the threaded portion of the bolt from the crankshaft. There’s a crankshaft spacer behind the timing gear on the crankshaft, and it had slid forward out of the engine block about 3/4 of its way out to prevent the timing sprocket from keying onto the crankshaft.  See the enclosed pics.

I was a…[Read more]

Took longer than i expected to post these. Computer programs upgrade and change how everything works just as you get comfortable with them.

Anyway, the final photos of the upgrade.

The panel being finished.

The finished panel.

Didn’t turn out too bad. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough for who it’s for.

See you in Carlisle.