Lol nah, the lock just jumped over the lever, easy fix.haha send me the catalog number i may have parts for it at my desk
Got a pair of 2.5" V-bands in the mail today ($30 each, WTF?!?) and yesterday I picked up some of the tubing bends for the hot side - he's gotta find the straight pieces he said he has somewhere, so I can at least get the merge and cross over done.... All this after I get the suspension hung, the engine bay stripped and cleaned and engine/trans stuffed back in.
I also start a normal job on Monday. No more 4-6 weeks on a miserable boat off the coast of some 3rd world s hit hole . It's gonna be 7-5 m-f with a big pay cut. But I get to come hom
e every night, so its worth it and then some.What does this mean for the project? 1) It's gonna move slower - especially since I gotta save for the wedding. 2) It'll force me to take my time and make it pretty, which will please NIKwoaC, Hah!
So it's no longer a "Sloppy Seconds" build. Maybe Noobz347 can rename the thread to something more appropriate.
Well played sir, well played.
Not only Nik,....I had a gigantor problem w/ that dirty engine you were working with.......
Oh yeah baby. Extra saucy, too. Picked up an 87 LX roller for $1k. Has full UPR front and rear suspension, Flaming River manual rack and shaft, and an 8 pt cage tied in to the subframe connectors. Selling the wheels and tires, K member, and a few other things.
Now for the fun part. Since I have a nice DD 99 GT with all the power it'll ever need, I can make this into a track beater. I've been following a guy with an '86 LX. He has a bone stock LQ9 truck motor. He studded the mains and put in monster injectors. With a BW S480, he's very close to an 8 second pass and he drives it to and from the track. Say what you will, but that's the direction this is going to go.
Here's the car:
And I REALLY goofed this weekend and had an oil spill disaster to rival the Macando well:
I did an oil change in the '99. When I took off the old filter, I failed to see that the O ring on the old filter stuck to the block. I lubed the new filter, screwed it on, and filled the engine with oil. I started it and after about 10 seconds off idling with no pressure, I shut it down to find that the oil shot out of the filter area towards the P/S pump area that slung 5 quarts of oil EVERYYYWHEREEEEE.
F-M-L.
Just wait, it only gets worse. Then you have kids. BTW, my wife is a teacher too so I know exactly what you're going through.Thanks! Although the '99 is long gone and the new owner blew the motor a month or so ago.
So tonight, I came home from work expecting to get some stuff done. I got most of the trunk pan trimmed out so I could get all the suspension doo-dads welded back in. 15 mins in, the phone rings, instructing me to bring some stuff up to the school. (finance is a teacher, getting ready for the year to start).
There was a point in time where I could work on my car every day for a month straight.Almost miss working offshore.<--- Hah, NO. No I don't.
Certainly is, it's not very easy to package it all in there but it can be done. My buddies car is done that way. We cut about 6" of the spare tire well out towards the front and had to plate it back in to make room for the coil overs, so you can count your spare tire out, lol. but stock tank coil overs and arb = 1.32 60' for a street driven fox....not too bad!Does anyone know if there is enough real estate under the rear of a fox to accomodate an ARB, coilovers mounted inboard of the frame rails, AND a stock tank? I'd really like to keep the stock tank with a couple of in-tank pumps for a stock-ish look.
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