I inherited a '71 510 4 door in orange from the husband of my childhood babysitter.
Here is how it was when I found it.
I came back a week later with a trailer and loaded it up.
Took it to a garage near my cottage where I work on it as time permits which hasnt been much.
I had started off trying to clean it up, see what I had and see if I could get the L16 running. It was clean but it was in no state to run. It had sat for about 20 years before I picked it up. The rings were packed solid with gunk, there was lots o f crystallized coolant in places it shouldnt be and the valves were stuck to the stem seals. We pulled the engine.
In hopes of keeping it easy I picked up an L20 to swap in but it needed just as much work as the L16. Either I was hoping to EFI convert.
Doing the math and knowing that both of these engines really wasnt what I had wanted I decided to pull the plug on a swap.
I chose a Honda CRV k24 engine. Its not one of the high performance versions of the engine but thats fine.
At this point I decided to go a bit further with dissasembly and pulled all of the stuff off the bottom of the car to refinish the underside while I have everything apart.
Somewhere in there I met up with @icehouse and picked up a JBC subframe and a pair of the JBC s13 spindle adapters.
That basically gets me to where I am now over the last year. Its been a busy year personally and I've mostly been hoarding parts as they come available on the used market or clearance blowout since this is intended to be a budget build.
This is intended to be a simple restomod.
Its going to be a driver once I can get it to that point. Its not a nuts and bolts restoration.
I have a style that is basic JDM 90's style in my past cars that will probably translate over for this build. Simplicity but clearly not stock.
