pat244ti
Moderator
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2002
- Location
- Santa Cruz CA
UPDATED 12.22
First, here's a little timeline on the car
January 2003- picked up the car for $1200 from NoSloVo, 270k, bone stock, daily driver
March 2003- master cylinder failure leads to a 20 mph collision with fellow tbricker Noah244ti after a nice run in the mountains
May 2003- after the accident, 2 new doors are sourced and I send the car off to get painted
July 2003- I threw the car on jackstands for a month, and performed the first couple of modifications. Installed iPD braided steel brake lines, iPD 25mm sways, Bilstein HD shocks/struts, iPD lowering springs. Performed some much need maitenence items [replaced stock filter with K&N, plugwires with Magnecors], swapped the GT front end+7'' Rounds on and painted the virgos anthracite.
September 2003- Decided since the car was having cooling problems, I would not be taking it with me to Arizona. I take my 1997 Dodge Dakota instead.
February 2004- Decided I missed the car so much I had to bring it out to Arizona. Drove to CA with a new radiator, electric fan as well as a fresh turbo and swapped them on. While I was in CA for the weekend, I had an exhaust shop build a 3'' exhaust. Also installed a MBC.
April 2003- Swapped to a B230F intake manifold, installed a TurboXS RFL BOV and did the T11 mod. I fixed a few fuel delivery issues [fuel pumps], and set the boost to 14 psi.
June 2004- Dyno'ed the car. With Arizona temps, I had to lower boost to 9 psi for the summer heat, but I threw 100 octane in and set it to 11 psi. By this time the B21FT had about 325k on it.
August 2004- Recieved my Eiker Polaris replicas from the group buy. Also scored some European headlights, euro plate and euro TS's. I finally got my steering wheel adaptor for a OMP steering wheel I had had for a long time and installed that.
October 2004- Installed iPD Turbo Cam and adjustable gear. Thought I would be cool, so I tossed 100 octane in it, set boost to about 18-20 psi on the 60/63 T3 I was running. I paid the price and I blew the headgasket.
November 2004- Since the B21FT had more than just the HG [worn out rings], I sourced a 1995 B230FT from a 940 that had been rear ended. 90k and full maitence records.
February 2005- Finally yanked the B21FT out and put the B230FT in.
June 2005- I finally get around to actually trying to get the car running. I spent a couple days on it, but I end up running out of time and have to leave it in Arizona since I had to move back to California.
So fast forward a few months. I had the car shipped from Arizona back to California, and I slowly got it running again. Here was the old setup
ENGINE
1995 B230FT
15G Turbo
3'' SAM Exhaust
BMC CDA Airbox
NPR Intercooler
TiAL BOV
iPD Turbo Cam
iPD Adjustable Cam Gear
Megasquirt w/stock Kjet Ignition
Dodge 4bar FPR
Walbro 255lph fuel pump
MSD Coil
Magnecor Plugwires
AEM WB02
Greddy Profec B Spec II
SUSPENSION
Bilstein HD's
iPD Sways
iPD Springs
Adjustable Panhard Rod
GT Braces [upper and lower]
Homemade Strut Brace
Solid Swaybar Endlinks
Superpro Poly Bushings
Eiker 17X7.5 "Polaris" Replicas
Goodyear Eagle F1 G2-D3 tires, 215/45/17ZR
BRAKES
Zimmerman Crossdrilled Rotors
Axxis Metal Master Pads
iPD Braided Steel Lines
EXTERIOR
Flathood Conversion
GT Grille+Fogs
European Square-style headlights
European Plate
European Turnsignal lenses
Volvo OEM Cowl Cover/"Snow Scoop"
Low profile side-trim
DVS Group A Spoiler
INTERIOR
Sparco Pro2000 Seats
Sparco Harnesses
OMP WRC Steering Wheel
Autometer Phantom Boost/AF/Oil Pressure/Water Temp/Volt gauges
HKS Turbo Timer
B&M T-Handle Shifter
Overall, I was pretty satisfied with it. At 14 psi it ripped pretty nice once we got it tuned with the WB. But over the course of time, the cars wiring on many ends [Megasquirt, headlights, gauges] started to fail on me. It was an absolute rats nest which made it hard to fix. Also, the new clutch I had installed was giving up the ghost. Having over the many months leading up to and during the summer of 06' I had collected many parts I planned on installing on the car, including everything to swap in a T5, a Proturbo header, and other misc goodies.
At this point, with all these parts, the car having not been registered since June 05' [smog reasons], I decided it was time to make this thing into more than the street rod I had planned for it. I decided to make it my track bitch, on top of planning to run Time Attack events in Southern California. Once I build up a new engine for the car [probably after SE6, summer 07'] my plan is to get a racing license and run the car in SCCA ITE.
I began by removing the entire interior from the car [including the sunroof], removing all wiring/gauges/ems/etc, and removing all of the sound deadening tar paper. This was in preparation for seamwelding, a full IT legal rollcage as well as rewiring the car from scratch using a Painless kit.
Which brings me to now......I've got almost everything ready to go to start putting the car back together. I'm just waiting on a check from Progressive Insurance for my 98' R so I can send this car out to my homeslice John @ Evil Genius Racing for a rollcage and some other goodies. I'll keep updating the thread as more work by John and myself is completed.
