Build Thread?

[Earl]

That's a plus lol. I believe you've done enough head gaskets for a lifetime. You and Snap could race to see if it is faster to do an M5X or an M20 headgasket haha

[B C]

[emoji1366]

Im sick of head gaskets. Bring on the certified pre-owned Teslas

[GunMetalGrey]

Earl said:

That's a plus lol. I believe you've done enough head gaskets for a lifetime. You and Snap could race to see if it is faster to do an M5X or an M20 headgasket haha

M20 for sure. You don't have to mess with vanos removal stuff. 
Though the intake manifold removal is much easier. 

@Snap A gentleman's duel ? Loser is forced to put the winners engine in their car. Some big stakes there.

[B C]

I dont even want to change the head gasket on a lawnmower

[GunMetalGrey]

Grabbed the head on Friday and the guy that worked on it laughed at me for bringing it in because it was so flat already. Worth the money to know it's perfect and I didn't have to clean the old gasket off! 

Got it timed, which I always find it satisfying when you do the timing and rotate it a couple times and check it again and it's still spot on. 
Torquing the head still, and set some other things on it. Got the 85# injectors back in the rail and the manifold, and am waiting on some gaskets before I can bolt the turbo manifold back on. 

Slowly but surely going back together.

[B C]

85# injectors!!?!

RIP smooth idle

[Earl]

Glad the head wasn't a worry this time around=)

[GunMetalGrey]

Snap said:

85# injectors!!?!

RIP smooth idle

They are known to atomize better than stock injectors, so that's a thing? I was running them the last time the car ran and it was fine! 
It was 65 or 85, and 65 was a bit low if I decided to do other fuel sources, so 85er's it was!

[GunMetalGrey]

Earl said:

Glad the head wasn't a worry this time around=) 

I haven't actually had head issues before, it was always block related stuff. But that was decked when I first put this engine together so we are good to go!

[B C]

The idle characteristics of an injector depend a lot on where the non-linear flow region is. Once you start running in the non-linear range of pulsewidths then you run into trouble. Glad they arent a problem then

[HipMF]

doesn't MS have a compensation for that? Seems like flow-testing the injectors an punching the numbers in a LUT would be an easy-peasy solution...

[B C]

You can enter in values for non-linear injector latency vs. voltage which would help with that especially on a car with a light flywheel and big cam/itbs.

[Daggerty]

Ill be switching to hundoes eventually.

85s for e85.

[GunMetalGrey]

Crappy pic, but it gets the point across.

Struggling to figure out a coolant expansion tank, and may resort to just putting one back in the stock location and making some brackets for it. 
I also decided to move the oil cooler and that has been providing an equal amount of headaches. 

In good news the everything else is taken care of, and the ECU seems to be working well and I feel confident that once I get the oil and coolant situation figured out it should fire up first go.

[GunMetalGrey]

Got it running today, with minimal resistance. 
Now to get the coolant expansion tank in place and do some driving!

[Daggerty]

Burnout vids

[GunMetalGrey]

Not a burnout vid, but a short video of lightly getting on the throttle and popping my intake coupler off!

[B C]

Celebrate the small victory of getting it on the road with a steak dinner tonight

[GunMetalGrey]

^ I had a late lunch with the family, so I don't think tonight will be that night!

In other news, I replaced all of the soft brake lines with braided stainless ones and also replaced all of the brake hardlines over the past year. Holy crap is the brake pedal awesome now! 

I'm doing some non driving tuning right meow and hope to be able to give it another test drive soon!

[Jdesign]

New hardlines you say. Were the old ones rotted?