Wow this is a really good section for FEP and have been loving everyone's builds. I thought I'd drop a post here as most of my time is spent in the 2.3 section figuring out this quirky engine.
For those who missed my resurrection thread the short story is I bought the car back in 1993. Got it running but it had motor and turbo issues which had taken it off the road back in 1991. Building a career, 2 house moves, and having a family put it on the back-burner until my son at age 7 asked me of we could work on the orange beast! He's now 15 and has been with me every step of the way (along with many here on the FEP 2.3 section) working on it when time permitted to refurbish the car back to a driver. Finally, this March after a lot of fiddly work we got it through CA smog days before the GoodGuys show and made it there under its own power. We've been working the kinks out since and have made it to 3 GoodGuys, a few cars and coffee, RADWood S.F. and now this local show. It's been a blast for sure and I can't believe how fast time truly flies!
1995 when I bought it
2003ish
April 2010
Sept 2010
July 2011 she fires!
2014 sometime
Carb off for rebuild
July 2016
March 2017 head finally off for inspection and rebuild
Sept 2016
Recaro LSC's finally back in
Headliner
May 2017
August 2017
August 2018
Turbo rebuild after I still had smoke on start- carbon seal!
Then this
Replacement that
And that
Then this happened again...thanks AAA!
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