What's turning the gears in your head right now?

Right at this very moment, this -

Boosted to 10PSI, needs a clutch and registration. I don't have time for another project

My 5.1 SurroundSound receiver has gone wonky, so in retaliation for it's epic fail, it's now in a hundred pieces.

If I don't get it back working soon, it will be in a thousand pieces (see wood splitting thread.. splitting maul).

And now I'm giving thought to a 7M-GTE/manual swap in my just-purchased Toyota Crown.

Creating the plastic patterns for casting the base plates to a custom rear strut tower bar for my Infiniti G20...

Ford 302 in to this:

I think about it daily.

I took some mental health time, but now I'm back at it.

"What V8 shall I put in the Starion?" is pretty much always simmering away in my mind. Surprisingly I don't really want to modify the Elan, as I don't think I could do a better job than Lotus. I'd just like get it back to the sort of shape it deserves to be in. Well, except for the stereo, I could upgrade that. And the brakes. And the exhaust. And maybe chip it so it makes more boost. Crap.

Oh yeah, and somehow I've convinced myself that I NEED to build a crazy '70s kit car with a hybrid turbine drivetrain from hell at some point in the future. Not gonna have the resources for that one for a while though...

I'm waiting for 914s OCD to kick in so I can grab the Cortina. I had one in the late 70s and had a ball with it.

1st gear: Need to buy a house with a garage AND pole barn, found one I like but need to save another 15K.

2nd gear: FWD V8 Turbo Beetle.

3rd gear: AWD V8 Audi TT.

4th gear: Retro chic Airstream motorhome with matching Airstream car trailer.

5th gear: Diesel Liberty for Mrs. Brown once she gets past the minivan stage

6th gear: Smyth Performance kit car with 2.0T and DSG

I have a desire to put a 16 valve something (Toyota, Swift GTI or Zetec/Duratec) and five speed into one of my Spitfires.

I am megasquirting the E30 of Doom, using COP and VANOS triggering so that it uses the factory connection and OBD1 harness.

Reading this thread makes that seem weak so I'm planning a motorcycle powered Seven using midget and sprint car running gear in my head as of right now.

minimac wrote: I'm waiting for 914s OCD to kick in so I can grab the Cortina. I had one in the late 70s and had a ball with it.

Can't. After tossing together the Naked Goldwing, my wife suggested I sell everything and get back into motorcycles.

They take up less room than a car project.

Way less money involved.

Faster turn around time.

Much bigger profit margin.

If I kicked the 'Tina to the curb it would be the third unfinished project, each tossed for tangible and defendable issues. "You've got thick skin, you can take it". No. I'm finishing this one. Period.

Now if you want to bring cash to the Challenge, I'll throw in the trailer too.

Dan

Camaro still fresh in my head from the weekend visiting it:

Add the Corrado in Gimps picture to my list.

A 20V '85 MR2...or finish the garage so I can get back to work on the 240Z...

This: I cannot seem to get it out of my mind lately. The good part is that my girlfriend and financier approves, the bad part is that she says it will be at least 6-9 months till I can shop for real...

John Brown wrote: Add the Corrado in Gimps picture to my list.

Then plan for that is an Audi V8 driving the rears... not my project, but I'll end up helping on it.

maroon92 wrote: I have been mulling an 87 Toyota Corolla FX16 hatch to rival the 323GTX. Build it with a 4-AGZE supercharged MR2 engine, and all-trac all wheel drive!

NICE.

i've been mentally building up an NA miata with a 7500rpm 5.3L LS motor.

also thinking of gluing together an MR2 and an FX16...AWD twin 4AGE power.

Girls. Sticking my Zetec in my '77 Capri and drilling the top bellhousing bolts into the block to get a standard 2.3L Lima bellhousing to fit (just to prove it can be done since I have two transmissions that will bolt up already)... ITBs... megasquirt... rewire the whole car and find all the rubber trim for the windows to make it weather tight. Then a Locost with another zetec, my Type E trans, Mustang II spindles and 6 3/4" rear end. A Girl. Beers. Jeeps.

I've spent way too much time lately looking at formula vee and solo vee chassis pics. The dream is to come up with an open source chassis design for a solo vee autocross car. The VW front beam and rear swing axle suspension should make things much easier to build than a locost. Plus there is already a SCCA class for it (fmod).

My Suzuki Savage project, fresh out of a long engine rebuild, ran for 10 miles while bringing it home, then suddenly stopped running. So a great big "WTF" about that is very much on my mind.

My primary ride, an '82 GS1100L, has a clutch that won't disengage, despite everything appearing to be assembled right. "WTF" and banging my head against the wall about that, too.

My girlfriend's CRX now runs, stops, and has had the floorboard welded back together. Today I'll probably put the interior back in, then hope like crazy it'll take a sticker, putting it back on the road for the first time in a year and a half.

My SE-R has a sticky throttle body (despite thorough cleaning - it's a low port, though, so tough to get to), needs front speakers, an MP3 capable stereo, and a sunroof seal.

The Miata? It's basically finished after the Koni STR.Ts went on a couple of weeks ago, and the enjoyment of that is also very much on my mind.

Mercedes 500E. Don't really know why....it just appeared.

My 1986 BMW M535i is in the restoration shop right now so I can't afford to think about any new projects for a while. Along with getting all the rust repaired and a new paint job, It's getting all new weatherstripping, exterior trim bits, fasteners and clips, and on and on. I'm getting very familiar with the BMW parts catalogue.

tb wrote: This: I cannot seem to get it out of my mind lately. The good part is that my girlfriend and financier approves, the bad part is that she says it will be at least 6-9 months till I can shop for real...

What is it?

Two big ones... actually 3.

BS C4 vette.

84 C4 with the LR4/4L65E (4.8L) with LS1 intake, HOT cam and headers for a Daily driver.

99-03 Sierra regular cab short bed, coilovers at all 4 corners, triangulated 3 link in the rear, 20gal fuel cell where the spare used to sit, empty interior, no inner fenders, Sparco seats, LQ4 (6.0L) with cam, head work, Weiand intake, headers, magnaflow 18" round mufflers turned out in front of the rear wheels, T-56, 18x9.5 wheels wrapped in 295/30/18 Hoosiers, gutted front bumper with a fiberglass skin, fiberglass rear roll pan, fiberglass hood, main hoop with harnesses. This would be my "One Lap" mobile.