Bell housing

I am working with the bell housing now.  The spacer plate and bell housing have been welded together.  There are a couple of areas that I'm reinforcing by adding material.  The area that the starter goes through will get a cover made for it.  I still have to cut away a portion of the spacer plate to allow for the rpm and position sensors to pass through.  There is also the original 931 starter boss that needs a cover made.
The steel coolant line that runs the length of the drivers side of the block has been modified to remove the provisions for the turbo cooling pump.  The aluminum water manifold just under the intake manifold still has to be dealt with as it has two passages for the turbo pump that need to be blocked.  Looks like I will just weld them closed also. 
The oilpan is resealed and torqued down.  I've got a new timing set to install, make an adapter for the hydraulic through out bearing and I think the motor can probably go back in.  We'll see what else crops up that needs attention.

Its getting colder again

I don't care for cold weather much and its headed this way again.  That also means that we have passed the one year mark since the motor was pulled.  I was hoping to have it done before now, but oh well.  I turned on the lights over the week end and everything on the rear of the car was working.  The front still has everything removed for now.  Hopefully the wiring is pretty much done chassis wise.  The motor is coming back out this weekend hopefully for the last time before we try to start it.  While that is out I'm having the turbo overhauled, installing the clutch parts, pulling the head (to have a peak at the cylinder conditions), and some general house keeping.

Interior shot

WTH, my interior fell out.  Well I bit the bullet and decided the best way to make it faster is to loose some weight so she's going on a diet.  There won't be much left when I'm done.  Right now I am neck deep in the wiring.  Hope this works out, LOL.

Progress picture

Here is a picture as it stands tonight.  I have to finish up the IAC plumbing, but you couldn't see that in this picture anyway.

Oil Cooler

Okay last weekend I got the brackets for the oil cooler made and welded into the car, the hoses are made and the whole mess is installed.  That took a while.  I spent a lot of time just staring at it until I settled on the final spot for all the parts.  I'll put a pic up shortly.  I cut the end of the turbo housing off and welled in a bit of a bend so that it is angled towards the intercooler properly.  There is a 7a thermostat housing on the way so I can fabricate the neck that I need.  The AAN neck is plastic, where the 7a is aluminum.  So keep that in mind if you will need to change this part.  Maybe if I'm lucky all of the stock radiator hoses from the 944 will hook right up to this motor.  I also started on the bracket to locate the IAC valve, but my allergies got so bad I had to go lay down.  That sucked and tomorrow I head out of town for work.  Oh and there is only one hose left to make and the fuel system will be finished.  I will have to post those pics also.  Lots has been getting done, except for posting on the blog.

New Seats

I ran across a good deal on some brand new Sparco Evo seats that were being sold on Craigslist.  We actually took them out of the bubble wrap for the first time so I could check them out.  The seller has a nice BMW track car that I got to check out while we were talking.  Thanks again if your reading this!  Now I'll just have to pick up some brackets.

Power Steering Ressy

There is a nice place to put the res for the power steering on the drivers side of the engine bay.  That places it above the pump and behind the swaybar bushings, so hopefully my days of bad bushings are numbered.  I carefully removed the mount from the passenger side wheel well, cut some parts off of it, added some new parts, and now it bolts to two unused holes that already existed in the drivers side shock tower.