My 86 daytona

[thedon809]

It's a 1986 dodge daytona turbo z c/s with leather enthusiast seats, t-tops, power everything, auto. Here it is when I bought it.

It was in pretty rough shape. That's to be expected for having 180k miles of being beaten on.
Snowflakes weren't working for me so I picked these pt cruiser rims up for cheap.

First I pulled the transmission to be beefed up. The front band was welded and re lined. Upgraded front clutches. Blocked accumulator with every valve body mod you can think of. It shifted so hard and fast it almost knocked the transmission dyno over.

Now I am rebuilding the motor. My plans are a fairly stock rebuild but converted to t2. Shitty picture, I know.

After Fighting with the exhaust manifold and breaking 2 bolts I brought out the good ole torches. I got the turbo off then the manifolds. I pulled the head and found some bad stuff. Cylinder #2 has 2 gouges in it .

Hopefully getting it bored .020 over will fix it. Car still ran decent but consumed some oil. I then pulled the rods and crank out and found more bad stuff. Basically every bearing is beat to hell and so is the crank.
This is where the center main bearing rides.

I got the head all pulled apart and measured .016" warpage . Somehow, the fel pro HG that was on it wasn't blown.



I bored the block .015" over and when I get pistons hone the rest. Did it all myself.


Got rid of all of the gouges in the walls .

[raccoon]

very nice car, I like.

props too for pulling the auto apart.

[thedon809]

very nice car, I like.

props too for pulling the auto apart.

I loves my auto . Should be a lot faster now that it will have a turbo converter in it instead of the N/A converter that used to be in it. Also put in neon 1.04 transfer gears so I think it's 2.97 FD ratio now.

[thedon809]

Just bought these wiseco .020" over pistons with t2 rods.

[thedon809]

Instead of buying a used t2 radiator to go with my intercooler, I bought a civic aluminum radiator with fan for 80 shipped.

It looks to be pretty decent quality.

[Vigo]

This is gonna be a fun one! Good job having access and ability to do all that work yourself! I can rebuild motors and 413s but i sure dont have the ability to bore my engines and dyno my transmissions myself!

[thedon809]

This is gonna be a fun one! Good job having access and ability to do all that work yourself! I can rebuild motors and 413s but i sure dont have the ability to bore my engines and dyno my transmissions myself!

I figured I might as well rebuild my engine while I'm in school and have access to all this stuff.

[Vigo]

^ good plan. I know a lot of guys did the same thing while i was in school, but we never even touched the transmission dyno. Im not sure why it was there, really.

[turbokid]

Yes that will be HELLA cheaper compared to having it done later.
Nice work so far!
Good to see you are making progress!

[thedon809]

I got my pistons. I measured them and added the .0035 of piston to wall clearance and honed the block. I also picked up a new head at a JY. It's a mexican 782 head. Is there anything special about the mexican heads? I found that only 2 of the cylinders had a crack in between the valves and this one measured with no warpage . The junkyard said it was a turbo head but I'm not 100% sure on that, so i'm using my old exhaust valves.

[thedon809]

Here it is getting honed.


And the result.

Now I'm just waiting for the machinist to come get my crank so I can figure out what size bearings I need.

[blk86trbo]

Excellent pictures, it's gonna look nice!

[thedon809]

Just refaced my valves and back cut them today.

[thedon809]

Here is my turbo all torn apart. It had a little up and down, side to side shaft play. It also had a tiny amount of in and out shaft play. Non of the blades touched the housing or anything though. I think it's good to go for a rebuild but I'm not 100% positive.

[Vigo]

If the shaft isnt scored and the wheels didnt touch anything there's no reason you couldn't rebuild it. Great work!

[turbokid]

Wow taking that on by yourself is awesome.
You will be into this motor rebuild pretty cheap.
Q

[thedon809]

When it's all said and done. I will have around 1000 into the motor with all the t2 conversion parts and little stuff.

[turbokid]

Thats pretty dang good for rebuilding the whole motor the way you are.
If you need 86 daytona specific parts lmk.
I have a whole 86 c/s 2.2 5 speed parts car complete.
Q

[thedon809]

I got my crank back from the machine shop. The mains had .010 taken off and the rod journals were polished with .001 taken off. Finding clevite .001 undersize rod bearings was tough.

[thedon809]

Did some little stuff while I'm still waiting for parts.
Ported the oil pump hole.

Made an inlet for the turbo.