First, here's a little timeline on the car
January 2003- picked up the car for $1200 from NoSloVo, 270k, bone stock, daily driver
March 2003- master cylinder failure leads to a 20 mph collision with fellow tbricker Noah244ti after a nice run in the mountains
May 2003- after the accident, 2 new doors are sourced and I send the car off to get painted
July 2003- I threw the car on jackstands for a month, and performed the first couple of modifications. Installed iPD braided steel brake lines, iPD 25mm sways, Bilstein HD shocks/struts, iPD lowering springs. Performed some much need maitenence items [replaced stock filter with K&N, plugwires with Magnecors], swapped the GT front end+7'' Rounds on and painted the virgos anthracite.
September 2003- Decided since the car was having cooling problems, I would not be taking it with me to Arizona. I take my 1997 Dodge Dakota instead.
February 2004- Decided I missed the car so much I had to bring it out to Arizona. Drove to CA with a new radiator, electric fan as well as a fresh turbo and swapped them on. While I was in CA for the weekend, I had an exhaust shop build a 3'' exhaust. Also installed a MBC.
April 2003- Swapped to a B230F intake manifold, installed a TurboXS RFL BOV and did the T11 mod. I fixed a few fuel delivery issues [fuel pumps], and set the boost to 14 psi.
June 2004- Dyno'ed the car. With Arizona temps, I had to lower boost to 9 psi for the summer heat, but I threw 100 octane in and set it to 11 psi. By this time the B21FT had about 325k on it.
August 2004- Recieved my Eiker Polaris replicas from the group buy. Also scored some European headlights, euro plate and euro TS's. I finally got my steering wheel adaptor for a OMP steering wheel I had had for a long time and installed that.
October 2004- Installed iPD Turbo Cam and adjustable gear. Thought I would be cool, so I tossed 100 octane in it, set boost to about 18-20 psi on the 60/63 T3 I was running. I paid the price and I blew the headgasket.
November 2004- Since the B21FT had more than just the HG [worn out rings], I sourced a 1995 B230FT from a 940 that had been rear ended. 90k and full maitence records.
February 2005- Finally yanked the B21FT out and put the B230FT in.
June 2005- I finally get around to actually trying to get the car running. I spent a couple days on it, but I end up running out of time and have to leave it in Arizona since I had to move back to California.
So fast forward a few months. I had the car shipped from Arizona back to California, and I slowly got it running again. Here was the old setup
ENGINE
1995 B230FT
15G Turbo
3'' SAM Exhaust
BMC CDA Airbox
NPR Intercooler
TiAL BOV
iPD Turbo Cam
iPD Adjustable Cam Gear
Megasquirt w/stock Kjet Ignition
Dodge 4bar FPR
Walbro 255lph fuel pump
MSD Coil
Magnecor Plugwires
AEM WB02
Greddy Profec B Spec II
SUSPENSION
Bilstein HD's
iPD Sways
iPD Springs
Adjustable Panhard Rod
GT Braces [upper and lower]
Homemade Strut Brace
Solid Swaybar Endlinks
Superpro Poly Bushings
Eiker 17X7.5 "Polaris" Replicas
Goodyear Eagle F1 G2-D3 tires, 215/45/17ZR
BRAKES
Zimmerman Crossdrilled Rotors
Axxis Metal Master Pads
iPD Braided Steel Lines
EXTERIOR
Flathood Conversion
GT Grille+Fogs
European Square-style headlights
European Plate
European Turnsignal lenses
Volvo OEM Cowl Cover/"Snow Scoop"
Low profile side-trim
DVS Group A Spoiler
INTERIOR
Sparco Pro2000 Seats
Sparco Harnesses
OMP WRC Steering Wheel
Autometer Phantom Boost/AF/Oil Pressure/Water Temp/Volt gauges
HKS Turbo Timer
B&M T-Handle Shifter
Overall, I was pretty satisfied with it. At 14 psi it ripped pretty nice once we got it tuned with the WB. But over the course of time, the cars wiring on many ends [Megasquirt, headlights, gauges] started to fail on me. It was an absolute rats nest which made it hard to fix. Also, the new clutch I had installed was giving up the ghost. Having over the many months leading up to and during the summer of 06' I had collected many parts I planned on installing on the car, including everything to swap in a T5, a Proturbo header, and other misc goodies.
At this point, with all these parts, the car having not been registered since June 05' [smog reasons], I decided it was time to make this thing into more than the street rod I had planned for it. I decided to make it my track bitch, on top of planning to run Time Attack events in Southern California. Once I build up a new engine for the car [probably after SE6, summer 07'] my plan is to get a racing license and run the car in SCCA ITE.
I began by removing the entire interior from the car [including the sunroof], removing all wiring/gauges/ems/etc, and removing all of the sound deadening tar paper. This was in preparation for seamwelding, a full IT legal rollcage as well as rewiring the car from scratch using a Painless kit.
Which brings me to now......I've got almost everything ready to go to start putting the car back together. I'm just waiting on a check from Progressive Insurance for my 98' R so I can send this car out to my homeslice John @ Evil Genius Racing for a rollcage and some other goodies. I'll keep updating the thread as more work by John and myself is completed.
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Its hotter in person. Im anxious to see this car pat!
