cgawelko

I am getting tired of working on this flippin thing all the time.

dicer

What is that jack pushing up on? And why is the exhaust pointing to the front? Manifolds on the wrong side?

PureDrifter

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So it still doesn't run?

Dicer- He's likely building a front-low mount turbo setup, it's common to flip the manifolds when doing that.

dicer

Nice. But I'm still wondering about that jack.

cgawelko

The jack is holding the engine up lol the subframe is out and the steering rack and everything are out. building solid motor mounts and cutting out the rubber bit in the steering column. Fell in half while I was down there and its a single braided wire with a square pattern rubber molded on it. Going to cut that whole weak section out and weld a piece of bar in the place.

And its going to be mounted a little higher. Need to do some wierd things - going to flip the banjo on the side of the radiator to the other side and push radiator forward and move my big electric fan to the front with the two condensor fans and its going to dump out the hood. Turd-o is going to sit in there a little odd. Also need to replace upper radiator hose with metal and wrap in heat wrap since the turd-o is going to be there baking it.

cgawelko

Oh and it does run. I can start it any time lol but I dont want to burn everything up since it craps out fire ***** of corn juice.

Also removing the power steering and moving the alternator up and going from there. Also have to remove the fan clutch pulley so I get more turd-o room. Since its going to have a decent sized turbo.

dicer

Is this a race car? I forget. Not a mod person, but I would like to see someone make a 2 door LS400 someday.

cgawelko

Well.... I wouldnt go that far. Its going to be completely street legal. Look SEMI- stock (stock suspension, keeping the steelies) but I will be adding a large wing and be crapping fire out a 3" pipe in the hood so idk how stock it can look lol

dicer

Wing ? Cool then maybe a prop next and it will fly. Maybe some day it will be in a museum. Kinda like a Wright brothers deal, the first flying Lexus.

cgawelko

custom chassis mounted GT wing gonna be awesome. Im very deep into my pocket with this car lol

UNCNOR

iTrader: (1)

I have a turd-o headache!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cgawelko

This will be turd-o headache #3... .the other two are VWs..... lol luckily I have the kia! Just had to have the passat torn apart at a shop. $700 later my wallet hurts. Had to have the motor pulled and oil problems fixed. The other one needs a new turbo or a rebuild lol its only got 70k and on its second turbo as it is.