Got home at 3 am gf is gonna be pissed if the bed smells like gasoline when she come back tomorrow
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Got home at 3 am gf is gonna be pissed if the bed smells like gasoline when she come back tomorrow
Not for holes, just the tiny dimples where spot welds are, and at the transitions between pieces to smooth it a bit and see how I feel about the look before I put in the labor to do it in metal. Actual holes will be filled in, likely with actual welding but may go for an epoxy since it's non structural.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
After letting it dry and sanding it smoother, I'm on the fence. Would be quite a bit of labor to fill everything in with a welder and smooth in, but I think that making sheet metal panels to cover would be just as (if not more) difficult. Going to have to think about it some. I do like the way that the sides of the bay look with the grooves and shit filled in.
I seriously can't figure out how the engine is supported in that first pic...:confused-new:Quote:
Originally Posted by VANCE
Because race car?Quote:
Originally Posted by drew0u812
Surprisingly, after Sunday I don't go back to work until the 26th. Have folks coming into town on the 23rd and 24th, but I should have most of the 22nd and the 25th free to work on the car stuff. The rear subframe is coated and can be installed once I'm done with my poly bushings for the rear subframe to body. Still need to break down the trailing arms to coat them and try to make a new bushing for the front of the arms (not high priority though since they should be relatively easy to do later on without dropping the whole thing again.)
Have a handful of new tools that should arrive today for the rewiring side of it. Dash has been pulled and will be moved inside for that project once the rear end is back together.
The chain is bolted to the trans.Quote:
Originally Posted by drew0u812
It's been 9 days since anyone has posted in this thread..Good grief.
Today I got some stuff shipped out, some more stuff packaged up. Went outside and looked at the car, hit the coated subframe with a hammer which produced a very small chip. Consider me relatively satisfied with it at this point, but when the car is rolling is going to be the real test. Spent some time doing more poly bushings, but pretty much in a holding pattern until I get more money in. At this point, thinking I'm pretty much just going to run a tap through every hole for the car that has had coating done, and run a die over every stud. Still need to do my AWS delete and coat the trailing arms, but that would let me reassemble the rear end of the car. Still have to complete the coating for the underside and the engine bay, but I'd like to do that soon so that I can put my suspension and body stuff back on and roll the car out of the garage. Give me much more room to work and so long as the car *looks* like it'd be in running shape, landlord said she doesn't mind. Just can't be missing body parts or be on jackstands.
I hear ya on reaming out the holes. The place I took mine put rubber plugs in some holes but not all. Makes it near impossible to run the bolt in. Might I suggest a thread chaser set rather than tap and dies? I tried tap and dies but the thread chasers worked much better.
I got my new flywheel, OEM clutch & RPS street max PP installed...Later this week the transaxle is going back in.
dropped an adapter I need for my fuel pressure gauge into the abyss... gone I think.
Shitty. Try shaking the car while it's on the ground to see if it comes out of where ever it's hiding?
Honestly, I do that enough I should just buy a rotisserie to flip the car over and get those things to drop :P
For the moment, I'm sitting here gazing wistfully at the Pampena 3.5L..While I've got a damned good machine shop here, I'm not sure if they'd be good enough to do the machining to the crank..So figure about 2k for the pistons and machine work for the crank, and then do the rest myself down here with my spare 4 bolt block.
Outside of a trip to Asheville to sell some parts today, don't have much on my agenda for today for car stuff. Going to try to reorganize the parts room and clean it up a bit, Snook and Krista are crashing here Saturday night on their way over to the Dragon so I've got to make space. Plus, with what I've sold I'll be able to bring some more stuff from the garage back in to try to give myself more room.
Called machine shop today. Block and crank are done but he still needs to measure rod bearing clearances for me. (Plastigauge isn't good enough and I don't have the proper tools.)
Block has been half filled with hard blok, bored/honed with tq plate for .005 PTW and resurfaced for MLS. Crank polished and balanced. Almost ready.....I still have some fabbing to do before I can assemble and drop it in but at least half way done.
Also need to pull steering rack to dissemble and convert to manual. (Remove seals and weld one area.)
Also need to pull trans pump to get to front clutches to install upgraded clutch pack.
