June 10, 2007 with 151,141mi. It's a 1991.5 (long nose hell yeah!). Bought if off some guy of French descent in Imperial Beach. Said he was selling it for his aunt. Got it for a cool 2k, just needed it to get smogged and the driver side window didn't roll all the way down (manual).
The driver window I fixed fine. Ended up taking the door panel off and found the problem. The cable for the window came off a clip and prevented the glass from rolling all the way down. Put it back in the clip, lubed the window rails and was on my way.
The valve cover bolts were the first things I broke. Torqued them down too hard. Went through about 4 lol.
This happened a few months after I bought the car. Some kid was backing up in a GMC Yukon Denali XL. I thought he saw me but to my horror after realizing he did not I was back up the car and honked my horn but it was too late. Insurance covered the damage.
Nine months of just driving the car around I started to get this vibration through the accelerator pedal every once in a while. To my dismay I found the crank pulley wobbling.
With the help of JB we ended up tearing the front of the engine apart to do the timing belt and water pump job while we were at it. This is what we found:
Part of the woodruff key sheared while a piece of it was still sticking out of the crank shaft to hold the onto the pulley.
Here is the chaos:
The Performance Projects book was useful but we couldn't help but think that some sections of this were performed with the engine out of the car. Thanks haha.