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This will be my first experience with what will hopefully be a fun, safe, reliable daily driver...Ha! No, really. just getting it to run for the occasional autocross and fun on the weekends will be exactly what the car is for. BUT....frustration. It does run there's no doubt of that. The engine came from a ram 50 and apparently does not have the nitrided crank required for the turbo? Although i have read conflicting opinions here on the matter. That aside, there are some mysteries to solve with this motor. Long story short, previous owner could not find a crank for whatever short block was in it. apperantly when he bought it, he spun a bearing in 40 miles since oil pump wasn't primed, rebuilt with balance shaft delete kit and forgot to plug shaft holes, low oil pressure, blew motor. Then decided f-it and put balance shaft back in and forgot bearing or somethin and balance shaft rattled around in block and needed shim for bearing or something. Checkered past leaves short block from ram 50, balance shafts deleted, head and intakes and TB from what i am assuming is the original car. Is this a good start for anything? there's a few bare solder connections in the engine bay, broken and disconnected sensors, questionable wiring, cracked and crumbling accordion, and a TB that could use at least a rebuild with wire wrapped around it holding the clips to the injectors. It was thrown together in short order by the seller, did run, but was leaking oil and anitfreeze pretty bad so I decided to at least clean it up to see what i;m dealing with. Degreasing reveals leak from re-used circular packing and the radiator is pretty obvious. I got it all cleaned up and running again but the clutch was totally flat. I took off the master and slave clutch cylinders, cleaned those up, replaced the nearly black fluid and I think thats pretty much sorted out. Except for the release fork boot, it was turned 180 and wore a hole through it from the clutch cover. Trans fluid didnt look so good either, Brassy and black. Some 1mm sized bits from gears stuck to drain pug magnet. I threaded the oil feed line that wasn't threaded. The feed line was there but like three turns into the unthreaded hole. Is that because this is the timing chain case from the non-turbo ram? Or is this not threaded on either? Does it need to be threaded deep enough for the line to seat in there properly? The turbo was searing hot but wasnt making any strange noises. The accordion had about an inch of lip left on it with the clamp holding it on. The blades don't seem to be damaged in any way from sucking in chinks of anything. Not sure really how to proceed once i get it all back together....replace a few things; accordion WTB and buying vacuum hose too at the dealership. Start with the throttle body? This seems like the next logical thing anyway, rebuild or replace and make sure at least that is working correctly? Electrical will be a nightmare and I'm avoiding what i still see as wizardry. Brakes and suspension in due time... Cooling system definatley has issues. I have a radiator shop down the road so i'll drop that off. Do they sell hose replacement kits with all the hoses included or am i dreaming there? The running temp barely got above the lowest line on the drive home but I'm not putting much into that till i can get it to the point where i can actually recover some codes for it. The car currently sits with the rocker assembly off waiting for the circular packing to put it back together with hopefully that leak solved. A trip tomorrow to the dealership for a couple circular packing replacements (i'm assuming i will have this off again soon) and re-assembling the motor and hopefully it runs again. So far its taken untold hours just to get to replace a $3 part to find out what's really going on with this thing lol. help?