Project Winter Beater
Some of you may have seen it for sale here, but i bought it from matt j.
When were loading it on the trailer i see a pile of oil under the car so i figured it had a hole in the block. Owell at least i get my trans. so i bring it home and dont even look at it till the next day. after some hose clamps it held coolant, OK OK getting better. put oil in, and what do ya know it holds oil and pressure in both oil and coolant. Awesome so theres no hole in the block!!! i check all around and fix some small stuff here and there. OK its time for a compresion test, holy crap its 180 across the board. Im getting happy at this point. I hunt down the main issue to be a beyond dead fuel pump. so i get one from a buddy for free and what do ya know it starts!!!!! so now im just waiting to find some intercooler hoses for it and making it look decent. Here is what i had to work with http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...IMG_0449-1.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/IMG_0490.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/IMG_0483.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/IMG_0486.jpg Took a wire wheel and destroyed 18 years of midwest rust on the suspension and repainted them http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1657.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1659.jpg cleaned and shampooed the interior http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ater/zazaz.jpg It runs!!! http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1648.jpg Roughed up that flat black and threw some gloss black down. I think the black is tacky but its just a fun car that wont be the prettiest, its a beat up twin of my 92 talon. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1638.jpg I got rid of the nastiest rust and painted the bare spots. like i said not the prettiest but not to bad http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ater/zszsz.jpg since im not going to buy rims for and i want to keep with the twin idea i painted these rims black to http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...eater/werw.jpg Ive been cleaning up the bay to look nice while waiting to find some stock intercooler pipes, it will get cleaner then this trust me, but a big start. ya the oil drain is leaking but that to will get fixed http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...eater/fdfd.jpg Im going to try black with this engine, got to do something different then my other car. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1676.jpg in the shadow of its brother http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1654.jpg dont have any intercooler pipes now so i have it run staright with no intercooler. its on stock boost its more then fine "we dont need no stinkin intercoolers". aside from rip in the flex pipe it idles and runs pretty good for not having the base timing set. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11082015.jpg like i said the old pump was the problem, and was the worst looking pump ive ever seen. i got a free one from a friend but didnt have a strainer so i had to make do, its ok you can laugh. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11052041.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11061043.jpg When my 1st dsm got floded i lost anything that was fabric pretty much. so in restoring that car i made some center console side panels. I didnt want to waste the time to fimd some and i was rewrapping everything in the car anyhow. Those have held up for 2 or 3 years now. The winter beater needed the same center console panels, so i used the old ones as patterns and made some new ones. super simple: cloth and cardboard. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1678.jpg the black ones are the old ones and the gray ones are for the winter beater http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1679.jpg because this is a super budget build, im also going to be making my own hatch cover and ill be covering that to obviously panels in action. they are just set there so they are not screw in yet http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1686.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1687.jpg I dont have a 2 din bezel for the stock radio so for the moment i made a panel for behind here so it wasnt a giant hole http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1688.jpg made the panel for my hatch cover. the black one is different because that one has a cage. I still need to make bracing for it but it will look the same http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1684.jpg traded a spare 1g BOV for a new knock off type s, not sure what im going to do with this cause everything on the car so far is stock. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1689.jpg Friend brought over a better "non-intercooler pipe" that had no kink http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1690.jpg |
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enough of that nonsense i went and got the pipes and threw on the intercooler.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11111724.jpg dont worry i got a real 1g bov that will eventually get on http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11111725.jpg here is the hatch cover, still has 2 small openings on the sides where the trunk panels are supposed to be but i think ill pass on caring that much http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2.../11111725a.jpg |
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How did you get the engine bay so clean? Just hit it with a power washer?
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lookin good man. keep it up!
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Looks nice for the money you have invested!
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Goddamn its crazy seeing cars like this and cars like Alpha's at the same time. If you know what you are doing and some luck, you can get a pretty nice car for not alot of $$.
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Looks awesome! Now you just gotta get rid of that ugly worthless ABS.
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so i decided ill try the ebay BOV but couldnt deal with that nasty purple
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11132004.jpg So i decided, since im going to want some music at some point, i would clean up the stock stereo. it was all rusted over and i just cant let something like that go back in my car, so out came the wire wheel again and cleaned it right up http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11181717.jpg i kept the paint off the heat vent just a lil clear coat http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11181748.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11191241.jpg Because of a power steering leak i did pull out all the ps stuff, very messy job, but it really cealns up the bay. It will be a pain inparking lots but if it dont work and i dont need it, im taking it out. I am also probably taking out the ABS as well. http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1718.jpg |
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looking good
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Fuck yeah we're taking your ABS out this weekend! I got the prop valve for it. Just have to fab up a couple lines.
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Wow, I'm gonna need you two (123abc & twack) to come help me with my 1g sometime, cleaning up the whole engine bay!
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Great job.
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http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC10918.JPG What we did was re-use 2 of the previous lines and tweaked them a little bit to work. He had found the other 2 that run to the prop valve from the master so it wasn't too bad. Two lines shouldn't be that hard to fab up. |
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well yet another bay picture. My buddy dustin (123abc) came over and we did an ABS delete with AutoZone brakeline tools. I was suprised we got all those fittings loose. It turned out awesome, not sure what else i can rip out of the bay that i dont want.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1726.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1733.jpg heres all the abs that got tossed after we reused a few lines http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1728.jpg Finally got that stock radio deck in there, it had some pioneer speakers so it sounds great. Kinda crazy that a deck is working after 18 years http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1727.jpg To go along with the battery drop i got a $25 walmart lawn tractor battery its much smaller, lighter, and still does the job http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2.../11222119a.jpg http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1732.jpg and to top it off a lil paint to make it look like the pacesetter muffler http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1731.jpg |
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Clean and budget, perfect beater!
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i broke down and bought a part for it. I got a o2 housing with external dump.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/11241505.jpg got it installed http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1736.jpg decided to toss on my C.O.P. the stock coil pack was questionable http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1738.jpg and just incase you didnt know what my engine bay looked like heres another pic for ya http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...r/DSCF1735.jpg |
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External dump on a 14b? That ought to sound interesting...
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