Build Thread?
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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.
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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! -
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!
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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.
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Got it running today, with minimal resistance.
Now to get the coolant expansion tank in place and do some driving! -
Not a burnout vid, but a short video of lightly getting on the throttle and popping my intake coupler off!
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^ 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!
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New hardlines you say. Were the old ones rotted?
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New hardlines you say. Were the old ones rotted?
I needed to replace the soft lines in the rear at the caliper, and the nuts were gross so I figured I may as well replace them.
The ones above the rear subframe were gross and I did those when the subframe was out this winter.
I had done the front's when I deleted ABS. -
Ahhh. Yeah I did all the same lines when I did my suspension a few years ago.
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Typical summer build thread for me, never being updated.
I had my plugs gapped way too far and was blowing spark out at full boost, brought them down but may go a little further yet.
Tuning takes a lot of time and is tricky, getting annoyed by it. -
Burnout vids
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