msweeney
Active member
- Joined
- Jan 1, 2010
- Location
- Monterey, CA
So, I have gotten to the point with my '84 242 Turbo where it can't really get much faster and stay smog legal in CA. What to do? Buy a smog exempt wagon and go nuts on it, obviously!
So I bought this guy right here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842810633/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842811223/
I should really clarify that it is the one on the right, to avoid confusion. It's an old, beat car, but it's really straight and very clean car under the faded paint and the oily engine bay. The PO was a joy to deal with, and I want to build this car right so that he doesn't regret selling it to me. It's had a long, good life as a stocker, and the time is right to make it a project.
Obviously, it had an entirely intolerable ride height, and even though I only drove it for a week before putting it on stands and tearing into it, I had to do something about that. So I broke out the Rotary Car Lowering Device and cut the crap out of the springs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842811699/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842812145/
Now that it looked better, I went for one last ride in the super slow hipster wagon, then brought it inside to get started for realsies. For the record, it did handle, um, less badly with the cut springs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842813157/
I bought a sacrificial B230F (1990, hope it's a fat rod!) for the initial swap, and got my cherry picker out and unloaded it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6843117147/
I got this thing from Lord_Athlon a while back with a harness and some bits, but I'm going to do my own harness after watching our Grand Am cars get wired. It says Megasquirt V2.2, is that MS1 v2.2? Is that a good thing to throw on this thing, or should a dumbass like me try something a little more advanced?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6409908905/
My buddy Abe came over and we broke out the cherry picker again to pull the motor:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842814925/
and the cherry picker ran out of propane RIGHT HERE!!!! We literally had about 40 seconds left:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842817243/
I got the engine out the next day, and started to clean the engine bay. I also bought this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842818309/
Out of this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842816627/
Yes, those are bullet holes, and yes, that is blood. Yes, it was the cops who shot the driver. No, the driver who stole the car and used it in a drive-by didn't die. Neither did the guy he shot. Most importantly; yes, it is a world class T5.
I've also collected all these parts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842821251/
and these parts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842821777/
and I'm going to put them all in here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842822451/
That's a ton of cleaning in that picture, BTW. The motor has big stainless exhaust valves, ported head, h-beams, Mahle pistons, B-cam. I plan on putting a bigger cam in there, but I'm stoked on this piece! I plan on getting it running on the stock crap engine I bought, then swapping the good lump in, start making power, and building the first motor into a good spare. I also plan on making a lot of tire smoke.
Woohoo!
Mike
So I bought this guy right here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842810633/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842811223/
I should really clarify that it is the one on the right, to avoid confusion. It's an old, beat car, but it's really straight and very clean car under the faded paint and the oily engine bay. The PO was a joy to deal with, and I want to build this car right so that he doesn't regret selling it to me. It's had a long, good life as a stocker, and the time is right to make it a project.
Obviously, it had an entirely intolerable ride height, and even though I only drove it for a week before putting it on stands and tearing into it, I had to do something about that. So I broke out the Rotary Car Lowering Device and cut the crap out of the springs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842811699/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842812145/
Now that it looked better, I went for one last ride in the super slow hipster wagon, then brought it inside to get started for realsies. For the record, it did handle, um, less badly with the cut springs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842813157/
I bought a sacrificial B230F (1990, hope it's a fat rod!) for the initial swap, and got my cherry picker out and unloaded it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6843117147/
I got this thing from Lord_Athlon a while back with a harness and some bits, but I'm going to do my own harness after watching our Grand Am cars get wired. It says Megasquirt V2.2, is that MS1 v2.2? Is that a good thing to throw on this thing, or should a dumbass like me try something a little more advanced?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6409908905/
My buddy Abe came over and we broke out the cherry picker again to pull the motor:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842814925/
and the cherry picker ran out of propane RIGHT HERE!!!! We literally had about 40 seconds left:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842817243/
I got the engine out the next day, and started to clean the engine bay. I also bought this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842818309/
Out of this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842816627/
Yes, those are bullet holes, and yes, that is blood. Yes, it was the cops who shot the driver. No, the driver who stole the car and used it in a drive-by didn't die. Neither did the guy he shot. Most importantly; yes, it is a world class T5.
I've also collected all these parts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842821251/
and these parts:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842821777/
and I'm going to put them all in here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70826999@N05/6842822451/
That's a ton of cleaning in that picture, BTW. The motor has big stainless exhaust valves, ported head, h-beams, Mahle pistons, B-cam. I plan on putting a bigger cam in there, but I'm stoked on this piece! I plan on getting it running on the stock crap engine I bought, then swapping the good lump in, start making power, and building the first motor into a good spare. I also plan on making a lot of tire smoke.
Woohoo!
Mike
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