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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, July 18, 2011 6:30 AM
Darren - Perfect car imo, sleeper status w/ mega awesome engine bay, that'd be 1 of the few Z24's I'd ever drive. I love the new wheels, and I know once it's assembled and lowered it's only going to get better... That is some sweet ish man!



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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:42 AM
Well...

Darren has had an issue since he received this engine - the Throttle Cable bracket doesn't clear his invader/extractor hood vent and would have to be trimmed and lose the cruise. This of course is a problem to somebody who truly enjoys having this feature on their car and he has been looking for a solution since last fall.

I had the opportunity this weekend to get my hands on a spare bracket, and since the engine is sitting in the garage with Sweetness 2 feet away with throttle cables I decided to see if I could modify it for him and make it work.

I cut off the cruise part of the bracket, added in a slot on the side and then used my drill press to make the hole that holds the cruise cable in place. After testing it and ensuring it would work for his needs, I studied it carefully and realized it was the biggest blemish on an otherwise attractive engine.

Well that just wouldn't do. So... I polished it.

I could have gone finer on the sandpaper before I switched to polishing but to be honest it's a surprisingly complicated piece to sand and I knew the cables would cover a lot of it... its still a heck of a lot better than the stock piece on that engine.

Get this thing out of my garage before I put it in a car, Darren.



















Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics.

-Chris-


-Sweetness-
-Turbocharged-
Slowly but surely may some day win this race...
Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:00 AM
Chris I'll send you everything I own. Polish away my friend!




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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:40 AM
I'm with -MD- on this one, the camaro needs to be prettied up, ever think of polishing a carb? lol amazing work Chris, too bad the starter is getting neglected



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:51 AM
Starter is very hidden. lol
Thanks alot Chris, the way I figure it, the longer I leave it there, the more it gets polished.
I will pick it up in a couple months.



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:03 PM
wow i would hate to have to polish this beautiful engine ONCE its in the car lol



looking good as always






RIP JESSE GERARD.....Youll always be in my thoughts and prayers...



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:51 AM
Woooohoooooo!
Stuff has finally started going back on the car
Ryno lined the inside of the firewall. Now you can see my @!#$tay welds! lol

Got the heater box and pedals back in along with the firewall sound deadening.


Engine bay right now. I painted the brake booster flat black. Im considering giving my spare to Wayde to paint the same as the engine.


Im pretty sure there are gonna be pretty big updates this weekend



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:38 AM
Darren, looking good man.




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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:28 AM
Yes, keep it up!










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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:41 AM
Paint that booster fool


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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:02 AM
Boosted2point4 wrote:Paint that booster fool



hahahaha, but for real!




Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 11:09 AM
Boosted2point4 wrote:Paint that booster fool

Im leaning towards that. It will get done this winter.



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 9:23 PM
I'll just leave this in here.
And before you ask, yes the engine is wired in this pic.




Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 10:11 PM
HOLY SH!TBALLS! beautiful work man, im very jealous!



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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 10:36 PM
Now that is a respectable blown. Not get this ish on the road summer is half over.





Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 4:16 AM
What hood exactly do you have? My friend did not have to moddify his bracket for his RK hood.



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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 4:25 AM
BIGGER PIC NOW!





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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 5:33 AM




Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 5:45 AM
HOly ballz!

And I'm spent, anyone got wetnap I could use to clean up with?



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 5:45 AM
Paint the damn oil dipstick or something lol.

Yea, bigger pic plz.










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Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 6:01 AM
Screaming for Mercy!! wrote:What hood exactly do you have? My friend did not have to moddify his bracket for his RK hood.

I have the CF Tech extractor hood. It dips down a fair bit lower than the RK hood. I had to modify the throttle bracket for the 2.4SC swap I did last year because he had the same hood.




Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 6:32 AM
approved......very clean indeed


now in for MOAR pics that are hopefully bigger






RIP JESSE GERARD.....Youll always be in my thoughts and prayers...



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 12:17 PM
Cleanest 2.4 ever hands down. Hands way down.




Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 6:02 PM
So its been one hell of a long weekend.
Here is what went down.
Friday: Showed up at Robs around 630. Pushed the car in. Rob opened up the whole engine harness and eliminated everything that wasnt needed. And by eliminate, I mean removing it pin to pin, no wire cutting involved in that process. He then started to wire the front part of the engine.
I got the car up, completely stripped what was left under the car except for the rear axle. I then wirewheeled the whole underbody, covered up the whole car and layed down 2 coats of etching primer. (Thanx for the idea Wayde)










Saturday we were at the shop for around 1030. I had some running around to do for parts while Rob continued with the harness, He concentrated on the rear of the engine. I Ryno lined under the car and swapped out the springs on my coilovers for the lower ones. We then called it a day and got out of the shop early.





Sunday was the big day. We got the engine off the stand and onto the dolley. We installed the clutch and mounted the transmission to the engine. (You might noticed that I swapped to a 2 piece pass side axle from a 97.) We did a little more prep and lowered the car onto the powertrain. Rob then spent a good 8 hours extended, splicing and pinning in the new firewall connectors on both the engine side and interior side. I put a couple coats of etching primer and ryno liner on the new tank and fuel lines and swapped over the rear springs. We finally left the shop around 1am completely exhausted.


Cleaned and somewhat polished the shifter cable bracket.










Monday we put in the front struts, repaired a broken subframe nut , installed the subframe and spindles, got all the brakes, power steering lines and rack hooked up and instaleld the gas tank and hooked up the lines. We then spent the next 2 hours trying to properly bleed the brakes while attempting to fix the disaster that was Robs shop. We then put the front and rims back on and finally got it outside.

TAAADAAAAAA!






We should have it running sometime this week and tie up the loose ends, like the cooling system



Re: Leona's winter makeover thread.
Monday, August 01, 2011 8:18 PM
Man, bad a$$










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