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[PowerWheels86]

I got it back in 2005! We've been together for a decade come July...

I'm building this car at midnight! And then I try to update my builds and well hahaha I guess I was too tired to be posting stuff... Hahaha I accidentally deleted it...

[PowerWheels86]

Made some progress on the motor assembly..











Also started another project... I call it the roof sled!!

[PowerWheels86]

wrestled around with this the passed couple of days...

 

 

let me tell you, there is a certain order that these motors have to go in... for the most part i usually remember them.... but keep the intake off... install the rear mount, attach it to the rear of the motor, then tinker with the left front mount.... then back to the rear to mount those two bolts to the tranny... then using a jack under the tranny just beneath the tranny mount jack it until it lines up!!

 

 

I know i'm absolutely gonna dread the day i have to change out the clutch... which coincidentally i plan on swapping the internals from an S80 into an LS tranny case, so when the clutch goes, i'll also be replacing the tranny as well... fingers crossed it all goes as planned...

 

now i just need to wait for my S300 to arrive and then i can hit up the tuner and get this bad boy on the road!!

[SHOGUNOVDDRK]

do you know roughly how much room you've had to make for the intake to clear the firewall? If any?

Thank you for posting the order of the engine install, I may need it later on.

Edited by SHOGUNOVDDRK, 29 April 2015 - 02:31 AM.

[PowerWheels86]

well i've got the old skunk2 intake, i know i banged out the firewall just a bit as a precaution, i've got a few mm of space back there... what really takes up room is that IACV, if you can make a remote version of it, you'll be golden... also note that i've got some stiff inserts for my mounts... i want to say 88A... like freaking hockey pucks, there is no give, but i do remember doing the install with softer inserts and you could wiggle things by hand into place... this was probably my most stubborn install i'd ever had to do because of the stiff mounts... 

[zakats]

You're all over the place man! Good to see you making progress.

[PowerWheels86]

Almost done, just need the tune now... And I know how much you dislike hondata but nobody tunes on Neptune... So I caved... Sorry man... Hahaha

Also did this to the nose panel... Still needs a clear coat and then some paint on the white bits...

[PowerWheels86]

nose panel painted...

 

 

i'll throw it on the car for a test fit tomorrow after the paint has dried... 

 

The tune is scheduled for the 11th!! hopefully all goes as planned.. once this thing is up and running, it'll be like having a new car!! sorta... hahaha

[zakats]

There are bigger things in this world to worry about than to hold up your project for an old grudge. Do what you gotta do brochacho. It's good to see progress. My gf is eyeing a job in Boise so there's a slight chance I might come and stick my nose in your business again.

[PowerWheels86]

hahaha well i'll be back in houston before the end of the month, permanently!! i'll have to find out where to go for the autocross in Houston!! 

[Dirtcircle86]

Wrong time of year to go to Houston.... 

[PowerWheels86]

why do you say that? that's where i'm from...

[zakats]

It's too damn hot and humid. On the upside, Ellington afb might become a spaceport. Anyway, last I heard, autocross with the scca was in Texas shitty-I mean City; Gulf Grayhound Park.

[Dirtcircle86]

Yep, way too hot and humid for me. I grew up in east Texas (Lake Fork) and moved north to get away from the heat (and in-laws). Circa 1990, I worked on a traveling Erecter crew that built Chevron and Mobil gas stations (learned a little about fabrication) and we did a job in Conway in August. And another in Baytown. For giggles, I put an outdoor thermometer on the top of the canopy where we stayed all day and it was 140*. No exaggeration. Any bare flesh that touched it would get a burn. I was young and stupid and only wore boots and shorts (non-Union didn't give a crap about OSHA.

[Dirtcircle86]

I got it back in 2005! We've been together for a decade come July...
I'm building this car at midnight! And then I try to update my builds and well hahaha I guess I was too tired to be posting stuff... Hahaha I accidentally deleted it...

I was curios if your carriage (cinderella reference) turned into a pumpkin! By the way, I think pumpkin would be an awesome color for the car. But I'm odd.

May the 4th be with you!