igor is dead

[themadscientist]

Sitting on the side of the road typing this into my cell phone.

[Ozzie]

I'm out of the loop.
Igor is......?

[themadscientist]

My truck. Typing from the back of a taxi. I would have taken a bus but i have 80lbs of dog food. I was coming from the store. Th daihatsu guys dont see any timing signal so the suspct the timing belt.

[Bubba1]

My truck. Typing from the back of a taxi. I would have taken a bus but i have 80lbs of dog food. I was coming from the store. Th daihatsu guys dont see any timing signal so the suspct the timing belt.

did you pronounce it EEE-GORE or EYE-GORE

[Dattebayo]

Is it pronounced Frederick or Froe-drrick

[themadscientist]

Shirley you can't be serious.

[sultan]

you don't have any spare motors laying around to swap in there?

dunno what would actually fit, i'm thinking turbo busa motor.

[Bubba1]

Shirley you can't be serious.

I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

Do you like movies about gladiators??

[Encryptshun]

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

[Bubba1]

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

Have you ever seen a grown man naked?

[PapaSmurf2k3]

sucks bro.
How'd she go? Blaze of glory, or slow and boring? Interference engine?

[MinisterofDOOM]

Igor is not dead. Igor is awaiting a heart transplant.

Ahem:


Make it fit.

[Razi]

A V8 up front will probably cause Igor to do a front flip when you hit the brakes.

[danshaz82]

rear mount LSx? do it now!

[MinisterofDOOM]

A V8 up front will probably cause Igor to do a front flip when you hit the brakes.

Good thing he's mid-engine then, eh?

[Razi]

Isn't the V8 like half the length of his toy truck?

[themadscientist]

Timing belt. Daihatsu is bustin a** to get er done today. Freaky swaps, what would make you think I had any ideas about freaky swaps? Yeah, ok, here it is. the turbo van motor is a straight bolt in and I have a Haltech I could run it with. I've seen well built EF-DETs push past 100hp on the stock engine.

My seedy part of LA low budget p0rn in a motel room freaky swap, MR2 3S-GTE. I got the idea when I was parked next to an MR2 and I noticed they were almost the same width. I stood next to both cars and realized the top of the deuce engine sits lower than the bed side rails on the truck.

I'll never get a chance to do it, but if I did...

1. rip all the truck suspension and drivetrain out and take off the bed.

2. pull the entire engine, transmission and suspension out of an MR2.

3. fab a template that bolts to the MR2 at all connection points.

4. Use that to fabricate brackets and supports to locate the engine and transmission in the back of the truck. The frame would probably need extensive modification.

5. roll the guts of the MR2 under the truck and bolt it in.

6. Box in the part of the bed ahead of the engine unit and install radiator and intercooler so it sucks air from under the truck and blows it out the top.

7. build a cage in the cab that punches through the back, ties into an external main hoop and then runs legs down to the top of the strut towers.

8. fab a fiberglass cover for the bed with a section that hinges up on gas struts to get to the engine.

9. Increase life insurance and pay "died by his own stupidity" deductable.

10. go look for people to tear up.

[Razi]

<3
Lol @ Step 9

[danshaz82]

well now that its been planned out, it has to happen

[TTkickedin]

A V8 up front will probably cause Igor to do a front flip when you hit the brakes.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD1PXzA7DEI[/youtube]

Do it!!!

[Razi]

[themadscientist]

Never tried it. Not ready to break my lil buddy being that dumb. These things are essentially unibody construction with a psuedoframe in the back.

IGOR LIVESSSSS!



Those guys at Daihatsu burned the midnight oil getting my evil assistant running again. I was so happy to drive it again. It was like a good friend was gone.

Yeah, 110000 kilometers on a belt when you tear around like I do it was sure to happen sooner or later. That thing has as many teeth as the front row of a Willie Nelson concert.

[TTkickedin]

YAY!

What's the worst that could happen? Come on. Do it and videotape it like an emo suicide!

err...wait..

[themadscientist]

[Razi]

Yaay!

[hannibal]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cME30rXqxcg[/youtube]

[themadscientist]

I did it again....

