5th gen 3SGTE sitting in pieces in the garage. Finishing up bathroom reno so hoping to get back onto that. Still needs some parts to come in, so I'll get to play the waiting game again, which I did waiting on rods, pistons, bearings, and rings last year. The car is at least running with the boat anchor 5SFE and can I drive it when it's nice out.

After that I have my Bronco which needs a full teardown to address rust issues. I haven't even started it in two months

2010 2 door JK wrangler I bought to enjoy running around mostly top less on nice days.

Was going great until the timing belt on my son ranger let go and I had to put him in the jeep to send him back to school.

Now who knows when I will get it back to work on.

Chopped 49 Ford 2 door sedan.
Full old school custom.
Engine swap, rear end, interior, wiring. Still have welding and grinding on the top. Been in a pile in the garage for years. No time.

Top set back on no door frame/post.

LoL.

Yep - Right here brother. Had a '73 Camaro and then a '72 Camaro and a '75 Vette. I have no time to have fun. The first one needed too much work. Bought for $500 and scrapped it. The second one I did some work to and turned a nice profit. The Vette was pretty much a wash.

Ended up buying a '98 Vette that needs nothing except me to drive it. I told my wife I bought it because it was the year we were married. That didn't get me far.

1965 F-100 (My first vehicle, drove it in HS)

Vic Chassis with a bunch of custom work
Gen2 Coyote factory Aluminator Twin precision 6266 BB Turbos
Narrowed 8.8 Full float conversion
Tremec  Magnum 6-speed Twin disk RXT Mcload clutch
AEM CD-7 Digital dash and gauges

Blah Blah blah!!!

I have the front sheet metal on it now, but still need to cut the bed down.

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Heres mine.  Pulled the engine with the intention of dropping an LS in it.  Now I'm just trying to find a place on the east coast who rebuilds rotaries

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66 Corvette coupe,  327/350hp, 4 spd, pb, sidepipes nassau blue/white with 70k miles. Everything is original including paint except for alternator. It needs mechanicals done and paint as it hasn’t been on the road since 1990. Had it running 2-3 year ago and drove it around the yard and parked it again. Some day, I’ll give it some love. For now, i have kids going to college soon.

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1931 Ford...


1968 Camaro...


Not shown: A 1967 Firebird and a T-bucket (well, three pieces of a T-bucket).

77 Bronco. I feel bad even calling it a project as I haven’t done anything with it.
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They only exist in my mind so I have all the time in the world.

Now I need a hug.

as the former owner of an 01 and 08 bullitt, and current owner of a 21 mach 1, you have great tastes

Nice

E46 ZHP, has hail damage, needed a new motor, cooling system, bushings front and rear, needs the auto pulled for the 6 speed. Needed retrofit projectors to fix the burnt bowls on the Zkw headlights, needed new LCA's and FCAB's, new suspension, new alcantara steering wheel, etc. I'm getting there. Oh and a rust spot on the rear passenger arch I need to fix.
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I got a 56 corvette because I've always dreamed of having a vet.
Well it's going to be a very long project. I got the car in my dream and only work on it while dreaming. I get up to piss twice a night and that cuts into my work time

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That’s an awesome find.

1950 gmc 100 we inherited from the father in law. He planned on swapping it onto a S-10 frame and LS swap. Have the frame and a junk yard LS he picked out. I have a build idea for the engine. Now we just need money and time.

I got an 86 iroc that I've had since I was 16 (40 now).  Drove the shit out of it from '97-'05.  Then from about '05-'12 it pretty much sat and never got driven because I got into sports bikes and track racing. Around 2012 I decided I missed driving it but I wanted to restore it.  So I sanded it mostly down to metal (im in AZ so rust isn't an issue) And I redid the interior with the intentionof atleast throwing some primer on it. Added all new sound deadening, carpet, NOS trim, ect.  Just had to put the dash back in.  Then life happened again and it sat. Again. Then around '17-18 i decided i wanted to get back into getting the car running so i started replacing all the old suspension parts, bushings ect.  Everything worked and it ran.  Then 1 day after i started it and let it run for a bit, went to turn it off, pulled the key out, and it kept running. .  Replaced the starter and same issue. Found out the starter was bad, got another 1 and it worked...  kind of.  It would start if i jumped it but if i used the key... nothing.  After a while of trying to fix that issue, i noticed i didnt hear the fuel pump priming anymore.  .  after messing with the wiring for the starter and what not and no luck, i just stopped messing with it as summer was now here.  

current engine is a 406 sbc making approx 440rwhp and 490rwtq on ashitty cam cause I was worried about emissions at the time and still on the stock 305 tpi ecu.  tryng to find a tuner is impossible even back then and now ill prob switch over to a FAST stand alone system.  

This is the car the day I got it


This is its current condition the day we moved.  Of course a month b4 we moved the fuel pump went and then the starter.  So it got towed.


Thankfully the garage was an upgrade.


But then i also got another camaro lol

Runs good and doesn't leak a drop as it is. Of course, lower gears for the transfer case are sitting in a box on a shelf in the garage. If I was smart, I would get them installed, call it finished, and sell it. Probably won't though. Doesn't seem finished compared to the Jeep that I finally completed and almost immediately sold.

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Sort of a project car since it sits in the garage and I'm slowly going through replacing the usual BMW problem area.

I saw a BMW 640i Gran Coupe one day at the import repair place where I was having my MB oil and turn up done.

What a beautiful car was the first thing I thought, and how bad could it be.  Did some research, and decided that any version of the V8 was a no-go so the 650 or M6 was out.

This car was available from 2012 -2018 and was available as a two or four door coupe. I wanted the 4 door for the extra room.  

I looked at the few that were for sale in my area. It's not that common of a body style, and most of the ones that I found were 100K+ miles and just beat up and had neglected maintenance.  

One finally popped up on my search feed, a 2013 version with only 39K miles. Good news/bad news... the car looked to be in great shape, but had been sitting for nearly a year. It had 2 previous owners, and the last owner put less than 2,300 miles a year. These cars do not do well sitting and usually oil and coolant leaks will start. I knew I was buying a wallet draining car, but couldn't get past the way it looked. Sold my daily driver Mercedes coupe, and brought this home.

So far since March, I've changed the oil and coolant, accessory belt and tensioner, speed sensors, plugs, coils, main AGM battery, rear electronic struts, and had to take it to a BMW specialist for a full software update. Paint had a texture feel to it, and it needed a few clay bar treatments to pull all of the contaminates out of the paint.  Interior was near mint, but the leather needed some love. I'm waiting on the Blackstone oil report to see if I need to do rod bearings.  I have around $5K in parts and labor that I couldn't do. Some things are pretty silly, like $100 to code the rear shocks to the car with the electronic ride control.

Next up will be the electronic water pump, high and low pressure fuel pump, and collecting the various gaskets that are bound to leak.

I did add a few go fast things to increase the HP and torque.  I replaced the plastic charge pipe with aluminum, air intake, and and MHD stage 2 tune.

Surprisingly, I do not have a single picture of the car on my phone.  I need to fix that and post some.

I have about a dozen, need to be more specific.

Buy or borrow a lift.  Quikjacks work well to get the car up off the ground

Nov 1999 I brought this home.


Worked on it hard for a few years and cash ran out, kids needed me more.  Sat 7 years holding pool floats.  

2015 I took it to a car show and won first place even though it’s still not done.  Bad rear gear, bad set up on 4 link, rear brakes sucked, no stereo, shifter boot too tight and pulls it out of gear, AC not charged yet.


Almost two years back I redid the 4 link, new center section with 3:55’s, SN95 rear discs installed.  Drove it three miles since then, but we did move during that time.  
As it sits now in the new garage


Seriously thinking tomorrow morning she may go for a 10 mile drive.

I’ve got a few of those too.

1970 Triumph GT6+, bought it 1989 while overseas with the Army, shipped it home and tore it almost completely apart to "restore" it. Then it sat from 1993 until 2010 in various storage locations across NY, until I bought a house with my first garage. I nursed back together and was driving it for a few years and the transmission quit.

Been sitting again for years.... I keep messing around with other projects (trucks) and never focus on it.

1989 Toyota 1 ton dually. So far I have fixed and repainted the cab, and installed new carpet on the inside. Up front I had to put in a new battery tray and core support because the old battery exploded. New grill and front bumper from a 4 Runner. It’s been sitting for a few years in this state. Out back I need a new bed. I was going to build a flat bed but decided to do a regular pickup bed instead. Long beds are a bitch to find so I’m going to eventually buy two short beds and splice them together. Right now I have dually fenders on order from Precision 4x4 in Canada. I should get them sometime after thanksgiving.

I have an 80 series land cruiser that needs front and rear bumpers, sliders, a roof mounted tent, an interior drawer system and seat delete, the list goes on.

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I’ll never finish the airport luggage loader Scout.

Was Hot stuff back in the mid to late 2000's numerous Fun Ford weekends and World Ford Challenge races, numerous guys that race now on Street Outlaws.  Back in the single power adder days and non intercooled for wild street and renegade classes.

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Been waiting to get the car back out and up to new reg's. Have a Procharged Coyote ready to go but still looking for a decent 6r80 to rebuild for it. Could do a glide, but it isn't the 80's and 90's anymore. Want a over drive and be able to cruise it with my son. The Art Carr trans in it is out dated as well.

As is the car as a whole is out dated. I have a 17' Mustang GT on my lot with a supercharger that dyno'd 710 to the tire and you can literally drive it anywhere,  full a/c, and listen to XM radio.  No shutting off injectors to start it because they are so large, no metering before the forced induction. This is almost the hot rod days I wished I grew up in. The power levels are just crazy.

The other project is at least driveable although in the middle of a Fuel Injection swap...

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78 MB 300CD (diesel coupe)

Bought from the original owner in Altoona, PA in 2009. Sat unregistered from 1996 until I bought it.  Brought a battery and a bunch of fuel filters. Made it home.  Needed a bunch of random stuff and fresh paint.  The original owner tried doing the head gasket and replacing the trans himself.  He put a turbo head on a non turbo 617, and put a vacuum controlled 722 4-speed automatic from a gas engine in it, then wondered why it wouldn’t shift out of 2nd gear.  I ran a vac line from the trans through the firewall and used it like a straw — in my mouth — for the drive home.  Doors were rusty beyond anything I’ve seen on a W123 Mercedes’. Coupe doors are very expensive. Hell, everything on a 123 coupe is expensive. And impossible to find.  

Car was done and ready for paint.

Had it parked in GF’s spare garage when we broke it off in 2011.  I went to get it a few days later and it wasn’t there.

I didn’t see that car again for 10 years.  I found it sitting behind a mechanic’s shop, outside, uncovered the whole time.  Ex had thrown what appeared to be a floor jack through both windshields.  I made the guy an offer and bought it back for $600 — which is what I paid for it originally.  Yeah that’s right, I bought the same car twice even though I never sold it.  Ex forged my name on the title, had one of her friends notarize it, put it in her name, and sold it.

I still had a shelf in the shop with all the trim pieces, hoping I’d find it one day.

It runs and drives as it should, and should be on the road next summer, sporting new glass and fresh paint.  There will be a thread with pics going all the way back to ‘09 when it’s done.

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I am probably 25k into this square body.  Was a nice truck in the photos but since getting it here nothing but issues.   I drove it around Sunday with no problem then my daughter gets in it to run into town last night and it damn near wont make the end of the driveway without overheating.  

So far my daughter and I have done the following:

New crate engine, old one was a "craigslist overhual" or whatever you call it

New wiring Harness front to back, soldered every connection/crimp fitting.  Used American auto wire harness and have zero complaints.  Kept finding fucked up joints in the factory harness.

new aluminum 3 row radiator with dual fans- trying to tame cooling issues

Sent trans for rebuild- had the motor out so it was an easy item

sent transfer for rebuild- was attached to the trans so also an easy item

pulled interior out and lined it all with flatline

Dakota digital dash-  wont do this again. currently looking at going back to factory style

New expensive water pump shit the bed so replaced with electric-






I have ordered some parts to try one more thing with the cooling but short of that if it doesnt fix it I am going to pull it down to the frame or just throw a tarp on it and focus on this one.  

