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Selling the car as a whole. Bought the car a while back with the intent on fixing it up but lost interest. When purchased the car was burning a good amount of oil and smoking so figure its the rings that need to be replaced. Drove the car for a few hundred miles until winter. After Winter i went to ...

More depressing find, but i think it will be ok when im done. So i starting taking the interior out to swap the carpet and dash to my RS when i found what everyone hates to see. Some wonderful rust! same thing on both sides, so i figures ill scrap, wire brush and grind it off and put some rust refor...

PCV valve replaced slight difference in oil loss. Front valve cover gasket looks to be bad, a sliver of the gasket was broke and falling out, i removed it and oil poked its head out. Explains the oil right above the header that kept reappearing. Also can be where all the oil is going, about 1/2 quar...

Looks like the cars done, i'll be swapping the dash and some random parts over to my RS and most likely junking this one. Wish i had the knowledge to rebuild it, live and learn i guess :( . Just so happened to pull the timing belt cover back and found. http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8465/img2012...

Stock gauge doesn't work with the aftermarket sensor, tried hooking them both up and neither work.Only the aftermarket one works when attached by itself. I guess i'll have to buy a stock sensor and just run the stock gauge better for a cleaner look, anyways no point in having two gauges that do the ...

Took off the intake hoses to find some oil, the hose going from the PCV to the manifold, at the manifold was caked with tar like oil. This leads me to believe that its a good source of where the oil is going. I'll clean the entire system, ordered the new valve and will continue to clean and look ove...

Would the PCV valve from the K8 work for the ZE? If not whats the best replacement. Thanks!

Looks like the PCV valve is bad, free flow both ways.
Well looks like a lot of thinking on what to do now is in order.
Time to get the welder out.

Got to love the trunk of spare parts. http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8467/img20120802184850.jpg Included was a water pump, knock sensor, oil filter, hatch struts, two belts, valve cover, OBX under drive pulley, and a distributor. Along with various liquids such as smoke stop, lucas oil treatment...

What uses more oil than BP, Has the power of a bull, and smokes more than a small town in the winter?........... That thing would look something like this... http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/3356/img20120802161446.jpg Supposedly has 85k miles Should of figured it was going to be bad, I drove ~200 ...

Sooo i came acrossed a deal i couldn't pass up, well at least what i think was a deal. And the nickname Troublemaker will be apparent as things go on. http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/8198/img20120802112827.jpg http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8034/img20120802112859.jpg http://img196.imageshack....

I had place look at my car wabout 2 years ago when it was overheating at that time i didnt have a needle on the gauge cluster but i had an after market gauge. I mistakenly unplugged the thermosensor and attacked the aftermarket gauge to that thinking it was the temp sending unit. Now that i think ab...

I was wondering what my car would look like with strips and now i know lol. If your looking for something to help take the paint off the seals and such i bought a product called Krud Kutter its for removing spray paint from walls. Comes in a spray bottle and you can spray it on a rag and wipe down t...

You've convinced me to shave the hatch lock, looks great , good job!

Well the wire does have something to do with the thermo sensor. I grounded it to where i thought it should go and the gauge goes straight to Hot when i turn the key, I'll give it a better look around next week as i have no idea where it can go. Now that i look seems i should have posted this in the ...