Taz

Just a bit outside my price range at 200 unfortunately. GLWS

Chuck us your vin number and ill check it in ASA at work tomorrow

Shes registered with the SOHC as of yesterday. driving good, everything seems to be running nice. Whilst on the hoist the front main decided to blow so it turned into a pump/belt service new ancillary belts and a few other little things. More will be fiddled with over the coming weeks!

So the donor car that i originally bought for a couple of little things turned out to be a granny driven garaged all its life car and i really cant put into words how clean it is. After a week of delibertaing and trying to find valid reasons for not reshelling a car i cant really justify not doing it. Not a scuff on the carpet, not a crack in the dash, not even a single hair under the rear seat base or a 5c coin it really is a proven granny garaged car and i got the sucker for 500 bucks. Going to be putting the twin cam motor in it, complete body kit, interior etc etc the only thing that may not be swaped over is the rear wiper and aeriel as the aus delivered ones are no wiper and antenna in the glass. So id have to delete the body antenna, and get another rear windshield. Its still going for paint and panel as i need to get all the door moulds etc swapped over and i want it the metallic grey my vx-s is, so thats not an issue but i really dont want to disturb the chrome moulds around the windshield, as they are mint, and if i break or bend any of them.... might have to have a practice run on the vx-s and see if theres a certain trick to getting them of without breaking...

Either way ive gotta rip everything outta the vx-s again and whack it into the new "vx-s". 

Forgot to add a pic of the crossmember done

Been very busy last week or so, mostly put back together few minor things i need to do like finish rebuilding the driveshafts to get it back on its wheels and service the injectors to get the rail back in etc. Need to swap the booster and master over to the RVR one i have to go with the bigger double piston calipers. Got some 'ceramic coating' paint on the manifold and it turned out really well. Even the intake manifold turned out really well i thought id botch the red lettering but looks ok. Every single part on this thing has not been put back in unless its been thoroughly gone over or replaced. Any bushings/anything rubber replaced. All hoses, serviceable items etc. This has turned into a resto job and im pleased with the outcome. Waiting on a few other minor things like the top radiator bushings, a RF hub and itll be put back on the ground and the rear put up to get the rear sorted.

So a few updates recently. Been pulling a few late nights to speed this thing a long and its not too far off being done. Motor and box are out. Many hours of scrubbing and cleaning and the motor and box are shiny, block is painted while i was at it, manifolds and accessories taken off and cleaned from the years of crud built up on them. Kframe has been dropped, stripped, cleaned and painted, fresh bushes throughout everywhere from mitsubishi, most were around 5 bucks each. Cleaned up the engine bay and primed/painted where it was getting some minor surface rust. New CV outers to suit the rvr hubs, inner boots, tie rods, control arm poly bushes sway bar poly bushes, pads and rotors etc etc. New plugs/leads/gaskets everywhere etc. Gotta put the motor in by the end of the week, will just be waiting on a few gaskets. Then whack everything back in the engine bay. Jack the rear up and do the rear end, finish the 5 stud conversion on the rear i ended up getting new galant rotors and got them professionally redrilled. Look like the fronts which are also multi stud straight from RDA. Not sure what bushes etc ill need back there but ive put the new calipers on, new pads, bearings etc. Need to drop the fuel tank and clean what im expecting to be a gummed mess in there hopefully not rust. change the pump then i can fire it up without a continuous stream of start ya bastard. Couple of minor interior things, couple of siezed belts to be changed, put the new rear seats in etc. Then its off to the bodyshop to get the few things sorted before rego to do with the rust patches ive taken out i wanna properly get those fully cleaned out, plates welded and contoured in place etc. boot needs to be done at a minimum so it doesnt leak again.  Beyond that nothing major i can think of. About a week or two of solid work and will be ready for a roady i think. Havent been taken many pictures with progress before and after shots as im lazy and too busy to stop and take photos so itll only be an odd one here and there of the finished product. 

Last two nights ive pulled the trigger and put some hours in and gotten the motor and box out. 

