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budda
Location: Cincinnati Gender: Male Total Likes: 181 likes
I love it when you call me Big Poppa
| | | | Project progress thread < on 5/15/2012 9:29 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | If you're like me and subscribe to the philosophy that real rides are built and not bought, chances are you've got something pretty cool kicking around your garage. So let's see them!! Post your ride, your plans, and progress. Mine's kinda a long story sorry. P1080408 by itsbudda, on Flickr I hope to replace the hood very soon to get rid of that ridiculous scoop the previous owner installed. It's not even mounted correctly, and he cut a gaping hole under it, so it just rains all over the engine bay. My current project is a 1991 Dodge Spirit ES turbo. Codename, Zombie Curry, the named derived from the steering wheel's tendency to make a sexual moaning sound whenever turned. The previous owners, and myself all have alot of work into this car. It came to me with a full 2.5 inch exhaust, front mount intercooler, new racing clutch and pressure plate, Stage 3 computer with +20% injectors. Back in 2009, I upgraded the turbo to a garrett, added the TurboXS RFL blow off valve, put a high flow Walbro fuel pump, and had it boosting at 12-14psi. The car was often a reliability nightmare, and popped the headgasket twice (later found to have a warped head i had to get shaved .08in) and developed some serious drivability issues around the fuel injector circuit that I was attempting to diagnose, until the headgasket and timing belt both ended up going within 2 weeks of each other. Spent the next few months working on it, put it back together only for it not to start. Completely out of money, I gave up and abandoned the car. It has very minimal rust for a car this age so I decided to hold onto it, just in case. rebuilt Garrett T03 Turbo prior to installation What the engine bay looked like circa 2009. Fuck yeah luxury P1080058 by itsbudda, on Flickr Nice and clean somehow after 21 winters.Fast forward 2 years, my Taurus SHO died, leaving me with 2 dead cars, so once again it seemed fit to work my ass off on one of them, and the spirit was the one I have experience with, so I started tinkering with the timing, and managed to get the car to fire. With some fine tuning, I now had it running really well, and strangely all of the previous issues are just gone. Sadly it was puking oil from the turbo oil feed (got stripped) and the oil pan gasket had somehow been ripped into shreds. Fixed the gasket, and currently all I'm waiting on to have the engine running again is an oil line that should arrive probably tomorrow. Also waiting on some titlework to get done before I can plate it. P1080056 by itsbudda, on Flickr The engine bay now. Waiting to replace that silver line that's wrapped around all stupid and attach the intake. Meanwhile inside, I found a nest of dead mice in the air conditioning fan. Found out when I tested the fan. Blew a shit ton of fur and dust directly in my face. Fucking gross. I about had a panic attack. Wasn't fun to clean that up either. If there's a hell, I imagine it looks similar to this. My current plans for it now are just to get it back on the road, see how it does, and keep the boost around 11psi, and later crank it back up to 14 Then probably start making it less shitty (fix the windows and such.) P1080407 by itsbudda, on Flickr After some sanding, painting some primer over it later this evening EDIT: TADA!!!! $12 Worth the rattlecan primer later P1080409 by itsbudda, on Flickr Anyway, post up your rides, share ideas and such
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Location: Lancaster, Ohio Gender: Male Total Likes: 5 likes
| | | | Re: Project progress thread < Reply # 2 on 5/15/2012 11:31 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I actually like that. Should be a hell of a sleeper. Right now, I have, sitting in my grandmother's garage, untouched for near on 2 years, a 1977 Jaguar XJ-6L named Elizabeth. I've got plenty of ideas, but no free time or spare money. So she sits, for now, but at least she's under a roof. What she looked like the day I drug her home (for $200). Pretty much everything is there...The only thing not included that I've found so far have been the front and back bumpers and the hood ornament. Stock Jag 6 cylinder, won't run, unknown electrical problems (surprise!). About the only thing I've done so far has been what I can do for free. I've assembled the parts that came with the car, but weren't on it, just so I could see what it looked like, and started to get the engine ready to pull. I'm not even messing with that. Eventually, it'll get the Chevy small-block swap (though hopefully with something a little different than every other 350, maybe a 327 or 400.) And, if I'm feeling particularly adventurous, I'd love to swap a stick shift into it, but I haven't found a kit for that so it would be a pain. We'll see. Stock body and interior but sbc swapped Jags are dime a dozen, so I'm going to go full-on rat rod with this baby. Lowered a couple inches, stock steel rims powder coated gloss red with chrome bullet lug nuts. Satin black paint with gloss red, white pinstriped scallops coming off all 4 headlights, probably some red and white pinstriping elsewhere. Cherry bomb exhaust that exits just in front of the rear wheels. The inside of the hood will be painted red and white checkerboard...The engine will have old school Mickey Thompson valve covers. The interior will have bright red leather seats and a headliner made from these shirts. The dashboard is stock woodgrain, I'm debating whether to leave it as it is, refinish it, or make a new dashboard (perhaps out of used, ratty skateboard decks). If it comes out looking anything like it does in my head, I'll be thrilled. The garage it's stored in isn't heated (and has no way to be heated), so I haven't been touching it in the winters, hopefully this summer I'll have some free time to at least pull the engine and transmission, but I'll have no money as I'm saving for my wedding. EDIT: coding
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