My Guardian Angel was watching over me today !!!!!!!!!!!! Day 27 Lets start with the very very very bad and then end with the good. While I was installing the belts I wanted to spin the engine, so I got about 1/4 turn then it stopped. I went the otherContinue Reading
Day 26 Maannn. So all in all, I was just really missing the primary fuel rail spacer, still good thing it was missing because it prompted me to do some further investigation. I looked a little closer into the pri fuel ports and low and behold the diffusers were inContinue Reading
soo…uhhhhh While looking for my fuel fittings online I noticed that there is a plastic fuel spacer under the primary fuel rail. Now I know why there was some resistance. I did not have fuel rails on this engine and the stock blown motor I sold I left the fuelContinue Reading
Day 25 The little rust on the old pulleys were bugging me so I painted the AC Pulley, Main Pulley and the Tensioner Pulley with Rustolium sating black. I’m letting it dry over night before I even try to touch them. I also installed the PS pulley. I got theContinue Reading
Day 24 Installed the front water pump assembly, AC and PS pumps. New thermostat with gasket, made sure the relief pin is on top. Installed the new turbo coolant hoses. I tried to use those clamps I got off ebay but they just were not tight enough. I was ableContinue Reading
Day 23 To re-cap – I am so glad that I put a heli-coil for the 8×1.25 mm because anything bigger would affect the gasket clearance in between the low and upper turbo manifold and the bolt hole clearance on the upper turbo manifold. You can see what I meanContinue Reading
Day 21 I painted the other pieces today, they are a tiny bit darker because I put a thinker layer of glitter. At this point I am not going to re-paint the other pieces – Im tired and want to move on…lol I also got in a lot of partsContinue Reading
Day 20 OK, so what I did not say about the whole turbo manifold broken bolt recovery … was… at the very end after I took the pictures I was greedy and wanted to see if I could tap it deeper … lol… giggity… well the tap broke and IContinue Reading
Day 19 I have a Prosport oil sandwich plate but I couldn’t help getting the Greddy one since it was on sale. I guess I’ll see which one fits better then sell the other one. During the test fit the blue painted turbo water lines chipped easily. I guess theContinue Reading
Day 18 A whole lotta test fitting – with a hammer I remembered that there were fitment issues with the twin turbo oil and water pipes. I vaguely remember someone saying that one of the turbo compressor housing was also rubbing but I cant remember if it was the stockContinue Reading