Project Death Kart by Goofydug

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Oh yeah, here's a small update...

dum dee dum...

4/12/2008

small update.

I've been working on the motor a lot recently, getting everything bolted up and ready to go. I'm getting there, but I still have a lot to do. This is my first build so I'm taking my time and learning a lot as I go.

Here is a quick bolt up of the new itb's so I could see how pretty they looked. After this picture was taken I spent about 5 minutes opening and closing the throttle, making car sounds and shaking the motor.




Then last weekend when it was nice out I cleaned up the transmission I got from Drew a long ass time ago and primed/painted/cleared it. It came out pretty nice and will sorta just disappear down in the bay once it's installed.





I also cleaned up some shift linkage and painted it.



Last night I messed with a nice thermostatic oil cooler plate I got in a trade from Matt. It's from a volvo or jag or something, so it wouldn't bolt right up to my motor. No problem, I had a few minutes and a sawzall; problem solved.

I chopped off a threaded portion of the stock threaded piece.

Cleaned up the severed piece and threaded it into the new plate.

A few minutes later and bam. The new one is on the left next to a nasty OEM version.

I painted it today, it done sure looks purty.

Then I decided to install my new autotech sport cams. Again, this was a first for me so I took my time. I need to get a cam bolt to turn it all over to make sure that: A. the timing is correct, B. Make sure my valves and pistons don't make out. I'm going to take the head off and put some clay above the piston and crank it over a couple times to make sure it's all happy in there.








Oh yeah and here is the explanation for the radinox teaser picture from a couple weeks ago.

1.5" new radinox lips. yum.

More to come.

5/26/2008

I stripped out the interior and sanded everything down. The por15'd parts were just scuffed up, but I took all the other areas down to primer/metal.



It took a lot of paper.

I cleaned it all up and masked it off.

Ok, if you are going to rattlecan an entire interior, get one of those squeeze grip handles. I have one but couldn't find it, and wore out my damn hands. That shit is hard!
Here is the primed interior, I'm going to cover this in a satin black that i have yet to find. I'll probably do rattlecan again, but if it's easy enough I might do it with a gun.







I'm also trying to figure out which megasquirt setup to get, anyone want to help me out? I was looking at DIYautotune and there are just too many damn options. I need to control spark, and I want the newest version of the board. That's all I know.

5/29/2008

i found a nice satin paint at home depot. the old lady crafty shit design on the can turned me off initially, but I looked at the ingredients and it had all the same stuff as the 'professional' paint.

Pictures don't do it justice, I'm very happy with how it turned out.

6/2/2008

I did a lot of work this weekend. Saturday was productive up until the end when I felt like burning my headliner.
I spent a couple hours surgically removing the nasty old headliner fabric and foam from the cardboard. I used a razor to get it off, then sanded the board smooth. It came out quite nice. Then I used Spray 80 glue and laid two medium coats on the board and on the alcantara. With some help from matt we put it on the board, it looked great. Then I saw the awesome looking bird crap marks... Some of the glue was too heavy in areas and left horrible splotches in the material. That kinda irritated me, wasting all that time and money. So I went out to eat to take my mind off it, came back and still hated it, so I ripped it off the board. Now the question is:
Do I even use a headliner? I think it looks badass without one. Am I missing anything by not using one?




Then I started thinking about my alternator setup. Since I'm using a mk3 aba block I am going to run a serpentine setup. I put the alternator bracked on the block and noticed how huge it was. The bottom half of it is for mounting the ac and power steering crap, both of which I'm not going to have.
Out came Mr.Sawzall.

Chop




Old vs. New





I have to finish smoothing it out a bit, but I'm happy with how it came out.