Well... we were going to get some of them ghetto fabulous hubcaps from the Canadian Mafucka... Esthetically, it is a good idea, financially, not such a hot plan, at $80 for some chrome hubcaps (13" ones apparently only come in single units). So... PAINT THE STEELIES ORANGE! Long story short, we hit the Canadian Mafucka and grabbed some orange spray paint and spray bombed them wheels! Other than that, we added a blue neon light in the interior, which is apparently so awesome that it made some girl lift up her skirt and show us her ass... Awesome, just awesome... Hopefully on the weekend we can find some busted up Civic and snag some more neon lights out of it.
-Mitch
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Car fell apart again : (
Yup the exhaust again. Our ghetto fab lasted just over 100km. I rigged it up again in about 25min, this time no cement, bigger bolts, this time more than just finger tightened, and an extra metal clamp ring around the brackets that were once cemented to the pipe.
It looks less sturdy but I'm convinced it's going to be stronger since before we were relying on the cement which apparently is pretty weak, and this time we're relying more on bolts.
Mitch also flushed the rad and replaced the coolant to try and get our running temp down but the car still reports to be running hot. We're starting to think it's just a bad thermostat. Also discovered the problem with our door chime never turning off is because the modern keys we got cut aren't quite right and we just need to jiggle them a bit in the ignition and it will stop the chime! :D The keys were like 3 bucks each and look just like modern car keys which is awesome since our ride clearly is not.
Mitch took the car to Wise Guy's and washed it down and sprayed wax for a solid 4 minutes. Car is looking great in a shit box sort of way. Might try and touch up the paint later, I dunno.
One of my fav shots ----^
-steve
It looks less sturdy but I'm convinced it's going to be stronger since before we were relying on the cement which apparently is pretty weak, and this time we're relying more on bolts.
Mitch also flushed the rad and replaced the coolant to try and get our running temp down but the car still reports to be running hot. We're starting to think it's just a bad thermostat. Also discovered the problem with our door chime never turning off is because the modern keys we got cut aren't quite right and we just need to jiggle them a bit in the ignition and it will stop the chime! :D The keys were like 3 bucks each and look just like modern car keys which is awesome since our ride clearly is not.
Mitch took the car to Wise Guy's and washed it down and sprayed wax for a solid 4 minutes. Car is looking great in a shit box sort of way. Might try and touch up the paint later, I dunno.
One of my fav shots ----^
-steve
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Car fell apart today
But in a very specific location. We patched a hole in the exhaust with some muffler cement and a Pilsner can but it didn't take, and literally our entire exhaust up to the cat dropped out of the car when I drove over a speed bump.
Well I ripped out our cat and sold it to the yard for 25 bones which was cool, but what about our exhaust? Morris sounds like a chopper and vents into the cabin! Crap. Well I bolted up the muffler in the center of the car to the only mount we have and ran about 18 inches of pipe between it and what was left of the exhaust that fed into where the cat was.
With our "don't give a fuck" mantra and a budget spent entirely on fixing the wheel bearing this would have to do. The two of us cemented it in place and cement some brackets to the pipe and bolted that to the point where the cat bolted on. Sounds just like it did when we bought it, and to take care of the exhaust fumes in the cabin we plan on just grabbing a $5 pre-heater hose for a carb from Canadian mafacka's and clamping it on the end of the muffler and venting it out the side by the rear wheel.
Oh yea, we also already had to replace the pre-heater hose on the carb but that was just a few bucks and dead simple.
-steve
Well I ripped out our cat and sold it to the yard for 25 bones which was cool, but what about our exhaust? Morris sounds like a chopper and vents into the cabin! Crap. Well I bolted up the muffler in the center of the car to the only mount we have and ran about 18 inches of pipe between it and what was left of the exhaust that fed into where the cat was.
With our "don't give a fuck" mantra and a budget spent entirely on fixing the wheel bearing this would have to do. The two of us cemented it in place and cement some brackets to the pipe and bolted that to the point where the cat bolted on. Sounds just like it did when we bought it, and to take care of the exhaust fumes in the cabin we plan on just grabbing a $5 pre-heater hose for a carb from Canadian mafacka's and clamping it on the end of the muffler and venting it out the side by the rear wheel.
Oh yea, we also already had to replace the pre-heater hose on the carb but that was just a few bucks and dead simple.
-steve
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Success!!
Finally fixed our electrical problems from earlier. Three fuses got fucking incinerated, removed a strange device from behind the speedo that kept catching on fire and rewired the tach. Learned that in cars without an ECU the tach goes to the neg terminal of the ignition coil! :O
Took me all fuckin' night though and still need to replace 2 bulbs in the dash so we can see the gauges better at night. And our oil pressure wont light up which is an issue since we really need to watch it in this car.
-steve
Took me all fuckin' night though and still need to replace 2 bulbs in the dash so we can see the gauges better at night. And our oil pressure wont light up which is an issue since we really need to watch it in this car.
-steve
All Good Things...
Some pretty lame shit happened today. First off Mitch went to wire in his CD/MP3 player and wicked speakers from his old Colt. Trouble is the wiring in the car hasn't survived kindly or intact these past 20 or so years and we had a fire. Smoke went everywhere and he lost his stereo.
