Stan's Convoluted Project Car Thread...

[stanhayward]

Hey, not dead yet! I moved away to University in another province so excuse the lack of progress, but I am still here and making progress! So, the white car above is still around and am still working on its engine these days. Just a couple quick shots from tearing the engine down:



I have all the small parts/covers etc marinating in some solvent overnight and am hoping to get to painting the block and rebuilding tomorrow. It is so nice to be working on cars again!

[stanhayward]

Been slowly working away at cleaning and painting components. Threw a junk 200 head on the block to mask it off and primed and painted it what was supposed to be a nice copper finish. It came out very pink though, so might go grab a bronze or something to add a second coat on top to mellow it out.

Pics:

[stanhayward]

For the multitude of people still paying attention to this, I repainted the block, and also the valve cover and intake manifold to match:





Then painted all the timing covers and did a final assembly on the engine (sorry, it's a shitty photo):



Then got to some bodywork which wasn't a lot of fun. But long story short, removed the tacky-ass fibreglass body kit and did some minor rust repair and repainted the rockers and front bumpers with bed liner. Then installed new brakes, Raceland coilovers and some 16x7.5/9 ET10/15 (8mm front spacer) ESM 009s with 195/45 front and 215/40 rear tires. For anyone wondering, damn near perfect fitment that is flush and only requires a very light roll.

What she looked like before :


And now the current look less bumpers and engine obviously:

[TeXJ]

nice update, thanks!

[BUDNUNTA]

That was an old BMP Designs body kit

Didn't think many of them were around anymore