What did you work on today? (DIY pros ITT) - General

[QUOTE=ewitwins;36240987]Well gents, I have to say that I love you all because... [B]I am now saving up for a 944.[/B] There's a man in Oregon who's friends with my aunt in Portland who has a 944, and he says that if I can give him $1,200 up front when I come to town, he'll give it to me because he trusts me (through my aunt) that I'll get him the additional $2,000 for it![/QUOTE] Well... Their reliability is questionable, and the maintenance is expensive. There is a nightmare thread on some guy who owned a 944, literally everything constantly broke on it. [url]http://jalopnik.com/5682900/now-the-angry-porsche-944-owner-realizes-the-cars-a-nightmare[/url]

[QUOTE=Siminov;36241070]Well... Their reliability is questionable, and the maintenance is expensive. There is a nightmare thread on some guy who owned a 944, literally everything constantly broke on it. [url]http://jalopnik.com/5682900/now-the-angry-porsche-944-owner-realizes-the-cars-a-nightmare[/url][/QUOTE] That's... scary. :( These are all issues that carelessness and not taking the time caused though.

Yeah...they're still awesome though. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] Still $950. Really want a manual though. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] Derp. [url]http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/cto/3050818547.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Del91;36241179]Yeah...they're still awesome though. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] Still $950. Really want a manual though. [editline]7th June 2012[/editline] Derp. [url]http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/cto/3050818547.html[/url][/QUOTE] DO IT.

[QUOTE=Del91;36240185]Who exactly are you providing your fellatio skills to that you keep getting tons of free cars and scrap?[/QUOTE] My family runs a angering sort of business so when the auger gets chewed up we just huck then out back, all I did was gather them up and dump them into my truck which was originally bought for yard work. The Lebaron has been on our land for 10 years and the original owner just said fuck it and gave the car to us.

[QUOTE=Siminov;36241070]Well... Their reliability is questionable, and the maintenance is expensive. There is a nightmare thread on some guy who owned a 944, literally everything constantly broke on it. [url]http://jalopnik.com/5682900/now-the-angry-porsche-944-owner-realizes-the-cars-a-nightmare[/url][/QUOTE] So the water pump died, an incompetent shop blew up his original motor, he seized his oil pump by accident, built and supercharged a motor with stock headstuds, fragged the original diff with too much power in a old car after a year of abuse, put a transmission built for the power he is making in it, got a DUI because the cop decided to pull him over, had to replace a junk stock clutch in a built and superchaged car. I'm seeing Porsche parts cost and some of the usual fuckups which happen with owning a car. So shops rip you off, some stuff you can't pour into your oil because your friend said to, N/A transmission/diff for your car can't deal with a superchaged build. Since when is this news? You're owning a Porsche, they tend to be fairly cheap used since you end up paying a higher price to keep them on the road. I've heard stories about people who have replaced about every part that bolts onto 928's and have given up on them after a few transmissions and stuff though, this guy just seems more dumb than anything. My dad owned a 928 for a couple years though and he only replaced an alternator on it and did some oil changes. I think it really depends more on your luck than anything with a Porsche.

I broke my windshield. Do I care? YES! But hell the windshield is ruined prior to me getting it. Trying to remove rear view mirror fail. [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/Audi/IMG_20120607_152938.jpg[/t] Who votes on be doing "Test's" On it like sanding on the windshield to remove scratches and pitts?

I will never, EVER, question the reliability of a slant 6. Here we have this old piece of shit Lebaron with a 225 Slant 6 2 barrel, dubbed "Zombo". Sat for 12 years, never been looked at or touched since and here I come along. With my hammer in hand and a goal in my mind I BEAT THE SHIT out of the the steering column so I could get to the ignition, only a minor obstacle in my quest to revive this abomination. I then turn my attention to the engine, boy she was somethin, the oil made tar look like castrol synthetic and the gas in the tank couldn't be lit by an open flame, but it had to do. I ran a line from the coil to the battery, this was my "key", and to start it I used a wire in which I ran between the contact points on the mangled corpse of the ignition. After giving it a pep talk and telling it of my superiority to it (didn't forget to sneak in some snide remarks about its mother) I decided to turn it over and after what seemed like a short eternity of "WurWurWur" "Reeeeeeeee..... Sxkezzzzt" it buzzed to life, I swear I heard it spit out a faint "told you so, motherfucker". Car in question [thumb]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/3c0d765d.jpg[/thumb] And the fucker who just kept on going [thumb]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/1dc38c4d.jpg[/thumb]