But then I tracked down and re-ran the burnt wire and Mitch wired a tape deck into the glove box! 180 watts for $15 is a steal imo. We just threw a cassette adapter in there so we can use our phones/mp3 players for sound. Awesomesauce. We also decided to clean out the engine bay with engine cleaner, but even though we covered the important bits I fucked it up somehow and after trying to start it discovered we lost our gauges, horn, half our turn signals and our hazard lights. And now our door chime wont turn off. Shit.
-steve
But then I tracked down and re-ran the burnt wire and Mitch wired a tape deck into the glove box! 180 watts for $15 is a steal imo. We just threw a cassette adapter in there so we can use our phones/mp3 players for sound. Awesomesauce. We also decided to clean out the engine bay with engine cleaner, but even though we covered the important bits I fucked it up somehow and after trying to start it discovered we lost our gauges, horn, half our turn signals and our hazard lights. And now our door chime wont turn off. Shit.-steve
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Makeover Makeover! (cont.)
New paint was the second part of the makeover! Just grabbed some rollers and foam brushes and the cheapest paint we could find which happened to be rust paint so that worked out well. Painted to resemble the best car in the history of everything, the Ford GT40. It's inspiration won Le Mans four times in a row from '66 to '69, and our Morris has already won the hearts of literally dozens!
-steve
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Makeover Makeover!
When we bought the car it was full of garbage. The hood didn't match the body. The paint was all wrong. Mitch set to work cleaning the fuck out of the car. Here is what it looked like shortly after we bought it:
Seats are still kind of gross. Still kind of smelly. While Mitch was cleaning I fixed an oil leak. It was pretty easy, the line leading to our pressure gauge in the cabin had come barely loose and I just had to tighten it. Also did an oil change and filled it with some No Smoke + Stop Leak. Engine runs kind of hot and kind of loud but hopefully it works out.
-steve
Seats are still kind of gross. Still kind of smelly. While Mitch was cleaning I fixed an oil leak. It was pretty easy, the line leading to our pressure gauge in the cabin had come barely loose and I just had to tighten it. Also did an oil change and filled it with some No Smoke + Stop Leak. Engine runs kind of hot and kind of loud but hopefully it works out.
-steve
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Backyard Mechanic's
Morris is staying at my place, which is sweet. Mitch works just across the street, and there's a Canadian mafacka's just a couple blocks away so we're set for repairs. Plus there's lots of mechanic's around. All costs with the car we're splitting in half, and we're both on the title and insurance.
We lost a wheel bearing on the highway so we hit up the Lordco at Northill's for some new ones and started ripping the wheel hub apart. We got pretty far into it but ended up needing some custom tools and an oxy torch to finish, so it was wiser to take the car across to a garage to get it finished. All told it was a $200 job to fix the wheel. Our car that was once worth 40 hot-dog's is now worth 80 hot-dogs!
We also replaced the front shocks/strut assembly with ones pulled from a scrapyard that we found in the car when we bought it. They aren't much better but the body roll went from ludicrous down to simply atrocious. Don't have to break for the corners on Fortune anymore! :D
-steve
We lost a wheel bearing on the highway so we hit up the Lordco at Northill's for some new ones and started ripping the wheel hub apart. We got pretty far into it but ended up needing some custom tools and an oxy torch to finish, so it was wiser to take the car across to a garage to get it finished. All told it was a $200 job to fix the wheel. Our car that was once worth 40 hot-dog's is now worth 80 hot-dogs!
We also replaced the front shocks/strut assembly with ones pulled from a scrapyard that we found in the car when we bought it. They aren't much better but the body roll went from ludicrous down to simply atrocious. Don't have to break for the corners on Fortune anymore! :D-steve
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Our Story Begins....
It's Saturday.
Me and Mitch took the Focus out to Salmon Arm to see a man about a car. We didn't get any pic's at the time, but turns out the car sat for at least 2 years before we came to look at it. And the engine sat for even longer since it was just pulled from a scrapyard. The man said 3 and we said 2, and later that day we were on the highway, me in my car and Mitch driving our $200 dollar bastion of glory the 130km or so back home.
About 50km out of town a bearing exploded in the front right wheel, smoke went everywhere. The grease cap shot like a cannon ball across the Trans Canada. Mitch swerved. I died laughing. Pulled over, cleared the smoke, realised the problem and drove it home, grinding away doing 45kph down the highway.
Insurance was $80.
-steve
Me and Mitch took the Focus out to Salmon Arm to see a man about a car. We didn't get any pic's at the time, but turns out the car sat for at least 2 years before we came to look at it. And the engine sat for even longer since it was just pulled from a scrapyard. The man said 3 and we said 2, and later that day we were on the highway, me in my car and Mitch driving our $200 dollar bastion of glory the 130km or so back home.
About 50km out of town a bearing exploded in the front right wheel, smoke went everywhere. The grease cap shot like a cannon ball across the Trans Canada. Mitch swerved. I died laughing. Pulled over, cleared the smoke, realised the problem and drove it home, grinding away doing 45kph down the highway.
Insurance was $80.
-steve
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