The Alpine sat in the garage for most of the last 6 months due to bad weather and other pulls on my time. A couple of weeks ago, I took her for a drive and noted that her ability to maintain a good idle speed was compromised. Specifically, when fully warmed up and coming to … Continue reading Idle Speed Remediation
The floor mats that came with the Alpine are “ok” but rather bland: So – I thought I’d spruce things up a bit with some nicer mats – and they arrived yesterday from Germany. These have a nice “Alpine blue” border and the Alpine symbol on them – look great with the color of the … Continue reading New Floor Mats!
The previous owner of the Alpine had occasionally experienced a problem with the Alpine whereby it would just stop running while driving as if the ignition was switched off. It would not start until the car sat idle for a while and would happen somewhat randomly. Turns out, this is not uncommon for GTA turbos, … Continue reading Addressing the “heat sink” problem – new Crankshaft Position Sensor
One of the maintenance items on the Alpine that I want to undertake in the near future is to replace the fuel hoses in the engine bay – they are now 34 years old and live in a high heat environment. I got a super cool set from the UK today! Very nice stuff!! The … Continue reading Parts & Manuals from the UK arrived today!
Since last posting anything, I have been fairly busy, but I got around to doing some of the needed upgrades this week. First, I replaced the oil filter cooler hose that I repaired a few weeks ago with a new silicone hose. Here is the one I repaired – now off the car. Next I … Continue reading A Few Minor Upgrades
Got some nice autumn pictures of the Alpine with the SM yesterday while I was working on the Traction Avant in the garage. Interesting to see how close in size they are to one another. Continue reading Nice Autumn Day in the Driveway
The Alpine has a switch for a rear fog light but did not have a functional rear fog light. In some markets, rear fog lights were not allowed/offered. When I tested the switch, I could hear it triggering a relay on the fuse panel suggesting that my car was wired for one. Today, I took … Continue reading Rear Foglight
I just got a new keyring for the Alpine much like the ones for the Citroens…fun! Continue reading New keyring for the spare set of keys
A couple of weeks ago, I diagnosed the EVAP system on my GTA – among other issues, it was missing some very specific vacuum lines. It should have looked like the photo below (photo from the internet of someone else’s car) – a loop of vacuum hose coming from the charcoal canister to the right … Continue reading Replacing the missing EVAP vacuum lines
Nothing much to say other than I think the yellow headlights look great under glass! 🙂 : Continue reading Going French! New yellow headlight bulbs.
1990 Alpine GTA Turbo in Quilcene USA 