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Bought a turbo brick that was out behind a barn.

It's already completely molested TB style. You just gotta bring that back to life. I wonder what brand those ancient looking coilovers came from? Hopefully there are some good shocks inside those struts. Looks like some type of camber plate, too.
 
dl242gt said:
It's already completely molested TB style. You just gotta bring that back to life. I wonder what brand those ancient looking coilovers came from? Hopefully there are some good shocks inside those struts. Looks like some type of camber plate, too.
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I am proud of the TB style I inherited and hope it will one day ride again.
 
As I try to resurrect I am running into an issue with the electrical. 1st I was able to cut out the rotted wire sheathing and pull the wiring that had already been replaced through the firewall and connected it inside the car. PSX_20240105_163827.jpgPSX_20240105_163941.jpg
 
Now Im trying to figure out what is what?

For instance. toggle.jpg
I see this toggle switch that I had hoped shot rockets or some 007 shenanigans, but it looks like the red wire goes to a coolant sensor between the radiator and water pump....am I supposed to plug one of those guys into the third prong?
 
I went to put in new injectors and broke the bolt holding the injector housing to the head....then I broke the extractor in the bolt in the head....so I reversed course and took the head off for a second time....and was able to get the extractor bit out, with help from my friend seen here, but not the broken bolt, so it was decided to drill out the bolt and tap a size up to accommodate a new bolt...ugh. boltremoval.jpg
 
Ugh, I hate breaking bolts, and even worse is breaking the extractor lol, been there! What a neat project, my kind of guy who wants to buy the car in the bushes rather than in the barn. I'm leaving both my 240s in pasture in hopes they age as gracefully as yours! Looks like you are well on your way, lots of fun in store but looks like it should be fun when all done. I see the WBO2, is it stock turbo? Wonder what he's got for chips or tune, I admittedly know zero about kjet. I dig the louvers too, really great find and Soo cool to see it being cared for and given a sixth life.

Edit- wish could help with the wiring but a lot of that looks like user installed and you will have to use a meter and maybe jump wires to track that all down. No idea on the plugs under the hood, don't recall those on mine but I have lh2.4.
 
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Dave Barton's site has lots of wiring info, id venture a guess of idle valve and coolant temperature sensor but your plugs look oval compared to these black square types.
 
dl242gt said:
I wonder what brand those ancient looking coilovers came from? Hopefully there are some good shocks inside those struts. Looks like some type of camber plate, too.
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Those are some DIY units with Coleman racing sleeves, the camber plates are very early Kaplhenke units, most likely in the 2007-2010 vintage

The struts could probably be sand blasted and refinished. definitely looks like someone stripped them and didn't do a good job at picking a new coating.
 
HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT'S MY OLD CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I drove that thing out there from Monterey in like 2011, because Tucker was in love with it and him buying it would pay for the road trip across the country (my wife had never driven across the states). It was super fun two weeks that involved doing donuts around Tuckers old place where you picked the car up in an A4 Quattro on takeoff Grand Am rain tires. Like the entire house at like 40mph, good times.

The headgasket blew like 6 months after I sold it to him and work travel kept him from getting it done for long enough that it became lawn art.

There was DEFINITELY no cruise control back then, so that wiring looks unfamiliar. As for the switch, the previous owner put that in and it used to provide power to an electric fan up front, iirc.

Anyways, I''m so glad it's not rotting and that the MX-5 seats still look fuckin' ace in there, haha. Those came from one of the MX5 Cup cars in the Laguna Seca Skippy fleet back in like 2008, so I'm CERTAIN they outlived their original chassis by now, haha. I had that car for like three years and it was a fucking RIOT.

Edit: That's right, it was the helicoil that he shot out of the head after a few months, lol. We got a shit tank of gas in New Mexico on the way out, and when I went to swap plugs in the parking lot in Austin the next day, one of them came out with a god damned helicoil wrapped around it, lol. We got it to a local shop who claimed he had king-serts and went ahead and installed another helicoil (in hindsight I don't think he understood what I was asking for when I asked if he could install a king-sert, and figured I meant a brand of helicoil). The car ran great again for like six more months when it spit the plug out, and that's when it got parked. Really a bummer because if it weren't for his travel schedule it wasn't a big job to fix.

Edit 2: Just noticed your screen name, OP. Hell yeah.
 
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blkaplan said:
Those are some DIY units with Coleman racing sleeves, the camber plates are very early Kaplhenke units, most likely in the 2007-2010 vintage

The struts could probably be sand blasted and refinished. definitely looks like someone stripped them and didn't do a good job at picking a new coating.
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Good eye! The struts weren't stripped, but single stage enamel didn't hold up great sitting in grass for like 7 years... They had Bilstein inserts when I sold it.
 
I just finished up my semester at school and now have some time to return to the project. To open this up and see that the Sweeney has somehow been reunited with the car he named is incredible to me! Please stay tuned.
 
Trying to get fuel to the injectors. Fuel lines are disconnected at injectors. I can manually pull up the plate on the kjet with a magnet and fuel is coming out after trying to start, but only if I pull it up manually, and not when I'm turning it over. I had previously taken the kjet apart to clean it and wonder if I adjusted something in the process. Thinking that I may need to take it back off and move this little fellow? SensorScrew.jpg

On the bright side I tried to fire it up before this using starter fluid and it did however briefly. That was a first. To my amusement I see that pecans shot out the tailpipe...I do not have any pecan trees, but think that Tucker, the prior owner, did. Pecans0.jpg
 
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