Hi all,
I've been the owner of this Cb7 for almost 13 years now, Shes a rat, but I'm hoping to bring her back around to presentable. You've seen her at every IA meet within 250 miles of Middle TN and looked right past her.
She has been the one car I've owned that has always started, always gotten me where i want to go without so much as a whimper.
She has high mileage, VERY high mileage, but the old odometer stopped working at 160-190K ish miles(been a long time), so i had to have it replaced. The new one was from the dealer with 0 miles on it, It now reads 240K+, and all i have ever had to do to it was replace the clutch and basic maintenance.
But Now she has that infamous high rev oil leak, combination of a VC gasket leak at the tube seals and valve seals(still has good compression on all cylinders), So I'm trying to figure out what to do with her engine wise.
I like the idea of an F20B, but I may want to boost, if i do that I'm sticking with Single cam. My other issue is she has rust....alot of it, and fixing that is not cheap by any means the way i do things(I work on BMW's i Don't half Ass)
I'm a Euro car guy at heart, I've owned several Volkswagens(66 beetle, 04 GTI, 83 Scirocco with a g60 swap from a corrado, Rabbit P/U with a diesel swap), and I have a BMW now thats an ongoing project(e34 540I that is currently on jacks getting a 6 speed swap).
I'm a parts counter guy and run a shade tree out of my garage,But i mostly deal with Euro cars with that.
So here she is, My ugly duckling
(I apologize if her sorry state offends you, but she is a trooper)
I've been the owner of this Cb7 for almost 13 years now, Shes a rat, but I'm hoping to bring her back around to presentable. You've seen her at every IA meet within 250 miles of Middle TN and looked right past her.
She has been the one car I've owned that has always started, always gotten me where i want to go without so much as a whimper.
She has high mileage, VERY high mileage, but the old odometer stopped working at 160-190K ish miles(been a long time), so i had to have it replaced. The new one was from the dealer with 0 miles on it, It now reads 240K+, and all i have ever had to do to it was replace the clutch and basic maintenance.
But Now she has that infamous high rev oil leak, combination of a VC gasket leak at the tube seals and valve seals(still has good compression on all cylinders), So I'm trying to figure out what to do with her engine wise.
I like the idea of an F20B, but I may want to boost, if i do that I'm sticking with Single cam. My other issue is she has rust....alot of it, and fixing that is not cheap by any means the way i do things(I work on BMW's i Don't half Ass)
I'm a Euro car guy at heart, I've owned several Volkswagens(66 beetle, 04 GTI, 83 Scirocco with a g60 swap from a corrado, Rabbit P/U with a diesel swap), and I have a BMW now thats an ongoing project(e34 540I that is currently on jacks getting a 6 speed swap).
I'm a parts counter guy and run a shade tree out of my garage,But i mostly deal with Euro cars with that.
So here she is, My ugly duckling
(I apologize if her sorry state offends you, but she is a trooper)
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