Savin Big Money Project Thread

[jc43089]

It is a waterless coolant, boiling point at atmospheric pressure is 375F, kinda pricey, 35/gal but it is supposed to last a long time.  Also used that in the m52 I swapped heads on, seems great.  Reinforcements from akg.

[jc43089]

So I just want to put in a plug for AKG, parts look great, prices were best by far, even on the oem kit for the rear subframe mounts.  But better than that is the speed.  +1 for buying local.

Thursday: placed order 2:05 PM

                 UPS tracking said they had the package at 3:55pm

Friday: package delivered 3:03PM

And that was with the cheapest shipping option.

[jc43089]

Reinforcements.

Got the rear suspension dissasembled.

What on earth is this thing for?  Vibration damping?

Had my helper.

She was running the ratchet good until she saw the camera, then she just wanted her picture taken.

First look in 45k, looks like the Royal Purple is doing it's job. 

Ben (bfinley) came over and helped me swap the intake cam.  Got lucky that this reman head was an obd2 head with 33mm lifters already, so it was a quick drop in swap.  First time swapping a cam and it was actually really easy, turned so cylinder 1 was the only one with pressure on it and removed all of the other caps then slowly brought the cap between the #1 lobes up and reverse to install new one (m54b30).

[B C]

haha  cute kid, looks about the same age as my oldest (almost 3) 

The head looks very very clean

[bfinley]

Thanks for having me over, can't wait to see it back on the road !

[jc43089]

She will be 2 in May, her hair is so long that she looks older, it is fun when she comes out to "help" me.  I hope that doesn't change when she gets older. 

The head was a clean reman one when I put it on, that's after 5yrs/45k.  I use Royal Purple HPS 5w-30 changed about every 10k, with a filter change about every 5k.

Edit: HPS not XPS

[B C]

Good man for not changing the oil so frequently. 

Eliminating ridiculously low oil change interval suggestions would go a long way towards reducing oil consumption.

[jc43089]

And it's also cheaper than changing conventional at 3, even if you disregard the filter change.  Also more time spent driving, less time changing oil...

$3/qt conventional x7(3) = $63

+3 filters at $8 = $24

=$87

$8.30/qt amazon price RP HPS x 7 = 58.10

+ 2 filters at $8 = $16

=$74.10

[jc43089]

Scraping undercoating and seam sealer sucks...

[Earl]

Tell me about it=)

[e92boost]

Nice work man.

[Rowleym]

jc43089 said:

She will be 2 in May, her hair is so long that she looks older, it is fun when she comes out to "help" me.  I hope that doesn't change when she gets older. 

The head was a clean reman one when I put it on, that's after 5yrs/45k.  I use Royal Purple HPS 5w-30 changed about every 10k, with a filter change about every 5k.

Edit: HPS not XPS

Holy hell I change the filter and oil(t6 synthetic) every 3k about.

[RamRod E28]

I just roll with mobil 1 full synthetic every 5k and change and use mann filters

[B C]

This is now the oil change interval thread. 

5000 miles on Valvoline synthetic blend with Wix filters

[KaiserRolls]

^ abort thread.

[RamRod E28]

It seems time for jc43089 to grave our presence with some new pics

[jc43089]

I will be off Thursday - Sunday this week, I hope to get all of the undercoating off this week, the bay is all cleaned up and some of the bottom so far.

[Rowleym]

finally read through this. Ill be doing just about the same thing in a week or two here.. nice to have something to look over though. Good job man.

[jc43089]

Stripped a bunch of stuff to be powder coated.  Still need to get bushings pressed out.

Welded in front sub frame reinforcements.  This side was torn through around the mount bolt that's why it's kinda messy, it's solid for sure now.

And for the rear sway bar.

[DrLeadFoot]

Burn them outta there!