Here's the skinny on these little Kei trucks. They were designed to do work. Farming, deliveries, etc. They were never designed to be driven like Takumi delivering tofu which is essentially what I do sans tofu. This is a 660cc three cylinder SOHC engine that lays on its side and pumps out about 45hp at full scream. What's the redline? I have no idea, they don't come with tachometers. I put a tach in it and set the shift point at 6000 rpm because I can feel it just starting to drop off peak power. Every day this innocent little truck does not head out on surface roads to puttputt around delivering bread or something. No, some fat f*** who still thinks he's a race car driver gets in it and heads straight to the expressway. Traffic permitting he puts the hammer down, this being the hammer.



On unobstructed shallow grades this idiot bounces off 6k and holds steady at about 60-70MPH, did I mention 45hp? Why 70? Because it won't go 80!

Now said idiot has been noticing a disturbing trend. The motor has been lugging a bit at idle. Sort of a mild skip. The idiot starts to watch this and it gets worse. He notices something accompanying this behavior, a strange sound. He composes this little poem to recite as the noise gets louder. each day.

Once upon an afternoon's fury, while I hauled a**, weak and weary,
Over the terrible and intolerable volume of muffler roar —
While I nodded, toes a tapping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my camshaft lobe.
"'Tis a lifter" I muttered, "tapping out my wallet sure —
When I pay for this I'll have nothing more."

So, suspecting a poorly performing cylinder and not wanting to admit what I knew was likely the cause I changed the plugs. Holy sheep s*** on a cracker, how the hell was this truck still running? The ground straps were sharpened to fangs and the mixture looked a bit lean. Now I am suspecting detonation, not lifters. I put the plugs in, no change.

The next day I left work early and went junkyard hopping. I still maintained hope I would be able to fix the problem before the motor popped. I found one and put a deposit down on it. I pick it up Saturday. I took today off so as to save my truck the abuse of driving any unnecessary miles, but I got called in. On the way home Igor was really chugging. It sounded like one cylinder was totally gone, but being a possessor of gargantuan testicular proportions I hit the expressway. I made it down the the expressway and coming off the ramp to the stoplight the engine was just bucking. I had about two miles to the house and I had to time the lights so as not to come to a stop, but I still had to keep revving it. As I got closer to home I began calculating my pushing potential over the remaining distance and I crossed what I believed to be the line of do it/can't do it so I was relieved a bit. I made the final turn down the road and the truck was sputtering now and as I coasted into the driveway it made the final shudder and died.

Some vehicles are just blessed an while I have had to do the timingbelt, that was my fault for not changing it before such a high odometer reading. Yes, I had to replace the shifter cable, but it gave me a week of warning before it failed and I didn't heed it. The wheel bearing that's grinding is my fault because I didn't properly seat it back in when I pulled the hubs to do the long studs. the CV joints looked bad long before the boots failed and now the joints are FUBARed because I am lazy. Whatever just took out the motor, I still suspect a lifter, gave me enough warning that, this time at least, I acted and had another motor ready to go. If not for having to go into work I would have got the new motor back before the old one gave out. I'll try to borrow a buddies Suzuki Carry, another Kei truck to bring the new bullet home. I'll probably have to ride the bus home after returning his truck. Oh, I have a job interview Monday too. I'm not exactly sure how I am going to get to that.

This little truck is charmed. Igor busts his a** for me day in and day out and I pay very little love back. Well homie, it's time for me to step up. That....

Freaky swaps, what would make you think I had any ideas about freaky swaps? Yeah, ok, here it is. the turbo van motor is a straight bolt in. I've seen well built EF-DETs push past 100hp on the stock engine.

[WDRacing]

I always love your short stories Mike.

[Dattebayo]

Wait-

So you're gonna actually put the nice turbo motor in? Awesome.

[themadscientist]

I pick it up today. The biggest hurdles I foresee is where the engine wiring meets the body, electrical scares the crap out of me, I suck at it, and routing the intercooler piping. The Atrai is a little different underneath and I expect to have to ghetto rig the pipe tract at first. We shall see....