I hear ya. So far, nothing too difficult....but just a lot to do. If I actually get to the clutch this weekend, and start to button it back up I'll be happy. It's taking longer since this is a "new" car for my dad, and I want it to be in good shape. Alot of things are as installed from the factory....cv grease sure does harden in 18 years.

 

Well, its been a week since i brought the car in and today it finally got on the rack. The tec has been really busy this week so hes not been able to do anything to it. He cleared his schedule for next week so he can start on it monday.






When he gets ready to put the exhaust back im having him put this whole thing on

 

I just drove my "new to me" 88 NA around the block. The new clutch is smooth as butter. I need to put the new shift boot on, and get some plates, and away we go!! Many times under my lift I'd be torquing a bolt, or fishing for an angle and I'd think "boy I'm sure glad I'm not on jack stands"

 

Hey Antonio951, which Borla muffler/tip is that? i am going to be getting one soon for my N/A. Which company did you purchase it from? Thanks for the info!

 

The exhaust setup is from SFR, im actually going with the Bullet muffler instead of the Borla. They didn't have a pic on their site with the testpipe and Bulllet catback together. Im not really sure yet though, its only 100 more for the Borla catback. Heres a pic of the Bullet catback

 

Oh. okay, just wondering...

 

The tec finally made some progress today, he only worked on it for 30 min though.

He's been busy all week and will now be free until monday so i should have some more progress pics tomorrow. He's hoping to have the clutch out tomorrow and give me the flywheel so i can get it resurfaced.
Heres the pics






This will be replaced with a 3" SFR setup, hopefully i can get a nice wastegate to go along with it



He had to heat the bolts for the downpipe to get them off, im pretty sure no one has touched those in 20 years

 

Heres a few more pics of the progress today.


The clutch disc looks like it needed changed. It looks just like the new cup disc i bought, 4 big springs. I wonder if it was replaced at some point.






This is getting resurfaced today.




And heres the tranny. It feels a little weird having major parts of your car on the ground



Heres another pic of the flywheel


Last one of the clutch disc

 

Damn, nice tranny! Good time for a short shift kit! Keep the pics coming, tell him mines next.

 

Theres a slight oil leak around the rear main seal, im glad i got a new seal to replace it with because thats a lot of work to just change a $15 seal. Overall the engine is pretty clean and dry, i spent alot of time looking over every inch of it with a flashlight . Not everyday its up on a lift like this.

 

I wish the under side of my car looked that good! Glad to hear things are moving along Antonio. I'm going to take tomorrow off to finish putting mine back together. Should be on the road by the end of the day. You might as well put a new wastegate on there since the stock one is off

 

Ben,
Your almost done? Thats great news! Who ended up doing the headwork? Cya...

 

Make sure you get a good flywheel resurfacing job! You see that lip that sticks up on the very outer edge of the surface? That serves to perfectly center the pressure plate when it is bolted on. The bonehead I took mine to let the grinding stone hit that edge. Result=junk flywheel.

You want them to grind as little as possible from the entire face right up to that edge and you don't want much of a radius near that edge. A radius there will prevent the the pressure plate from sitting flat against the flywheel. You also want them to grind exactly the same amount off the top of that edge as they do off of the face of the flywheel. That way the top of the edge won't bottom out on the pressure plate. Take a look at how the pressure plate is shaped and you'll see what I mean.

Good luck!

 

What was that in the 3rd pic of your last post? (it looks like it was rubbing) was it squeaking?

 

Thats a closeup of the clutch disc