Hwilli1647545487 Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 Looking good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geeto67 Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 Are we just going to gloss over that there is a Lancia Delta Integrale 16V in the background of those pics? Neat! Nice job, keep plugging away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwashmycar Posted September 23, 2019 Report Share Posted September 23, 2019 Found myself a little more downtime while I stayed out of Sean's while he was working on that last stud. Check out this beautiful Japanese imported Lancia Delta HF Integrale - one of the most famous rally cars of my childhood. This one is amazing, very low mileage. Are we just going to gloss over that there is a Lancia Delta Integrale 16V in the background of those pics? Neat! Nice job, keep plugging away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted September 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Yesterday, with the worst of the heavy lifting work done, we were ready to move it to my house where I can chip away at it until it is ready to run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted September 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 More moving pictures, and a shot of the car where its going to rest for most of it's time here. My garage floor is epoxied and smoothe and level, so its super easy to maneuver the car around with a floor jack, but I will still probably try to get some dollies. I want to roll it outside, and give it a date with my pressure washer. Its pretty dirty. Thanks to Sean for helping me as usual! Look forward to more regular, but smaller updates from now until its driving. Its probably not far from actually starting, but its gonna take a while before its really on the road, given that its sat for so long. The suspension and brakes needs a lot of work most likely, and I also have some mods in mind for the remaining non-GM parts on the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cstmg8 Posted September 29, 2019 Report Share Posted September 29, 2019 Looking forward to seeing this progress. Great work so far. Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted October 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 Hey folks, thanks for being patient. Life is crazy right now, but trying to get stuff done where I can. We were out of town for most of the weekend in Indiana (stopped at IMS while I was there too!), but I was determined to get SOMETHING accomplished when we got back Sunday afternoon. First thing I took care of was taking the load leveler and chain off the engine after bolting the engine in for the last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted October 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 The next major mile stone I want to handle on the swap is the fuel system. This is an all-inclusive kit from Texas Performance Concepts that includes all the fittings you might need as well as a Corvette filter/regulator unit from WIX. This is another example of something you could piece together for much cheaper, but its nice to have it all together. It comes with a little tubing cutter and compression fittings for tapping in to the stock feed and return lines. I haven't figured out what the steel braided line is for yet, maybe another year 944 had another return or something? I have no idea at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted October 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 Couple more shots of the kit. While I was in here, I went ahead and put on the AN adapter to the stock corvette fuel rail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted October 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 I decided to finally unload the interior of the car. We had been storing all the stuff for the project in it during it's time at the shop, and I will need to start spending more time in the interior wiring it up, so it was time to clean it out. This thing has spent years outside - check out the sun fading on the carpet and on the formerly-red fender cover towel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted October 21, 2019 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2019 At this point I was starting to run out of time, and I had some errands to do, but heres a preview of what I'm tackling next. I will have to jack up the car, drag it away from the wall, and pull the passenger side wheel to reach the fuel lines to cut and splice them. I also opened up the Vehicle Speed Sensor kit. I 100% have no idea where I am supposed to install it. I mean, probably on a wheel, but so much information in the 944 LS community is super outdated and I am pretty confident its not even necessary in 2019 LS Swap Land. Most of the documentation for LS 944's is based on a book a guy wrote back in the early 2000's and 90% of the swaps are richbois paying shops to have crate motors installed so research/experimentation is not really a thing. We have evolved, thanks to places like Sloppy Mechanics. I will install it if I HAVE to, but I am confident I won't need it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckeyeROC Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Rally Pat, just checking in. How's she coming along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Rally Pat, just checking in. How's she coming along? I had to have a bunch of stuff happen like extensive dental surgery which kind of slowed me down, my wife had a minor surgery but a long recovery, I was dealing with Wendy's layoffs (I was a contractor at Wendys and we all got laid off out of nowhere), we got a new puppy, and switching jobs, and I can't lie on top of all that I've been dragging ass a little in there too. I haven't had a lot of downtime during the quarantine, being an IT professional. I am working pretty much constantly right now helping keep everyone else working from home running, and I have been spending the rest of my free time studying for my Amazon Web Services certifications. Good news is that I have two weeks of furlough coming up, one next week and one at the end of May. I plan to try and balance those weeks with spending most of the time doing AWS classes and maybe even taking one of the exams, as well as working on the Porsche. I have to also fit time in there to be a decent husband and spend time with my wife as well lol. I did start working on the garage again last weekend. I bought 2 sets of wheel dollies a few months back and just now got around to assembling them and putting them under the Porsche. When Sean and I moved the Porsche to my house, it was backed in, which really sucked because most of the light in my garage is on the opposite side where my tool boxes are. I got it turned around and took a picture. Sorry about the crap on top of it, but there was no where else for it in the garage. Its actually all cleaned up now but I haven't taken another picture since then. TLDR- I'm gonna make progress again soon, I swear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckeyeROC Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 I had to have a bunch of stuff happen like extensive dental surgery which kind of slowed me down, my wife had a minor surgery but a long recovery, I was dealing with Wendy's layoffs (I was a contractor at Wendys and we all got laid off out of nowhere), we got a new puppy, and switching jobs, and I can't lie on top of all that I've been dragging ass a little in there too. I haven't had a lot of downtime during the quarantine, being an IT professional. I am working pretty much constantly right now helping keep everyone else working from home running, and I have been spending the rest of my free time studying for my Amazon Web Services certifications. Good news is that I have two weeks of furlough coming up, one next week and one at the end of May. I plan to try and balance those weeks with spending most of the time doing AWS classes and maybe even taking one of the exams, as well as working on the Porsche. I have to also fit time in there to be a decent husband and spend time with my wife as well lol. I did start working on the garage again last weekend. I bought 2 sets of wheel dollies a few months back and just now got around to assembling them and putting them under the Porsche. When Sean and I moved the Porsche to my house, it was backed in, which really sucked because most of the light in my garage is on the opposite side where my tool boxes are. I got it turned around and took a picture. Sorry about the crap on top of it, but there was no where else for it in the garage. Its actually all cleaned up now but I haven't taken another picture since then. TLDR- I'm gonna make progress again soon, I swear Good deal man. Yeah, life happens sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimTaylor751647545500 Posted April 7, 2020 Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 Which dollies are those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2020 (edited) Which dollies are those? HaulMaster ones from Harbor Freight, they are sold in sets of 2 https://www.harborfreight.com/material-handling/hand-trucks-carts-dollies/vehicle-dollies/1000-lb-capacity-vehicle-dollies-2-pc-61283.html Edited April 7, 2020 by Rally Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Hey! I did stuff since I am on furlough! So today, after getting the car turned around the other week, I have much better at-will access to the car. I stuck a floor jack underneath and got the front passanger side up in the air where I could access the fuel lines. They are held in place with a couple of brake lines by what appears to be a nylon fastener with a hex in the middle of it. I could not find my damn hex keys anywhere after lending them out to a family member, so I just used my finest set of Harbor Freight channel locks to work the fastener off. I gently bent the feed and return away from the car and pulled the crimped on hoses through the hole leading to the engine bay so that I could begin cutting the tubing and putting on the AN compression fittings that came in the kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 The TPC fuel kit comes with a tubing cutter for cutting off the stock feed and return, as well as compression fitting adapters to adapt to -8 AN. After getting the fuel lines pulled down through the hole and the hard line bent gently away from the body for easier access, I used the provided tubing cutter and cut a couple of inches off of each end. From there, I used the provided compression fittings from the kit to adapt the stock fuel lines to AN. The feed seemed to work really well, but the slightly smaller return still seems like its not quite right but appears to be tight. Guess we will see if it leaks! Not of a fan of compression fittings in general, but at least being used for fuel lines isn't uncommon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 I fed the lines back up through the hole in the fender, and hooked up the Corvette filter/regulator assembly. Because I made the decision to stagger the cuts on the hard fuel lines, I needed to trim the hose now that they are no longer equidistant from the filter assembly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 I decided it was time to finally tackle the wiring harness. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to tackle this, so I started by just laying the harness in the general correct areas on top of the engine. At this point, I still hadn't really even researched the interior at all, so I wasn't 100% on where I was gonna run the harness and ECU. Turns out I should have, because where the stock ECU is is pefect for putting the new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Initially, I wasn't sure if I could pull the engine harness out, but after some more research I was just over thinking it, so i went full send and pulled it out. Luckily, there was a spot where it interfaces with the rest of the car and its just a big 9 pin plug, so it was easy to unplug then fish out of the car. I used a sharp carpet knife to cleanly cut the firewall grommet so I could reuse it with the new harness. I went inside the car, and got underneath the passanger side, where the stock harness comes through and the Bosch Motronic ECU is. The carpet is held down with just velcro., so I got that pulled back, and took out the 4 screws that hold a piece of plywood over the ECU mount. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Another couple of screws and the ECU was loose, then the big connector for the harness and it was out. I pulled the ECU side of the harness through the firewall, and pulled the rest of it out of the engine bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 I worked on stuffing the "underdash" half of the harness through the same hole in the firewall. The fuse/relay block was a little too big, but luckily the two halfs were just screwed together, so I undid those and was able to get it through no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 The harness needs two 12v connections to the postive side of the battery. I was able to slip them through an existing battery compartment grommet and attached them to the exisiting connections there. The eyelets are a little too big, but its making contact so I'm going to leave it for now. I also cleaned up all the battery and ground connections with wire brushes before putting everything back together. Next up is busting out the $5 Harbor Freight multimeter and tracing what wires go where! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10phone2 Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 man great progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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