how much did the brides run you?

 

bride gradient ftw, dang im jealous of you man

 

dude. i freaking love your seat. Good a$$ job cleaning up all the wiring too.

 

 

<-----speechless. you're going all out. I dig it.

 

Man... ^^^ that's the stuff right there! lol... I'd love to get my hands on a set of those for my ride. And at 14 lbs. w/ the rail... that sucker weighs almost nothing at all. lol

 

hopefully buying my motor in the next couple weeks.

then car is off to Vinny at Destruction Warehouse to get a custom core support, tubs, stitch welded bay, frame rail repair, antenna removal, rear side marker removal, and other small hole patching.

 

bought this SR20DET last week and was super stoked.
got it for super cheap and already had a bunch of stuff done.

Garrett GT2871 Turbo
Megan Tubular Manifold
Isis Screamer Pipe
Tomei Stage 1 Cams

so it sat in the garage for a couple days and i decided i was gonna check it out, pulled the VC off and found this.



looks like its got a blown headgasket and the camshaft lobes are all rusty, ummm....

the guy i got it from said he got it from someone else and never used it so he was just as surprised as i am.

Thankfully hes being a super cool dude and giving me the SR20 out of his car, so im goin back up to Indy Sunday to swap the motors.

Pretty much the only update ive got, saving up to get the front end done now, once thats done the real fun begins.

 

That's awesome that the seller is willing to work things out..nice pick up man! Watching to see where it goes.

Can't wait to get the ball rolling on my own build haha

 

yea, doubt hell let me keep the "upgrades" but seeing as the cams are trashed anyways, and isis and megan products arent that great, the only thing really worth taking is the turbo. And i havent asked him how many miles his motor has on it, but for the price i paid either way im sure ill be getting a good deal.

 

Man if the head looks like that i would be worried about cylinder walls and pull the oil pan off to check the crank n what not!

 

like i said.
the dude i bought it from is making it right so theres no sense in tearing the motor down any further

 

Yup thats a milkshake...and its been sitting that way for a while. GL, hope that seller makes it right.

 

picked up another motor, all stock this time. about 40K miles. compressions good and everything looks pretty clean.

when we switched motors we swapped oil pans because one was dented, never seen anything like what i saw when we took the pan off the popped motor. Ive seen stuff from blown headgaskets before but never like that.

no updates for now really, taking the car to get the front end finished in about 2 weeks hopefully. Then starting the long and horrible process of taking everything off from underneath the car, sanding it all down and covering the whole underbody in POR-15.

while im doing that ill be buying small things for the motor, as well as gauges, and a couple other expensive little pieces.

 

Dude I so havent checked this thread in 4ever. Things seem to be going pretty good. Cool to see you decided to go SR20 and got that motor thing situated. Gotta follow thread more often!

 

actually going to get this done this winter huh

 

looking good hoodie..I thought you were going to stick with the Ka?

 

i was but now im just trying to finish the car asap so i can focus on school.
the SR is cheaper than building the KA right now

 

I hear ya..cant wait to see it finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Are you still keeping the KA and going to plan on doing the turbo on that while running the SR20?

Man, I have read through the whole thread. You have done well in taking your time. I just don't think I have the patients for that sort of project!

Hope you keep posting updates here after you dump your TC (if that is still in the process).