I knew it was going to happen sooner or later. The car had been cranky on cold starts recently, and had some wierd idle problems; and the fact that the moron from whom I bought the car (2 years ago) may have overheated it, with a leaky radiator and split TB coolant hose. Friday night, I drove the car pretty tamely, without much boost, or rpms or anything. Saturday morning, getting ready to go to work, I went to start it, and it was reluctant. Whenever it did start, it sounded like **** on a ****. Actually it sounded like it was full of water. Shortly after, the idle returned to a normal tone, with a repetitive stutter. If that wasn't an obvious enough clue, the massive amounts of fluffy, white, steamy, coolant smoke clued me off to the failure of my coolant o-rings. It doesn't bother me much, though, because now I get to port it. I just hope my 83 gsl with 170K miles will last long enough for me to get the fd going. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

BTW, if anyone feels like throwing any sort of donations my way (housings, seals, o-rings, porting templates, micrometers, etc) feel free. As the old TLC song goes, "I ain't too proud to beg."

whoa,a pink fd....thats ummm cool i think? yeah i guess it is,after all it is an fd

lol, ya I just remembered. It is pink.. shaded red.. haha.



the hood? I think if I remember... is alot more visible of the "pink" color.. than anything:P

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683894.gif ======> http://lady_deathtouch.tripod.com/ru...ns/aniren2.gif

It isn't actually pink. It's just a very faded vintage red.

sucks but DO IT RIGHT https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/bigok.gif

That is the plan.



BTW, here is a pic of the pink: http://www.vosko.net/photos/friends/pcolaf...tage%20pink.jpg

well yeah, now is the time to do it right



mike

Yatching Red

mmmm hot pink



J

Best of luck man... Send it to Ito!

Shoot, I don't have the money to send it out. It's just that much more experience for me, as this will be my second rebuild/port. I actually enjoy working on that dirty ***** of a car. And this gives me the chance to do some stuff I'd been planning: remove the abs, convert the steering rack, paint the calipers, and whatnot.

ah will be so much better when you're done!

who's foot is that? lol

That would be my size 12 van.

LOL, for a second there, I thought it was Brian Smith. Looked like his lower-half of his body... well, the leg/foot :P nevermind haha

Here comes the weirdness again!!!

And the coresponding smiley! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/blink.png