The end of story - for now

So, typical finnish winter is coming, and this project has to wait for the spring, which feels kinda sad... It was assumed, that we could somehow "finish" this until the nex summer, but we don't have equipment or space to do it anymore. Also can't do anything in the open air during the winter, because in Finland winter means -30 celcius and few meters of snow!

I've planned to continue this project on april or may, depends on when it's possible for us.

The good news are, that we happily found a shelter for it for the wintertime! So right now the car is stored in a small garage - barely managed to get out of it!

This shelter located 20 kilometers away where the car was originally stored, so of course we had to drive it to the new place. We took this drive as a very small adventure, beacuse this project is totally not finished. Earlier we had removed everything else from inside of it, except the front seats. Also, for example, you could see the ground where you normally should not... This picture is taken from inside of the car, where the backseats located:

So, before I could drive, I had to order transfer plates and install front bumper, turning signals and other lights - even though they didn't fit very well. While driving 20 kilometers to the winter shelter we "somehow" noticed - again - that this car is far from ready. Well, now we have few months for planning what to do next, and how to make it better.

As you can see from the pictures, the garage could't really be any smaller! We were very lucky that the car fit in there :D

We really hope that the next summer will be better than the last one! Since we no longer have any hobbies, atleast we have Civic that never works, some beer and also each other :)

Now you finally got to see what we look like, you may rest your soul :D

<3: Allu (& Saana)

Translation: Ripulikiikussa ei toimi taaskaan valot, siinäpä vasta puuhaa !

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

This is epidemic!

So, we are at Rovaniemi. We haven't bought a new Prelude. But somebody else has! Still this is somehow our fault....