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This thread will be dedicated to those of us who enjoy wrenching on cars, trucks, 'wheelers, sleds, tractors or any other sort of old junk that brings joy. All other hobbies are free to be posted as well whether it be knitting, whittling, the making of maple syrup ect. anything goes!
Some context as to the reason for starting this thread... the graphics card in my laptop took a shit, it functions but can no longer game it up. I though to myself why keep buying laptops, im not in the service anymore so why not just build a desktop again like the good ol' days? So that is what im going to do! The next few weeks will be dedicated to buying parts and putting it together. BF4 is the only game worth playing, its all I play so it doesn't have to be high spec, but im gonna build it half decent in case BF6 turns out to be good. Im sad that my position of 33 on the bZ1.5 leaderboard will go away, hopefully I dont sink down to far while im getting this pc together... I was just thinkin' I could maybe catch up to my friendly nemesis garner, bless his K/D oriented heart, that will be delayed I guess! Cya soon hopefully supes and all the other acquaintances I know from the best server ever.
The time I usually allot for BF4 will now be spent wrenching on the ol' shitbox so I will share a little bit about it and in turn I hope you all post pictures of your shit boxes and all the hard work you have put into them! Dont forget all other hobbies are welcome too! I wanna see your canned goods, your syrups, your home-made radios, your be-dazzled shit, anything! Lets share some shit about ourselves in this thread and have a grand ol' time. Fishermen post pics of your fish too! If im not wrenching or playing bf4 im at the river slayin' sturgeon. Lets begin!
When was the last time you old fuckers here saw a Chevy Sprint? Probably not for a long while.
For those who are not in the know about this fine machine it is a pre-geo metro made from 1985-1988, before they ruined it with cursed fuel injection, ish! It does not share a single part with a geo metro but it shares the spirit of what a geo metro is. Its a 1.0 liter 3 cylinder with a 5 speed manual transmission. It produces a blistering 45 horsepower from the 998 cc powerhouse of an overhead cam engine! It features a mechanical fuel pump and a 2 barrel carb so it might make through a big solar flare or an emp from china. It originally was a heavy emissions vehicle... it had a computer controlled Hitachi carburetor whose mass in solenoids and vacuum lines was almost greater than the engine itself. It even had an oxygen sensor so the computer could fine tune the carburetor... a strange thing to see, it worked well but it was just a fuckin' mess so it had to go. I replaced that with a larger 2 barrel carb (seen below) from a toyota starlet that happens to bolt right up to the stock suzuki manifold, its a profoundly simple carb but being for a 1.6 liter 4 cylinder I need to reduce the size of the primary and secondary jets. It runs very rich according to my air fuel gauge, which is reading from the original oxygen sensor bung ( im kind of thankful for the goofy emissions setup for making the inclusion of my own oxygen sensor for the air fuel gauge very simple!) I left the ecm in the car because it controls the shift light which is a very charming feature... although most of the wiring harness has been tore out so I dont actually know how the computer knows when I should shift based on load, its like magic. Also, the check engine light blinks every few seconds and I get off on it, im gonna let that sorry, sensor-less ecm call out to absolutely nothing forever, fuck that goofy thing.
Besides the carb I have done a fair amount to it. When I got it the driver front wheel was locked up... it needed brakes and wheel bearings all around. When I got it rolling and running I just ran it I guess you could say for a month or two. Little did I know the clutch was completely shot, metal on metal pretty much but the flywheel was not tore up at all so that was good. It never held fuel and would go through 10 bucks in gas in about two days. I sped off in front of my co worker one day and he said that gasoline was just a' pourin' outta the back of 'er. I dropped the fuel tank to find that the fuel lines crumbled in my hands and there was a softball sized hole in the top of the fuel tank! A fuel tank cannot be found for this legitimately rare car. So to make a long story short I replaced the clutch, then took out the rear seat to make room for a drag racing fuel cell as a new fuel tank. I will post a picture of it tomorrow. There was even more goofy shit too I will discuss here.
The previous owner overheated it bad, and I did too on accident because it overheated for me all the time because the previous owners overheating adventures blew the head gasket! It would not keep cool due to combustion gasses entering the cooling system disrupting the flow! I took it apart to replace the head gasket ( I have no pictures of the head job or clutch job because the phone I had at the time I was using to take pictures took a shit so I lost them all!) This thing is so simple to work on, a head gasket job on this car takes less than an hour. The transmission comes out in about 20 minutes! Its just so open and simple I dont know how else to say it. When I had the head off I found that the intake manifold and head were warped. I attempted to resurface the head myself which works great if you have a completely flat surface to sand it on. Well the glass table I chose was completely flat, but I failed to realize ahead of time that the weight of the head bowed the glass a little bit so as I was moving the head back and forth over the sandpaper on the glass only the outer 2/3s of the head were getting nice and shiny, while the middle 1/3rd looked stained and crappy like it had just come off the car and I thought to myself "wow shes reeaaally warped, guess' i'll keep on sandin away" and well needless to say I now have a bowed, rainbow shaped cylinder head! I ended up ordering a new head off of ebay and I gotta send the old head to the machine shop, whoops!
Please ignore the zip-tied geo metro racing radiator. In my defense a proper radiator for this thing is expensive and the radiator it had would turn to dust as you ran your finger along the fins. The 60 dollar chinese geo metro racing radiator works so well that it never reaches operating temperature, it runs beyond cool and this will even further curtail thermal breakdown of the oil, yippee!
Based on my two poor and lackluster pictures of the interior you can tell the interior is in mint condition as well. Its a true survivor of a vehicle but the rust is pretty bad, the frames solid but the body going and parts are nearly impossible to find.
While im building my pc and not playing BF4 I will being doing more to the Sprint including sanding and touching up various rust spots and putting a new c/v axle boot on the passenger side. I will post pictures of my progress in this thread as it happens.
Now that this rushed and poorly written write up is complete now its your turn to tell us about your projects! Let us know all about them! Show us your classics, your tractors, your maple syrup operations, anything fun and hobby related! Im sure the old farts here work on cars or have in the past, go through the picture books and tell us some stories!
Some context as to the reason for starting this thread... the graphics card in my laptop took a shit, it functions but can no longer game it up. I though to myself why keep buying laptops, im not in the service anymore so why not just build a desktop again like the good ol' days? So that is what im going to do! The next few weeks will be dedicated to buying parts and putting it together. BF4 is the only game worth playing, its all I play so it doesn't have to be high spec, but im gonna build it half decent in case BF6 turns out to be good. Im sad that my position of 33 on the bZ1.5 leaderboard will go away, hopefully I dont sink down to far while im getting this pc together... I was just thinkin' I could maybe catch up to my friendly nemesis garner, bless his K/D oriented heart, that will be delayed I guess! Cya soon hopefully supes and all the other acquaintances I know from the best server ever.
The time I usually allot for BF4 will now be spent wrenching on the ol' shitbox so I will share a little bit about it and in turn I hope you all post pictures of your shit boxes and all the hard work you have put into them! Dont forget all other hobbies are welcome too! I wanna see your canned goods, your syrups, your home-made radios, your be-dazzled shit, anything! Lets share some shit about ourselves in this thread and have a grand ol' time. Fishermen post pics of your fish too! If im not wrenching or playing bf4 im at the river slayin' sturgeon. Lets begin!
When was the last time you old fuckers here saw a Chevy Sprint? Probably not for a long while.
