Project Death Kart by Goofydug

6 minute(s) of a 63 minute read

This might sound funny, but one of the biggest issues lately has been finding an upper radiator hose and adapter that fits. I ended up chopping up an oem 16v upper hose and searching around Murrays to find a larger 'sleeve' hose that will adapt it to fit the larger griffin radiator inlet.
It's also a super tight fit, but damn I'm happy with it.






A nice motor shot with all the itb airhorns mounted.




Does this look right to you guys? This is my radiator overflow hose, I was planning on running it out into the street. Do you think much will come out of here? Should I figure out a catch resevoir?




No mo' coolant out of the side of the head.




Matt made me a super awesome badass battery tie-down, stainless steel with a sweet stamped 'death kart' imprint!




Aeromotive fpr mounted on the firewall.

10/16/2008

so we're getting close! but ran into a small (big) problem (suck)

I put gas in it tonight and turned the key to acc, the fuel pump started buzzing and I could hear the fuel coming up to the front and got super excited. Then FSSSHHH, fuel starts squirting out of the fuel rail like a 4 year old in a water park.

The Jenvey fuel rail is not the smartest construction. The rail is made of two pieces joined by a male type pipe in the middle. The fuel rail female sections have o-rings in them, and I'm guessing this is where the leak is coming from.

I'm going to try and replace the o-rings tomorrow, do you have any other recommendations? This rail worked for the last owner, so I'm guessing it's something I did during the install that pissed off the rail.

10/20/2008

Well the car almost made it to chilifest, but it wasn't meant to be. The starter didn't want to start, it said something about 'unfair wages and working conditions'... whatthefackever, we hit it with a mallet and it calmed right down. Oh well, it's to be expected. If everything worked right the first time it'd be boring... right? ...
This doesn't mean I'm giving in to winter though. Eff cold, this car is gonna run before snow falls or else. Progress was made despite the damn starter, sweet euro-loving progress.

Again, I can't thank Matt enough. My garage would be on fire and I'd be driving a civic if it wasn't for his help.
Proof of his skills:




Speaking of awesome friends/mivers, I had a little help getting these gauges from a local supply.
Autometer all black and junk. electronic speedo too, yay.




A few swings of the mallet and turns of the wrench later, the cage is installed.






And so I can those damn hooligans ridin' up on my shit I installed a granny mirror. This thing is so fisheyed it makes me look like Rich.




I'm surprised they are allowed to call these bumpers. Silly europeans.
Small metal black euro bumps, woot.






It says Hi.
wtf feet?




wait what?

11/2/2008

Ok so it's not running yet, but that doesn't mean I can't still make progress.
While the dang computer crap is being figured out (me crying on the keyboard asking it to just cooperate), I figured I'd cut some shit up and mount some wheels.

15"x7.5" rs' with radinox lips, new bolts, straightened, then freshly stripped & powdercoated by fourbyken:






I bolted together all my seat hardware and installed one of my corsa's and it sat way too high for my liking.
Fack that, sawzall time. (ok i said that to sound tough, really I did a lot of looking around online and talked to matt and then measured a bunch of stuff and then trepidaciously cut and drilled it).

The lower hole is the original, the upper hole is my improvisation:




after and before:




and then:










I've been having some trouble getting my LC-1 to talk to my laptop, does anyone have any experience with this?