Sunday, December 4, 2011

12/04/11 Spec Neon Secured!

12/4/11

Okay so it's been quite a long day--but an eventful one.

Picturebook time.

SO.

Using this
A Dodge Ram 2500

we drove out and picked THIS up  (set of tires, couple front and back fascias, spare motor, and some odds and ends of parts)
along with this, my Spec Neon
and got this

.... and so we tow. Back to the shop we go.

We ran into no problems what-so-ever and got to the shop to assess what I had gotten myself into.

The rundown: The Neon came with a full race-seat, Five-point Harness, and partial roll cage (will have to be updated) and boxes of spare parts ranging from air-intakes, to rotors. Good Clutch, Good Trans, Blown engine.



So the obvious thing to say right now is no, it doesn't run. yet. By a lucky turn of fate, it turned out that the person I had bought this from had a spare engine block. I'll tell you the grand plan about that in a second.

The only  noticeable thing that was wrong aesthetically with the car has a crunch in the front left fender right in the wheel-well, probably a result from a previous race.



and so begins the Spec Neon project...

With a little fussing and cussing and messing around, the fender finally comes off


The Plan

This is the section where I tell you what my plan is for the coming week

1.) General Cleaning up, wash, vacuum, the works

2.) Peeling the numbers off, apparently 71 is taken where I want to compete, so I begin the most brain-numbing  task ever, it took absolutely FOREVER to get that '1' off... any thoughts?

3.) Hammering that fender straight, no problem.

4.) Getting that blown engine ready to come out: Disconnecting hoses, wires and what not, and then possibly getting that spare motor ready. All it needs are Intake and exhausts and a head (off of the blown engine?) and it'll be good to go.

Next post will be later this week,

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