bradselph
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- Jun 14, 2010
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sebring,
Florida
Well i figured i would start a build thread to just help keep track of things.
I purchased the car as a project in February of 2012.
I borrow my fathers truck rented a U haul trailer and made the 80 mile journey to pick it up and drove home.
This is a quick stop on the way home.
At home finally!
All the goodies that were a bonus to buying the shell. It came with a newer split thrust bearing block with evo 9 rods and pistons, a complete 1g head, and all the other parts necessary to put the car back together.
The interior was very clean and missing very few parts. Sorry for the bad picture didn't realize the sun was so bad.
Only 70K on the odometer.
Got it tucked away ready to be worked on.
The original plan for the car was to use it for a awd swap on my 1999 Spyder GS that i turboed back in 2010, well plans didn't work out that way as i wanted to build a Coupe after getting annoyed with the convertible.
I started tearing ento the car a few days later and found a nice amount of goodies.
Nasty and naked!
EEPROM ecu
AEM Big brakes
Rear vented rotors
Later on i got deeper in the tear down of the car and realized the fuel tank was FULL! The car was sitting since 2005 with a full tank of gas, so i had to drop the tank and clean it. i also discovered the quickly you gotta remove the rear subframe to drop the tank.
Nasty subframe.
Clean subframe.
some time went by and i been neglecting the Spyder so i took it to a dyno day just to see what it had in it. Results were not the best but surprising!
Strapped down.
I purchased the car as a project in February of 2012.
I borrow my fathers truck rented a U haul trailer and made the 80 mile journey to pick it up and drove home.
This is a quick stop on the way home.
At home finally!
All the goodies that were a bonus to buying the shell. It came with a newer split thrust bearing block with evo 9 rods and pistons, a complete 1g head, and all the other parts necessary to put the car back together.
The interior was very clean and missing very few parts. Sorry for the bad picture didn't realize the sun was so bad.
Only 70K on the odometer.
Got it tucked away ready to be worked on.
The original plan for the car was to use it for a awd swap on my 1999 Spyder GS that i turboed back in 2010, well plans didn't work out that way as i wanted to build a Coupe after getting annoyed with the convertible.
I started tearing ento the car a few days later and found a nice amount of goodies.
Nasty and naked!
EEPROM ecu
AEM Big brakes
Rear vented rotors
Later on i got deeper in the tear down of the car and realized the fuel tank was FULL! The car was sitting since 2005 with a full tank of gas, so i had to drop the tank and clean it. i also discovered the quickly you gotta remove the rear subframe to drop the tank.
Nasty subframe.
Clean subframe.
some time went by and i been neglecting the Spyder so i took it to a dyno day just to see what it had in it. Results were not the best but surprising!
Strapped down.
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