Started Cleaning Up the '94 DGGM

I think I'm bringing this to the 'fest this year so I thought I'd share some pics. It's my '94 DGGM daily driver. I got it from Fred about 4 years ago and have hardly taken to time to wash it in that time. Recently I'm "in between jobs", so I had some time to clean it up. Also last fall I put a T56 in it. I still have a lot of detailing to do but it's coming around nicely.

Anyway, I had these parts on the shelf so I thought I'd put them to use - an Impala grille, LTZ hood badge, body colored door handles, etc. I may borrow the Impala SS wheels off my DCM '95 just for the fest. The DCM is down for a botched gear install that I don't have the money to fix at the moment.

I also blacked out the B and C pillars. Not sure I like it. Too bad since I used paint!

Nice Kevin. Show me the inside as it looks like you still have the bench seat in this one.

I just got my t56 over the weekend and will probably ask the same amount of questions as the pics I take.

On your wagon above, turtle wax ice,liquid,will make your roofrack and rear glass handle look like new. It won't bleach it white either like other waxes. It will last for months and dust won't stick to it.

lornejay1 wrote:

Nice Kevin. Show me the inside as it looks like you still have the bench seat in this one.

I just got my t56 over the weekend and will probably ask the same amount of questions as the pics I take.

On your wagon above, turtle wax ice,liquid,will make your roofrack and rear glass handle look like new. It won't bleach it white either like other waxes. It will last for months and dust won't stick to it.

Thanks, Lorne - I'll pick up some of the ice stuff. I still need to run some glaze over it as it has quite a few swirl marks. I had to hit it hard with compound go get rid of most of the scratches.

Glad to see you're doing the T56 mod. And my answer to your first question is... 4.56 gears!

I'll snap some pics of the interior soon, but for now here is a view from the back seat. The seat can only be forward about 1" from all the way back or it won't go into 2/4/6. I need to custom bend a handle to get around that problem - or install a console.

I told you the 56's were the way to go!

Nice looking wagon. The pillars will look better if you hit them with some gloss clear coat. Needs to be shiny between the shiny glass pieces.

Buy a Hurst shift handle/arm. They make them for bench seat cars, too.

Thats cool Kevin.

I guess I just need to do this to see what all the fuss is. Buying Mikes car allows this and other mods I want like exhaust and bonnies to now happen.

Actually since the shifter knob doesn't have any gear pattern on it,we aren't sure where reverse is. Looks like over and up on yours in the pic.

Do you need to push down or pull up to get R ?

Well, Bill... I originally had them in semi-gloss, and I thought they were too shiney. I did some 'sperimentin' to get them to appear more like the rest of the black trim around the windows and roof rack, etc. I think I like it better. Maybe I'll see some shiny ones at the fest.

Lorne, yep, they're all over and up. There is an electric solenoid that needs to be hooked up for the reverse lockout to disengage. When you do, the car needs to be going less than a couple miles per hour in order to go into reverse. Works great. Let me know what year your car is and I'll shoot you detailed instructions. The '95s are a little easier. The '94s need some pins changed on one of the PCM connectors but it isn't too difficult.

Alternatively, you can just push past the solenoid to get it into reverse. It goes in pretty easy even if the solenoid isn't hooked up.

Looks nice!

the f2b kit comes with a handle relocating bracket,. turn it around and move the shifter forward then add the big bent hurst handle,.
bench seat with a 6 spd?? pffft.
bench shifter<<link

Nick

Looks sweet. I'd really like a t56 myself.....someday.

Clean!

Hit that steering wheel with some SEM Prep and then Medium Grey - it'll look like new!

bigoldv8 wrote:

Clean!

Hit that steering wheel with some SEM Prep and then Medium Grey - it'll look like new!

Yes, I very much need to do that.

Further up on the list is some mechanical stuff, though. In fact, it will no longer start unless I take a hair dryer to the optispark for a while. Any humidity at all and it'll just backfire and not start. I'll have to take it apart and have a look see.

Kevin, when my 95 wagon did that, it was not the opti, is was a rusty coil wire.

had the same problem several years back due to a split ignition coil. at night you could see the sparks jumping. yee ha!!!

Yeah, check/swap the coil and coil wire first and see what that does.

PS - nice wagon!

+3 on the coil wire,squirt copious amounts of wd40 on it next time it doesn't want to start.

Coil wire is new, I replaced it the first time this happened. No change.

The coil may well be the culprit... I'll check that out.