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amerbritcan's 242 build

I especially do now, as I haven't been able to get it to start since I got back from Jen's. Car is, once again, inop.

I'm really sick of going 1500kms/two weeks (whichever happens first) between issues that keep it from being useable.
 
Pull the non-AC PS pump bracket off of the 244 for MrSam
93 850 front airdam, test fit install,<strike> sanded down</strike>, painted, installed
new fog lights installed in 850 airdam
install the big tach I've had for ages
install rear springs
install adjustable panhard bar, not yet purchased.
polish my virgos
buy 16" or bigger wheels for the car. if not, get new rubber for the virgos before I put them back on.
<strike>fix my crooked headlight</strike>
<strike>fix my exhaust</strike>
look at the s tance of the car and if it's squatting after the install of the rear springs, lower the front more somehow. RAKE
possibly get new rear shocks (again)-the summit racing ones Jerd's currently testing.
<strike>swap the rebuilt carb on from the 244</strike>
<strike>clean the interior</strike>
<strike>fix my broken glovebox</strike>
install speakers-
triple gauge pod/ gauges
more bodywork

Had a bit of time a couple days ago, got to work, ended up more or less satisfied with the sanding job on the air dam.

Also, I'm thinking Sam may no longer be interested in my non-AC PS bracket.

An electronic points replacement is in the mail from the UK, ?70. I really hope this makes my car as useful as it used to be. It feels like it has less than half the power it used to, until the last 3-400rpm ish before I get nervous (no tach installed yet) when it finally wakes up and hauls @$$. Once I know I can reliably count on my ignition system, I might start playing with ignition timing and see where that gets me perfomance-wise, as I'd really like more useable RPM.

Also, I'm going to Carlisle fo sho on May 21st-whenever it ends and want the car to be as fixed up as possible for that, so hopefully a bunch more of this list gets finished.
 
I got tired of the car being a rusty POS and went crazy with the grinder. Found a pile of over-an-inch thick bondo in and around the buttcheeks, and a whole ton of quarter-sized holes right where buttcheeks meet quarter panel. Car needs weeks and weeks of full-time work before all the rust is handled. I'm really frustrated. Most solid floors of any 240 I've seen, but the body is in the worst shape of any 240 I've ever seen, it's so confusing.

Also did a rough alignment on the front end, though I've no idea when the next time I'll get to feel it will be.
 
ok, so, with the disappearance of the search function, I stopped trying to look for this thread. By the time the search function was back, I forgot it existed. I just remembered it existed. I have done absolutely nothing with the car other than fart around with starting, but not finishing, a sh*t ton of rust repair. I'm in school full time, and haven't had a job other than the farm in...ohhh...2 years? so I'm flat broke. The 850's slowly turning to sh*t, and this is just rotting away in the barn. I really need to get my act together. A couple weeks ago Troy (bonerjams240GL), Matt (1983blue245 or w/e it is) and Dave (turbomatic2010) came over, and Dave, Matt and I watched Troy work on his car while we drank beer. I tried to move the 242 out of a bay in the barn only to discover it was running like total crap. A little bit of investigation by Matt and I the next day lead to us discovering it's ignition timing was 30 deg retarded. So we got into the timing belt and discovered the cam was about 20 deg advanced. The Distributor is seized to the block, the intermediate shaft is 30 deg retarded (retarding the timing accordingly). I found my ballast resistor and can thus hook up my points replacement, once I've got it running again with a new T-belt, tensioner, etc.

The plan was to do a T-belt on steroids, hitting up every "should do it while I'm in there" thing, as well as a new alternator (mine's kind of, well, inadequate, which on a carbed car with power nothing is really saying something), poly accessory bushings, gates racing t-belt, best water pump, all the front seals, adjustable cam gear, the works.

Now it's become quite desperate that the thing be movable, so I am doing the basic T-belt and tensioner, just to get it running so it can be moved about. the rest will have to come later. The timing belt on it is the original one from the factory :lol: God bless non-interference motors.

A pic from Aeons ago, back before I'd molested it too much, but after the stupid accident from which it all went downhill:
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And a photoshop one of my buddies did of it (4 bolt wheel rofl)

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I expect the project to move at a similarly glacial pace for a while, till I have money and time. Then really interesting things are going to happen. :ninja:

first B214ATic?
 
amerbritcan said:
I expect the project to move at a similarly glacial pace for a while, till I have money and time. Then really interesting things are going to happen. :ninja:

first B214ATic?
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sometimes I hate being right.

anyway, here's some pics I found today on an old busted camera. I miss having cameras that take pictures. These are from when the 242 was at it's best: The day of delivery. I literally lived in that house for another, like, week before I moved to a place with a gravel driveway and no garage and thus did nothing to it. Since then I've gone from broke to broke-er and it's fallen (read, been thrown into) a state of hideous disrepair. If I could have the car, today, in the shape it is in in these pics, by putting down the only $500 in my bank account, I totally would. I miss this car being this nice, this makes me sad. Anyway, here for your viewing pleasure, before I was allowed to do too much crap to it:

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thanks. hopefully, it'll be un-wrecked by the melt down here. I'm sick of driving the 850. It's a nice car, but it's not this car. I'm a 240 kind of person.
 
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so I put a 93 850 airdam on it, which lasted a week before it fell off, so now it's airdamless. Ah well.
 
WTF happened to that thing? Those delivery day pictures make it looks preeeeetty decent... now it looks like something I would send to the scrapper
 
You wouldn't believe what ON does to cars. Mine suffered a similarly ugly fate in one winter. You should see what it looks like after 2, and I didn't even drive it this winter. There are '06 Mazdas rolling around with softball sized holes in the fenders. I wouldn't believe it myself if hadn't experienced it. This year, they just gave up on plowing and threw tons and tons of salt everywhere.
That said, Jason is pretty hard on cars. :lol:
 
It's not just the underside Jenn, Krown does the doors, engine bay, and just about everywhere ware rust can get in. Also, it's base composition is a penetrating oil, so it keeps things like clutch and parking brake cables nice and loose.
 
krown is good stuff. I keep hosting wrenching weekends with the idea of fixing this up but never get around to it. Rear shocks were found and installed. Rear springs were found, clutch bits I got from John still AWOL. Don't worry John, I'm obviously still paying you, I'll just have to get my dad to replace the parts he's moved and lost track of. It's not harley-ing anymore Jake haha.
 
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