[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;36243212]I will never, EVER, question the reliability of a slant 6. Here we have this old piece of shit Lebaron with a 225 Slant 6 2 barrel, dubbed "Zombo". Sat for 12 years, never been looked at or touched since and here I come along. With my hammer in hand and a goal in my mind I BEAT THE SHIT out of the the steering column so I could get to the ignition, only a minor obstacle in my quest to revive this abomination. I then turn my attention to the engine, boy she was somethin, the oil made tar look like castrol synthetic and the gas in the tank couldn't be lit by an open flame, but it had to do. I ran a line from the coil to the battery, this was my "key", and to start it I used a wire in which I ran between the contact points on the mangled corpse of the ignition. After giving it a pep talk and telling it of my superiority to it (didn't forget to sneak in some snide remarks about its mother) I decided to turn it over and after what seemed like a short eternity of "WurWurWur" "Reeeeeeeee..... Sxkezzzzt" it buzzed to life, I swear I heard it spit out a faint "told you so, motherfucker". Car in question [thumb]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/3c0d765d.jpg[/thumb] And the fucker who just kept on going [thumb]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/1dc38c4d.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Keep that car for the apocalypse, God knows it'll be the only one running by then.

Going to modify the exhaust manifold tomorrow so it comes out the hood, shoot flames and shit. Not going to be a single pipe but all six pointed straight up, hopefully I dont mess up. Might try to modify the intake manifold but the real turn off is that I will have to mess with the lines and the linkage.

adjusted the mixture adjustment screw on my weber.

found a ECU for the jz, YESSSS. I found all the parts I needed, I just got to wait for them to arrive in the meantime I will finish extending the wiring (almost done, but I can't put a lot of time at once on it, this shit kill me). then it will be getting the 7m out, the jz in. adapting the wiring, making a downpipe and Y pipe, installing the giant sub I got, then having fun and paying debt

Repainted my steel wheels again. The shop messed up the old paint pretty bad, but I don't blame them. They had to take off the old tires, change the valve stems, put on the new tires with bead sealer (lips are rusty,) then re-balance them. What I did was put on 4 coats of Krylon Gloss Black (walmart didn't have satin black, which is what I prefer over other kinds of blacks) and 3 coats of Krylon Flat Clearcoat. On the left is 4 coats of the gloss black, on the right is the 4 coats of gloss black with 3 coats of the clear coat. [img]http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff136/fcfordlord/wheels.jpg[/img]

I bought something veeeeery cool, BUT, it's not ready for pictures yet.

had to do some work to the wiring harness on the artic cat 700h1 efi. a mouse decided it wanted to chew the wires to the idle control valve. the speedo kept flashing efi, i read the code and adjusted it, still no go. then i noticed. so i had to repin the plug for it. it chewed it off level with it... also chewed a few more places, including the starter cover. annoying, more that anything.

[IMG]http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/4618/img2232rj.jpg[/IMG] Purp bellhousing yo because JDM TYTE

EXTREME DANGER

[QUOTE=Del91;36265954]EXTREME DANGER[/QUOTE] I would be more worried about the Simple Green over there. :tinfoil:

Ripped from the ForABodiesOnly thread I made Just bought the car today in Canmore, Alberta. The drive was from 9 am to 7 pm so I'm pretty tired right now, because of that there won't be a whole lot of information here for now. [B]The Rundown[/B] I turned 16 in January this year, after saving everything last year so i could buy myself a truck i had finally decided that it is time to get a Dart after wanting one since i was 10. I had been looking at the car for about a month, in that short period of time I managed to pull together a good amount of cash for the car on top of my original fund for a dart. I first looked at a 1968 Dart, the car was all there, right down to the factory door ding guards, but it had too much cancer to be worth it. I then found this car, the guy started at $4500 and then proceeded to drop down to $1500 which was a very reasonable price for an entirely rust free car. I had planned to go down to look at it the week before however my grandpa had just driven back from the US so I took the risk of the car selling by letting him rest. We finally go down and when we get there it is snowing pretty heavily which made viewing the car quite a challenge, combined with slush it wasn't the driest either. I looked over the entire car, not a single spot of rust which is unheard of in Canada, but it is a original US car but for how long I do not know. From visual inspection it appears that the car may have been hit in the front at one point, pretty much a minor fender bender though and has since then gotten rust free front fenders and a hood. Walking to the drivers side the door was all smashed but otherwise the inside was great and the window crank worked fine but the door has got to go. [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/256395ec.jpg[/IMG] On to the back it appears that the bumper was mashed in but that's it, everything around it is in great condition and the only problem I have is from the lack of tail lights. [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/304a3d79.jpg[/IMG] Finally the passengers side, it seems that because of the fender bender that the inner quarter was knocked out of place ever so slightly and because of that the fender sits too far back, preventing the door from opening. The passenger side read quarter is also rust free however upon closer inspection there is a big scrape along it and I am having a really hard time deciding if I should replace it or fix it. I will be using a hemi hold scoop on the car. [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/27506ba3.jpg[/IMG] The interior is in awesome condition, so well that both the drivers and passengers seat have no rips in them but still need to be replaced. The dash is phenomenal in the car, I havent ever seen one so nice. The headliner and carpet had been ripped out from the owner before the current one, the floors are also rust free with only some minor surface rust. Wierd thing about the floor is that it looks as if it had been a console car at one point but the hole was patched or something and remained a column shift. The whole interior is there, all the little trim pieces and panels. [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/9931a18c.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/bb07b8a5.jpg[/IMG] The engine compartment isn't anything special, the car is a sort of rare 1967 GT with a 225 slant 6, the engine was missing the cylinder head. I don't really care, the whole thing will be removed and sold for scrap metal unless someone would like anything in particular from it pretty much every single part from the engine is $10 and shipping is at your expense. I will be swapping in a stock forged internal 440 with a motor plate to begin with then I will run eagle H beam rods and edelbrock victor max wedge heads, everything elce hasn't been decided on yet. As for the transmission and rear end I will be using a Turbo 400 with a manual valve body and a Ford 9" in place of the wimpy 7 1/4. [IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u423/Lawblind/dd0027f5.jpg[/IMG] In the picture is my cousin who will be helping out a bunch with the car. I call the car the 1967 and a half because I will be cloning the outside to be a 1968 and the inside to be a 1967, might throw some 1969 parts in there somewhere. That's all for now, have to hit the sack.

