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.
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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
