hell freezes over: hustler's progress thread
 

My step dad really wants this car out of his back yard and realized that he could help me out, in order to help himself. lol
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slight oil leak
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yes, there's progress on my car...hell has frozen over.

Very nice, you have another, built motor right?

So you took it from a running car and turned it into a non-running car.... hell will freeze over when you turbo it. :fawk:

... and actually turn a wrench on it yourself :)

yes. Soon the green car will be very,very happy.

So hustler is a checkbook racer, but doesn't actually use a checkbook?
The plot thickens! haha

Is your other motor already assemble ready to go, or is still in progress?

I'm waiting on my m-tuned fuel rail, and I still need to get a flange for the coolant reroute. If I don't have a proper flange, I'll pull the freeze plug out of the head and stick a sensor in there.

Right now the coolant reroute flange drama is a fucking disaster. I just need a god damn flange, and no one can seem to put 2 and 2 together on a simple concept.

Shipped on Friday. Should have it this week.. Enjoy!

The outlet thingy i sent you could have a bung welded to it to accept any sensor...seems so simple, i dont know why no one has it out.

I don't have any machine tools, so I'm pretty much fucked up the asshole.

Wow, never thought this would actually happen.

Are you going to get the whole car done.. soon?

+1...so any real eta on this now?
lol:)

If I had any free time right now I'd find a shop that can do it and do the R&D on the fittment myself and then find someone with AL welding skills to do what I can't...fuck work man, I have no life!!!
This is not complicated, you just need some flat stock 1/4-1/2" Al and give them dimensions of what you want done, they could spit 10-20 of these in a few hours for less than $20 each. Way less I assume.

what are we talking about?

btw, is that a clear hose for the slave line?

Maybe TurboTim could make something for ya. He's good at making things like my manifold and such.

Aquarium tubing for that old VW cable operated feel?

A poor drawing of a coolant outlet for the back of the head.
It places t-stat at the head, has heater feed/return and routes the coolant towards the coldside via hardline. You could add a bung for a sensor or two if you want to. You can have it made out of AL or SS, should be very cheap and do exactly what we all want it to do.
It seems like such a simple solution, I wonder why no-one has it on the market. It would replace several expensive to make pieces like t-stat housings, a big thick flange with heater holes that you have to buy fittings for, etc.


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At least the Dip Stick is in one piece!
A rarity!
Clean that stinkin engine bay up before you install that pretty new motor

the heater lead is in the wrong place, which is the same problem I have with the begi reroute.