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
Day 17 Painted both turbo CHRA’s and the main exhaust manifold VHT header black with satin black 2000f paint. I painted my first glitter pieces – the turbo compressor housings. I finally finished re-painting the engine. I wanted to redo the green and when I pulled the tape off theContinue Reading
Day 16 2 more parts arrived. My replica B&M short shifter and I got back my injectors from RC Engineering. I am so thankful I did this – probably saved me a motor. I was checking the ported wastegate and found out it would stick open sometimes. On the flapperContinue Reading
Day 15 so – in my quest to be BOUSOZOKU Im going to paint all the aluminum parts with a glitter look. VHT cast aluminum, coated with glitter then sealed with VHT gloss coat – I heated the face of the test piece with a 900F heat gun and itContinue Reading
Day 14 I cleaned the turbo actuators, sanded out some scratches on the pri turbo wastegate actuator (picture shown is not finished with sanding), used the eagle one again to remove some corrosion. It cleaned up the charge relief actuator pretty good. I also pulled off the oil pipe onContinue Reading
Day 13 – Greeaaattt Succeessssss !!!!!! So I read the Eagle One mag and wheel cleaner cleans aluminum well. I was praying that it would work and it did, so well that it also took the green coating off of the parts on the Throttle body assembly. I also gotContinue Reading
quick visual I had the AB-Flug GTM body kit on my rx7 back in 2000, I went to sevenstock 4 with it. (I think the rims were Volk GTN’s) I have 3 pics showing what the spoiler looks like in different angles. I will use the AB-Flug GT7 widebody kitContinue Reading
Day 12 – a complete disaster !!!! I found the green paint for my engine, cleaned up turbo exhaust shields. I made a mix of some cleaners and it turned the aluminum black Luckily I have a power washer and I was able to get most of it off, butContinue Reading