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Klasse Act said:
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....and here's that Golf w/ the 91' era Corvette wheels!
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The Golf had a bumper sticker that read PUCK FOTHOLES:laugh:
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Whats the deal with the fad of the lip of the wheel being exposed like that and putting tiny tires on em????
Thats could be the ugliest thing Ive ever seen.
 
It started as a you'reup thing. Apparently the law in Belgium states how wide your tires can be from the body but doesn't specify wheel offset. It's pointless pushed further than that Golf above. It's huge on the left coast, too. Hellaflush. :rolleyes:

Anyways, I'm going to pressure warsh the head and bring it up to ya to waller it out.
 
Theres no way you could convince my that tire would stay on bead under heavy G loading.

Aight ET, I work off Thursday morning for 8 days. Bring me a set of intake and exhaust gaskets too.
 
Only a certain amount of stretch can take a certain amount of forced weight in cornering. That's why, in the hellaflush scene, it's all about looks, hard parking.
 
A billion pics uploading now. Josh I don't have the right intake manifold gasket. I got a helluva deal on a 90-91 set and the intake ain't right. exhaust is though. i'll get the right one soon.
 
Some before/after of the head. The shop resurfaced, cleaned, and pressure tested it. They didn't take hardly anything off the face, but they didn't do too good of a job cleaning it. After Josh gets done with it, I'll pressure wash the crap out of it.
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Big block on the stand. Before shot would have been the motor still installed in a '94 Corolla that morning. :crazy: I have removed both manifolds, distributor, head (it's just sitting on the block since I got nowhere to put it), water pump, engine mounts, flex plate, and all the pulleys except the crank. :blackeye:
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I can't get the damn crank pulley off. Toyota is awful about overtightening the crank pulley. I had to use a 3' cheater bar and a 3' chain wrench to get the crank pulley bolt out of my Camry when I did the water pump/timing belt last summer. I got the pulley off my old Corolla motor easy since it was in the car; I put it in gear and yanked the e-brake. Obviously I can't do that with this motor. I put the bolts for the flex plate back in and wedged a prybar in between against the engine stand. All I did was bend the prybar until it slipped off the stand and flew up on the roof of my house.

Anyways, for the new motor, it's pretty clean inside. There is a timing belt replacement sticker on the valve cover that shows it was replaced somewhere along the line. I can't quite read the numbers, but it looks like 171k back in '07. So this is a high milage engine for sure, but I'm rebuilding it from the bottom up anyways. There are no marks or scores on the cylinder walls, but the tops of the pistons do have a lot of junk on them. Keep in mind this motor was exposed for who knows how long since the donor car lacked a hood. Insides:
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You still coming up to my house Thurs??? If so we have a fuel pressure regulator to install and some stainless -6AN fuel line to reroute, its a PITA to make up the couplings so I was gonna let you do it.
 
SVTaslinger said:
You still coming up to my house Thurs??? If so we have a fuel pressure regulator to install and some stainless -6AN fuel line to reroute, its a PITA to make up the couplings so I was gonna let you do it.
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Holy crap, Josh is letting someone do some work?.....oh wait, this is Eric's ride, NM, LOL!
 
Yeah i'll be up after work tonight. He just wants me to fish the lines through the car, but I'd be worried about getting one of these guns wedged and bending the frame. I'll go easy on her. ;) I wish you'd just drive that damn thing down here to the shop. We're sitting around jerkin doing nothing lol.

I got the crank bolt out this morning, also threw the head in a bucket and flipped the motor. Damn oil pan has a dent. :(
 
Been to busy to do anything lately. I'm going to vent some stress on the core plugs though, that'll cheer me up. Then I gotta get money so I can take the block, crank, and rods and pistons to the machine shop to get cleaned up. Got a birthday coming up, carbs or cams would be nice. ;)
 
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