Not my car but its always nice to see build thread of these cars for future ref.

Story of the car: I seen this car on craigslist well over a year ago when i was in search for a vr4. The guy who owned it never took care of it. Dont know who owned it before that guy but it had a really bad rod knock. Couple days ago, i saw this car on craigslist once again and the guy who bought it(rmontalvo23)(current owner)had it sit at a friends house for about 3 months. Was going to buy it from him but talked and ill be doing a full rebuilt for him since he doesn't have any free time.

Getting ready for the tow truck.



Goodies that rmontalvo23 collected while its been parked.
ARP's


.20 over pistons and reconditioned rods


complete




ACT flywheel and clutch kit.



box of random goods that need to be cleaned


reconditioned crank




.20 over block.


Got sand? lol wonder where that came from. anybody know?





Thats it for now. Please stay tuned. Still gotta clean some things up and drop the old motor /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Finally it's getting taken away from that house. Waited 2 months for my "friend" to call me back about the car. I'm thankful to dsm10o0 for calling and asking to buy it. I quickly convinced him to fix it for me

Update: got the transmission and head off the car, sucks not having a engine lifter lol. I got the block and crank cleaned at the machine shop and just got it back. Starting to assemble everything to put together /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif California weather is making me take a while to get everything done, so f#@king hot, even worse in the garage.




Found that cylinder 1 blew a rod and punched a hole in the back of the block.



The hole I found behind the ac compressor.

Nice of you to post a build thread Nico, looks like youll be busy for awhile and I know sj is hot this week aha.

Its in great hands.... after that lets do my 5lug!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks guys, hahah. Triz, Ill hit you up after i finish this so we can start your 5 lug. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Update:

Finally got the block down. PITA when your doing it your self without an engine lifter. hahah



The hole in the wall. lol

Update,

Got the crank on all buttoned up with arp's and acl bearings. Rods and pistons will be on tomorrow.



Popped the old motors oil pan and rod 1 is stuck in the balance shaft. Also found the balance shaft bearing on the oil pan.



Did a little cleaning on the intake manifold. Forgot to take a before shot.



More to come...