Friends came over to help with pedal box, all in and good to go. Time to do lines, calipers tomorrow and then holy E36 M3 guys.... maiden voyage maybe end of the week if all goes well?
Friends came over to help with pedal box, all in and good to go. Time to do lines, calipers tomorrow and then holy E36 M3 guys.... maiden voyage maybe end of the week if all goes well?
I actually saw a white Jalpa leaving a Cars and Coffee-type thing a week ago while I was on my way to work. It's some kind of supercar gathering that I don't know anything about that takes place near my house from time to time. No Muscle, no Tuner, just Super.
GCrites80s said:I actually saw a white Jalpa leaving a Cars and Coffee-type thing a week ago while I was on my way to work. It's some kind of supercar gathering that I don't know anything about that takes place near my house from time to time. No Muscle, no Tuner, just Super.
Where are you at? Did it have a wing by chance, with white interior?
I wish words could describe how it feels to sit in the driver seat of the car, nearly finished, starting, running, and almost ready to drive. 4 years ago it felt incredibly overwhelming. I've never taken anything on this crazy. But I've wanted to do this since I can remember. I lit up a cigar, poured a nice glass of scotch, and just sat in it and looked at the interior. I closed the door, opened the door, played with the shifter, berkeleyed around with it and thought, "Jesus christ... i bought a lambo and i've restored a lambo.... and i'm almost done. This is really mine, this is really it, I've actually done it. God damn. What the hell. I'd say I need a drink but I already have one."
List of where i sit
- Hydraulics are in
- Pedal box rebuilt and in
- All fabrication to mate the non-lambo booster is good
- Master cyl is adjusted and groovy for clutch
- gutted the rest of the factory wiring out of the car tonight, it's all my own harness at this point
- Calipers are completely rebuilt
- Pads arrive tomorrow and calipers can go on
- Line conversion from 2 line to 4 line master completed, minus the unions, need to get unions tomorrow, and hilariously enough the aftermarket master cyl has a shorter throw and the same size as lambo lines, so NO ADAPTER NEEDED. Makes my day.
- Startup mixture tweaked a little, though it feels like it's missing, I think I have a plug wire or two loose after the adjustment, easy fix.
- Targa top latches re-installed and adjusted properly
- All door seals, carpet, and aesthetics are finished minus putting the final bits of the dash back together since I'm still working on the harness for the brake lights/ turn signals. Wiring for them is done, just need to make sure it's wired up at the column and tested correctly.
Incredible.
How exciting!
Keep up the high standards right to the end. Watch for any coolant consumption. Receive high-five from the Universe.
Jerry From LA said:Keep up the high standards right to the end. Watch for any coolant consumption. Receive high-five from the Universe.
I put a piece of cardboard down under the car to watch for any further leaks. And also looked at the heads where it was leaking prior, so far we're gold. But I agree, while it is tempting to just be like, "Well let's throw it together and screw it, let's go drive." I realize if I rush things, well, that's just bad.
There's ultimately no good reason to simply put a deadline on it, aside from the snow will hit at some point soon. Either way, still would be nice to drive it before that happens but I will ensure stuff is done properly.
I do have a very tiny, minor oil leak on one of the return tubes around an o-ring. Which really... since they use the same setup as the old air cooled vdub cars with the o-ring and tube, i'm not terribly shocked to see a drop or two over time.
Alrighty, got me a brake flare tool, some ends, some precut lines, some unions, etc. Should be able to get most of that done tonight. Going to just basically union the front up to the top and then go ahead and then do the same for the rear with extra lines, piece'o'cake, then run the extra line the new master came from.
corsepervita said:GCrites80s said:I actually saw a white Jalpa leaving a Cars and Coffee-type thing a week ago while I was on my way to work. It's some kind of supercar gathering that I don't know anything about that takes place near my house from time to time. No Muscle, no Tuner, just Super.
Where are you at? Did it have a wing by chance, with white interior?
I live just outside of Columbus, Ohio. I couldn't see what color interior it had since it was driving, but I don't recall it having a wing.
GCrites80s said:corsepervita said:GCrites80s said:I actually saw a white Jalpa leaving a Cars and Coffee-type thing a week ago while I was on my way to work. It's some kind of supercar gathering that I don't know anything about that takes place near my house from time to time. No Muscle, no Tuner, just Super.
Where are you at? Did it have a wing by chance, with white interior?
I live just outside of Columbus, Ohio. I couldn't see what color interior it had since it was driving, but I don't recall it having a wing.
Interesting. Don't know that one then. I've got a friend in Utah with a white Jalpa, no wing, white interior. His is basically almost like a mirror image of my car with different door panels and no wing.
Mixture of weird yesterday. So setbacks:
- The rear pads don't fit, they look pretty generic, so i'm gonna try to find some today after work
- The hardware came in a box with the car for the brakes. All of it is virtually there EXCEPT.... one of the banjo bolts for the calipers
Progress:
- Got some of the stock lines moves and ready to be joined with some unions last night
- Gutted out everything i could in the "frunk" area so that it would be easier to do the brakes, removed even more junk that i didn't need out of there that's aftermarket bs that no longer works.
- Finished the front calipers, but again, can't do a damn thing about them right now in terms of getting them up to the lines since banjo bolt for one is missing. If i cannot find a banjo bolt i will make one on a drill press.
Took a 5 day staycation starting tomorrow. Going to try and get this thing done. 5 days of straight work on it? Pretty sure I can make that happen. Gonna need some pizza, beer, scotch and cigars and I think I'll be good.
corsepervita said:Took a 5 day staycation starting tomorrow. Going to try and get this thing done. 5 days of straight work on it? Pretty sure I can make that happen. Gonna need some pizza, beer, scotch and cigars and I think I'll be good.
