desant78
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Hello Gvr4.org
It's been a long time since I've posted here. Back in 2012, I bought 995/1000 and did what I thought at the time was a ton of work. You can see the old thread here First Time Build: 995/1000 It was really the first car I ever built, and it was in a friends pole barn with aluminum walls. I learned a TON from the building the car, screwing up the building the car, and this forum in general. Since I got this car driving, I've applied my newly developed "basic car knowledge" and went on to build a few other cars. Along a friend who fabricates, we built a rb25 s13, ls1 s14, ls2 350Z, my roommates spec miata, and my favorite one (aside from the vr4!) a Turbo 3.0L H6 05 STI (we did this before might car mods I swear!)
The twin scroll header we made for the STI
Along with fabricating misc pieces for friends like this camaro, we did all the intercooler piping, rather large down-pipe, hot side exhaust, and kept it twin scroll.
*See more at our facebook Side Street Motorsports
Anyway, as I have gotten the chance to work on other cars, the car I learned it all on has sat and been poorly neglected. I finally have a place to work on cars on the side for fun, AND work on my vr4 at the same. We just got this place in June, so now it's time to give the VR4 some love. I never changed the cam shaft seals originally, and they leaked pretty bad.
The car looks worse than it is, because last October (right after MOD luckily!) the alternator died, and as I was half limping it home, the shift fork snapped in half. With out the time or space, it has sat. But now as you can see, we have space for me to show some love!
So long story short, I am pulling the motor to clean up motor bay, switch out seals I never did the first time around, replace the motor mounts, and just make the car presentable again. I'll be re-doing the IC piping because the last time around was down right embarrassing (hence why there are no pictures of it!).
And I'll keep this last plug short, if anyone needs any sort of welding/prototyping done let me know! I have here a MIG and TIG, but also have access to a water jet
that is how we are able to fabricate so many random things. Anyway, the fabricating is strictly on the side, I'm an engineer by day, stuck in the cube farm with DustyDuff (who this forum needs to pressure to get his car running again!) and just provide fabricating to slightly offset this expensive hobby. Well its good to be back, and I'll be posting updates of the rebuild/freshen up/fixing the mistakes I made three years ago.
Thanks for reading this novel!
It's been a long time since I've posted here. Back in 2012, I bought 995/1000 and did what I thought at the time was a ton of work. You can see the old thread here First Time Build: 995/1000 It was really the first car I ever built, and it was in a friends pole barn with aluminum walls. I learned a TON from the building the car, screwing up the building the car, and this forum in general. Since I got this car driving, I've applied my newly developed "basic car knowledge" and went on to build a few other cars. Along a friend who fabricates, we built a rb25 s13, ls1 s14, ls2 350Z, my roommates spec miata, and my favorite one (aside from the vr4!) a Turbo 3.0L H6 05 STI (we did this before might car mods I swear!)
The twin scroll header we made for the STI
Along with fabricating misc pieces for friends like this camaro, we did all the intercooler piping, rather large down-pipe, hot side exhaust, and kept it twin scroll.
*See more at our facebook Side Street Motorsports
Anyway, as I have gotten the chance to work on other cars, the car I learned it all on has sat and been poorly neglected. I finally have a place to work on cars on the side for fun, AND work on my vr4 at the same. We just got this place in June, so now it's time to give the VR4 some love. I never changed the cam shaft seals originally, and they leaked pretty bad.
The car looks worse than it is, because last October (right after MOD luckily!) the alternator died, and as I was half limping it home, the shift fork snapped in half. With out the time or space, it has sat. But now as you can see, we have space for me to show some love!
So long story short, I am pulling the motor to clean up motor bay, switch out seals I never did the first time around, replace the motor mounts, and just make the car presentable again. I'll be re-doing the IC piping because the last time around was down right embarrassing (hence why there are no pictures of it!).
And I'll keep this last plug short, if anyone needs any sort of welding/prototyping done let me know! I have here a MIG and TIG, but also have access to a water jet
that is how we are able to fabricate so many random things. Anyway, the fabricating is strictly on the side, I'm an engineer by day, stuck in the cube farm with DustyDuff (who this forum needs to pressure to get his car running again!) and just provide fabricating to slightly offset this expensive hobby. Well its good to be back, and I'll be posting updates of the rebuild/freshen up/fixing the mistakes I made three years ago.
Thanks for reading this novel!
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