A little history on the car.
My father bought this car when I was 13 years old. I sat in this thing for the first time when I was only 13!!
Sadly he blew the motor on it in march of 2001, with a rediculous amount of nitrous.
Instead of getting it rebuilt, he thought it would be cheaper to buy a WHOLE nother 99 instead. Thats how we have two 99 VR-4s :P
He decided to sell it in the beginning of 2005, but I didn't have the heart to let it go, I was 19 at the time. So I offered him 9K for basically a shell of a car. I've been selling off parts I didn't need or had extra of, and spent most of my time acquiring parts, like the tranny, transfer case, and complete 95 VR-4 motor, and reading and learning, and lots of using the SEARCH!!
He did have a built nearly 3.2L motor, so I offered him 3k for it since he wasn't going to do anything with it :P and went from there. From the end of march of 2007 I began dissasemblying the 95 VR-4 motor I had just acquired from sundown13x, sold the shortblock from it, and cleaned up the heads a bit.
New gasket everything, new timing belt, tensioner, and water pump. I had an 11k mile oil pump, so I reused that
3sx underdrive pulley, and 3sx Oversized Headgaskets, and 3sx EGR block offs, and neatly slapped it back together :P
Two months of work later, and I managed to start the car, and it sounded beautiful and runs surprising very well except for the nasty lifter tick, and it doesn't help that I have 1st gen lifters
That'll change soon.
Complete mod list: 3sx underdrive pulley, 3sx Oversized Headgaskets, 3sx EGR block offs. HKS EVC III. Gutted pre-cats. ATR downpipe to a 3inch straight through exhaust with no main cat. Vac-reduction. Greddy type-S BOV and a 3.15L sleeved block.
Total cost for a running car. A little under 15k. 1K over budget :P
I've done all the work myself with the help of some friends. (Tool and labor mules :P) and very knowledgeable club members when I had any questions!
Thanks to all that helped me!
The rest is Pretty much a copy paste from Florida3s. Enjoy.
COMPLETE 6/3/2007
I'll keep it simple and updated often, today's my birthday. And as a b-day gift to myself. I bought a vr-4 motor from sundown13x! LOL it just happened to get shipped near it.
Anyways.
Preparation for tomorrow.
That was at 9am today :P
About 6 hours of work later, I learn that liquid wrench is my new friend. I took off all sorts of rusted and heat "welded" exhaust bolts of without to much work.
Come Tomorrow morning there will be a complete motor hanging off of there.
The month of April = completetion hopefully, and Im in the coral springs \ coconut creek area. If anyone wants to help piece back together some history I have plenty to drink and eat
Out with the old...
