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I bought this SVO sight unseen from a guy in Reno Nevada spring of 2005. Although this is my first SVO, I had been building and tuning TurboCoupes for about 15 years so this isn’t my first rodeo.
On the way back from picking the car up in Reno, I encountered engine trouble and had to be towed home the last 50 miles. While on the side of the freeway waiting for my tow, Pat in LA spotted me and offered help and encouraged me to join SVOCA.
I spent 2 years fixing all of the little annoying things like new heater/AC core, leaking shocks, Turbine wheel separation, clutch quadrant, dash, etc. 12 days after putting it back together and finally driving it, a kid in a minivan ran me into a concrete wall. Let’s see, the mathematical calculation would go something like: Mass times Acceleration versus Immoveable concrete object? Oh crap, it all ends up with the same answer= Passenger outer marker light was the first thing to go! Luckily the damage was isolated to the area between the shock towers and radiator core support and was promptly repaired.
The repairs have all been accomplished and the engine compartment, door jams an interior will be painted (& clearcoat) on this day. Next week, the new NOS hood, NOS bumper cover, NOS header panel and fenders will go back on and receive the last few tweaks before final paint To make things easier for the Body & Paint, I removed absolutely everything from the car that doesn’t get painted (except suspension / so we can roll it around the shop). The engine was .020” over with double moly rings and when the turbine wheel broke free from the shaft, some of the metallic crap chipped the rings and scored the cylinder walls so I’m building a completely new engine (topic of a separate post).
While the “Special Thanks” list is long & distinguished, Pat in LA, SVOTRUST Mark and Bob Cunningham are at the top of that list!
I will post one or two pictures of the finished product (are they ever really finished?) on this page and I won’t plug up the band width here with a gazzilion pictures, I will keep them all here:
This is a work in progress and you can go back to this link as often as you like as I’ll be updating often.
The pictures are really starting to add up. If you are following along with the progress, you can select "Reverse Order" on the slide show to start with the updated pics first and work backwards through the build.
On the way back from picking the car up in Reno, I encountered engine trouble and had to be towed home the last 50 miles. While on the side of the freeway waiting for my tow, Pat in LA spotted me and offered help and encouraged me to join SVOCA.
I spent 2 years fixing all of the little annoying things like new heater/AC core, leaking shocks, Turbine wheel separation, clutch quadrant, dash, etc. 12 days after putting it back together and finally driving it, a kid in a minivan ran me into a concrete wall. Let’s see, the mathematical calculation would go something like: Mass times Acceleration versus Immoveable concrete object? Oh crap, it all ends up with the same answer= Passenger outer marker light was the first thing to go! Luckily the damage was isolated to the area between the shock towers and radiator core support and was promptly repaired.
The repairs have all been accomplished and the engine compartment, door jams an interior will be painted (& clearcoat) on this day. Next week, the new NOS hood, NOS bumper cover, NOS header panel and fenders will go back on and receive the last few tweaks before final paint To make things easier for the Body & Paint, I removed absolutely everything from the car that doesn’t get painted (except suspension / so we can roll it around the shop). The engine was .020” over with double moly rings and when the turbine wheel broke free from the shaft, some of the metallic crap chipped the rings and scored the cylinder walls so I’m building a completely new engine (topic of a separate post).
While the “Special Thanks” list is long & distinguished, Pat in LA, SVOTRUST Mark and Bob Cunningham are at the top of that list!
I will post one or two pictures of the finished product (are they ever really finished?) on this page and I won’t plug up the band width here with a gazzilion pictures, I will keep them all here:
This is a work in progress and you can go back to this link as often as you like as I’ll be updating often.
The pictures are really starting to add up. If you are following along with the progress, you can select "Reverse Order" on the slide show to start with the updated pics first and work backwards through the build.
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