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My name is Sam.
This is my 1988 Alfa Romeo Milano Verde.
Finally decided to start my build thread, even though i shouldve started it a while back..
Bought to be a track car, but also a street-able car for nice days.
I dont have a fancy camera so basically, iphone is all ive got. You can follow along if you choose, so here goes...
Basically this build started back in November of 2012 when my alternator took a crap, so i decided to park it for winter while i tore it apart and got all my funds together and figured out a plan.
First plan of action, get the local to rebuild one of my shitty alternators.
This may be the boring part for all of you, so you can back out now if you'd like..
The plan was to clean up the crappy overfilled engine bay of all of its useless stuff.
Terrible? Words dont even describe how terrible.
First: to get rid of most of the wires on the drivers side of the engine bay, i decided to switch to a Non-abs brake system. The 25+ year old system didnt function anyways, So its gotta go.
first comes the terrible ABS harness.
all this unnecessary crap from the 80's
second, abs accumulator pump, master cylinder, and wheel speed sensors.
During all that, also removed cruise control and cruise control harness and module.
I know, boring stuff, right?
okay. so all that is out, starting engine bay prep.
moving battery to back eventually, so battery tray needs to go.
big rust hole underneath that once i got it removed.
cut it out, and cleaned up that area, cut a patch panel, welded in.
did some welding on the other side
over view of progress
over the following days, i grinded down all the welds, filled some stuff with fiberglass, and put very little bondo to cover the minor imperfections.
Also some new used parts dropped in from a friend.
IAP headers, with mating downpipes (need re done), and a different intake manifold
friend was over with his camera, so he snagged a good pic of midway progress!
rolled outside to blow the body dust and stuff off and clean off the bay in prep for primer and paint
primer passenger, driver side, front rad support, rear of bay also but no progress picture.
moved on to painting the bay, thank god. shaving the bay was a pain.
finshed with that, moving on finally.
In the meantime did some random things while i saved money and also spent it as quick as it was coming in.
took my calipers, had them sandblasted and cleaned up.
painted them. my new brake hardware came in. ended up being the wrong hardware so awaiting new.
more updates coming!
My name is Sam.
This is my 1988 Alfa Romeo Milano Verde.
Finally decided to start my build thread, even though i shouldve started it a while back..
Bought to be a track car, but also a street-able car for nice days.
I dont have a fancy camera so basically, iphone is all ive got. You can follow along if you choose, so here goes...
Basically this build started back in November of 2012 when my alternator took a crap, so i decided to park it for winter while i tore it apart and got all my funds together and figured out a plan.
First plan of action, get the local to rebuild one of my shitty alternators.
This may be the boring part for all of you, so you can back out now if you'd like..
The plan was to clean up the crappy overfilled engine bay of all of its useless stuff.
Terrible? Words dont even describe how terrible.
First: to get rid of most of the wires on the drivers side of the engine bay, i decided to switch to a Non-abs brake system. The 25+ year old system didnt function anyways, So its gotta go.
first comes the terrible ABS harness.
all this unnecessary crap from the 80's
second, abs accumulator pump, master cylinder, and wheel speed sensors.
During all that, also removed cruise control and cruise control harness and module.
I know, boring stuff, right?
okay. so all that is out, starting engine bay prep.
moving battery to back eventually, so battery tray needs to go.
big rust hole underneath that once i got it removed.
cut it out, and cleaned up that area, cut a patch panel, welded in.
did some welding on the other side
over view of progress
over the following days, i grinded down all the welds, filled some stuff with fiberglass, and put very little bondo to cover the minor imperfections.
Also some new used parts dropped in from a friend.
IAP headers, with mating downpipes (need re done), and a different intake manifold
friend was over with his camera, so he snagged a good pic of midway progress!
rolled outside to blow the body dust and stuff off and clean off the bay in prep for primer and paint
primer passenger, driver side, front rad support, rear of bay also but no progress picture.
moved on to painting the bay, thank god. shaving the bay was a pain.
finshed with that, moving on finally.
In the meantime did some random things while i saved money and also spent it as quick as it was coming in.
took my calipers, had them sandblasted and cleaned up.
painted them. my new brake hardware came in. ended up being the wrong hardware so awaiting new.
more updates coming!
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