Made a jig yesterday to make the new pickup tube.  Cut the top and bottom of the stock pickup tube off, tacked the bottom to the baffling in the oil pan and bolted the top half to the engine.  Then just cut some random tubing to size and tacked that together so i could make a jig out of it as to make a proper new pickup tube.  Here is the results.

Example of how much i need to modify a stock one.  Jigs are awesome.

Well… i had a whole long weekend to get LOTS done to the car and didn’t get anything done…

Just not motivated i guess?   Everyone goes through these phases I’m sure.  This is not the first time I’ve had this issue.

Slowly but surely things are coming together.  This wiring stuff is taking a LONG time, although it might be attributed to the fact that i’m kind of anal.  Anyways, pretty much got the whole headlight/turn signal/ marker light harness figured out.  Laid it out onto the car and got all of the wires extended to where i want them.  I’m going to put a connector on it so i don’t have to take the whole entire harness out if i need to change something.  Luckily i’ve got an entire harness out of a q45 i’ve been pulling matching wire from and i’ll be able to use a connector from there as well.

So made a sort of a mount today for the fuse box’s. Looks pretty rought right now but it’ll take shape. Also got the battery mounted in the trunk and some of the automatic useless wiring cut out of the harness….. This is going to take FOREVER.

 

 Finished boxing in the tension rod.

Mazworx is funny..  this is the piece they supplied to box in my tension rod (on the left).  made for an s14 but says will work with an s13.  YAH.
The one i made is on the right..

Finished.

All thats left on my list is..

Finish the wiring, oil pan, and fix my exhaust.   Also some other misc. stuff.

Alright, back at it again.  Got back in from having an awesome time in Minneapolis with the girlfriend and a bunch of people yesterday.

Started tackling the rock.  Its gray and hasn’t moved much..

Anyways, made this rad. support today after running out of gas in my pickup… and spending 5-6 hours doing other stuff.  I wanted to re-do my old crappy one anyways.  This one allows me to move the top of the radiator forward a good few inches.  I needed this bad as my crank pulley would sometimes rub on the fan motor…

Ignore the bugs in the radiator.  I-90 owned this thing.

Then after dinner me and my room mate put this up…. FINALLY.

So probably wont be working on this thing for at least two weeks…. school.. finals.  Busier than ever.  But i did get another engine stand so i dont have any just resting on the ground.  Just mild good news.

So i picked up those engines and finally got em back to SD.  Was a nice long 8 hour drive….  i’ll bet the pickup is now happy to have all that extra weight out of the back haha.

One’s got around 75k on it and the other has around 90k… both spun bearings.

Forgot to take pics of both of them but one of the “new” engines is the one with yellow valve covers.
Sorry for garbage pictures… cell phone pics.