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mike-81-240d · #15 03-03-2016, 07:34 AM

A little backstory on the car.

It's a 1981 with approx 250k miles, maybe less. I had to swap to a mechanical speedohead from the original electronic speedometer when I did the transmission swap. The car hasn't ever been ran on veg. I'm the third owner, the second owner was meticulous to the point of a full fuel log in the door pocket with odometer read out and mpg at each fillup.

I've owned the car over 3 years and 50k miles, and I've done valve adjustments, engine mounts, engine shocks, oem valve cover gasket, egr delete exhaust manifold, grezzar monark 265 injectors, new injector hardlines, constant fuel filters, alda delete, manifold gaskets, adjusted the rack damper, etc. I've tried to do everything right on this car, and I use all OE and lemforeder parts.

The whole turbo situation is a interesting one to say the least. My original Garrett ground it's compressor wheel clean off (I chalk that up to my dad leaving a nut in the intake). I then replaced that with a used K26 off of eBay, the k26 lasted for about a year before it started smoking then came audible noise. So with the k26 in the dumpster I put out a mayday call to everyone local to me for a stock turbo, as I was trying to make a car rally event that I've been attending for 6 years. User justpassinthru told me over the phone that he had a stock Garrett he'd sell me, he came over but it turned out he forget he in fact had a holset hx30w that he bought off of winmutt. In a bit of a pickle I said I'd take it (regret). The holset was a smelly leaky mess, even with a fresh chra. I just put a factory low mileage Garrett on with my egr less manifold, and it is so nice to have a stock turbo again.

The trans swap has been smooth sailing for over a year now, I had a issue with two clutch slaves dying prematurely, but I finally wised up and ordered a OE slave cylinder. The trans swap is buttery smooth to drive. The only corner I cut on that was not hooking up the reverse lights, but I'm running euro 3 piece bumpers so I don't even have reverse lights.

I'm going to replace all of the rubber fuel line in a bid to cure the hiccuping, but if that doesn't solve it I'll start looking around for a used injection pump. The car was never ran on wvo, but it was ran on pump bio.

I'm also contemplating doing a mild refresh of the engine. Probably re-ring it, valve stem seals, valve job, head remachine, timing chain, tensioners. My dad is currently putting his om616 back together after all of the above due to a vacuum pump failure. So he already has the vital tools like for the head bolts.

-Mike