'88 L Street/Track Build- Coilovers • B6ZE • Weber DCOE's • Widebody • Chopped Top •

[theastronaut]

Great progress, keep the information coming.

Beautiful work as always! wanw

Appreciate it!


I swapped out the seats, door panels, tilt column, and intermittant wiper switch from my '88 LX last week before I sold it, so now I have a much nicer interior.






Drove it to Pigeon Forge with a couple of friends for the Rod Run show, and spotted another L owned by a Trolley driver.




Hurrican Irma made it's way through, not without a bit of damage to the fleet. One of my parts cars had a giant tree limb fall on it, crushing the hood and roof. It already had frame damage up front so I wasn't too worried about saving the body, but I still hate to see it get damaged further.

[firebush357]

Beautiful work as always! wanw

[sc72]

Great progress, keep the information coming.

[theastronaut]

I stripped everything off the engine, then cleaned and painted the block. Got the flange cut off the MX-6 header so I could see how it's going to line up on the b6d. Looks good, so I'll go with it.


Compressor installed to check for clearance. Much better than the F22 header.




The b6d flange I found on eBay is pretty crappy. It was missing two holes, and five of the others didn't quite line up. The ports are a little off too. Nothing a carbide burr and drill press can't fix.






Figured out why the engine didn't want to turn over easily when I tried to do a compression test... that's the nose of the starter housing.




New timing belt, water pump, cam/crank seals, and I detailed the valve cover. I tack welded the header to the flange to hold it in place for mock up in the car. I'm off tomorrow, so I'm hoping to pull the B6t/G series out of the blue car so I can get the trans cleaned up and ready to mount to the B6d.

[theastronaut]

Pulled the B6d tonight. I'll work on getting the trans separated tomorrow, clean everything, and hopefully have the timing belt/water pump/seals swapped out this weekend.

[theastronaut]

I'm curious about the MX6 header since I'm running a B6D also.

I'll try to get it fitted within the next couple of weeks. Hope to have the swap done in time to take it to madness...

[Team Lightning]

I'm curious about the MX6 header since I'm running a B6D also.

[theastronaut]

I also ordered a MX-6 header to use instead of the F22 header. The port spacing is nearly identical, and I haven't held it up to the mock up car yet but it looks like it'll match up with the notch in the pan much better.

[theastronaut]

I've got almost everything disconnected from the b6d, so hopefully I can get it pulled tomorrow night. The driver side axle was a pain, there wasn't enough room to pry from two sides so I struggled to get it out for a while yesterday. A couple of guys on the Facebook group suggested popping it out from the passenger side opening, which worked great. I think all that's left to disconnect is one a/c line, one power steering hose, and the exhaust.

[theastronaut]

Sweet!
what pressures were you running on the Nankang's?

On second thought, I'm not sure that I ever checked the pressure after having them flipped for camber wear at a tire shop. I'll check them tomorrow. They might be all over the place lol.

Dude thats sick! good job man. maybe the rs hit a cone?

Thanks, it was a blast! Yeah, after looking over the results again he actually ran a 48.8 and a 47.6, both with penalties from hitting cones.

[fudge]

Dude thats sick! good job man. maybe the rs hit a cone?

[theastronaut]

Results were posted, I came in 8th overall out of 56 cars. Fastest was actually a Fiesta ST with a 48.937, and my fastest was a 51.042. The guy giving out the sticky note time slips must have made mistakes on a few of our times since the guy with the Focus RS had a 48.8xx time slip, and I had a 51.002 time slip.

[theastronaut]

Sweet!
what pressures were you running on the Nankang's?

27 psi cold all around. Front probably needed a little more.

[Dragonhealer]

Sweet!
what pressures were you running on the Nankang's?

[theastronaut]

Took it to the first fall semester autocross yesterday, first time I've autocrossed it on the Nankangs. The fastest time of the day was a Focus RS with a 48.8, and I ran a 51.002. I was running 5-6 seconds off the fastest times when I had the Achilles tires mounted, so the tires helped a lot.

I murdered a cone on my first run... this was a 53.xx lap.

https://youtu.be/-OuMOFbAqlw

Second run, 51.59.

https://youtu.be/A_b5qToN6TE