Shop visitors and customers:
The 323's:
323 4door sedan with 1.8l turbo:
A bit of a sleeper driving off,
323 J-spec GTR (Rare):
His little brothers GTR :
(pics to come)
Part car,
323 sleeper with F2T :
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This is a 626 GT auto.
It came to the shop on a flat bed tow-truck, The car barely ran and blasted smoke out the exhaust when it did.
So the first thing we did was check the oil,
WTF! This cant be right:
Ok their is over 4 liters of oil too much in this engine.
-So we ask how this happened?
"Well the car wasn't driven everyday and sometimes there is tapping when I start it"
The previous owner (his best friend) who is there at the time, had told him that when the HLA's tap the car needs more oil.
"Every time it tapped I would add some oil"
Eventually he had added so much oil that the oil return for the turbo (witch is a gravity drip) was submerged in oil, giving the oil in the turbo return line nowhere to go and it started to leak at the hose clamps.
THIS IS WHEN HE STARTED ADDING EVEN MORE OIL BECAUSE SOME WAS LEAKING, HE FIGURED IF HE ADDED EXTRA HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE LEAK .
Some of the results of having more then 8 Liters of oil in the engine:
Surprisingly the engine and turbo survived the incident.
We cleaned everything out and got the car running again with the proper amount of oil in it.
When they came to pick it up, the car had sat a while, the HLA's tapped for a moment and the guy who sold him the car looked at him and said "YOU NEED TO PUT MORE OIL IN"
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A friend of mine, Rob bought a 626 5door GT to replace the 626 he was driving. He wants to redo the whole car before he drops his rebuilt engine in.
He told me it had a couple of holes to patch up, so I told him to cut out all the rust and if he bring it to my shop and cut's the patches I will tack weld them in for him.
So he brings me the car.
It was horrible, "where's the rest?" Rob's forum name is Ribbie so the car was referred to as "Ribbie's wreck".
Don't get me wrong there were several flat holes in the floor to patch like this one which is the type of work I expected to do:
But the drivers side had more then just rusted floors:
After more then a dozen patches to fix the drivers side front it was time to address the multiple holes behind the drivers seat.
There were multiple holes to patch on both rockers, in the trunk , on the rear floors, on the front passenger floor, and the rear quarter panels.
Once all this was done, it was time to address the REAL CARNAGE. The whole windshield trim was rotten, it all had to be cut away.
First I used a piece of a VW hatch and grafted (half-assed) it in on for the drivers side pillar:
Then cut away a bit of the rust to realize this was gona' take more then patches:
So I had a couple of 626 4door parts cars outside and decided to cut the whole upper trim off one and weld it to Ribbie's wreck.
The rusted trim cut out:
I cut the donor trim out in the exact same shape but unfortunately the 4door and 5door 626's do not share the same windshield or shape, the four door donor piece wasn't wide enough to fit the full front, thee roof lines also didn't line up and the curve of the whole piece was different.
so I had to weld it in parts:
