1989 L Revistited- Build Thread

[Festiva_Fred]

She's ALIVE again!

Fired up on the 1st try! Sounds great! Just have a few bugs to work out, but it'll be back on the road soon!

[walth]

lol, used the swingset chain to hook the chain hoist onto, worked out great! Borrowed the chain hoist from a neighbor The tree wasn't much higher than the top of that picture.

lol. so the next swing you'll have will be a swingtiva

fresh...what is that?!

[freshtiva]

My solution since I quit using a block and tackle, what ever works !! Mines mobile , thats a big plus anyway.

[walth]

yeah i figured it was a tree. glad everything is good so far.

[Festiva_Fred]

WOW! how much for the skyhook?

lol, used the swingset chain to hook the chain hoist onto, worked out great! Borrowed the chain hoist from a neighbor The tree wasn't much higher than the top of that picture.

[walth]

WOW! how much for the skyhook?

[Festiva_Fred]

Pics!





I'll post finished pics tomorrow, and tomorrow I will get the fluids in and then fire her up, hopefully all goes well

[Festiva_Fred]

Update!

The "New" engine is in! and everything is hooked up and ready to go Just waiting on my dad to get home with new fluids to put in it. Should be starting it up tonight hopefully! Will post up pics later tonight or tomorrow.

[Festiva_Fred]

^ You got me there.. No damage to the cylinder head either which is why I thought the previous owner must have swapped heads. I don't know wierd...

[freshtiva]

Where did that piece go ? The cylinder walls dont seem to badly gouged up.

[batstiva]

Nicely done, Fred. :thumbleft:

2 quarts in one day? Pfft. That's nothing. Ask anyone who ended up behind me at OSX.:p

That car was not supposed to go anyway, but got pressed into emergency service. It's getting ready to be a 5 speed carby with 240K on the body, and 102K on the motor. With fresh seals/timing belt/water + oil pump, and new clutch. Then, when the rest of my goodies come in, it'll be going in for some added hps. :mrgreen:

That piston makes me wonder if the PO either ran it hot, or dry?

[Festiva_Fred]

nicely done

nice work

Thanks.

nice! what happened to that piston in the old engine? if it run i bet it didnt run well

Thanks! Must have happened while the previous owner had the car, while I was taking the old engine apart it looked like it had had a different head swapped onto it and the headgasked looked new on it, guessing the previous owner swapped heads after that piston lost that chunk from it who knows... It did run okay like that. Just recently started losing lots of oil, thats why I parked it, lost 2 quarts in just 1 day of driving! :shock: it was that bad! So it definitely needed replacing.

[MTec007]

nice! what happened to that piston in the old engine? if it run i bet it didnt run well

[skimsucka]

nice work

[walth]

nicely done