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Has been my mates project for a few years now, problem is, he likes cars, but knows nothing of them. His mates convinced him it needed a 4g63 after developing some randomly occuring spark breakdown, so they helped him pull the motor out to prepare for his newly arrived 4g63 cut...
Fast forward 3 years, the 4g63 had a new timing belt and clutch, and was sitting under the engine bay on the ground to save space. work had not been carried out in quite some time.
After a few beers I decided bugger it, I've got expendable cash, I'll take it off his hands. However, the 4g63 was not of interest to me, as I would like to be able to be class legal for some of the rally events up here, and I really CBF with a conversion. I may still buy the motor as a spare to build up yet..who knows.
Anyway, the car came with some goodies;
Full respray in pearlescent Blue/purple
Full Evo III bodykit, wing and fibreglass bonnet
3" exhaust
Plasmaman front mount intercooler
Xboost high flow dump pipe
Tubular welded manifold (brand name, forget which at this stage)
Haltech ECU
New radiator/heater hoses
various suspension braces
Battery in boot setup
engineered for a previous 4g63 setup in the car
So far, I've changed the timing belt, water pump, tensioners, pulleys etc, fitted a clear timing cover, replaced the clutch with a machined flywheel, fitted the gearbox, bolted motor into the engine bay, plumbed the water lines and radiator, plumbed the intercooler and fitted the transfer case.
Jobs to do before I can drive it again -
* Have drivers CV boot replaced
* Fit both CV's and Driveshaft
* Fit front section of exhaust
* Replace plug leads (crushed by engine crane chain..)
* Either fit a GPS speedo or find a replacement speedo drive ( orginal was damaged when they initially removed the motor)
* Fill everything with fluids
* Fit wiring loom (ugh...)
* Re-fit bonnet
* Drain fuel and refill with fresh 98
so ive still got my work cut out for me, but i feel ive got a fair bit done already in the two weeks ive owned it, considering its parked halfway across town..Long weekends help, but we dont get anymore for a while yet.
it also has the standard CC roof rust..plan is to treat it, paint it, and cover with some of those printed stickerbomb sheets until I can be stuffed tracking down a wira roof.
Anyway, pics.
Oh and here's why you ALWAYS replace the timing belt on an unknown condition motor..was presented with this as soon as i removed the cover..
