Thought Id summarize with a bunch of pictures from the beginning to present. What do yall think!
First car I got in 2006, this picure is in 2007
As we were pulling it out of the barn/shed;
A little cleaning later and it was half respectable
However the pump had a shaft bushing leak and I just happened to have a parts motor kicking around that I got out of a wrecked Golf the year prior for the original idea... make my 84 a diesel (which i still might do
). So the engine that I had all prettied up for my 84 was ready to become a donor.
I picked this up from a fellow dubber to make some more power for the swap to my 84 :cool: Yup D-shaped intake ports
I had then planned that this would now be my car of choice, as I FELL IN LOVE with this diesel. I named him Douglas Maurice
lol This is running off a jerry can of 10w30 motor oil, ATF, 2 stroke ashless oil, and a touch of kerosene. Mad retarded timing as well..
Since I decided that this was now going to be my car some work needed to be done to make it worthy of being a DD. From my 91 engine I took the IP, pre-warming filter, injectors, hardlines, cam baffle, and cam cover. While I was in there i also replaced all the GPs with Bosch Duraterms and wired in my own manual glow plug system to get maximum voltage to the plugs. It would also appear from sitting the rear shoes came off their brackets.. ***ty.
All that new stuff later, and I took it for a nice LEGAL drive lol
Then after doing that brake work, they lost power braking.. TIME FOR A NEW VACUUM PUMP. Set up an oil catch can as I wasn't quite convinced it wasn't doing some mad blow-by and was gonna cause a run away. On a side note, check out this awesome vintage horn! what do you think its off of.. sounds like The RoadRunner!
Got the car drivable and made the drive from where I was working on it to my home. Gave it a bath. Installed some LEDCheck out the ODO
! 587!
Started driving the car in early 2010.. about February. And from then I installed a stereo, amps, subs, did front and rear motor mounts, shifter bushings, and made me up a nice CAI in early April
http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/J_holubek/Diesel/?action=view¤t=100_0256.jpghttp://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/J_holubek/Diesel/?action=view¤t=100_0274.jpgThen I started to really tear in to it and I started driving my 84 gasser again around October, so I started doing some minor body, floor work, and undercoating.
Had some good headliner ideas too
THIS IS WHERE THIS CAR GETS THE RIGHT TO BE ON A TDICLUB THREAD
Picked this car up for diiiiiiirt cheap because the DumDum who owned it.. couldnt get it started all of the sudden one day after driving it, what do you think the problem was... lol There was only one thing to do with it. After I drove it around for approx. 20 days to figure out any bugs or anything and make sure its a good swap.
And then finally just this week I started tearing out the suspension because i got new sport springs and struts/shocks, and also took the old motor, trans and axles out yesterday.
Sketchy way to lift a car people!
Quite the dirty deezul bay, it will surely getting at least cleaned.. and touched up. nothing fancy. Function over Fashion.