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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #135 on: October 21, 2012, 09:12:36 pm »
The tach doesn't bounce or anything.  It's actually very steady.  If it uses the same filter as the V6's, I have a hand full of them. 
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #136 on: October 21, 2012, 11:24:59 pm »
Quote from: Fierofool on October 21, 2012, 04:44:03 pm
With those small wheels, I think the speedo is off by about 7 mph at an indicated 70 mph.  That's according to comparison with a GPS.  I had a set of Formula wheels lined up but were sold before I could get to them.

For the tach-speedometer comparison, the actual speed of the car (from the tire size) doesn't matter. It just compares one gauge to another at a certain engine speed. One of the gauges in the coupe is off, and I suspect it's the tach.
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #137 on: October 21, 2012, 11:26:40 pm »
Quote from: Roger on October 21, 2012, 08:39:10 pm
I''ve also heard through the grapevine that a tach filter on its last leg will cause erronious readings.

The 88 4-cylinder doesn't have a tach filter.
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #138 on: October 21, 2012, 11:43:46 pm »
Quote from: TopNotch on October 21, 2012, 11:24:59 pm
Quote from: Fierofool on October 21, 2012, 04:44:03 pm
With those small wheels, I think the speedo is off by about 7 mph at an indicated 70 mph.  That's according to comparison with a GPS.  I had a set of Formula wheels lined up but were sold before I could get to them.

For the tach-speedometer comparison, the actual speed of the car (from the tire size) doesn't matter. It just compares one gauge to another at a certain engine speed. One of the gauges in the coupe is off, and I suspect it's the tach.

What I was referring to was that with smaller tires, the speedo will register higher than actual because the tires make more revolutions per mile and the tach speed will be higher at any given speed when the car is in motion.  At idle, of course the tires don't come into play.  Tach and speedo don't have effect on  one another, except that the ECM may use the data to compare in its look-up table.  I agree that it looks like the tach is incorrect and reading high. 
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #139 on: October 22, 2012, 03:07:29 am »
I would be willing to donate the wheels from the T-Top, once I determine whether I'm going to use the tires from it on my VW project. My plan was to put the tires on new 15x7 wheels that I have, but I'm not sure they're the size I need for it. Once I've determined the size tires I need, I might be able to donate the tires too or sell them at a very reasonable rate (& not have to take them off of the Formula wheels).
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #140 on: October 22, 2012, 08:13:37 am »
Thanks, Paul.  We'll take you up on that offer. 
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #141 on: November 01, 2012, 05:04:43 pm »
Fierofool and I are going to work on the Little Duke Coupe at my house on Saturday (the 3rd). If you would like to join in, PM me, and I will send you my address (in Lawrenceville).
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #142 on: November 03, 2012, 06:52:47 pm »
Today Pat and I spent the day renovating the Coupe.  It got a new dash, a new set of seats from my 87 GT, a complete console from front to rear and a new Delco radio from a Grand Prix.  We also removed the instrument pod and replaced the trip odometer, but alas it was for naught.  The trip odometer still doesn't work. 

We also found something I have never seen before.  It has a console skeleton that has no screw holes stripped nor any cracks or breaks.
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #143 on: November 17, 2012, 05:59:41 pm »
Today I fixed the heater control on the LDC. It was blowing only through the defroster vents, no matter where you positioned the control. Someone on Pennocks had said that an 88 coupe without AC was supposed to be that way, but I didn't believe it for a minute. And guess what I found when I took it apart? A broken cable clamp...

I tried gluing it, but it didn't hold. So I made a clamp out of aluminum...

Now the air blows where you direct it, so I don't have to have cold feet if I drive the car.
Notice that the other clamp is cracked, and may break some day. If it does, I'll do the same thing.
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #144 on: November 17, 2012, 07:19:22 pm »
Good find.  You might want to post that up on PFF, too.  The consensus seemed to be that all 88's without AC worked that way. 
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #145 on: March 30, 2013, 08:20:59 pm »
The club car has decent wheels now. We don't have all the original center caps for these wheels, so I put on some chrome lug nut caps, and found the center caps on Ebay -- and they fit perfectly.

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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #146 on: March 30, 2013, 11:35:08 pm »
Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #147 on: March 31, 2013, 08:27:47 am »
Quote from: Fierofool on March 30, 2013, 11:35:08 pm
Pictures, Pictures, Pictures!
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #148 on: March 31, 2013, 11:22:09 pm »
Those aren't the center caps that go on the wheels.  What happened to the original Pacer caps?  I guess those will do until another original can be found. 
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Re: Little Duke Coupe
« Reply #149 on: April 01, 2013, 08:26:02 am »
Does this mean the club doesn't want my Formula wheels for the little Duke coupe?
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