I guess it's that time. My wagobuild thread. Updated.
Apocalypsox
New Wagonist
Hey everyone. Now that I finally got my wagon and am not quite as ashamed of it, It's BUILD THREAD TIME!!! 
Anyways, a little about me. I'm young, still in school, and trying to start a business. We shall see. ENOUGH ABOUT ME!
Wagon.
Here she is about half way home.
Lots of driving, and expensive to rent a trailer and feed that monster. About ~$300 later, heres where she was. When I bought it, it didn't run and it was FILTHY. You'll see what I mean soon.
Not perfect, but she's decently straight bodywise. Nothing I can't fix. and of course...mandatory back wheel well rust.
Bleck.
And just for fun, I threw the wing off my Mustang on it.
But anyways, I didn't get any pictures of the first day of work, but basically I just started sanding down some of the rust. Trying to stop what I can before it gets worse, as the weather is getting bad here.
Heres a little prelude to what I did on my second day of Wagoneering. (Hehe, see what I did there? Prelude? Hah!)
My CRX delivering parts. I'm afraid I'm going to have to sell my CRX, but that just means I'll have a little money left over for the wagon.
So, my second day of wagoneering began with this.
Rusty steelies were pulled, rust was taken off and then sprayed with Duplicolor Rust-Fix. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, takes quite a few coats though.
and the front calipers got the same treatment.
which lead to...I'm not sure if I like this (Whether I don't like the wheels on the wagon, or whether I hate depriving my CRX of its shoes, I'm not sure)
Taped off to paint the trim, but the weather was garbage today so I didn't get the chance to. You can see it has a few dents that I will fix, but all and all, not bad for a $200 car.
On my third day of wagoneering, the weather gave to me!
No opportunity to paint my trim, so I started cleaning the seats...UUhm...You just have to see for yourself.
Here are the back seats...
Uuhm...yeah...
Picture doesn't really do it justice, it was GROSS.
So after a few hours of cleaning, this is what I got them to. They need more cleaning, but my back hurt after being hunched over and it started to rain again.
Aaaand one more picture. I'm going to keep my mouth shut for plans on what I want to do, as I usually tell a bunch of people and then never get to it. So, in hopes of changing that habit, You don't get to know! but heres a little something anyways. Engine I got for free from my grandfather, should be rebuilt and needs some cleaning. Oh, and it's a single cam, not a dual.
That's it for now! Thanks for looking!
Anyways, a little about me. I'm young, still in school, and trying to start a business. We shall see. ENOUGH ABOUT ME!
Wagon.
Here she is about half way home.
Lots of driving, and expensive to rent a trailer and feed that monster. About ~$300 later, heres where she was. When I bought it, it didn't run and it was FILTHY. You'll see what I mean soon.
Not perfect, but she's decently straight bodywise. Nothing I can't fix. and of course...mandatory back wheel well rust.
Bleck.
And just for fun, I threw the wing off my Mustang on it.
But anyways, I didn't get any pictures of the first day of work, but basically I just started sanding down some of the rust. Trying to stop what I can before it gets worse, as the weather is getting bad here.
Heres a little prelude to what I did on my second day of Wagoneering. (Hehe, see what I did there? Prelude? Hah!)
My CRX delivering parts. I'm afraid I'm going to have to sell my CRX, but that just means I'll have a little money left over for the wagon.
So, my second day of wagoneering began with this.
Rusty steelies were pulled, rust was taken off and then sprayed with Duplicolor Rust-Fix. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, takes quite a few coats though.
and the front calipers got the same treatment.
which lead to...I'm not sure if I like this (Whether I don't like the wheels on the wagon, or whether I hate depriving my CRX of its shoes, I'm not sure)
Taped off to paint the trim, but the weather was garbage today so I didn't get the chance to. You can see it has a few dents that I will fix, but all and all, not bad for a $200 car.
On my third day of wagoneering, the weather gave to me!
No opportunity to paint my trim, so I started cleaning the seats...UUhm...You just have to see for yourself.
Here are the back seats...
Uuhm...yeah...
Picture doesn't really do it justice, it was GROSS.
So after a few hours of cleaning, this is what I got them to. They need more cleaning, but my back hurt after being hunched over and it started to rain again.
Aaaand one more picture. I'm going to keep my mouth shut for plans on what I want to do, as I usually tell a bunch of people and then never get to it. So, in hopes of changing that habit, You don't get to know!
but heres a little something anyways. Engine I got for free from my grandfather, should be rebuilt and needs some cleaning. Oh, and it's a single cam, not a dual.That's it for now! Thanks for looking!
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Anyways, I think it looks better. Didn't get a chance to do the front bumper =/ I had to run to the store with my girl and help cook for the family right after I got the trim done.
Anyways, took my wagon for its maiden voyage today. After whining to my father about it for a while apparently, my mother convinced my dad to buy me an upper radiator hose. Mine was bulged, but it was working fine for the time being.
After driving a while, the damned thing started to overheat. Not a slow overheating either, a "holy crap look at how high that gauge is rising!" overheat. I babied it home and hopped in my crx. I'm hoping it's air in the system or something equally as easy, because I didn't have this problem before.
Buying parts!
then this happened.
