So this morning, I was told by my lead that I was going to have OT. Not expecting this, I had to get "The Mexican" on auto insurance, pronto as it ruined my evening plans immediately following work and my wife needed to handle business in my place. I called up my insurance company as I was planning on taking care of that on Friday. I got the car added to my policy, easy peasy. My wife was able to handle business without worry.
After I got home from work, we went out for our first official family drive in "The Mexican". We went out for dinner to a taco place 15-ish minutes away from home. She drove beautifully though, the tires' "tu tu tu tu tu" sound was still softly persistent on the city streets. It's serves as a reminder that I still can't drive the car to work as my daily driver until I get those new tires.
On this drive, I had my OBD-II scanner plugged in feeding me live data where I was most concerned about engine temps. Knowing that the temp gauge on these cars isn't "accurate" I wanted to see what the range actually told me what temps were. The hottest the car got was 230F and this was in the 5-ish miles uphill climb where these temps were seen. At 230F, the temp needle got to 3/4 of the way up the gauge and so this tells me what I needed to know about this gauge temperature zone vs actual engine temp. While 230F isn't necessarily concerning, 230F when it is 85F makes me wonder what it would be like at higher ambient temperature, especially now that days are hovering right around 100F here in SoCal. Makes me glad I got the closed vane water pump and new FoMoCo thermostat to pair with the replacement intake manifold.
Now, as I write this sitting on the driver seat waiting for my wife and daughter to finish their shopping run, I plugged in my old 12v BT adapter into the cigarette lighter to broadcast via antenna to my speakers. It's archaic compared to today's technology of touchscreens and whatnot, but it's the only way to get any sort of "tech" into this car short of finding a single din solution with touchscreen at a reasonable price.
Writing this as I sit with my boy - him riding shotgun - and admire the view and admire the car as we wait for my wife and daughter to finish their shopping run.
