scj

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okay, so after a blown head gasket, and many more problems on a unknown mileage motor that i bought the car with installed I've decided to cut my losses and pull it out and redo everything my self. I'll be redoing the engine bay too clean it up a lot and make it looks nice and sexy. I'll be going with a mainly stock motor with free mods and a few little bolt ons being that the car is going to be a daily for a while, and i don't want to do anything ridiculous until i have another daily car, but this is just for now.

I've got the motor pulled so far, and off the k member, along with the trans taken off.

here's my progress so far.






I'll update this as frequently as possible..

Devylyst

What's going in that bad boy?

scj

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just a mostly stock motor to daily drive.

black_sheep454

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Good work, keep us updated

scj

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got a little done today..

sanded and painted the passenger side shock tower, and did some wire tucking up front.

still have to clear it.

97ramsst

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Wow, I have to respect someone willing to jump on that OUTSIDE and with no more tools than that...it reminds me of when I was younger working on stuff in my parents backyard. It takes much more ingenuity to get it done like that than in does working inside with all the tools you need at your disposal....but honestly I wouldnt trade places with you!!! lol

Keep up the good work and let us know how it goes!

scj

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i gotta little more work done today, sprayed the whole bay, and cleared everything, still have to wet sand and buff it out to get some of the rattle can orange peel out of it, but i'm not expecting this to be perfect by all means, but i can do what i gotta do to get it looking good for cheap. pulled a lot more stuff off the car also, as you can see, most of the front end is off.
but i think the engine bay paint looks pretty good for rattle can, and will look even better once it's wet sanded and buffed out.

here are the pics.






enjoy.

let me know what you guys think..
thanks man, i wish i had a shop or something to do all this in, but i have plenty of tools for everything. even air tools if i really need to use them, but most of the time a good ol socket and ratchet set will do the trick with no problem. i"m 18, and this is my parents drive way, lol.

scj

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got everything mounted on the motor pulled off and loaded into the truck, all accessories, exhaust manifolds, all sensors, etc. it's going into the shop tomorrow morning to get a full long block rebuild, heads and all. Also got the k-member all disassembled, so i can redo the whole front suspension, new shocks, bushing, ball joints, tie rod ends, everything.. i don't want to have to deal with this thing having problems for a while.

94TRANS

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good work, maybe while your at it go ahead and the "wire mod" would be a good time to?

tbird31

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Imma be honest man, I'd at least throw a cam in there, bump up the power a little bit and you can still retain drive ability. Not to mention if you are already breaking down the motor...it'd DEFINITELY be the time to do it. A hot cam or 503 is really the way to go...

I know you're trying to maintain a easy daily but it'd definitely worth it.

scj

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already done it, a long time ago.

yeah, i feel you. i wish i could, it's just not on my priority list at the moment, i can always do a cam swap and beef it up later if i want to, this is my daily driver car, and i want to be able to drive it in stock condition without having to deal with a tune and stuff. I'll be throwing some bolts ons on the motor, like lt headers, ewp, and intake for now. once i get another car to daily, this thing will be under the knife again.

bigj2717

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Man I have to give you props for going at all that work outside. It looks like its turning out great so far good luck with the rest of it

scj

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thanks man...i really appreciate it. i wish i had a shop, but this is the only way i can go about it, i don't even have a functional garage. so this is how i do. get by with what i have.

scj

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got a lot done today.

motor was taken to the shop this morning for the rebuild and should be finished within about a week.

got the whole undercarriage of the car pressure washed along with sprayed a little of it with some rubberized undercoating, and inside the front wheel wells too. also got the front calipers painted gloss black, the k-member pressure washed and painted, and the steering assembly pressure washed and re-installed on the k-member along with the brake lines.

here's the only pictures i took from today.
not much..


I'll get some more pictures if i can tomorrow.

scj

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so i got the harness pulled out of the car today, and pulled all the nasty loom off of it, went and picked up a **** load of new loom and went to town. got it all cleaned up and loomed up with new loom. also got all the engine bay paint finished today. i also got all the hardware to put the hood back on painted and installed on the car today, although i don't have pics of the harness or the hood hardware installed on the car, but here's the bay for now. i painted the brackets for the abs unit flat black, and painted the brake booster flat black as well. I'll be polishing the brake lines going from the abs unit to the master cylinder as well, stay tuned.

98 WS6

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Looks like you're in the same boat as me!

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...-evil-ws6.html

You took a lot more off the front than I did though. I finally got my whole block empty, ready to swap into the new one. It's really so damn easy once it's out of the car.

Good luck with your rebuild man.

DCC!!

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has anyone every told you you look like fred from youtube??

anyway look great keep up the good work!
im 18 also doin all my work in the drive way also! lol god luck with your build!

scj

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thanks man, same goes for you!

haha, yes. one person has told me that, but i really don't see it. he's super gay. lol. i get that i look like the freshman of of dazed and confused a lot, especially when i had long hair a few years ago.

thanks man! same to you too.

well i got the hood back on, and snapped some pictures with the header panel with the lights and stuff back on, also got the front fenders reinstalled and aligned.

scj

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okay, so i haven't really gotten much done on the car lately, with spring break just letting out and the weather being a lot less than perfect, nothing has gotten done. although, today i picked up the motor from the shop, and took it home and bolted it to the 1000lb engine stand i just bought for $30! and i also received my pacesetter lt headers for it, which i mocked up on the motor to see how they looked. this is the only picture i got today while putting it on the stand with a friend of mine, but I'll get some more tomorrow of the motor on the stand with the headers.

scj

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heres the pictures of the headers mocked up on the motor on the engine stand, i got started on the wiring and relocating wiring for hiding stuff and such on the harness today, got it really cleaned up, put the fuel rails on, polished it, along with the injectors, new o-rings, the throttle body is on, all the sensors are almost on the motor, except for a few and the opti. gotta save up the funds. i dropped off my egr gaskets at a machine shop to get plates made for them to block that off, so that should be installed on monday. everything will slowly be coming together.