c'mon, sort it out!! give the old girl a wash, i want to see skids

 

yeah, is it turboed yet??

 

loool, let me blow up this engine first then i'll get the turbo short block

 

quickie update :

got the window to roll down all the way thanks to marky's tip, i also put in the speaker in place and then proceeded to put the door panel on , then i found out i'm missing a few pastic rivet thingies that hold the panel in ( no problem there) as well as the storage compartment cover ( on the door). so i need to do something about it . anyway here is how the speaker looks installed ( it has some sort of sound enhansing expansion chamber deal which maked the whole assembly quite huge) :



also took the water pump off and the balancer ( again ,,,) so i can fix the front main seal , also will be replacing the passenger side hard coolant hose i made with a 1.5" hard hose and route it slightly diffrently inorder to make room for the intake tubes.
another odd thing i found was this thing ( it was in a bag i used to put parts i found in the car when i got it , any idea what it is? :




and finally , i got a bunch of parts in , most importantly the heater hoses and a few other things so i'm almost at the point of calling the cooling system done !

 

i got the trigger wheel back from the machine shop with the proper holes drilled in it :



and i also had these made a few weeks ago ; they go between the trigger wheel and the balancer shell because the shell uses counter sunk holes for the bolts so if you tighten the bolts they will try to pull in the balance into the hole and distort it .



and here is how the the whole thing looks :



also got the front main seal in , it turns out the leak was because of an off center cover that was caused by the two front hoes in the oil pan ( the ones that go into the timing chain cover) not being aligned with the cover , which caused the cover to be pulled to one side when tigtened . so knowing that , i left the two front bolts off and will enlarge the bolts next oil change .

needless to say , the balancer is back on

and like i said before, the elusive heater hoses showed up



now its just a matter of clamping them on, and redoing the coolant tubes and be done with the cooling system .

 

Come on brother, get that b!tch on the road. Feel like your dragging your feet now.

 

Awsome project. Some Big To go this route. LOve it!

 

i'm teasing you guys

i'm messing with building the headers for the camaro ( which by the way is a ton of fun )
and it was taking most of my time , but i should have something major done by this week

 

I want this! roughly how much invested if you don't mind me asking

 

I didnt want say anything but I've been curious too

 

i don't have an exact figure yet , but around 10K for the car , 8k for the trans , about $450 for harness , and 800 in missing suspension peices , roughly 1k in exhaust , and lets just say another 8k of misceleanous things from missing interior stuff to fasteners and hoses . this is just a rough estimate so don't take the numbers as gospel .

the engine was free since i had it for 5 years now

now how much would it cost if the car was in better shape or already had the trans? much less than what it cost now and if it was a running car and you wanted to convert it you might end up with money in your pocket ( complete used tt engines go for $15K + )

any how , got cracking on the cooling system again : i decided to swap the driver side coolant pipe with something a bit smaller so the intake tube would fit in there. and inorder to do so i had to replace the thermostat housing with one that fits the smaller tube . i just need to weld a bead on its end and find the correct rubber coupler peice .

i also changed the water pump outlet peice to a better looking and fitting peice , i just need to weld the two peices that form it and place a bead on both ends .

i also fitted the heater hoses under the car and routed the rubber lines toward the water pump outlets , i'll be using stock f-body hoses from the water pump ( wich fit nicely by the way ) to the original lines on the car .

after i'm done with that i'll drop the pipes off at the powdercoaters and be done with that

(sorry no pics cause i forgot the camera )

another thing i did was check if the front main seal leaked or not , and happy to report that its doing ok so far also checked the trigger wheel for wobble or out of roundness and it spun perfect

i also decided to finish the whole powersteering delima once and for all : i cut both hard lines and will be flaring the pressure side and making a new pressure hose from the ps pump to the hard line . the return line will just be clamped on both ends .

so , up next on the list is :

- have the hoses welded up and powder coated
- clamp all hoses in place and call the cooling system done
- make a new pressure side hose to replace the leaky stock one
- flare the hard ps line and connect it to the hose above , and with that the power steering should be done.
- take it for a spin and romp on it

 

Love it!

 

You're my HERO

 

great project, very cool. Not sure if anyone asked, but have you decided on a color for the car?

 

great question ,,, the wife and i have been debating on what color to go with : we kind of narrowed it down to black , grey, metallic blue ( something like viper blue or panemera blue), or white .

its still a bit early to decide but i'm constantly thinking of it

any how finished welding the new hard lines and placing a bead on them ( i still need to take pics ) also welded a small adapter tube on the end of the F-body heater hose so i can slide the 3/4" heater hose on it . next up its the powder coaters

 

^All great ideas...for some reason when I first saw the car I thought it would look great in cyber grey metallic!

 

thats the grey i was thinking of

 

maybe its just me but I kinda like it the color it is with the black wheels, its clean but different while still keeping the 996 look

 

Wow, just spend some time reading this whole thread front to back.... just...wow.

 

carsandwomen , i'm sure if i keep it the same color it would look good , especially after some touch up and a good polishing, but like i said , i'll cross that bridge when i get to it

any how here are a few pics of recent progress :

i welded up the updated hard lines and fit them on the car to check how well they fit , and they fit good

i think i'm getting good at this whole welding thing :



the finished hard lines before powder coating :



and here is how they fit in the compartment :





and these are the f-body heater lines ( and they say saving old parts is useless )



i had to weld a small peice at the end of the smaller tube so i can slide a 3/4 hose over it just like the other line :



and this is how nicely it fit ( i told you all cars were designed to have an LS engines in them )



and finally i cut the powersteering lines so i can replace the fittings on them , on the return side i'll just slide a hose on it and clamp it on both sides, as for the pressure side i just flared it and used a JIC fitting on it ( just like an -AN fitting ) and a Male-Male coupler to connect it to the powersteering pressure hose :




so now i have to drop off the hard hoses to the powdercoaters , and while they are being done i'll bolt in the powersteering pump again and check it for leaks ,,,, again

i'll also bolt on the A/C compressor and see what i can do about routing the A/C lines .

also next i should start on making the crank position sensor bracket to hold the porsche crank sensor so i can get the RPM guage to work .