You got this! Plus, I'm pretty sure that the guys who originally designed these classic lambos followed a very similar diet plan. Maybe wine instead of scotch, because Italy, but you get the idea.
Your patience is admirable. I would have slapped it together in to minimum-drivable-condition weeks ago.
Ok, hunted down new hardware for the entire dash, as well as everything needed for the brakes. The rear pads didn't fit, some are ont he way will be here tomorrow. Got a D&D session tonight at 6pm (yes, I know, I'm a nerd) and then tomorrow i'm gonna start busting loose on the car. I did at least get some hardware today and test it, and we're groovy.
Front brakes are completely finished. New lines are plumbed and good to go. A little more interior finished and a little more wiring done. Currently working on the back. Going to try and finish up the clutch slave cyl line tonight so i can at least get the clutch bled. I bought a ton of unions, but the dude at the part store gave me some inverted flare unions which are no good to me, so... that sucks. Surely there's a parts store around here somewhere that has some more non-inverted unions.
Rear pads didn't fit that i bought, apparently the Jalpa had 2 different calipers for the rear. I purchased the other set that'll be here tomorrow. so fingers crossed, that'll work.
Very very close. Steering column is in, fit, and wired up and good to go. Fixed my loose wire issue, turns out cyl #6 plug wire was barely on, no wonder it was coughing and giving me E36 M3. Fired right up with zero quarrels after that. Alternator is still not hooked up, will do that before the drive.
Everything coming along nicely... it's really a matter of whether or not I can get enough unions. I bought some premade lines at NAPA so I could use the end fittings because apparently no one stocks euro brake fittings. I figured "well E36 M3.... for a $3 line or whatever, I can just cut the lines and use them." Also can make super short lines for the stuff I'm making.
Monday need to go get plates (don't have one yet), and then should be completely legal. So close guys, so freaking close. I'll snag some pics tomorrow once everything is together.
In reply to corsepervita :
Good luck sleeping, the next few days...
You might want a bit of a car photo shoot just to for posterity sake.
Congrats!
Ok so I got most of the rear done last night before I went to bed, going to finish the rest today.
Bit of a hangup on the clutch slave cyl. The end isn't an M10x1 like I thought. It's one size larger. So the other issue is that I don't have any lines that long. On top of that, the old line uses a different thread, so the porsche line will work on the TOP of the slave cyl, but the other end will not mate.
I'm thinking either... cut the end off and flare it and use a different connector and union... then run a longer line (solid) up to the slave cyl. Or.... have a hydraulic shop make me one, but I can't do that till tomorrow.
I'm about to go pick up the pads for the rear calipers, so when i go to napa i'll see what they've got.
Just got back from NAPA and good news:
The BMW pads are a direct fit for the rear. Although as you can imagine, explaining over the phone was a bit odd.
"Yeah I need rear pads for a 1976 BMW E10."
"OK, i don't show E10 in this list."
"Try a 2002."
"Ok but you just said 1976."
"Well that's the year. I am looking for the 2002."
"Uh."
"The model is actually called 2002, the year is 1976. I know, it's silly."
While I was there I purchased another union, and a longer solid line, so that I can instead of trying to fabricate some other hydraulic line up, can just run a solid line from under the car to the slave. So what I plan on is mating the 1/4" to 1/4" tubing, with SAE fittings since they had no metric (meaning i'll have to lob off the end under the car), and then re-flare it with the new SAE fitting, use the other side of the napa line with the SAE fitting and flare that. Then lob the other end off of the line, flare THAT with the metric fitting to go into the slave and I think that'll be fine. The other nice thing is that I can then slap some heat wrap over it to protect it from the header.
All the brakes are in. Need to run 2 more lines and flare the line to the slave for the clutch. Almost there. Tired as hell but trying to not let myself go into nap mode because i'll waste all the day light lol. The parking brake on the driver's side is being an enormous pain in the butt and I've wrestled it for quite a while now, so i'm taking a break from it. I think i've found a snazzy way to perhaps get the cable on. Basically it shares one cable. That cable stretches from a little pulley that the e-brake handle makes. Most e-brakes are where the A end attaches to the handle, and the other end goes to the e-brake. Well... in this case, the handle pulls on a little pulley. The A end goes to one e-brake caliper, and the B end goes to the other e-brake caliper. So I THINK when I put the other all the way on, it stretched it too far, so now it can't compress and let out the spare slack to let me get the spring squished enough to get the other on. What a pain.
for now, my priority is running those lines and double checking my brake work. Then bleeding the system, checking for any potential leaks, and making sure they feel solid as a rock.
Oh and ALSO, I found the stupid linkage bolt I've been looking for... the one I talked about that was lathed down to some stupid size like M12 to M6? yeah... well now that pretty much all of the lambo is back together, it showed up in the bottom of one of my hardware containers. I went, "HAH! I GOT YOU!" now I don't have to wait on another one. So that'll go back in today, before I lose the bastard again.
OK.
- Brakes, done.
- Clutch, done. The 1/4" line ended up doing the trick with a union, and then running a hard line and flaring the end with the Porsche line adapter was exactly what it needed. Now I have an expensive Porsche line that is missing an end I can't use but hey... it worked, so I'll take it. I managed to route it in behind the subframe, and then also up and around the starter, so I managed to avoid the hot header, which in my opinion is an improvement over stock... which was a SS line inches from the header.
- Extra lines, all done, flared, checked, tightened, and double checked.
I just need to bleed the bastards and I'm there. Then I need to double check all the little crap before I go for a test drive. I want to at least just take it around the black and back in the garage. Anyway, pretty much there guys!
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