Someone tell me abou their
 

awesome summer car projects because I need to live vicariously. . . :judge:

I washed my truck.

I am going to start a project in a few months in a 73 chevy stepside, I have a ls1 out of a wrecked gto and the matching a4 trans, drop it down update the brakes and suspension a bit. not sure what else. will post pics once i start.

Sweet. My 82' Vette is an LS1(x) conversion with T56. Don't know what you plan on doing for wire harness, but if you want something super clean and minimized I recommend Speed Scene Wiring in TX.

http://speedscenewiring.com/

Well, the vette will be done in a couple of weeks. So that's one. I will build a front splinter and then set up the suspension. Lots of changes there so it will take a while.
I have the procharger sitting in the garage for the stang. I actually have a lot of parts sitting waiting to get installed.
Finally, I got some shop space and buy in from some of my guys to try and finish the lemons car. Got to coordinate the pick up.
Should make for a fun summer.

Word. Your shop space part of your house or somewhere else? Just curious.

We got some garage space at our warehouse with work..

About 6 months ago I realized my intake manifold was leaking. About 4 months ago I searched for intake manifold gaskets. Last month I ordered one. Two weeks ago I bought some high temp silicone. Last week I almost... Almost changed it out. But no.

I've lost three engines in the last six months. First the Devil Aveo, then both Mazdas for different reasons. Signed over the Devil Aveo for labor trade to do engine swap on Protege, and it runs now. Next up is the Miata and I'll have to figure out what I'm going to do with it then, since we also (had to) buy a new car; the xD, which is a great little car. Also the one buck truck started being a little bitch with fuel pump issues and I'm tired of it's leaky intake, so that's on the docket as well. So I have plenty of car shit going on since last august, just not a goddamn bit of it any fun.

Some of the older gents at work have bought some new cars, one a loaded Camaro, another a loaded Challenger (which honestly is my favorite looking) and our head of IT a brand new M5, which is pretty nasty all wrapped up in some refined packaging.

Oh, and the earthquake knocked down my wall which I had to rebuild and I'm dealing with the VA on behalf of my father; /shudders.

Pretty sure I must have been some kind of asshole in my previous life . . .:judge:

Your car broke down, but you have more than one car.

Your wall fell down, but you own your own home.

There's always problems in life, but you have a good life and you're a sexy bitch to boot. Now get out there and yank that Miata motor like yesterday. Unplug the harness, lay it over the fender, yanky yanky, swappy swappy, torquey torquey ;)

I have 3 projects set for this summer.

#1 New/Bigger brakes from the CTS, I just bought V2 front brakes and rotors.

#2 Getting another car I bought running, I bought by far the most rare car I will likely ever own. 1 of 800 ever made only 600 in the US. its an Isuzu impulse RS. Its a AWD turbo car.

#3 Putting a utility bed on my pickup and redoing the rear springs and maybe swapping out the rear axle. Plus recentering my H1 wheels for the correct offset.

My Mercedes needs more TLC and my miata that I got to DD while the mercedes was down, is also down now too. Excessive oil consumption, it ate all of its oil without smoke or leaks, have to replace the rod end bearing. Selling both of these after I finish fixing them, too worn out from working on them all the time.

Bought a new loaded Mazda3 to take over all duties







First tank, all city, 27mpg. aweeee yeaaahhhhhh

@blackax, what's cool or unique, other than being rare about the Impulse? Why'd you get it?

@firstshadow, that's interesting our 06' Miata did the same thing. Oile starvation but I never noticed much oil leaking or, smoke, or anything. Wife just pulled in the driveway with a hideous knocking sound and the first thing I checked was the oil, which was bone dry, yet everything looked fine otherwise. Boooh. It had never given us a lick of trouble up til then which was over 100k miles.

I need to fix the AC in the Durango, it sucks balls when it's in the 90s. I also have a 2" lift for it that I'll be installing soon as well.

The Typhoon will be getting a different turbo and a full exhaust made up.

The Jeep is damn near done with the theft repairs. I have brand new locks that just need to be installed and then it's done.

@Vettezuki
The 1991 impulse RS is very awesome (to isuzu guys) they only made 800 so not alot. It makes ok power 160 from a little 1.6 turbo, doesn't sound like much now but that was alot in 91, also she only weighs in at 2700 pounds, the lightest AWD car that i know of.

My plan for her is to take on miata's at places like Adams and such.

Ah, wasn't it an Impulse that had the Pike's Peak record for a while? It was nuckin futs as I recall, >500AWHP and a driver with an apparent death wish.

I still believe I hold the records for engines. Someone always has. It worse.

Tracking the impulse? Sounds like a ton of fun!

Think some of the earlier imprezas with awd were under 2700, maybe around 2500?

I got a good and fun 10k miles out if it, bought it used from a dealer so prior history unknown except clean carfax. Had 39k on it when it went dry, oh well.

I need to redesign my fuel system. Suffering from vapor lock, so need to go with a return type system.

After a put a return system on my chevy it was like night and day. I can now drive the truck whenever.

I rednecked it for now. Took a washer bottle, ran hoses to mister nozzles, to spray on carb and fuel pump :rolling:

Glenn would be proud.

First thing I wanted to do was make a new rear bumper for the Explorer to hold my spare tire carrier. Phil want to go do the Rubicon this summer so I need the tire carrier back on to go. Since we planned to do our Father's Day four wheeling/hiking trip like usual I at the last minute decided to hurry up and make one I picked up the steel Friday afternoon and hurried Friday night/Saturday making a new bumper. It's not finished but it at least holds the tire now. I still need to cap the ends, plate under the hub, angle the hub mount and make a license plate mount with lights.

Sweet!

In other news, the "new" water pump as part of my Protege engine swap is leaking through the weep hole so that needs to be replaced. . .

Bought bigger front brake rotors for the CTS-V

Going up to a six piston caliper too.

I cleaned my shop O_O

Nice! They're still too small for that big pig!


I don't believe you! If it's clean how are you going to find anything?

There's nothing to find anymore, everything has been labeled, boxed, and put up for sale.

Are you still working at the shop? You can text me if you prefer.

Yup. Still here, just liquidating everything. Sold a ton, ton more to go.

Worked on a little Plasma table

I went to vegas again :huh:

Idk about a project but I bought a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. Already looking at exhaust, intakes and maybe a Diablosport. Made a thread in the Domestics section.

I finished my bumper. I cut out the license plate holder with lights from the stock bumper and used it on the new one so that the plate has a light. Then I rewired the wire harness and added a 4 pin trailer light connection.

Looks good, whenever i'm not lazy I need to make a rear bumper for the truck

That bumper looks great Ron!

At least you made a front one Guy.

Thanks Adam.

Nope, I bought it. Was cheaper and more worth my time than to buy a bunch of shit I don't have to make it.

Finally got the motor out of my miata, valvetrain looks good, as well as the pistons and valves. Tomorrow, I'm dropping the pan to see what damage has been done, hopefully nothing major!

This Car is kicking my ass!!!!

So The car is still over heating, But I now know why! The guys before me removed the heat shields from the turbo and the exhaust and its dumping tons of heat into the cooling system. after 5 min of driving the turbo is over 800F.

Well over the past few weeks as I've been trying different things to solve the overheating I melted the O2 connector. So I need to get a new O2 sensor


and today I noticed a small oil leak on the ground so I went to moved it and do some work, my belt shredded my wiring harness and shorted a some wires. I was able to fix most of then and only had to run one brand new wire.




I think this car just wants to die :bang: