Worked on my car(s) tonight, got some pictures for your enjoyment.

[gthompson97]

Well for the first time since I've been home from school I was able to get out and work on a couple of my cars. After digging into my 420a for a couple minutes, I think I'm getting into something a little bigger than I expected. Some of you may know that last year on the 4th of July, my Eclipse blew up and started on fire. Luckily a trucker stopped and put it out before it did any real damage to the rest of the car, but it got some of the engine bay. Anyways, I decided to pull out the motor tonight and see exactly what I'm up against.

This is what I started out with. It took me a little less than 3 hours to go from a complete engine bay to a pulled motor and on the stand, which is about an hour short of my previous record. But I haven't worked on the car for a year so I guess I could be a little rusty.







As you can see, I obviously spit a rod through the block. My theory as to why the fire started is that when the rod went through the block, it splashed oil onto the fans and they blew it all over and some of it got onto the battery, therefore causing the battery to explode and starting the fire. Yay for holes in block.





The fire didn't really do any damage to the physical being of the engine except ruining some sensors and hoses, but those are easy to replace. Being as my intake/exhaust manifolds are ported and the head is matched to both, I'm happy that I can at least save those if I plan to build the 420a again.

I planned on getting to the GST tonight, but after fucking around for a good hour or two before actually getting to work I ran out of time. So it still sits as this picture shows.





Hey Thor, here are the pictures I promised you, just don't pitch any tents please.








MMM check out those ports!!!!!


Ok now a question for everyone, does this picture look like the block has been broken and then tried to be fixed? That's what I'm thinking and I'm not very happy.





And this REALLY pisses me off. When he painted timing belt cover, he put a piece of tape over this fucking hole and painted the tape with everything else so it looked like it hadn't been broken. God damnit.

[ez1286]

I hate to tell you this but none of those pics worked for me they all went to the imageshack homepage.

[gthompson97]

Yeah I fixed them now.

[nova1313]

that definately does look like a weld job. Sorry :/

[Killa]

man I love your garage.

[scottsee]

I really like that Intake Manny!

[gthompson97]

Originally Posted by Killer7

man I love your garage.

It's actually a shop, and that's only half of it

As for the weld job, I'm hoping that's the last of the shit that's wrong with it. I'm gonna tear it apart and make sure that everything on the inside is in good shape.

[-Josh-]

Is there any way you can contact this guy or confront him about that? That looks a little to shoddy to trust. You probably plan on running a fair amount of boost, and i'd imagine you're going to want no weak points in that engine cause there's going to be a lot of heat and stress.

[MexRocket]

you could always just strip the paint away to confirm what is under there. =P

[NateS]

You bastard I am also jealous of your garage/shop. But, about the defects you found... I would go over the entire thing very carefully. If he was shaddy about two things he might have rigged other things up. You said you tearing it apart and that is deffinatly a good idea. Other than the small defects I totaly almost had a party in my pants after lookin at the pics. haha

[Thor06]

Damn, nice man! I need to go fix this... uh... problem... they gave me.

[AbsoluteGTR]

Man.....that is a sweet garage, and your gst on the right is absolutlely gorgeous..and I am one that hates body kits.

[blk_srt]

I'm usually not a fan of body kits and such but your rs is sexy

[l_eclipse_l]

Originally Posted by AbsoluteGTR

Man.....that is a sweet garage, and your gst on the right is absolutlely gorgeous..and I am one that hates body kits.

That's actually the RS....

[gthompson97]

Originally Posted by -Josh-

Is there any way you can contact this guy or confront him about that? That looks a little to shoddy to trust. You probably plan on running a fair amount of boost, and i'd imagine you're going to want no weak points in that engine cause there's going to be a lot of heat and stress.

If I had noticed those about two years ago then I would have been able to do something about it, but being that it's been that long I think I'm kind of fucked. And now that I have to tear it apart anyways, maybe I'll just throw in a stroker and make it a REAL beast.

AbsoluteGTR, that's actually an RS. I only wished it was a turbo. But maybe after all it will turn into one. It's the one on the left that is the GST

And thanks for all the sweet comments guys, hopefully I'll be getting more pics all the time now that I can actually work on my shit again.