Ugh...so much to do, so little vacation time left.
Most high end v8 shops should be fine for cutting down the 74 crank to fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by sergechronos
I'm probably going to have to drop the trans crossmember, I bet it fell into that area. I was putting a gauge sender on top of the stock fuel filter. Test fit was fine, removed for teflon paste and dropped it :( Was an uncommon NPT to BSPT adapter I had to order from mcmaster.Quote:
Originally Posted by sergechronos
Shitty, hate that. I've often thought of filling the gap between the cross member and body behind the fuel filter with expanding foam so that shit can't keep falling down in there..On the other hand, when I took all that stuff off, I got a socket and a wrench thanks to a previous owner :P Wooo!Quote:
Originally Posted by Forest Gump
Washer and drier are out in the garage now. Have to try to rearrange everything else in the garage since I had to move it all over to fit the washer and drier through there. Think I may just try to slide the ass end of the car over closer to the wall and put it on stands rather than in the middle. The way it was before, had about 18" to 24" of space on each side of the car. Enough to get through, but not much else. If I keep it slid over, that'd give me about 3 foot on the passenger side of the car. Enough that I can actually have some shit set up there. Considering I can get into the car through the passenger side and until I put the suspension, wheels and body parts back on I don't need access to the driver side, doesn't seem like a bad plan honestly. Would be nice to have enough room to actually hang and use my tool cabinet, or my rolling tool chests.
True, I've got to talk to my machine shop (had to go about an hour outside of Knoxville to find a good one that has good reputation for Mitsu work) and ask. I mentioned something about it last time I was there and they said that they could clearance the block and stuff for a stroker, didn't ask if they could do the machine work for the crank to fit. Really need to get more shit sold before I go down that route, and of course, track down a good used forged 6g74 crank if possible. Ones in the Monteros were cast weren't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by donniekak
Stop welding everything on the car damnit :p Wonder if that could somehow be coupled with an electronic power assist arrangement like a newer vehicle to keep things GT style, with less weight and hassle than the the OEM hydraulic set up requires. Would be extra nice if it got rid of some of the vague feel in the steering.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
At any rate, sold the old red seats. Ordered new fans for my old HD7950 graphics card, it's going into the girlfriend's new computer. Honestly have half a mind to just firesale all the parts I have left just to clear space and get some quick cash in. Would likely be giving up a huge chunk of cash to do so though. Just one of those thoughts that crosses my mind a few times a month. Once I get the coating done and can start putting suspension and body parts back on the car, will free up much more room.
Stock PS really isn't much weight or power drain; it just doesn't fit with the way I am currently arranging the engine bay.
I drove all summer with manual steering. Just need to finish it up.
found that adapter! fell right in front of where the rear brake and fuel lines go down towards the back of the car. checked the trans fluid and it was 4 ounces too full, checked the t-case and it was 3 ounces too low, lol.
Built the rear motor mount yesterday for 4g64 block. Uses the stock 4g block mount and what I built just attaches to the subframe at the stock 6g72 mtr mount location. So all of the mounts are now complete and everything is solidly mounted...Maximal trans mount. Custom drivers side, rear and front crossmember/mount.
(the glossy paint and pics make the welds look weird, but they look decent in person:D)
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Completed the hotside intercooler piping a couple days ago. 2.5" to 3".
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You should send me the mount so I can powder coat it for you... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
Intercooler pipes need powdercoated too:D Oh, and valve cover and catch can.
Depending on the size of the inetrcooler pipes I may be able to do them. My over is only so big. Max I can fit in the oven is a TT plenum right now. I eventually need to build a larger one. Valve cover and catch can wouldn't be an issue.
Not really much car related accomplished today due to work. Monday is my last day off this winter break before classes start again, unfortunately the plumber is supposed to show up then to replace this fucking hot water heater (which has started pumping rust out after about 10 minutes of running hot water and is still puking small amounts of water out of the spigot on the tank and out of a valve on top.) It'd be nice to finally get it done.
Have money in my pocket that I will be sitting on for a bit, but hopefully ordering my welder at the end of the month. Set to launch my poly front end bushings around that time, should have my rear bushings completed prototyping at that point, so big expenses but hopefully big returns on the horizon. Hopefully stuff works out and I can get money rolling through to help speed this rebuild along, would be nice to bring it with me to what should be my first NG (provided my sister doesn't give birth at the same time.)
