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  1. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    It has been a while, and I have been busy the past few weeks with helping my best friend get his house ready to sell. If anyone is looking for a 3500 sq. ft. underground multi-dome house on about 45 acres with a massive insulated barn, let me know. Prior to the decision to help my buddy out...
  2. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    Sadly, in today's world that is cheap, not sure how old yours is but they are made to a price point, always have been. Our Master shower in the pics I showed before was I think $14-1500 and that was 10 years ago, it wasn't even close to top of the line. I don't think they have come down, but...
  3. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    That can happen, especially if the home builder is who spec'd the fixtures and used the cheapest available. Most of those tubs are way too thin, I used a cheapie from Homer Despot in the upstairs because we needed an actual tub in the house for dog washing and for the future of the house after...
  4. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    It is important to bed fiberglass tubs/inserts in either mortar or plaster. I used plaster for the upstairs tub and mortar for the Master and Casita. It feels like concrete when you step in, no hollow sound. The side walls do have a more hollow sound but you rarely touch them so it is no...
  5. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    If mold is a concern, stay with what works for you. We hated every tile shower we ever had, they look great but are less than ideal to keep clean. There are decent fiberglass models available, we went with this as another tile shower just wasn't going to work for us any more. Getting up in...
  6. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    If I had to do it all over again, I would not go with the mini-splits in a large (ish) house. While it is very efficient, it is also 8 filters to clean monthly, every couple of years it is 8 head units to break down and clean the fins on, as well as 8 drain lines to keep clear of...
  7. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    I don't but our place is very unconventional. No central units, we have 6 tons of mini splits in 8 zones to cover the whole house.
  8. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    You will need to keep them clean, prior to installing the water softener I would de-scale them every year, after the softener I do it every few years, it only takes 30 min or so. The softener made a huge difference, I would get chunks of scale out before but now they stay pretty clean. You...
  9. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    I ran one in the kitchen, an outdoor unit and another outdoor unit to the master Bedroom. The kitchen one feeds only the kitchen sink and the master feeds the Master and second Master upstairs. Hot water is about 5 seconds in kitchen, less than 5 seconds in Master shower and maybe 15 seconds...
  10. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    Time for a small update, I haven't really done much to the car as it is cool enough outside to attend to things that I don't do when it is hot outside. I have also been collecting missing FiTech parts and making a general plan for installation, thanks to those who have done the FiTech...
  11. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    I did a lot of tinkering on the car this past week, not a lot to show in pictures but a lot was accomplished. A huge thanks to Brian https://tunedperformance.org/ for helping me understand the numerous things I do not understand in relation to the intricacies of the TPI intake and TB differences...
  12. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    The air/EGR, not water, passages are a little different in the 89-91 but the way the throttle operates was enhanced to make it easier to push the pedal, smoother operation. Mine was way too hard to push which is a drivability issue, and the main reason for the change to the correct 89 TB In 89...
  13. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    The dash pad, it has a crack that is pretty bad. I was going to just buy one of the covers they sell but after having to sand the texture off the crash pad replacement I didn't want to do that until I tried to repair what I had. The pad is in decent shape, minus the crack, and I figured I had...
  14. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    Thanks, I wish I could say this was easy but it kicked my old butt. If this car wasn't an 89 six speed I could have easily just replaced the shifter plate, but it is a one year only part and not reproduced. I will admit that it kept me busy and I am happy with the results though I don't want...
  15. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    I have finished repairing and painting the dash plastic. Overall this was a huge task complete with success/failures/success and loads of stress. The shifter plate...the biggest stressor I had, the other pieces worked flawlessly. While about to put some actual paint on, I had a disaster. I...
  16. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    I have the appliques, there is a guy on Ebay that makes them in small batches and I got a set. They will go on between clear coats.
  17. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    Time for the shifter plate, this was probably the most labor intensive plastic repair I have ever done. There was a lot to be done, broken and missing plastic around the driver's window switch, almost every screw hole cracked and the mounting plate in the rear had the plastic around the screw...
  18. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    The next part of dash repair. Some of these pieces of plastic bezel are very thin, which makes a lasting repair more difficult. The glass and epoxy strips I typically make would be too thick by the time you add epoxy to bond them in. I needed to make thinner strips which was as simple as...
  19. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    I haven't painted the pieces yet. I am currently testing paints to see which looks/works the best on a flat strip of ABS. One issue with flat black is when you clear coat it it can sometimes have a green tint with sun exposure. It needs to be a high solids paint. I am using flat because it...
  20. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    I am undecided on the 383, it is such a good deal, 880 long block with Edelbrock heads for $1200. Unfortunately it would mean going down the rabbit hole with changes to the the exhaust, ECM, intake, injectors, ignition and going over an engine without the proper tools to do it right. I haven't...
  21. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    It is a steel tube building, all of the tubes are 2.5" galvanized, the tall walls are double thickness tubes, the roof trusses were a thicker gauge, welded and the welds covered in a cold galvanizing to prevent rust. I don't remember the actual gauge of the tubing, but the wall tubing was a...
  22. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    It is custom from a local company, they engineer, fabricate and ***** them. This one is 40x70 with 14' side walls, the peaks are much higher. There are ones built like this all over the country. They offer some advantages over the Red Iron type, mainly the ability insulate easily/cheaply, if...
  23. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    Good job, I know how exciting watching infrastructure go in is. You cannot overlook the importance of a septic/toilet early on, this was ours before the interior construction of the main house was started. No electricity yet so we poured water from a jug into the toilet to flush. We called it...
  24. SirReal63

    1989 C4 Functional Restoration

    I have done a little work on the car recently, mostly going back over previous areas that needed more refinement. In this case the passenger door panel, I didn't go to the same level of repair on this as I did on the drivers side when I did the door panels in the past. The divers side was much...
  25. SirReal63

    Pwtr02ss home build

    Somehow I did not get any notifications for this thread, or my old eyes missed it (probably). You have made great progress, the dirt work is always a challenge as no site is perfect. What I did not do on my house builds and wished I did was run ethernet everywhere. I planned on just using...

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