Hey RCC
I have been on this Fourm for a while some of you might know my Lowered Fc vert. fairly stock car i like to auto cross and have funn with. Well last week i picked up a 1989 fc gxl with a Individual carbed 13b with a couple mods.
Story behind the car: it was built by a guy in st louis,MO and i guess he like to drag race it. go figure. but then he sold it and it has since passed threw a couple hands to me. The people who bought it from him burnt the clutch and never fixed it. when i got the car oil and tranny fluid looked like it came straight out of the bottle. so im guessing they burnt the clutch way before they could poorly matain it. so kindof a blessing.

Here is what the car looks like now and where my Journey begins. I have already pulled the engine and tranny. im going to replace the clutch( which i have already purchased) resurface the flywheel (which is a 8 pound unknown aftermarket one) then clean and paint the engine bay before it goes back in. I have pictures of the pull but dont have them on my computer yet.

PS if anyone recognizes the car and knows who built it i would love to talk with him. (or if any board members who live in st louis want to do some research that would be awesome.)

Here is how she Sat when i got her.

 

wow that engine looks very well used..lol it looks like the bay of an old muscle car.. has lots of potential though

 

Those recaros are from an older Jetta GLI

 

^ ha really? i said they looked like old vdub seats with a recaro stiching ha. thats nice to know.
i work 8am to 5 pm then 7pm to 3am but as soon as i get some free time im going to get those pics up and start tearing the rest of the engine bay apart!!!

 

Since the first post i have done quite a bit. so heres an update

right when i got it home


Engine bay




MSD were held on by one skrew and a few zip ties. GHETTO


Battery terminals were probably the worst i have ever seen


just liked that picture

 

just more pictures





No breaks in the whole exhaust

 

Pulled the engine today











and its out




couple parts i pulled that will be cleaned redone and put back on


heres a picture of the tiny three inch from the header exhaust i got


these were just sitting in the exhaust. should i put them back in the same way or is there some right way to put them in.

shine it up

 

there has been porting done on the engine. kinda hard to take pictures but here are some

 

Pretty neato. I Like the gauge layout.

 

Uhhh....



Those are the exhaust sleeves...only way to put them back in correctly is to open up tho motor. The fact that they came out like that is not good news.

If you seed the roll pin jammed into it, thats supposed to go into the sides of the rotor housing.

Edit: looking at them again it looks like he cut off the diffuser part of the n/a sleeve and re welded it together. The proper way to do this is to use the TII sleeve which doesn't have a diffuser in it.

Get some pics of the exhaust ports from the block, and if you look in there you will see where those roll pins are supposed to go.

 

hey thanks farberio. when i get this thing done i might have to take a drive with some buddys down here and check out the chicago scene. looks pretty big with risky devil, gripgambler ect.

 

Yeah its tons of fun!

It looks like an interesting build so I will be waiting!!

 

Thanks! so i think i have decieded to paint the car black w/ gold peral(thoughts?).Also anyone know any cars that have stock 16inch bbs wheels that would fit the 7?

 

Just got back from the shop. Got the engine bay cleared out completly and degreased and scrubed it. now its time for sanding.

Max post up pictures!!

 

Wow. Did you ask around if "old school" raped M.Wankel at some point? I think you just bought his unclaimed daughter.

Very interesting, seriously.

Spec.

 

ummm. thanks i think?

I actually really like it. i have a mint 88fc vert and i feel like i cant touch it or beat on it. so i love this car cuz its a really fun cheap as hell build. Im looking at probably 1500(give or take a few hundred)for all the parts i want/need and it fully painted. minus the wheels im going to get. but yea if it blows i got a solid chassy for a 13bt

 

It was a compliment you know. As in "Wow, what a unique mod/ride".



I should add smileys more often.

Spec.

 

updated pictures of the engine bay once i cleaned it. got the car sanded pretty good now. if only i could update this as quick as i could get the car done ha.

 

Nice. Make sure to post up in action shots

 

Will do^^

 

Can't wait to see how this comes along!


I hate being a broke college kid. >.<

 

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ha i know what you mean man. im in college too. working two jobs so i can do it. but this is kindof a low budget build.

 

update. got the front suspension on and im going to finish the rest tomorrow. i will post pics when its done.

anyone know where i can get a good set of wheel spacers?

 

adaptitusa.com - every spacer available pretty much...

 

I'm a broke college kid too

Updates look good, progress is always satisfying. Keep us updated.