For those who are not in the know about this fine machine it is a pre-geo metro made from 1985-1988, before they ruined it with cursed fuel injection, ish! It does not share a single part with a geo metro but it shares the spirit of what a geo metro is. Its a 1.0 liter 3 cylinder with a 5 speed manual transmission. It produces a blistering 45 horsepower from the 998 cc powerhouse of an overhead cam engine! It features a mechanical fuel pump and a 2 barrel carb so it might make through a big solar flare or an emp from china. It originally was a heavy emissions vehicle... it had a computer controlled Hitachi carburetor whose mass in solenoids and vacuum lines was almost greater than the engine itself. It even had an oxygen sensor so the computer could fine tune the carburetor... a strange thing to see, it worked well but it was just a fuckin' mess so it had to go. I replaced that with a larger 2 barrel carb (seen below) from a toyota starlet that happens to bolt right up to the stock suzuki manifold, its a profoundly simple carb but being for a 1.6 liter 4 cylinder I need to reduce the size of the primary and secondary jets. It runs very rich according to my air fuel gauge, which is reading from the original oxygen sensor bung ( im kind of thankful for the goofy emissions setup for making the inclusion of my own oxygen sensor for the air fuel gauge very simple!) I left the ecm in the car because it controls the shift light which is a very charming feature... although most of the wiring harness has been tore out so I dont actually know how the computer knows when I should shift based on load, its like magic. Also, the check engine light blinks every few seconds and I get off on it, im gonna let that sorry, sensor-less ecm call out to absolutely nothing forever, fuck that goofy thing.
Besides the carb I have done a fair amount to it. When I got it the driver front wheel was locked up... it needed brakes and wheel bearings all around. When I got it rolling and running I just ran it I guess you could say for a month or two. Little did I know the clutch was completely shot, metal on metal pretty much but the flywheel was not tore up at all so that was good. It never held fuel and would go through 10 bucks in gas in about two days. I sped off in front of my co worker one day and he said that gasoline was just a' pourin' outta the back of 'er. I dropped the fuel tank to find that the fuel lines crumbled in my hands and there was a softball sized hole in the top of the fuel tank! A fuel tank cannot be found for this legitimately rare car. So to make a long story short I replaced the clutch, then took out the rear seat to make room for a drag racing fuel cell as a new fuel tank. I will post a picture of it tomorrow. There was even more goofy shit too I will discuss here.
The previous owner overheated it bad, and I did too on accident because it overheated for me all the time because the previous owners overheating adventures blew the head gasket! It would not keep cool due to combustion gasses entering the cooling system disrupting the flow! I took it apart to replace the head gasket ( I have no pictures of the head job or clutch job because the phone I had at the time I was using to take pictures took a shit so I lost them all!) This thing is so simple to work on, a head gasket job on this car takes less than an hour. The transmission comes out in about 20 minutes! Its just so open and simple I dont know how else to say it. When I had the head off I found that the intake manifold and head were warped. I attempted to resurface the head myself which works great if you have a completely flat surface to sand it on. Well the glass table I chose was completely flat, but I failed to realize ahead of time that the weight of the head bowed the glass a little bit so as I was moving the head back and forth over the sandpaper on the glass only the outer 2/3s of the head were getting nice and shiny, while the middle 1/3rd looked stained and crappy like it had just come off the car and I thought to myself "wow shes reeaaally warped, guess' i'll keep on sandin away" and well needless to say I now have a bowed, rainbow shaped cylinder head! I ended up ordering a new head off of ebay and I gotta send the old head to the machine shop, whoops!
Please ignore the zip-tied geo metro racing radiator. In my defense a proper radiator for this thing is expensive and the radiator it had would turn to dust as you ran your finger along the fins. The 60 dollar chinese geo metro racing radiator works so well that it never reaches operating temperature, it runs beyond cool and this will even further curtail thermal breakdown of the oil, yippee!
Based on my two poor and lackluster pictures of the interior you can tell the interior is in mint condition as well. Its a true survivor of a vehicle but the rust is pretty bad, the frames solid but the body going and parts are nearly impossible to find.
While im building my pc and not playing BF4 I will being doing more to the Sprint including sanding and touching up various rust spots and putting a new c/v axle boot on the passenger side. I will post pictures of my progress in this thread as it happens.
Now that this rushed and poorly written write up is complete now its your turn to tell us about your projects! Let us know all about them! Show us your classics, your tractors, your maple syrup operations, anything fun and hobby related! Im sure the old farts here work on cars or have in the past, go through the picture books and tell us some stories!
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