What did you do today to your 3/S?

**DocWalt** · 09-02-2016, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by DK77

Waiting for some boxes with stuffs in them to show up

round shiny things?

**DrGonzo** · 09-02-2016, 03:14 PM

Cleaning up the garage and packing away as much as I can. Trying to get every single thing out of the shop that I can. Then pulling in the stealth to strip it all down bare. I have 5 weeks off in Dec so planning to paint the car during that time. So lots to do in the next 2 months! Was actually thinking about setting up cameras in the shop to record it all....

**Uniuno** · 09-02-2016, 03:45 PM

I couldn't do the camera thing. It just wouldn't work with my ADHD.

**Uniuno** · 09-02-2016, 03:53 PM

Bought a minty fresh one owner, 21k mile, fiji blue vr4.

It does have a bit of wheel gap up front, but that will be taken car of once I put the engine back in.

It has one scratch on the rear quarter panel. It will be taken care of.

**fastfalcon94** · 09-02-2016, 04:41 PM

Damn you! I bid $5100 on that, and tried to bid more with 3 seconds left but it didn't go through.

Originally Posted by Uniuno

Bought a minty fresh one owner, 21k mile, fiji blue vr4.

It does have a bit of wheel gap up front, but that will be taken car of once I put the engine back in.

It has one scratch on the rear quarter panel. It will be taken care of.

**DrGonzo** · 09-02-2016, 04:45 PM

Sounds like you got outbid...LOL

**fastfalcon94** · 09-02-2016, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by DrGonzo

Sounds like you got outbid...LOL

Yeah, stupid "confirm" screen messed with me. Would have been better if I wasn't on my phone with crappy service in my friends pit crew for a demolition derby. I bid 5500 with 3 seconds left, then some stupid confirm button popped up at the bottom of the screen. I clicked it but I guess it wasn't fast enough. Curious what your "max" bid was. I have a 6 speed setup and 4 bolt motor I was going to put in it to resell. The seller said he'd take $700 off my bid too if I didn't want the stealth. At least I scored a pretty sweet targa vr4 this week.

**DK77** · 09-02-2016, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by DocWalt

round shiny things?

I think they're matte silver.

**stealthee** · 09-05-2016, 08:26 PM

I had intentions on working on the Stealth this weekend but I ended up not being home all weekend.

I did help my cousin yank the engine out of a project Talon his girlfriend bought. We bolted it to the stand, flipped it over, yanked the pan and as soon as I grabbed #4 rod I knew I had found the problem.

Pulled the cap and found this

**Uniuno** · 09-06-2016, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by fastfalcon94

Yeah, stupid "confirm" screen messed with me. Would have been better if I wasn't on my phone with crappy service in my friends pit crew for a demolition derby. I bid 5500 with 3 seconds left, then some stupid confirm button popped up at the bottom of the screen. I clicked it but I guess it wasn't fast enough. Curious what your "max" bid was. I have a 6 speed setup and 4 bolt motor I was going to put in it to resell. The seller said he'd take $700 off my bid too if I didn't want the stealth. At least I scored a pretty sweet targa vr4 this week.

I was actually at the guy's place in the middle of BFE looking at the cars with about 20 minutes left on the auction. I only had one bar of service to work with so I had to make it count. I put in a max of 6k, so I'm glad your last bid didn't go through, would have cost me even more! lol.

That is a sweet targa, looks like it was done well too.

I got the stealth home over the weekend and started pulling it apart. I got it running, but it was leaking fuel out of the return line at the tank so I couldn't leave it running for long. Didn't sound like valves (as the ad stated) but I checked them out anyway. The heads looked fresh and have '99 lifters in them. Pulled a lifter out and there was a decent amount of trash in the bottom. Compression test was 150psi across the board. The oil pan was dented and leaking so I pulled it. Lots of glitter in the bottom of the pan. Did the wiggle test on the rod caps and found a loose one. "6 rod bearing halves decided to get kinky and hopped on top of each other.

So that engine is toast.

Not that I would swap a 141k engine into a 21k mile car, but it would have been nice to use as a core for rebuild. I might end up using the 2 bolt that I have in my white car. Just need to have the 3.5 rebuilt first.