HereÆs is today, progress.
Something missing!


While it was apart I took advantage of the access and put in the thermo coupler for the Pyrometer. And no, the pyro is not mounted on the exhaust manifold. ItÆs just there for the picture. The wiring I got installed today as well and ready for the pillar mount. And for me to get the turbo rebuilt.


Even threw it in the sandblaster cabinet and cleaned it up for paint.


This turbo looks like it came off a motorcycle itÆs so small.


And if you look closely, and know what ford starter relays are supposed to look like, you can see my glow plug relay set up I built. They are mounted on their edge on a bracket between them. See, theyÆre right behind the battery.



As for the alternator, itÆs gonna need to be replaced. I have one on a C223 that looks like it may fit in there. ItÆs almost the same size. I'll be talking to the alternator shop tomorrow about wether or not they can replace the voltage regulator with a generic one.

Curtis

This Project is Complete!

Thanks for reading,

Curtis

Congrats <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

I posted the story of the Texas Registration Process over on Isuzu Zone. Thought I'd share the tale with ya"ll.
This picture was taken last Friday after I got home with it.

It took about 15 minutes to get the thing inspected and registered.

Here is the entire gut wrenched Saga?

10 miles to town.

I went to the first inspection station I usually use, with my I Mark setting cozily on the trailer. He's too busy and suggests I try the guy down the road.
So, I pull into the Kwick Lube cause they have more than one inspection dude, I'm told.
I don't even get time to get out of the truck and the Manager walks up to my Truck window and says" Need the car inspected?"
(ME) Uh, Yea!

"Well, the main Inspection Dude will back in a minute, so go ahead and take it off the trailer."
(ME) Uh??? OK!

I am backing off the trailer and as soon as all four wheels touch the ground the old guy (Inspection Dude) walks up and says, ôNice car, I'm ready".
(ME) Uh? Cool! Careful with the brakes, they're real touchy!

Off he goes around the building. 10 seconds later he pulls into the inspection bay. I mention I just got this converted to diesel. He says, "Nice"
The Manager asks me to step in the Office to do the paperwork. (He wants my paper money ($15.50)) So I do. All of 5 minutes and the old guy comes into the Office and says, "All ready"
(ME) Uh, Cool!

I load it back on the trailer and head to the DMV. (Literally, 6 blocks up the street.)
Walk in and the lady behind the counter, down at the end, says,ö Can I help you down here?
(ME)Uh, Kay! I need to register this car!

All right, let me have the proof if insurance, and the original Title.
(ME) Uh, Ok here, By the way it's now a diesel.

Lady says "How about filling out this paperwork where I've circled the lines you need to do?

Uh, OK, (5 circles on the page) Name, Address, Signature, Print Signature, and price I paid for the car. Honestly that's it!!!!

She looks at the paper I just filled out and types a minute, while answering the phone, and says to me "That will be $134. Please.
UH, OK, Here are 7- $20's.

Fine, hereÆs your change Sir. And here are your plates and registration papers. The title will be mailed to your home in about 4 to 5 weeks. Ya'll have a nice day.: (paperwork she hands me says "engine: diesel")

Uh, Cool! this is a great day! I walk out to my Dodge with the I Mark still setting on the trailer. All legal and ready to go.

No kidding 15 maybe 20 minutes in town and I'm headed home. All done.
It took longer to unload and load the trailer than it did for the entire process.
Man I love living in the Country here in Podunk Texas!

Curtis

P.S. I posted this up and forgot to show proof it really
has Texas Tags on it now. Not that ya'll don't believe me. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Awesome, and I gotta say that trailer is just cute <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

The DOHC sticker has to go now though.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The sticker got scraped off as soon as I got it unloaded off the trailer. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> Don't know why I didn't wait to take the pictures with it on the ground. The windows will be tinted Frday. I've been driving it the last few days and it will definitly need the other transmission I have for a 1500 SOHC motor. It buzzes pretty good right now.
That will give me 4th & 5th with overdrive ratios and 3:57's final ratio. A much better match than the 4:11's it has now in it.
Thanks on the compliment on the trailer. I built it to carry my race cars a over 20 years back. It's all aluminum except for the axle, hitch, and lights. It tows up to 3500lbs. great. Hard to tell it's back there. The brakes I just changed to electrics, because the surge brakes I first built it with didn't fill me with confidence.

I'll post up the mileage it gets with the different transmissons once I get those numbers calculated.

Curtis

Very nice, can't wait to hear how it works out for you.
I'm planning something similar, but with nissan cars (swap QG18 for a YD22).

Nice and you even switched out the wheels like you said back in the beginning of the project. Did you rebuild the turbo or add one? The trailer is really fine too, how do you load and unload it?

Yea, I like these wheels even better than the oness that it came with too. I had planned on polishing the paint off and making them look like chrome, but I got LAZY! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />
After all the late nights and long weekends ironing this project out, I got antsy, and just wanted to drive it.
So, this is how it turned out. I got the engine oil cooler hooked up this weekend and it is working fine. That Yamaha motorcycle cooler fit in there real nice.
As for the Turbo, the engine sat for a long time, so I had my buddys turbo shop go through it and put new seals in, check bearings, the impellers balance and tune the pop off valve for me. It runs real good now and is doing better every time it get driven as the engine breaks in. We rebuilt the alternator as well for to be sure everything was up to snuff.

I drove a tank of fuel through it last week and it only got 34 miles to the gallon. About what I expected. The other transmission will go in as soon as my step son gets his race car off my lift. It's the Trans Am at the top of the picture. He's swapping motors (Again <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />)_so it will be a few more days. Then we'll see if it can go to 50 mpg!

Thanks fo rhe props for the trailer.

I made it about 20 years ago out of aluminum "I" beams and aluminum angle scraps I saved from work. Everything its made from, but the axle, hitch, lights and brakes are aluminum. Oh, and it all bolted together. You can see the two loading ramps slid in between the two outer rails. BTY, It took three weeks to drill out all the holes. I built in a motorcycle rail down the center with a folding wheel stop up front. I originally built it for my "D" sports racer Autocross car. The axle is a 3500 lbs torsion axle. And it will slide under the frame to balance the loads. You can barely notice it behind my Dodge it pulls that good.
It's carried a many different brands of compact cars over the years. It was first built with surge brakes, but they didn't fill me with a lot of confidence, so I changed it last Summer over the electric brakes which work a whole lot better. You can see the storage box between the tounge up front.

I'll take some more pictures of the finished car once I get time.

Curtis

YOU GUYS THINK THIS TRAILER LOOKS NICE , YOU AINT SEEN NUTTIN YET, YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS THING WHEN HE LEFT MY HOUSE ABOTU 4-5 YEARS AGO, WITH AN 16 FT STEEL CAR TRAILER WITH AN 89 TROOPER ON IT AND BEHIND THE 16 FT TRAILER WAS THIS ALUMINUM TRAILER WITH AN ALLMOST COMPLETE SUZUKI SAMMURI ON IT AND THE BED OF THE TRUCK FULL OF A FRT END OFF ANOTHER TROOPER AND AND ENG OR TWO AND I CAINT REMEMBER WHAT ELSE HE HAD IN THERE , THAT THING WAS SO LONG HE HAD TO TURN THE CORNER TWICE TO GET OUT OF MY DRIVE WAY , BUT IT MADE IT HOME ,MAN WHAT A WEEK END THAT WAS , DIDNT THINK I WAS EVER GOING TO GET HIM LOADED UP , HEHE JERRY