Got tired of the ugly ass chrome tail lights and bought these:

Finally lowered it. Backed the adjustment screws all the way out in the torsion keys and 3" drop blocks in the rear. Then I aired up the rear air shocks to raise it up just a bit to match the front.

Looking good. I like the stance and the lights!

It's looking better but not there yet. Still needs new wheels/tires, coil overs for the front, better rear suspension setup, front brakes, brake lines, and whatever else comes up.

I did just do an electric fan conversion as well. Engine runs much smoother with it.

Next bundle of great news I have is I somehow spun a bearing or two. Low oil pressure and engine knocking means I get to pull the motor again.

75% sure I'm going to sell it after this.

I just can't win with this thing. If I don't sell it, which I probably won't because I'll puss out when the time comes, I just won't drive it.

Damn near got this motor out. Just need to pull the wires off the starter and then undo the motor mounts and then pull that bitch out. Depending on how I feel, I might have it out today, tomorrow for sure. Then yank the oil pan off, then the mains, and see what the bearings look like and the crank.

Me thinks if its knocking its a rod bearing, not a main bearing

I'll have to motor out today and start pulling it apart.


I'm just going to take my time with it this time. New tq converter, solid motor mounts (brand new rubber ones already wearing out), new plugs, wires, clean the crap out of the engine bay and maybe paint it, new fan controller with variable speeds and whatever else I can think of to make it run better.


I might ditch the liquid to air intercooler and run an air to air instead. Or at least run them both.

PM Sent about pressure washer.

I would not run both. Pull the pan and verify what is wrong before doing any other work.

Pulled the engine today, pulled the oil pan and found this:


Look by the plug and the opposite side, there are slivers of copper something. There was also some copper slivers stuck in the oil pickup tube screen. I pulled all of the rod bearings off and they all looked fine. Tomorrow the crank comes off.

All 4 main bearings are gone. Rod bearing look fine but I'll replace them anyways. I have a Mallard normal oil pump, going to get the bigger one this time.

Should I pull the cam too to check the bearings?

Cam should be fine. But no reason not to check it.

You are already this deep just check it out.

I'm gonna pull it out one of these days before I put it back together.

Oh, the oil pump they use is a Melling Select? I guess it's normal flow, high pressure. So I'll be looking into that.

Dropped the crank off today. He wasn't sure if they can fix it or not, hopefully they can. I'll be getting aluminum bearings this time, he said they are stronger and cheaper at the same time. Works for me!

Honestly, I thought I had bad luck with cars. I can't believe how much crap keeps landing on your plate between stuff breaking and cars crashing and you just keep shoveling through it. Good luck with everything

At least with things breaking, I understand why. I don't drive like a pussy, I beat the shit out of my vehicles. I hate it when it happens, but I honestly can't complain about it. It's all about that 1 day that it runs great and makes you forget about all the bs you had to deal with to get to that point.

I'm seriously thinking about putting the motor back together and just leaving it on the engine stand! Shit won't break that way. Knowing my luck, my engine stand will.

That's how I feel. Drive it till it breaks. That way you know what's weak and you can make it better. I love the first drive after you fix the car. It makes me fall in love all over again with the car.

The only problem about replacing the broken part(s) with better stuff is the weaker link moves to something else and that will fail. It's just a domino effect.

This is how I'm going to do my air to air intercooler setup:

I finally got my crankshaft back today, now the work begins.

I finally spent some time in the garage today putting shit back together and sweating my ass off. Made good progress.




Excuse the tools and crap all over the floor.

That is quite the colorful motor.

I don't care for the yellow alternator, and the red manifolds look a lot better than the rusty pieces they were. I want to paint he alternator silver, but Ive never pulled the casing apart on one before.

I just paint them together, the paint wont harm the coils inside.

I know what I'm doing today then.

Haven't checked in here in a while. That is a rainbow motor for sure :p Love the typhoons and syclones though. I've never seen on in person sadly :( Next time you to go to cars and coffee I'd like to know, would love to check the beast out.

Hopefully I can have it done by next month. I really need to get it done, even though Im not really doing it the way I really want to. My parts list so far is pushing $1k. New front propshaft is half of that though.

Just waiting for my abs delete, ecu, and tq converter to come in and I'll be dropping the motor back in. Should get all of that in by Wednesday and I plan on having it running by the end of next weekend. Can't wait.

Good luck.

Why would you want an ABS delete?

Several people have had the ABS unit "fail" at the time when you need it most. It happened to me once where the ABS just let off all pressure when a car in front of me slammed on their brakes. Luckily I was able to pull into a parking lot instead of their ass. Plus I'm changing the brake lines with braided lines, what a better time to do it. It cleared up so much room too and lost about 15lbs at the same time.

Retorqued all of my head bolts, readjusted my valve lashing yesterday. Got my hoses that I need for my oil lines today, so I'll be dropping the motor in later today, finally.

Got the motor in, actually went really smooth this time.

She will breath once again tomorrow. Worked on it damn near all day today. Just need a battery charger and then take it to the muffler shop.

Ran into some setbacks, but I making ground slowly. Solved my major problem with a slight upgrade:



Compare those to the pics a few posts above.

Took this pic right before it started getting dark out:

So does that mean it's running?