texturboII
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Hey there everybody, I'm starting this thread to document the building / resurrection of a nice little st165 I found local to me. A couple of my buddies and I decided to get into Rally Racing and were looking for a proper machine to throw around turns and I found it, a black 1988 Alltrac. Our goal is a full race-rebuild and we've got a lot of work ahead of us. Here she is when we picked her up:
and we'll be attempting to turn it into something like this:
SO, we've got a lot of work to do. The engine bay is a wreck, the exhaust manifold is off, nothing is connected and the exhaust ports have been uncovered for god knows how long, the harness is just laying in there, air box and ducts are non-existent, etc... but we got it into it's new home: my tiny ass garage.
and we started by stripping the interior...
We were going to pull the engine this last weekend but years of "moving attrition" has stolen a lot of my tools, so we spent the weekend getting a hoist put together and buying jack stands and other needed tools. We did manage to clear the engine bay a bit. Pulled the radiator, and a few other accessories.
Here's the team, other than myself:
My friend and his little brother, we are going to turn him into a pro WRC driver, lol. It's going to be a learning experience! I've never worked on an AWD platform before, heck I've never worked on a piston engine before, lol! I'm a rotorhead myself and moved to the alltrac after building 4 rx-7's over the past 7 years or so. Hopefully I'll have some more images and updates over this week, I'll be getting her up in the air and inspecting everything underneath. From what I can tell, rust isn't an issue and everything looks pretty good so far.
Thanks for looking, I'm sure I'll have a hell of a lot of questions and I look forward to any input y'all may have.
and we'll be attempting to turn it into something like this:
SO, we've got a lot of work to do. The engine bay is a wreck, the exhaust manifold is off, nothing is connected and the exhaust ports have been uncovered for god knows how long, the harness is just laying in there, air box and ducts are non-existent, etc... but we got it into it's new home: my tiny ass garage.
and we started by stripping the interior...
We were going to pull the engine this last weekend but years of "moving attrition" has stolen a lot of my tools, so we spent the weekend getting a hoist put together and buying jack stands and other needed tools. We did manage to clear the engine bay a bit. Pulled the radiator, and a few other accessories.
Here's the team, other than myself:
My friend and his little brother, we are going to turn him into a pro WRC driver, lol. It's going to be a learning experience! I've never worked on an AWD platform before, heck I've never worked on a piston engine before, lol! I'm a rotorhead myself and moved to the alltrac after building 4 rx-7's over the past 7 years or so. Hopefully I'll have some more images and updates over this week, I'll be getting her up in the air and inspecting everything underneath. From what I can tell, rust isn't an issue and everything looks pretty good so far.
Thanks for looking, I'm sure I'll have a hell of a lot of questions and I look forward to any input y'all may have.