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This week I've had no heat in my Acclaim, and starts from a cold stop have been sounding more and more horrendous. I got an OEM t-stat for it today, but that didn't solve the problem. In fact, I got billowing clouds of white smoke from the motor. After a little more investigation I found a water pump that wasn't moving.

Water pump replaced and still same symptoms. Compression tested the cylinders and found number 3 was terrible. A few minutes later I found the crack in the head.

As far as I know right now, value of the head exceeds the value of the car. I'm not sure if I'm keeping it for parts or stripping it and junking it but I am not looking to repair it.

Since the car is dead I have no problem speaking about it now. Fully built WS6 Trans Am motor, supercharger, 200 direct port nitrous shot, 6-speed tremek, carbon fiber driveshaft and the rear end out of a SVT Cobra. Edelbrock heads, lots of SLP stuff... Pop-up gauges hidden in the interior, made to appear bone stock. Lots of customization, lots of fun. Basically wanted to see how far I could go, and I think I just about found it.

Was a great girl and a real fun ride. I always ran at Dover and E-town, ran no-times and for money. Fastest run I can remember was going up against an Integra GSR who ran a low 11 and I had him by about 3 cars without spraying. Now I wish I had run it just once for time, but hey

Here's another thread about it. http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=173265

Just a quick RIP to her. Sad day for me. Farewell to a great little car.

 
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since when do u have a k20a2 turbo civic? i thought u sold ur civic to get a srt4

 
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never did I say such a thing. I actually have owned the srt-4 longer.

 
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dam u have alot of rides lol. Sorry about ur sleeper

 
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dude now that its dead, let see some pics!

 
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damn man, that acclaim must have fast as **** !!

i actually have a 94 acclaim for my winter car and love it. 72k and running strong

 
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there is a thread. I don't own a digital camera but I had some pics taken of it. the other cars are there too

 
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whats the link

 
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Damn... well, you can turn your SRT-4 into a sleeper...

It's been a decade. It served it's purpose. Remember all the good times.

 
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sounds like that car was great!!
sorry to hear that!

 
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lol. most kids see an srt-4 and gasp like it's fast or something. what fools.

 
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I don't gasp at an SRT...I giggle at it. LOL. Silly little dodge's.

 
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You got pics of your Acclaim? I'd like to see how you got a WS6 rear wheel drive engine into a front wheel drive car. Just curious.. not hatin' on you...

Thanks

 
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Wait a minute..

You wrote above that you have a 6 speed Tremec tranny, but in the post you linked you wrote this:

I call

This post is useless without pics. Please prove me wrong.. I wanna see your setup.

 
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this is where it gets good.......

 
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dadada, the suspense builds

 
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I'll try to find that thread for you. I didn't start the thread so it's making my search quite difficult.

To answer both your questions:

1) rear end was from a SVT Cobra --- read above. was surprisingly easy to fabricate in due to the huge amount of undercarraige space and striking similarity between the Pontiac and Ford setups.

2) look at the post date on that thread, and the post date on this one. projects like these go through many changes. the a/t was annoying me and if you read I had always wanted to change it. most of the parts for this car came from junkyards...when a tremek became available [wrecked superbird if I remember correctly], I picked it up.

as for pics, there are what there are in that thread. from what I can remember I only have exteriors. although the front end looks pretty obviously heavy, even with aftermarket suspension components.

as far as people calling BS, yeah they did that in the last thread. they doubted I was building up a trans am with pops at the time too. and they doubted I had a civic. and an srt-4. they got proved wrong. I'm done trying to prove myself over the internet. either take what I say at face value or leave. "proving" that someone is bsing doesn't make you cooler...and in this case, no one has anything that could even be moderately construed as proof.

if you don't believe me, whatever.

 
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I have found the thread. since I hosted the images on some free site they apparently have since deleted them

you can see red x's...you can also see the following replies saying "we got own3d" and other members saying such things.

http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...ymouth+Acclaim

"Sleepy Neon" is the thread...apparently I did start it...whoops

 
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You have a turbo k20a2 Civic in Jersey? I'd like to see it. We should meet up sometime. I'd like to check out the other car too.

 
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did u swap and turbo the civic urself? is it a lot faster then ur srt4?

 
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with a little help...dad, uncle, and the tools available in a garage. nearly a direct drop swap. I am tracking a k24 right now, that is my ultimate goal. I saw a k24 w/ k20 heads writeup and I'm hoping I can push that. created a thread that went nowhere. I'm not sure if the stock gearbox will hold up or not.

the k20 civic is actually significantly slower than the srt-4. granted, I have put much more money into the srt-4 but I found the srt-4 transfers the power to the ground better. hopefully the k24 civic will give it a run for the money. if I ever get around to it. damn school. damn job.

probably has something to do with the fact that the srt-4 is a factory turbo whereas the k20 is not. and the fact that the honda has been swapped, so I dunno if that threw off the front to rear weight ratio any. I get the feeling the motor is too far forward.

 
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Again, where are the pics? Email them to me.. specifically the way you installed the WS6 into a front wheel drive 4-cylinder engine compartment. I just wanna see one pic that shows something that proves me wrong and I'll STFU and appologize. Thats all I wanna know.. I live in California so you dont have to worry about me telling anyone I know to watch out for a beat up Acclaim "sleeper".

 
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read my post. I don't have such pics. I already tried proving myself on the internet once.

if you think about it, a front wheel drive car has a front transaxle...if you remove the transmission from that bay it would free up quite a bit of space, eh?

 
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Your so full if ****. Your post means nothing. Email one single pic that proves me wrong.

Sure you'd free up space if you removed the transaxle and tranny, but that would only give you some room on one side by either strut. Explain to me how you managed to get the engine and tranny past the firewall. How did you modify the floor for the tranny bell housing? Also how did you install the clutch pedal assembly? Surely if you did all this work you'd have some technical details on all this was accomplished.

Come on man, you've taken this far enough... give it up already, the jokes over.

Please prove me wrong, I wanna be owned.

 
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I have neither the time nor the energy. In fact, I shouldbe studying right as I type this.

I said something. You think I'm full of ****. You think you're tough because you can call BS over the internet. End of story. I could care less what you think.

 
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sad to hear about the car sounds like a beast

 
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I dont wanna start a flame war but how do you not have a camera when you have all of those cars....? And Flotsamm why do you even care... DodgeNeonSRT-4 what school do you go to arent most the schools out on break...?

 
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O yeah and good work on the car sorry to hear it died

 
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spend too much money on cars . and I know zero about electronics or stereos.

my school is out. I have to come in for a final earlier this morning and one tomorrow.

{I should not be online playing...}

 
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oh ****, someone is about to get ownedi can smell it....