The Rotten Banana- Over a decade in the making

[Driftdevil]

Stevan has to find time in that crazy schedule of his. Lol

[Sharpie]

I settle for you and Todd then.

[psulja]

I came in here expecting more pics, I'm sad now

[Rogue]

Yeah, were all sad with it still sitting in Todd's dark garage all alone.
Needs some sunshine on that Sunburst!

[jux]

I'll volunteer to put some miles on it.

[WASABI]

Can someone reach out to him, and at least have him visit the site again?... I LOVE THIS CAR!!!! It deserves to be it the light again!

[Sharpie]

During Spring Break, mine came out of the garage, got washed, driven around the block and right back to its tomb :-(

[Driftdevil]

Can someone reach out to him, and at least have him visit the site again?... I LOVE THIS CAR!!!! It deserves to be it the light again!

He's been busy with his fish tanks. Lol! We mess with him whenever we see him.

[Titus]

So bringing this thread back to life. Going back a few years, I had some intermittent noise on the drivers side of the motor. I replaced the supercharger tensioner pulleys, and it had no affect. Disappointed and distracted by other things getting my fun money, the car sat. The following year, I replace the PS pump and AC compressor. No affect. Disappointment and frustration. The problem was clearly where I was trying hard to deny it could be... in the supercharger. No more fun tickets, The car went back in to the shop to be ignored. Finally last fall I had amassed plenty of fun tickets, so I pulled the SC off and sent it out for a repair estimate. It needed everything replaced, to the tune of over a grand. I shouldn't have been surprised, as I had bought the SC used with unknown mileage, then put over 50k on it myself, many of which was well over the recommended RPMs. I had the cash but I wondered if it was really what I wanted to do. I stewed for a few months, and then decided I would not fix the supercharger...

[Titus]

So I had a plan (that I will get to), but the first step was to get the car drive-able, registered, and inspected (stickers were over 2 years expired by this point). So January saw the following happen:

• Pulled supercharger and re-installed stock intake and accessories
• Pulled Intercooler and put radiator back to stock location
• Pulled LINK and re-installed stock ECU
• Pulled RC injectors and re-installed stock injectors
• Pulled crank overlay pulley and sourced new stock crank pulley bolts
• Sourced and replaced bad PWR radiator cock
• Re-did vacuum hosing
• Undid all of the wiring changes that had been done for injectors, fans, knock sensors, wideband, etc
• New battery
• New clutch master and slave
• Converted rack to manual and removed PS pump/hoses/reservoir
• Replaced bad fan relay
• Adjusted timing and idle
• Installed a known good CAT
• Got it registered
• Got it inspected

[Titus]

So what is next? Well I bought these from a local junk yard:
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And I ordered this from Minitec:


So that is the plan. TO BE CONTINUED.

[jux]

Hell yeah!!

[Titus]

Hell yeah!!

Hey Steve... Real work should be starting in about 3 weeks. Once it does, you should stop by. I am hoping people will stop in from time to time to help out or just keep me company in the shop!

[Tkblazer]

That's awesome...definitely interested

[— Phatmiata —]

This will be most awesome!! Excited to see pics of the tear down an buildup !!