I drove this one around all day and up to 100 degree heat on Saturday without a single issue except for the height. The new wheels and half the 4" lift I ordered to replace whatever the fucks on it now showed up today.  

Pulled my old tracker out of the barn last week.
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Fuel pump is bad, tank and pump too rusty to mess with so I decided I'd try to rig up a boat gas tank
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Took it out for a rip, all was going well the first couple Miles
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I did mess with it a bit more, running better, but def not 100 percent

88 Monte LS with CL package and 305 and 77k on the odometer.  Bought with 48k.  2nd owner.  Have window sticker from dealer.  Owned it since 2000, more than half my life.

Needs motor due to wiped cam.  Have not driven it in at least 3 years.  

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i need to go change my shorts. do you have a build thread i can follow?

1974 dodge d200 crew cab that was a 2wd/727/318 that I swapped to a 360/4 speed manual/4wd using parts from an 86 w250.

It's drivable but not great. I built the front section of the rear driveshaft at home and it needs new tires. It's been used to haul firewood and stuff to the dump.

To get it to where I'd be really happy with it, I will have to pull the body back off of the frame and clean it up and do a bunch of work to to the body and interior. If I go that far, I'll probably look into swapping the body onto a newer 2500 or 3500 frame and running gear.   I'm not sure if I'll actually tear back into it again.

A friend sent this to me a couple years ago.  

The twin turbo challenger was totally hand built.  
The others were being restored as to the way they came off the line.  

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55 Buick 2 dr sedan mounted on a modified 78 Buick LeSabre frame. 455 Buick, Comp Cams 268H cam, Edelbrock Performer intake, T/A  Performance headers. TH 400 with a shift kit with a Art Carr floor shifter. IDIDIT steering column. Body bolted down, suspension all rebuilt with polyethylene bushings, brakes all fresh and new, all new brake and fuel lines.

Need to mount a radiator, wire it, alignment, mount a fuel tank. Interior will be flat aluminum for door and side interior panels.

Someday.

Needs a steering box



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$1000 or so in paint for the truck

@fivepointoh wanna buy me out of my e90? I got it running without a misfire but it has a vacuum leak. I think its the valve cover. Bumpers are beat up.

@Ivan1 PM me

I have a few but no pics. I need to unload a few due to some medical problems.

Love that year Supra...

a FUTURE Rat Rod?

Yep. I have 3. 74 Monte Carlo, factory 454 car. 72 AMC Ambassador I want to do in the Matador NASCAR blue, white and red paint scheme. And a 75 V8 Monza 262 4 speed car that I’m wanting to put an HO 305 in. I just paid the house off so maybe I can build a 454 this winter. I’m getting older and running out of time. I figure if they don’t get done soon it’s not happening.

Dart based 331 66 mustang



380whp, sniper EFI, t5 conversion, electric water pump, power steering, coilovers all corners, 3 link with wattslink, full floating 9in 3.5 with trutrack, 13in 2 piece discs with 4 piston calipers on all 4 corners.

Under heavy breaking the rear does not lift, whole car just squats.   1/2 a car worth of Dynacorn sheet metal in the garage hoping to send to bodywork this winter after my quarter panels, seats, harness bar comes in.  Will minitub to fit 275s in the rear and possibly pull front fenders to get 275s up front but may be stuck with 245s.    

Currently running 225/45-17s and the car can corner just as well as my 2015 GT Perf Pack.   Probably stomp it in the 1/4 mile as well, should be around a low 12second 1/4.

Just put 100 miles on it the other day going up into hills for lunch and back.  Cruising at near 80mph the entire time and got 16.6 mpg.

1993 Mustang LX
1995 351W block stroked into a 414
Scat forged rotating assembly with H beams and 11:1 compression
AFR 205 heads
Super spyder intake
T-56 tranny
Strange 9" w/ 4:10 gears
strange coilovers
4 wheels discs
Maximum motorsports everything

Steeda body kit
cobra r wheels
Cobra r SVO hood
painted Escalade pearl white...

Cut off my thumb and had to sell it off piece by piece to recover the money I put into it and to support myself...