I love how old cars like that have such huge engine bays, they all scream [b]MOAR POWAR![/b]

[QUOTE=DPKiller;36266659]I would be more worried about the Simple Green over there. :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] that's a old bottle of simple green I had in the time I was racing my motocross, it was the only thing that could get all the crap off my graphic kit. Now, I use it to clean parts prior to painting

I don't get it, is simple green super flammable or something?

it's super efficient at removing grease and dirt... they were talking about the "EXTREME DANGER" warning on the paint can

I'll keep that in mind for the next time i need to clean the shit out of an engine, and it also seems I need glasses more then I thought to miss a big ass "EXTREME DANGER" warning.

Recently my blower stoped working. If you kicked it itwould spool up. So I decided to take a look. [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/Audi/IMAG0024.jpg[/t] This is looking Good! [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031910/Audi/IMAG0025.jpg[/t] Fuck.

I've had worse, just oil the bearing points with some 3-in-1 or slick50 and wipe off the brush contact point on the armature and you should get some extra life out of it. Just DO NOT use any cleaning solvents on it, it WILL catch fire and burn up. Any kind of oil or degreaser leaves a film on the brushes/contacts that heats up very very hot, I've burned up two 18 volt drills doing the same thing I warn you of.

[QUOTE=Scientwist;36311288]I've had worse, just oil the bearing points with some 3-in-1 or slick50 and wipe off the brush contact point on the armature and you should get some extra life out of it. Just DO NOT use any cleaning solvents on it, it WILL catch fire and burn up. Any kind of oil or degreaser leaves a film on the brushes/contacts that heats up very very hot, I've burned up two 18 volt drills doing the same thing I warn you of.[/QUOTE] Thank you for the tip. But I only oiled 1 baring an blew out 2 pounds of wat looked like dirt/greese/ crap. It felt really bad when I accidentally breathed it in. But it works now and I have a lot more things to do to it. After I did the fan I looked at the shifter. Scence I broke it wile switching to tiptronic. Got that straightened out but the fagget that I ordered the parts from his magnets are absolutely COMPLETE SHIT. /time wasted/

I dropped off my car today :( I'm gonna miss my hajimobile for the next 3 weeks.

Today I was going to change my rear brake pads/lines and rotate my tires but I got distracted by messing with my passenger side fender well since it's been having a metal nasty popping noise whenever the suspension is relieved on that side. Turns out the seam that I hammered over to prevent from cutting into the tires is now ever so slightly getting hit by the upper control arms which I am guessing is a result of that side being just a little tweaked by about a 1/8" from an accident since the drivers side doesn't do it. Coming to this conclusion took about 2 hours while playing with the stupid fender liner and lack of clips which has let it scrape it's self all over the tire for the last 10k miles. I guess I'll have to get in there with a grinder or something since I can't have it cutting into the tire or getting in the way of the upper control arm. I should really start hitting up all the junkyards and grabbing every fucking clip, screw and bolt I can find for this damn car since despite having a nice container of them I never have the right ones still.

Did my first non-FWD front Brake job today. Packing bearings sucks. [img]http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/MaImpala/f03459f3.jpg[/img]