Frozen

Picture of two frozen Preludes describes project at this point very well.
This might be last blog text for a while.
Garage is in use for diesel Mercedes and today I barely got red Prelude running (-5 degrees of celcius)
Winter is coming and seems like we have to wait for spring to continue the project.

I used to fix a Prelude

Allu

Overheating Bastard

Busy weekend behind and we have made some progress!

We didn't have gas in the welding machine, so we took a look at the engine that was still malfunctioning.
Distributor has caused problems before and it was kind of rusted... White Prelude had almost new one and it was easy to move to red Prelude. Same time we switched Distributor cap and the spark plug cables.

Finding fault light of the ECU (engine control unit) was harder than we thought but after cleaning passengers side legroom we found it hidden under all dust, sand and some other sh*t!

After reading trouble codes we fired the engine up and noticed it's working! Trouble code is gone BUT we don't know why :D
Water heat gauge is also working and everything seems just right. But radiator fan is silent and car overheats...
Funny thing is that the temperature in the gauge is at normal level...
Time to study a bit more of this system (I'm a total noob)

Looks like we still have a lot to do!

We also had to switch winter tires to the front because I could not get the car in the garage anymore...

PS: Tästä tulee kohta aika tylsää luettavaa jos en saa tuota konetta toimimaan... 

pps: lähtee viinalla t. saana :)

Kirjoita otsikko tähän

Looks handsome, doesn't it!
Today Jesse and I fitted hood from white Prelude to the red one. It doesn't fit very well yet but just a little bending and it should be good.

Some of the parts were waiting for paint at Jonku. But it's getting too cold for that, so we brought them back for fit-in.
Little peace of shit, aka Civic, has a trailer hitch (I know, very funny) and insanely powerful 1.3 liter engine, ingredients for adventure....
But no, Little piece of shit worked just fine with the trailer, looking stupid as F :D

The engine of red Prelude is still malfunctioning and the list of possible causes seems long.
There is a lot to do for a weekend!

Translation: Ei sssaakeli Ripulikiikulla voi vetää peräkärryä.

Absolutely nothing to tell you

Today was a bad day. Running prolems (WummmmPaaaWumpaaaaaaa!) and we run out of welding gas again!
Well no gas lets fix engine then.

IACV (Idle Air Control Valve) box witch is probably causing wumppaa effect is harder to remove than I thought.
Removing the engine is one thing I would not like to do at this point. But if I had to do that then we fix lot more than just idle running problem and that is going to cost money.,,,

Solution is simple:

BUY CHEAPER BEER!

Bring me the sledgehammer!

It's been a while since we wrote something about the project. Well, that's because there hasn't been much to write about.
Hard work, lots of cutting, welding and hammering.

Jesse has spent many hours just welding pieces to fender and making it match to its original shape.

And I have lost my mind with techical problems... About them later.
And there is more!

The floormat contained 40 kilos of sand and dust.

But still not ready to give up!

Translation: Silti mietitte, miksi kalja maistuu :D