| You guys wanted a picture post - here it is! I'm doing it in parts or it would take forever for this page to load. So here we go - 21 April 2007 - Smokescreened the highway between here and PA. Got the Z home and parked it till we could get to it. 
5 June - Discovered that one thing OEM car covers do not protect your Z from is lightning. 19 August - The white TT that had been taking up garage space finally got the stamp of approval and rolled out of Bernie's garage. Mine took its place, went up on jack stands. Wheels off, shocks and springs came off and trekked up to their new home in MD. Another thing the blue OEM car cover doesn't protect your Z from is pollen: 
There was plenty of time for that to gather... 26 August - Bernie was out of town, but Wayne dropped by and helped me out disconnecting stuff in the engine bay. Took the opportunity to yank these suckers: 
Found oil dripping down the inside one of the turbo hoses: 
Discovered plenty of mismatched bolts - no surprise on my car. I had 4 different kinds holding the fender liner on the driver's side. Pitched this dead weight: 
I waited till Wayne left to tackle the exhaust and other stuff on the underside of the car. <3 Wayne! ;-) While hanging out under the car I heard this loud vibrating sound and wondered what had gotten into the fan I had blowing to move air in the garage. When I realized it was coming from above and not the fan, I got out to check it out... 
Poor little guy was bumping repeatedly into the light - I didn't realize fluorescents could attract hummingbirds! I got him out by turning off all the lights, whereupon he noticed the huge open garage door with daylight outside and exited. About an hour later I heard it again and was thinking "Dude! Get a clue!" I got out to chase him out again but discovered that this time it was actually a monster prehistoric dragonfly, seen here clinging to the edge of the light fixture: 
By this time it was dark out, so turning out the lights didn't leave a nice sunny target for him, and he resisted all my attempts at rescue (broom, waving, flashlight). Fine, be like that. I found him the next morning, exhausted and expired, and he's now decorating the light switch. 1 September - Spencer came by to help and we three made good progress. OEM sways came off, new ones installed, new shocks and springs, subframe collars. Pulled the engine and did some dismantling work on it. 
Pretty blue:
 Aaaaaaannnnnddddd... The shot many folks have been waiting for -
I think the trash bag looks like a sphincter for a reason, there. Not too sure what Spencer's seeing here, but it doesn't look good...
 Maybe a little premonition of this: 
Nice gasket: 
Another fine shot of the turbo: 
And the other side: 
I think we found our culprit! Found some shrapnel in the end of a pipe:
 
I cleaned up the engine bay and painted some parts satin black. View from inside: 
Ah, they look so pretty! Until you get them back in and start installing stuff around them. By this point I've decided I just don't care. Mostly because I can't. But at least they're mostly black now instead of the varied-colored metal they were. Neeeeext -
You don't have to live in a bubble just because someone else caught the flu. Make your decision on your ability to trust yourself. - NytWolf 15:49:05 12/17/06
I was previously a aviation mechanic and avionic technician and this car is harder to work on than Aircraft. - Hocuz77 03:04:56 02/28/06 |
VG30DETTXTZ - 56k just shoot your modem now - 
