So, we're Team Alavanche, because my 4 year old said so. That's the royal WE, as I am an army of one unless he is out in the garage picking washers out of the pile of swept up crap.
Challenge vets could recognize this car from $2010 when dmyntti campaigned it with a junkyard turbocharged 350, tractor paint, and 195 width all season tires. According to the results page, it came in 2nd to last, and blew up at the drags. I bugged him about it a couple years ago at his house when i dropped off a chassis. Then in May i was picking up a Monte Carlo from him and he looked at the Z and said something about it maybe being for sale. I asked price, looked it over, and it was sunk into the mud resting on the exhaust and oil pans/a-arms and filthy with little tiny ants everywhere in it and mouse poo on the seat. Naturally I jumped at the opportunity. A few weeks later I picked it up.
The next day i pressure washed it, removing the number panels, some of the blue paint(lots of it actually) and all the tree goo.
Then I had to work late all week and did not touch the car. The next weekend I hooked up a battery and drove it off the trailer, once I put some trans fluid into it. Oil was milkshake and high, but it started and made quite the racket and got off the trailer by itself.
So i did what anyone would do. Ripped out the hurt engine and dropped the known good one from the aborted $2015 V8 WRX into it.
At that point, I was content to have the engine off the floor, room to put the car inside, and the old engine in the bed of the truck to scrap, so I put it inside to start hooking junk back up. Exhaust Y pipe came by way of some ebay china brand headers, a 15 year old thrice used flowmaster Y, a used tailpipe from my dad's scrapped suburban, and a piece of exhaust i picked up in someone's trash on garbage day.
This is the fuel system that the car came with.
In the interest of airflow to the radiator(the car overheated at $2010) I purchased a cheap ebay aluminum fuel cell and moved that to the hatch and built a sealed enclosure around it from scrap steel and aluminum to be legal, and moved the pump and filter to the rear and used the old lines to hook them all back together. Filter brackets are by way of home depot yellow tag fence part clearance about 10 years ago that I knew one day i could use for some automotive function
And that's about where I'm at now. right at one month of work, mostly at night after the kids go to sleep. I am going out of town today until next week so unfortunately nothing will get done, but I am offically entered and will be there come hell or high water. I've been intending to and trying to get cars there for 10 years, and something has always come up either with car or life to keep me from being there. Not this year, Murphy, not this year.
