What did you do to your BG(part 8)

[worldhazard]

accepted parts from the mail man yesterday. test fit a couple thingies. continued brainstorming

[FE3-323]

struggling to find someone who can re spline my axels.....

[Kitty]

I had to pull the drivers door panel to fix a loose crossover wire and decided to throw on some peal and seal in the continued effort to classy up the BG.











I made poor cardboard template of the three large door frame holes. I wouldn't trust this stuff to do such a large void, I don't even trust it for the smaller one it did fill.

Door feels a bit more "thunky" I suppose.

Still have a noticeable 80mph+ wind noise now that the motor/exhaust isn't reving as high/leaking.

If I had to point fingers at anything it'd be the door handles.



Some kind of gasket material installed between the door handle should be able to confirm it. Don't know how to actually solve the problem if it is the issue.

[worldhazard]

accepted some tools from postman to help get jobs done.

Continued breaking down dead motor while taking pics along the way of what goes where and how later on.

How do I get this rod out? New engine doesn't have it....

[Kitty]

edit* can't read good*

You'll need to stack two nuts on it like exhaust studs for removal.

[worldhazard]

edit* can't read good*

You'll need to stack two nuts on it like exhaust studs for removal.

that makes all the sense. ty

[Woody88]

Overheated my 323 to the point of now blowing blue like Smurfette.

[therieldeal]

I've been collecting odds and ends all winter and will be putting a used GTR motor together soon for my black car. I'm sitting on:

Engine gasket set / head gasket
Boundary oil pump gears
ARP head studs

Debating whether i should stick with the GTR head or throw a BP05 head on there. I'm thinking GTR because, well, i have it. And also sodium filled exhaust valves.

[atomicEGT]

and because GTR

[therieldeal]

Geeeeee teeeeee arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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[Pox]

[Boosted Escort]

struggling to find someone who can re spline my axels.....

why do you need re splined axles?

[FE3-323]

why do you need re splined axles?

because I want to put my astina front spindles on. and the F2T axel outer cups are significantly larger & a different spline.
its either custom axles entirely. resplining the innermost shaft at the outer cup/bearing end & putting on BG outers. or trying to makeshift F2T hubs into BG bearings.... which would suck since i litterally just installed new bearings.

[Kitty]

because I want to put my astina front spindles on. and the F2T axel outer cups are significantly larger & a different spline.
its either custom axles entirely. resplining the innermost shaft at the outer cup/bearing end & putting on BG outers. or trying to makeshift F2T hubs into BG bearings.... which would suck since i litterally just installed new bearings.

Why not just get CV end that fits the astina spindles take it to a decent shop and have them make hybrid axles with the ones you're current running? It should be infinitely cheaper and you could get a few made to get some economical spares.



As for my car I finally bit the bullt and pulled the number three plug that I found was seized/stripped on last spark plug change out. I was plannning for the worst(head removal) but came out pretty well overall.




It rounded off so I had to hammer a socket on it. It was a pain getting all the porcelain chips out of the well. I really lucked out judging by how trashed the bottom most threads look.


Used my fancy extend spark plug chaser to tidy up all the holes and try to avoid having to helicoil.


I also got to use my 3/8 driver because it's really awesome at jobs you don't want any deflection on.



I was really surprised how well it clean up the threads. I'm going to force myself to use it every time I pull plugs from here on out.



I did other stuff too.



But that'll be for another thread.

[FE3-323]

are you going to be stitch welding??