this 2019 **** never happened!
blew the motor, was on verge of a divorce and a few months later ended up buying a house.

there is really no aim at this other than showing my progress with the car.

 

the story that follows is cringy....after i put the eha dback on, i accidentally left the caps for the cams "loose", the car ran good although a bit weird....took it for a drive and ended up snapping the intake cam in half.
hence why i had no comp.
i thought i had for sure fucked up a ring land or something, no...the intake side, on piston 3-4 was not even rotating!

 

so out comes eveyrhting...again and the frustration begins...

 

pistons totally trashed after 10K miles of abuse

 

moved into new house, this is me taking my car fro my friends garage onto mine.

new plans...i got the itch.,..i wanted to do it right this time.

year: mid-2019.

 

 

not happy, but continue on with the "putting bakc together"

 

block ended up being trash..the mahcine shop tappered the cylinders! fucked me over.
got another block so it lal starts over again

 

 

more random ****, more pissing off, the car almost full put back together. engine started, spun a cam bearing.,..WTF? how doe that even happen?
i'm uber pissed at this point, ready to catch this **** on fire.

 

"FIX" the head, and bahm, spun it again!
argh, so close to lighting this shitbucket on fire.

 

then my friend says
"you know, we could paint this ca rin your garage..."

so you know what that means...all comes OFF again. we doing a color change!

 

then i said, "it would be easier to paint if the car was just a shell....took me a weekend to do it.

 

the curse wasn't over...then the paint started doing weird ****.
which means, we have to sand it all again.....we are learning...the paint reacted with the primer.

 

decided to focus my attention to the dashboard, which was cracked.
fixed it and wrapped it...came out so-so but better than it being cracked,.

 

needed to free up the submframe, so engine goes on stand....i'm not done with it yet...

 

i then attempted a poor-mans port and polish(?)
whatever, the aim was to remove the roughness

 

engine went from being all apart to put bakc together again..for the 5th time.

 

ZINC Plating attempts....going the extra mile this time.
i zinc plated parts as i needed....small batches, sometime sone bolt at a time.








i did

 

new batch of painting, new ******* issues...REACTIONS...what the ****?
only certain areas....then we found out the paint was reacting with another type of primer we used out of a can!

****, it just never stops...