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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyThu Jun 25, 2009 1:41 am

wasnt it fun as hell to put that thing in. lol

looks good though!
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyThu Jun 25, 2009 1:44 am

Haha thanks, and thanks for the idea! It wasn't so bad, I messed up on clipping too much off the strips for fitting them a couple of times but I still have half the roll of chrome left.

I took the grille off the car and sized the strips up by the back of the fins.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyThu Jun 25, 2009 12:39 pm

Alright, here they are!

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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyThu Jun 25, 2009 12:43 pm

u did it exactly how i did it. when u got to the middle u centered it..
another guy that did it who hasnt been on here..did the thick ones all the way to the center then instead of centereing the last one he used the thin strips...looked very weird.

i agree with this way lookin better than his.
urs def looks more seemless than mine. good work!
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyThu Jun 25, 2009 12:47 pm

Thanks again man! Isn't it weird how all the mirrored surfaces together make it look like there are two huge gaps on either end of the grille?
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptySat Jun 27, 2009 4:53 pm

oh yea..that was actually brought when spacebar had the original idea..it didnt have to be perfect cuz the reflections make up for the errors. stupid human brains cant see the difference. again..love the grill. btw i stole one of the pics for the slideshow.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptySat Jul 11, 2009 10:26 pm

Update: I put some monster-size 1MB pics on the first page. These show my Riviera with all the mods I'm going to be doing, and show them in amazing detail. Check them out if you have the time, the pics don't take much time to load.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:38 pm

Here's pics of my LED tails! I bought a pair of red 194 LED's to see how they'd look over the lisence plate but they were too dim so I'm using them in the center bulb. The dual-filament bulbs are staying as they are, but the center lights and reverse lights are LED's! I got blue ones for the reverse, and they look great.

The taillights look like they have eyes now, since they leave a ring of dim area around the center of the light. The dim area is the color of the eye, and the light at the middle is the pupil. See if you can see what I'm talking about. It's not just a point of light in the middle though, the whole taillight stays lit.


Sun's going down...

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The eyes come out!

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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:49 pm

look out its the fast and the furious.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:50 pm

Blue Reverse lights? C'mon man...
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:50 pm

Hope the po-po dont get mad about the blue! lol
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:54 pm

Haha it's not like I'm gonna be reversing all over the place, or going long enough for the police to pull me over for such a stupid thing. 2 seconds and the regulars are back in. I like blue LED's.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:56 pm

IBx1 wrote:
Haha it's not like I'm gonna be reversing all over the place, or going long enough for the police to pull me over for such a stupid thing. 2 seconds and the regulars are back in. I like blue LED's.

They'll pull you over for anything...$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:57 pm

But how will they see these lights if they only go on when the car is in reverse? They don't stay on all the time haha!
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:58 pm

IBx1 wrote:
But how will they see these lights if they only go on when the car is in reverse?

When you back up, and they're looking at you.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 9:59 pm

L67 might have a point..i wouldnt be surprised if it would be worth a fine. PA is really strict with their stuff. no matter what. i knew some guy who was driving through PA and got pulled over for havin his tint too dark. yes..just driving through. had like 100 some fine.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 10:02 pm

Ah well, people get away with tinting all their windows all the time here(you're not allowed to have any tint on the front windows at all), and I have a get out free card, and we know plenty of law enforcement officers personally, and I've never gotten a ticket or anything before in my life; I don't speed or anything. I'll keep a pair of 3157's in the trunk and change them back right in front of them if they really want to pull me over for it.
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyMon Jul 13, 2009 10:11 pm

just put on your flashers and play with your shifter and they'll think you are in a police car
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lmao lmao lmao lmao

"Wait, wait, I'm one of you guys, see?!?!" (blows transmission shifting from R to N too many times)
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Can't believe I forgot these...washed my car in June and took some pics at night at the mall. These are from before the chrome grille and LED tail centers:

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I sent you a PM Ilan. happy
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyTue Aug 04, 2009 7:42 pm

Alright, update, turns out it was a bad bearing. The mechanic who's house I dropped my car off at said that when he spins the pulley with the belt off, there isn't the back and forth play of a worn coupler, but a grinding noise made by bad bearings(he works on differentials a lot so he knows his stuff), so that put a delay only as long as the shipping for the bearing rebuild kit. He's gonna do the coupler and bearing at the same time since the snout's off and the coupler is a slide-on repair.

What we think happened:

The bearing seal weakened and possibly cracked over time, leaking enough S/C oil out to set off the horrible smell I smelled a few weeks ago, the last time I really drove the car at all. As the S/C oil was leaked away from the bearing by the worn seal, it wasn't getting as much oil as it should and weakened over time, producing the gradually increasingly bad chugging "pebbles in the intake" noise. The rebuild kit I purchased and had shipped to his house has a viton seal as opposed to nitrile, so it should last much longer than stock, not that I'll see the end of this seal's life.

Should have the car back at the end of the week, just in time to have it inspected(I believe it goes up 08/14/09, cutting it close!), since it was delivered at 1:30PM today. Shipped yesterday afternoon at about 3PM on 1-3 day ground shipping from Kearny, NJ, and it's up in Stormville, NY now.
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what goes up, the cost of inspections
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Really? How much is it now?
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PostSubject: Re: My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera   My Adriatic Blue '95 Riviera - Page 8 EmptyTue Aug 04, 2009 9:56 pm

Hey, for everyone wondering, here's where I bought my bearing rebuild kit:

http://www.rollingperformance.com/snoutkits.htm

And here's a detailed write-up provided by the site on rebuilding the snout:

http://www.rollingperformance.com/snoutrebuild.htm


I recommend the second choice from the top, for $75($10 more than Nitrile) you get the Viton seal which replaces the part that wears down over time, leaking oil away from the bearings and causing the wear that makes the noise. $9 shipping, the lowest option offered, is 1-3 day ground service, so for $84 you get everything you need except the S/C-to-LIM gasket. 2 bottles of S/C oil, 2 replacement bearings, the seal, and a tube of gasket maker for putting the snout back on. They also offer ceramic ball bearings which they claim last 2-5 times longer than OEM steel bearings, but those kits go for $200.
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