What the helll are you building? (Page 2 of 3)

I'll stop by this summer when I'm cruising through your neighborhood.

I know there are multiple factors at play here but on our 4000lbs Deutch steed we cut the springs. 2 coils off the front and 1.5 coils off the rear. Here's the results

Before

After

Exactly.

Funny, That's my story too...Am looking at warehouses and  such to hide all my crap for awhile. Anybody know of any disused aircraft assembly plants or similar size buildings for rent? Preferably super cheap too... All the damn Weed farms are soaking up all the available real-estate in this state....for reals!

Been there, did that.  Had a few prospective buyers remark tot he agent, "Seller should remove cars from property so it shows better"

I hate moving.

All settled finally, well, mostly...still 2 storage units in SC full of engines and car parts that need to come up to the new place in Maryland

Because of my newly pending divorce (oddly, not Lemons obsession related) I am shopping around for a cool tow rig/vintage RV to add to the driveway. 

I spent many, many hundreds of hours remodeling this house to suit our needs and now I can either start over to suit mine or just put the finishing touches on it, sell and buy a vacant lot in the country, slap an RV on it and start building the combination shop/living quarters I have always dreamed of.

Imagine LeMon's HQ NWI branch with a 2500 sq ft heated and and air conditioned shop below and 1200 sq ft of living above.

Buddy's C3 Corvette rebuild is getting the eff out of my garage and off to the "professionals" as soon as he's done negotiating the work-list. For some reason he lost the 'YEAH WE CAN JUST DO THIS ALL OURSELVES AND IT'LL BE AWESOME' spirit over the fact that the freshly-rebuilt engine we did turned out to have a cracked head that allowed for some (read "ALL OF") the oil and water to mix. (and they weren't even good heads - they were 1980's shit that everybody on the internet says "DO NOT USE THEY CRACK". It's not like good small block heads are expensive or anything - certainly cheaper than buying a crate motor and paying people to put it in)

Once I actually have room in there, I have one wreck to go in and strip for "that might be useful later" stuff (2002 Ford Focus with a brand new reman engine) and then scrap, one rolling chassis to remove all the rolly parts from and then scrap, and then two Lemons cars queued up for strip-n-cage. Also have a '98 ZX2 with a near-death clutch and massive rust issues to decide what I want to do with it (Anyone need a Zetec? Will trade for fine beer).

After that? I'd like to do some big, obnoxious postwar '46-'55ish era sedan. I'd really like a Hudson, but I'll take most anything from that era that has some nice patina. I'm an idiot, so probably disc brakes, air ride, an angry EFI V8 of some sort (Modular?), and a 6-speed manual.

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FCUK the 3G MR2 and every last engineer that designed that massive paperweight.  I bought that exact same model for my wife, we enjoyed it for exactly six months before it needed a new tranny... no thanks to the previous owner that didn't tell us about an impending failure.  Took us a month just to find a good used gearbox to swap in.  Another six months later the oil control rings gave out, at just over 100k miles on the clock.  After looking at the bills for an engine swap, we were done with the fcuking thing, so we sold it to some kid who "had a mechanic friend".  Kid ended up taking us to court, thinking we swindled him.  Of course, the judge laughed him out of the room, but the wife and I both got a few dozen grey hairs (and I spent a few nights on the sofa) over the whole debacle.

All this being said, it was one of the sweetest rides I've owned... almost as much fun as my beater Ferrari.  I still want to get a salvaged MR2, do a 2ZZ swap with turbo, cage it, and track that mofo...

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More info here:  http://forum.ih8mud.com/fj45-owners-clu … -barn.html

Oh, you want powerful Ford FWD stuff? I have plenty of that. And it's all FOR SALE.

1998 Escort ZX2. 2.0L Zetec. 205k miles, more than half of it mine. All of my usage has been highway. 5spd manual. Starts right up. Idles fine, drove fine as last test. Clutch is present (probably) but has several million miles of dead zone. Removed from active daily driver service in July 2013. Major underbody rust (as in jackstands-through-the-jacking-rail bad). Parking brake inop. Exhaust holed. Brakes hydraulics of questionable safety. Blower motor resistor involved in minor electrical fire - bypassed in extremely hooptie manner. Relay involved in hooptie bypass melted and bypass is presently inop. Cooling fan failed - fan and shroud removed, replaced with cheapo generic, wired in through hooptie manual control switch. Aircon inop ever since I got the thing. Bad tires. 14" steelies. Coolant level sensor inop (warning light always on). Coolant overflow bottle cracked, does not retain coolant.  Clear title, current Maryland tags, passed OBDII emissions.

For the whole car, I'd take approximately scrap value. For just the driveline, either good beer or enough cash to have a batch brewed (you can have some of the batch). For the whole car, something approximating scrap value.

2002 Ford Focus SE Sedan. 2.0L CVH. Ran when crashed (~1yr). Autotragic transmission. Less than 2 years on a Jasper remanufactured engine. Driver's side front quarter collision. Major unibody damage. Engine is PROBABLY okay. Interior is heavily scuzzed, body damage to all panels. Glass OK. No idea what I'd want for it, but we could make a deal. Clear title.

And while we're on Ford FWD equipment, I also have a lightly damaged SHO V6 (that I've started modifying for RWD applications)  and the accompanying MTX-4. The MTX-4 is free. The SHO theoretically has an application, but I could be bought out of it inexpensively since I've already made a net profit on the project. For some dumb reason I also kept the entire SHO front suspension (minus the arms I had to sawzall through to free it from the wreck) and spindles/brakes. Also have a set of SHO wheels.

If you take all of this shit, there's a bulk discount.

I have a full garage with a lift and air - if you want to come pull the good stuff and leave the rest, you're welcome.

The 3rd gen MR2 seems to be one of Toyota's more problematic cars.  I like the way they look and drive and it makes it easy to find ones with blown motors for cheap.