Rebuild of the 92 st185

monkracing29

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Hey, guys finally got around to posting up some pix of my project 92 trac, after having it since spring
My dad and I got the car off of a kid in Kentucky for "steal" haha, there were alot of problems with it.
these first pictures are when we got it back to Illinois my dad brought it to my work to show me.
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one of the problems started with the big 3" dent on the roof. :cry:
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more with the electrical, :shrug: ALL of the ECU wiring was cut and we had an extremely fun time rewiring,soldering cutting figuring out the pins for it.
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Heres a link to the rest of the photos I have taken of our progress.
http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t30/ ... /All-trac/
 

monkracing29

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it's been a while since i've added to this but recently got the head valve cover and intake thermal cleaned and shot peened will post pix once i find which folder i put them in
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ct27gt

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Looks like a lot of work. The parts look great after the shot peening. While you have everything apart, have you considered sourcing a 3sge manifold and FMIC? It yields a lot more room to grow than the constantly heat soaked TMIC with notoriously horrible distribution stock offset center feed manifold.
 

monkracing29

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well after a long absence from this site and working on the trac because I was going to school and didn't have much extra time to work on it. :( I am finally back to working on it and finish rebuilding the motor. I am going to start posting more pictures up and im hoping to have it running either this month or early February.
Here is where i am at with it right now before we tore the motor down.
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I hope to be talking with everyone here again soon.
 

monkracing29

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Terracar":yyl0vw7j said:
Look forward to it. The bare metal pics gave me wood - just something about the bare metal mmmm.

-Terracar

:rofl: when i had it shaved at school i was like in aww over it lol don't know if I will go as far as gave me wood but it was close :D
 

monkracing29

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After a little over a year I am back to working on the Trac was out in Arizona for almost a year working and my lady was back here in Illinois sitting in the garage collecting some dust :x but after some surgery from an accident out there I moved back home now all i need to do is wait for me wrist pin retainers to come in and size my piston rings to bring her back to life.
 

Hotrodhendrix

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Went over all 200 pics in your bucket haha. Awesome paint job. Wish I had some help from a pro right about now. Keep us posted on the progress!
~James
 

monkracing29

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thanks hendrix i am very happy of the turn out so far :D my dad has taught me alot about painting and hes helping me paint it we still have to paint the entire front end hood bumper front and rear fenders and the spoiler. then the rims we are painting gray like the stripe. So updates this weekend pictures to come soon we sized the pistons rings and installed the pistons in the block put the comet metal head gasket on (fact the comet head gasket is backwards from the stock gasket we put it on and the little arrow on the stock one is on the right side of the motor and the comet one there is no arrow but it is completely flipped around kinda weird but what can you do :doh:) head is installed have the arp studs torqued down and hopefully will be starting with the cam shafts in a few days then timing we are getting so close!! :D cant wait to have my baby up and street legal haha
 

monkracing29

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this is what we used for wrist pin clips they are really easy to put in the piston they are called Kram lox
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here is the comet headgasket i was talking about earlier
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And here is last nights final look
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monkracing29

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SO here we go update time the cams we a bitch to but in we had the head thermal cleaned and shot peaned so little balls were everywhere we had to run a tap through all the threads to get them out and on the 1st cap on the intake on of the bolts go stuck in there we had to drill the bolt out :bangshead: took forever but now we have a heli-coil in it and the cams are on along with the valve cover this weekend im on spring break with my college so crossing my fingers on getting it running
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monkracing29

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Update have the timing belt completed with the covers on intake is done along with all wiring and water piping is connected :eek:wned:

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next on the list
1. waiting on exhaust manifold to come in to put exhaust together
2. waiting for new power terror pump to come in
3.hook up turbo and lines
4. put battery in
5.put intake piping on
6.Oil in motor
7.start car and hope all this :pissed: work comes out running :eek:wned:
8. if it doesnt run :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead: :bangshead:
9. put new rubber on A-arms
 

monkracing29

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Have the engine completely rebuilt waiting for some exhaust parts to come in so we can put the turbo in with piping then the radiator and then we can dun dun dun hopefully turn her over :wink:
 

monkracing29

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so I haven't posted on this thread in a while but we have made great progress on the car the old motor was trash so I ordered a 1994 gt4 front clip we tore the car back down put in the 205 motor and tranny in I will post pictures later have to pull them out took a lot of time doing the 205 front brake conversion. powder coated a lot of the under car brackets a-arms sway bars etc.... has ground control front and rear coilovers, I got a st205 rear end with the front clip so we will be installing that soon enough.



 
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