working on the green terc . finally !

[2manytoys4menow]

Well I finally started working on the green 85 sr5 terc on monday . For those that don't remember , I bought this car with a possible bad cylinder head . compression was 165-165-50-0 . I finally put the wrenches to it and got the head off and found 2 exhaust vales are burnt with one SO bad you could see daylight between the valve and seat . I had went to the boneyard awhile back and picked up another complete head for $40 and that's the head that's getting rebuilt now . It's costing me $125 and that's for valve and seat grind , pressure testing , valve stem seals and head surfacing . It's $48 for top end gaskets and I'm also going to rering it so theres another $22 for rings . I can still see the factory cross hatches in the bore and there is no ring ridge in the bores and with only 148 tousand on it I should be for anothe 150 thou after it's all together . These are pretty easy car's to work on . I'm trying to find a terc for my 17 yr old cousin but he has a adverse reaction to driving a 4dr . On a smaller note My wife totaled our 89 mr2 yesterday morning . following to close in the rain and rear ended a big truck . She's fine as it was only about a 5 mph hit but the car hit the trucks reciever hitch and took out the the front bimper , hood , and core support . It happened 4 miles away so I drove the car home . Nothing happened to the truck . I'm pretty po but it's just a car and the wifes ok . She's driving my 84 terc wagon and I told her to stay away from Ford trucks for awhile . I've got alot of work into that car . The green 85 is going to be her "new" car . I will post up when I get the 85 running . Hope to get done this weekend .

[coltarms]

Nephew doesn't like 4doors? Cut off the rear doors and make a truck out of it. There was a pic of one on this site.....

[GTSSportCoupe]

Sounds like your 85 green terc is really comming along! You'll have to post some pics.

Hey, sorry to hear about the MR2 bumper thumper. Most important thing is that your wife is ok. But you must still be pretty bummed about the damage to the MR2. I can't imagine how crappy that would be for me if my wife did that to ours.

[Typrus]

Its good shes alright.
Going to try and fix the MR2?

We had a Chevy AstroVAN rear-end us in our Excursion. Put a teeny-tiny dent in the bumper of ours. The hitch buried itself in the front of theirs. Tore out the radiator, supports, everything. She was at fault, but it was sad to see it demolished.

[2manytoys4menow]

The MR2 is fixable . I just parked it out back and put a car cover over it . Kind of out of sight out of mind . The wife feels pretty crappy about hurting the car because she loves it and she wanted us to restore it . I have only seen a few dark blue MR2's and none were as nice as ours . She does like driving my 84 terc so I think she is really going like the 85 sr5 when it's done . I pick up the head and all the part's tomorrow . I will start putting it back together this weekend . I also noticed the power steering rack boots need replaced . That should be fun . I'm also going to the boneyard to get a windshield out of a 86 terc . they have 3 terc 4x4 wagons in the yard . Man some people just drive these car's into the ground . I will post up some pic's later .