Not really much car related accomplished today due to work. Monday is my last day off this winter break before classes start again, unfortunately the plumber is supposed to show up then to replace this fucking hot water heater (which has started pumping rust out after about 10 minutes of running hot water and is still puking small amounts of water out of the spigot on the tank and out of a valve on top.) It'd be nice to finally get it done.
Have money in my pocket that I will be sitting on for a bit, but hopefully ordering my welder at the end of the month. Set to launch my poly front end bushings around that time, should have my rear bushings completed prototyping at that point, so big expenses but hopefully big returns on the horizon. Hopefully stuff works out and I can get money rolling through to help speed this rebuild along, would be nice to bring it with me to what should be my first NG (provided my sister doesn't give birth at the same time.)
I dipped a set of R/T tail-lights today...LOL
http://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.ne...a52c522c6a4701
The light portion is taped off and the pic was taken right after the part was dipped so it is still wet. I'll be adding a tinted inner clear and then a satin top coat. I may have it all done tomorrow depending on how I feel.
I got these off of a junk yard car and they were a little dinged up. I didn't feel like wet sanding the shit out of them so this is a test...:p
Would love to see how well the light goes through them
The light won't go through the CF. The area that the light comes out of is taped off.
Here is the before dip photo showing the portion that the light comes out of is taped off:
http://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/h...37&oe=55240A3C
The whole assembly will be smoke tinted and then cleared.
Interested to see what it looks like when you're done.
Indeed!
I got the inner tint layer on. Camera phone does not do it justice. tomorrow I hope to get the final clear on and then wetsand/polish in the next couple days.
http://scontent-b-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/h...3d&oe=553CB706
http://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.ne...125ca85228f63a
http://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.ne...fa85d979e61e57
Sick!
Fuck yea! Want a set, how much?
Let me finish them first... Damn Coyotes...LOL
yep. precisely what i need to do my garnish too. :)
Built a catch can this weekend. Trying something new by having 5/8" OD alum tube fixed in valve cover and catchcan and will just used 5/8" hose and hose clamps instead of AN fittings (I was tired of the AN swivel fittings getting sticky.) Bought a 5/8" tube bender just for this project:)
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Engine bay is a bit of a mess right now, but should look somewhat tidy once it's all back together.
One vacuum source (The other vac source is the exhaust)....
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Hung the pistons on rods last night. Hopefully have time this weekend to finish assembling the engine, time, degree, check piston to valve and re-time. Also need to pull the mock-up engine and trans so I can "build" the trans (upgrade clutches and shift kit).
Very cool. This build excites me. What did you do the welding with? Looks like a spool gun maybe.
Was actually a TIG. My fitment of panels wasn't great (angle grinder fab tool:D) so I had to glob on the filler to make sure it sealed up tight. The "stack of dimes" looked like it was stacked by my 3 year old, so I went over many of the seams with the torch to smooth it out. Catch can is not a structural piece, so wasn't concerned about reheating it. (Not even sure that's a concern with aluminum like it is with stainless.)
Bottom line, I'm not a pro welder that turns out the welding artwork that I drool over on the interwebs:) But, I built it and it should function they way I intend with vacuum being pulled by turbo and exhaust (moroso exhaust crankcase evac kit) ;). (BTW, when someone charges $100-200 for a catchcan, that's a steal. This thing took FOREVER to cut and weld all of the components inside and out!)
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Originally Posted by DrGonzo
This plus the LED Halos!!! OMG gonna be awesome, will probably have 400 in the tails alone but fuck it haha!
Agreed, when you start to fab you own parts you begin to see why prices are the way they on on a lot of things.Quote:
Originally Posted by familyMAN
I got the clear coat on but I need to cut and polish it still. Been working on other things lately and giving the clear a chance to fully cure, which was like two days ago...LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Boomer3000
Yep! Things like downpipes, catbacks and intercooler piping I will continue to DIY but if I were to want a twinscroll manifold, I'll definitely outsource that to a somewhat local pro. Not worth the hassle.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrGonzo