Daily W26 Beretta

[weba]

It's my daily commuter, 1992 GT 3.1 Auto with rare W26 option witch includes FE7 suspension, faster steering and 16" alloys.

This car has some history, it was bought from California and then shipped to florida where it was put on cargo ship to Netherlands, where i bough it from the first owner with steal price last fall, after my old base beretta went treehugging. I did fly all the way down there to get this car, since it's the only W26 model in europe as far i know!

Drove it home 700km @ Autobahn, where it proved it's reliability (my average speed was around 150km/h), except i had to fill up the coolant tank 3 times (it had a leak at coolant nipple in lower intake, witch i fixed with radiator-stop-leak fluid)

Since it's gotten lot of maintance (alternator, battery, plugs, wires and stuff + lot more)

Car was 100% original from the first owner, even had original tires... In my use, it did not stay like that for long.

I dropped it down with Sprint Springs and Added Koni's adjustable struts, put on Magnaflow muffler to it with stock look tips, and added a ghettorigged CAI, FFP dogbone, and bad fitting poly-insert. Also got the WOT-tech chip. And some exterior details bla bla bla...

Oh, and it just rolled over 101k mile, i'm going to keep it for long, so i also had professional fixed all the rust i could find from the car and it got anti-rust spray coating and underbody coating done, and added huge mudflaps behind the front wheels, that should keep it rust free for next 10 years.








Since it's my daily driver, and i do have a fully build GTZ for the fun use, i'm going to keep this car quite mild.. Bad thing is that 9.5 USD for gallon gas rapes me of with this big engine witch gets 16MPG in city driving..


However, i do really H A T E that horrible automatic transmission, witch totally and completely ruins a good car, so i'l be getting rid of that as soon i have time, i do have all the parts to do the Isuzu 5spd swap, leftovers from my base.

I also bought the Crane powermax 2030 cam and golden rollers, witch i will be using with 3x00 topend swap, i'm going to collect those parts in my vacation at US for next 2 weeks, dunno yet when i have time to do the swap tho.

Add in, that i'v never worked with pushrod engines before, except one headgasket swap. In europe cars have had OHC & DOHC engines from 1970's, no pushrod knowledge in people of my age, so i need quite a lot of learning with this thing.

[loner666]

Glad to see you over hear Weba. Your work should surprise many over here just as it does on Bstuff

[IsaacHayes]

Keep it mild, yet you're getting a cam and gen3 top end? Heheh. The gen3 top end will actually help MPG as well as power.

Pushrods are simple. Easy to work on. As far as timing, you put stuff in, line up the notches, bolt em down and you're done. LOL

[weba]

Pushrods are simple. Easy to work on. As far as timing, you put stuff in, line up the notches, bolt em down and you're done. LOL

Cam bearing change didn't look that simple.. neither did the 'measure the leght of your new pushrods and go order them and wait couple months'

[loner666]

Cam bearing aren't to bad but does suck a little bit. The pushrod measuring isnt to bad either (from what I hear) I left mine up to Ben on that

[Barry]

Where in the us will you be visiting? I can get you parts cheaply for 3x00 engines.

[weba]

Where in the us will you be visiting? I can get you parts cheaply for 3x00 engines.

I'l got the parts coverd by my friends already

[weba]

Lil update... from last summer.

I spend lot of time fixing the rust issue from the firewall, and also swapped in manual trans finally.. also did polys and Addco rear swaybar, new control arms and stuff, removed AC bla bla.


Bye bye, not going to miss you.


Working outside @ rain sucks.


Ordered AC-delco clutch and received Sachs.


Isuzu 5spd in




My Black & White cars compared


Floored at second gear, no clutch dump or e-brake


Currently rocking on winter tires. Some thousand miles done with the manual swap now.

My experiences with the 3.1+ Isuzu combo are:
- First gear is useless in wetsnow or any else slippery condition, i can daily drive 2-4-5th gear just fine.
- Full throttle at first gear is useless, only means wheel spin, and the gear is too short, i can only get like car length before shifting to second, this thing should rev higher.. i need to turn low end torq to high end hp..
- Clutch is holding just fine, i can feel no slipping yet
- Transmission is holding just fine, except that if i pull the shifter to 4th gear when over 5k RPM, i can hear bit sound, even if i have the clutch floored... worn shift cable maybe?
- Engine braking easily gets the whole car rock forward and back, when in 1500-1000rpm area, my guess is that transmission side mounts are too weak. Maybe i need one of those engine shocks that people use on Japanese cars.
- Exhaust pipe has moved back with the engine and now makes noice by hitting the body on bumbs.

Also got the car scaled from every tire, the weight disribution was near 61/39%, total weight was 1360kg (2998 lbs)
If i take 40L of gas and 30Kg of subwoofer weight away, car should now weight around 1280Kg (2821 lbs).

Next things this car will receive is Magnaflow free-flow cat, and the new engine i'm putting together when i have time for it.

[geldartb]

nice work.
always loved the look of your W26