Date: 16th February 2014
Username: 2.216VTurbo
Full Name: Alan J
City, State, Zip:Mission Viejo CA 92692
Contact: (your choice of listing e-mail and phone. you must provide phone number via at least PM if potential buyer wants to verify.)
Selling or Wanted Price: (any applicable merchant fees must be included in this and not in addition) $6800. shipping not included.
EDIT; Motor is rebuilt now, crank was cut .010, bearings replaced, head was drilled and tapped so the oil galley could be completely flushed (unlike from the factory where it CANNOT POSSIBLY be completely flushed out) and NPT plugs added.
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Some of you saw this car at SDAC a couple years ago. I bought it from a farmer that stored it in a barn for the last 10 years in Elgin(IIRC) IL. We brought it to SDAC, I put in new PolyBushings mounts, Jackson did the second idler pulley mod, reduced tension valve retainers, new tires, new fuel lines, filter etc etc. I enjoyed the heck out of it at SDAC and it took everything I threw at it on the autocross track and during multiple parking lot hijinxThen after the SDAC meeting, Butch drove it 2200 miles back to SoCal. It did have the all too common core cracking on the center cylinder head plug and accordingly it used about 2 gallons of coolant on the drive from ChiTown to the OC. Made it no problem and I kept it topped off with coolant and drove it for 7 or 8 months. It's a great car, tight, 568 trans shifts great,no squeaks/rattles interior is cloth and 8.5 out of 10, paint is very good but some clearcoat issues on the hood and rear spoiler. I put a new 255lph pump and clean SoCal low milage fuel tank while I was at but then finally tired of the coolant smell as it oozed from the core plug and across the top of head. So I pulled the top end, had the core plug welded shut, 5 angle valve job, new seals, ported and polished the head(Ive done 3-4 Lotus heads, photos here in other threads if you want to see my skilz
), added a FWD ported exhaust manifold(I hate porting cast iron!) ported intake manifold, .48 housing super 70 turbo, SS lines for water and oil on and on to the tune of about $8500. invested in this car. Then I pulled a rookie move that I will always regret
It took 4 months on the top end rebuild and then feeling rushed to finish the job because I wanted to drive it to a Team Shelby event, got the head back from the cylinder head shop on a Friday afternoon and seeing the oil galley plugs were still installed, figured, MEH, they probably cleaned the head really well, it'll be fine. Well, you know how when you *try* to convince yourself of something yet you *know* you're probably wrong
Well, the head wasn't super clean, and the galley plugs should have been pulled out
Pulled the pan and found the rod bearings were shot
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Originally Posted by 86seeS
? But thanks Wes, just too many projects and I wanna focus on the others more than this one. What I need is the space, if I don't get a buyer here soon it will be off to Ebay. If it doesn't sell I may just seek storage that's cheap but inconvienient until I feel like tearing into the motor again
