Fuel tank is out, and it looks absolutely miserable inside… good thing i have a spare in storage.

Brakes were not working when I got the car. It was missing a rear caliper. Put one on, and as Im trying to bleed the brakes I heard dripping… luckily it was an easy place to use the hydraulic flare tool.

Some great progress on this stock restore. Replaced stock fuel pump/put gas tank in, rebuilt power steering pump, and installed alternator, and turbo.

Lastly my friend Scott worked his magic on a front bumper i traveled 6 hours to get

Looks like your making good progress. The bumpers came out great.

Imback said:

Looks like your making good progress. The bumpers came out great.

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Thank you! Slowly getting there!

Swapped out the gross looking tinted tail lights for stockers, got the whole front bumper, headlight housings, and fog lights on, and working, and to my surprise the original radio and CD player work! Hoping to button everything up next weekend, and get it running.

The car was on the road for the first time in 17 years!! On my birthday no less! Went through hell trying to figure out a low rpm misfire. Turned out to be bad injector pigtails, and wiring. (Pic included) Now I’m just dealing with high idle on cold start, and breaking up in boost. Going to do a boost leak test. I have a suspicion the throttle body will need rebuilding.

Great progress!
I'm not much of a 1G guy, but champagne with Evo wheels hits the spot.

Jacob5se said:

Great progress!
I'm not much of a 1G guy, but champagne with Evo wheels hits the spot.

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I was never a champagne guy either, but this car was too clean to let it go to someone that was going to destroy it. It grows on you for sure though.

Drove it about 20 miles to work to do the brake lines, and while driving it breaks up under boost. Hopefully it’s just a boost leak. Already has new NGK plugs, and wires. Guess I’ll be digging into that this weekend.

Built a boost leak tester, and found the boost leak. Now the car runs great except a grinding trans… do we rebuild, or find another trans??

Turbski91 said:

Built a boost leak tester, and found the boost leak. Now the car runs great except a grinding trans… do we rebuild, or find another trans??

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Depends on what's making it grind. I'll take rebuilt over a used unit any day

pauleyman said:

Depends on what's making it grind. I'll take rebuilt over a used unit any day

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That’s how I feel too. A basic rebuild kit is 500$ from jacks. Then I’d just have to source bearings, and shims. Which seems to be the hardest part. I have a shop press, and splitters at work. Plus a Honda master tech that has rebuilt s2000 trans. I feel like i can figure it all out. Just unsure about parts availability.

First wash, and polish in a long time. Not bad for 170k mile shell.

Bravo, man! She looks stunning!
I would 100% drive that car! Haha.

92Turbski said:

Bravo, man! She looks stunning!
I would 100% drive that car! Haha.

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Thank you! It really cleaned up nicely!

I still can’t believe this car has 165k miles on the clock.

Finally tracked down a set of eclipse checkered seats in great shape. Need to vacuum and steam them, but they look to be in great condition. Cant wait to get the ugly rainbows out.

dropped the original trans off that popped out of 1st and grinded second badly to a local rebuilder, and this was his finding… hoping for an easy rebuild.

Let's hope it's easy

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Let's hope it's easy

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Very true. I shouldn’t speak so soon.

Who is ready to rebuild a drive shaft?

Today was a very productive day. Rebuilt the driveshaft with OEM carrier bearings, and GMB U-joints. Unfortunately I forgot the lobro boot at home. So I will have to split that again at some point. Was also able to tackle the rear bushings, new brake hoses all around, and an alignment all before the shop closed for the day. God I hate rust.

Rainbow seats are out to make way for the checkered seats. I’m gonna take this opportunity to replace the hatch struts that have completely failed.