It was burning a bit of oil, but nothing terrible. I didn't go with the ZC I had, I got a D16Z6 for free instead. Came out of my uncles Del Sol. In with the new!
That's about it for progress. Bought a welder and some nice stuff too though, so rust fixing will happen shortly.
I finished the Z6 swap and got her running. Turns out my wiring is a bit fubar. Not sure if its stuff in my harness not matching up, or just wires going to the wrong place in the Rywire conversion harness, but I'm sorting it out now. Only error code I'm getting is for the IACV, and I'm thinking its just a wire in the wrong place. I'll know tomorrow.
The wagon rusted a bit this winter, so my passenger rear well has a few holes now. That means its paint time. I'm going to sand it down, fill all the small dents, and fix the rust in the rear. Not sure what color I'll paint it yet, but I'll probably use white primer so it looks decent until I can get some paint.
Oh yeah. And things got a lot bigger
Hood and passenger fender are pretty messed up, not sure what I'm going to do about that yet =/
Finished up the paint, but it didn't work so well on my hood. I'll go back over the roof, hood and hatch again properly at some point. Also found all of my painting gear, so it will look better than the spray paint. Lol.
Heres a few pics.
Anyways. The rest of my turbo oil lines showed up, but they sent me the wrong pieces. As I'm tired of waiting, I think I'll just say to hell with it and fab up/modify the pieces I have to work. DSM 450s, chipped P28 IIRC, turbo off a 2g eclipse. Should be nice.
I'll have some pictures and maybe a video or two before long. Not much, but I'm pretty pleased with it. Built the entire setup from scratch with a welder and my own two hands. Pretty cool.
Had my battery behind the passenger seat originally, as I was concerned about room in the engine bay. Yeah no, Wasn't real comfortable with that. Spent some time today moving battery back to the stock location, and rerouted my charge piping. Fixed a few wiring issues caused by some unintended rubbing...hopefully done blowing my ECU fuse now.
Heres what she looks like as of now. Runs decently well, but I'm trying not to drive it too much or too hard (nowhere above 4500rpm) until I get injectors and a tune running. Don't want a broken wagon.
Here's some pics of the what I did. This was all straight 2.5" exhaust sections when I started. Yay pie cuts!
They fit really well. Should be able to retain stock seatbelts and such just fine. Currently debating modifying the stock wagon seat rails and welding the recaro to them, or making a set of brackets so I can return to stock if I need to. Leaning towards modifying and welding things up. Will have the driver seat mounted tomorrow.
Also expecting a package on thursday with an AEM Wideband, and a box from Xenocron with my flash burner and stuff to chip my stock P28. Then I'm all good to go!
Anyways, a bit of an update on my car. I never did get the seat mounted fully. I got the mounts all tacked up, but when I went to them it literally fell apart. Crappy tack welds, yay! It was a crappy day so I just said screw it and threw my stock seat back in. A few more parts had showed up that needed attention anyways.
Finally got a few good sensors so I can monitor what my car is doing. Got an AEM wideband off a friend for a good price, and an exhaust gas temp. sensor. Also got my package of stuff from Xenocron. Everything I need to chip my ECU, a basemap for my car, and a burn2 so I can play with tuning my car myself a bit. It's always been something I wanted to learn to do.
That's all fine and dandy, now I just need my turbo manifold to stop coming apart! Lol.
Been really busy for the past what...Almost a year, I guess. Got a job working for a buddy that just started his business, so that has taken a lot of my time. Working on starting my custom CNC machining business, so look for cool custom wagovan brackets and general swag coming your way soon
Car is still mostly in the same shape. Bodywork is done however, the dents are all filled and blended nicely. Paint will come soon.
Also have a shop to work in now, which is banging and makes doing stuff a lot more enjoyable.
As soon as I finish this part. Picture time.
Bought a box.
Bought some injectors.
Did a little bit of fab and mockup. Converted to half rad for some extra space in there.
Aaaaaaand routed the piping. Holes in frame, notches, ruining structural integrity, etc.
Thats about it for now. Working on getting my ECU chipped this evening, but my solder braid has disappeared on me. When I can get a new roll, I'll have my new chip stuff in the ECU and be ready to start getting the car tuned.
Not sure if the chip Xenocron burnt me for a basemap is just really running that lean, or if I've got a leak in my in my downpipe letting in air. Was going to drive it tonight, but I think with it running at beyond 18:1 according to my gauge, I'll try to solve that problem first.
Think I'm gonna buy a few new chips, throw the Xenocron in a box somewhere as a backup, and start building a new tune for the car from scratch.
Also I made a stupid. After a bit more diagnosing, I kinda remembered that those injectors are double stock.
And I still have my stock fuel pump in.
Whoops.
Walbro 255 ordered, will be here wednesday.
And for your viewing pleasure, you can watch my car running lean here!
http://youtu.be/gcSZKxHQlfA
I cut the stamped section out where there should have been an access plate, and added an access plate for future work.
Fuel pump helped with my not holding rev problem, but the tune is still just super lean. I'm gonna save the Xenocron tune chip, and I just ordered some new eproms. Gonna go ahead and burn myself a new tune and start getting it hammered out.
Drove it, though. When the car transitions into boost, it goes rich like it should and runs fine. Its just the idle that sucks, and it won't hold revs below about half throttle. Fun though.