Had a good inspection under the car and its mostly good news. Seems to be rust free on the underbelly and only really affected on the RHF quarter. As you can see by the pictures only the RHS of the kframe paint has come away, so that will completely come out and ill have to pull the trigger and do all the bushes and strip and repaint it etc etc. The rust to the body is minimal imo for how long it was sitting. Hasnt chewed through anything that is vital/structural. Seam is good. Ive taken 99% of the rust out, wire brushed it down and put converter/sealant on it, however when its getting paint and panel il get something welded in or something to tidy it up and make it look proper again. The white lines on the last 2 photos are the edge of the guard, to give you an idea of how much its chewed out of the guard as well so i can replace that no problem. So add another 500 to the budget to do all bushes down there, misc paint and supplies etc. Rust is non existant in the engine bay thankfully apart from the small amount of light surface rust by the battery tray ill sand down and repaint. will come up nice with a degrease and gurney i think. Been talking with megazip and theres a few other small things im going to add to the list of stuff to get. Small things like boot plastics, console catch etc etc. 

Going to clean up the motor and box over the rest of the week. Should have the front 5 stud stuff early next week. Once ive done the kframe, given the engine bay a tidy and cleaned the box.back of engine itll go back in, get the 5 stud front end in and finish off the rear end. Going to do the misc stuff while stuff is out to like CV shaft seals on the box, hub seals etc etc  going to be a new car by the end of it. 

Rear end wise waiting on rotors, then need to drop the tank and replace the pump/clean the tank probably or replace (if i can find one..) and deal with the boot seal which come to think of it now itll have to go to body shop before roady so that might shuffle a few things/set it back from rego a few weeks. 

 

Put a timing kit through it. cleaned up everything along the way, front of motor is spotless as is the mint condition timing cover surprised thats still good actually. Pulled the exhaust side down to clean the front of the motor, shit everywhere the rocker gasket that was on it is probably factory and 130km old took a few hours and cans of degreaser and a wire brush to clean it all down. Looking shiny again. Gearbox is the same, got it cleaner but not to what i want it too much stuff covering the top. I think im going to pull the motor after all. I mean theres not THAT much more to pull it out and the k frame is bugging me as the paint has come away and theres surface rust on it from sitting for so long. Its ugly and it would be much easier to deal with with the motor out, as well as me doing the intake side of the motor and doing the auto service/engine sump etc. 

Turning into a real resto job. Borrowed a mates carpet cleaner too so ill make sure to give the interior a good go over and get that slight stale scent out and smelling fresh again. 

Got one of the rear corners 5 stud converted tonight. FTO rear rotor hats arent deep enough and are wrong so thinking maybe magna rear rotors? Either way cleaned up one of the rims i have and chucked her on anyway to get a feel for it. Thinking a smidgeon more low if the suspension doesnt settle a little lower otherwise it really pulls them off i think. My genuine fakes look good.

"You have not unlocked this car yet"

Finally rolled the lancer out and the galant in. 95% of the parts are in my hands and waiting so i can get stuck in during the week and get it all in and working.

Hey bud, i work at a wrecking yard and can either sell you one or tell you which yard has one pending what its coming out of. I believe the early NH/J/Ks had the 3.9 hybrid LSD yes. 33904555 ask for Tylar. Cheers

So tore down the old motor tonight.... Found the source I think. That is the balance shaft journal. Looks like it starved for oil? How that happens with the sump just below it is beyond me but I'm going to say balance shaft starved, seized shredded belt when it locked the oil pump and threw all the valves. The photo doesn't sldo it justice though, every valve like a banana and one broken off.

Youre thinking of the nimbus, to which the bumpers dont really fit and look super weird if you put one on. Im in the process of doing the same thing, youll need both an RVR and a nimbus bar chop them very very specifically in half and plastic weld them together. 

Not entirely sure what the root of the problem was. Spat a rocker and the cams were bound. Which then shredded the belt. Couldnt find an obvious cause to the failure through inspection but im due to pick up the old motor sunday and start tearing it down completely so ill hopefully know soon enough