All this light weight stuff, and still on stock pulleys? Need to get some alum pulleys, not sure who makes them anymore. I know OBX made a lightweight underdrive pulley since I had one on my car, thing was like 2lbs and the stocker is HEAVY.
I haven't gotten to engine modification yet.
I'm planning on making some myself.
Anyways...
Removed gas tank, the line that I could never get at running from the tank to the emissions up front, the stock fuel filler hoses and tubes. Drilled out the heatshield under the rear muffler location, removed the pedal assemblys, driveshaft and exhaust.
I found that my engine stand (which has mounted more than a half dozen big block engines) had holes smaller than the protege's, by about 30%, which I found pretty funny. Must be all that madddd power they make.
I had to get the arms bored out to fit the protege bolts. Then the stock bolts were going to be way to short, so I had some longer ones ordered up.
Got the block on the stand and removed all the exterior hoses, brackets, pumps, etc.
Still to do, cut the spot welds off the layer of sheet metal covering the front firewall to get at the sound deadening behind it. Going to be tricky because of the way the pedal assembly brackets are attached. I might end up just cutting the entire firewall out and welding in a new one entirely if it becomes too much of a problem.
Next, slicing the inner panels of the doors off so its just the skins and the door bars. Then I have to take a look at the front end, still considering a tubular carbon piece over the "conventional" metal tube construction.
We'll see...anyways, here's a few pics, sorry for the lack of them. It's a LOT of work and I really am not focused on taking good pictures at this point. Car is basically just a rolling frame at this point. It only has the frame, the suspension pieces and....the doors? So much work for a single person, trying to not think about how much time this is going to take but at this point I'd be pleased to see a running car in 12 months. It is a TON of work for a single person who has never done anything like this before. I will be honest, I don't even know where to start on a lot of the stuff I will eventually have to do. But I am excited to learn and build it myself, I have some pretty radical idea's that I think you will really enjoy seeing down the road.
Rambling...Anyways...keep on zoomin
