bcg04;1024141 said:
Did you clean the entire intercooler/intake piping? that blown turbo you had could have pooled a ton of oil in there. And the engine rebuild may not have touched the intercooler and some piping. Otherwise you are having really bad luck!
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Bad luck is the name of the game so far...:icon_mad:
I have yet to have a proper set of piston rings in this car.
MDCmotorsports;1024211 said:
Is the turbo doing ok? If not, lmk.
It should be, there's no reason not to...
RazoE;1024216 said:
very VERY nice..
one thing, is your driver's side door handle is a pre 89, just FYI..
man, your old cluster was h4xx0rd, your new one is nicer, especially the mileage..
I'm really happy with how the gauges turned out, especially now that the cluster seems stock, but it's a compilation of a few different years, and that the two aftermarket gauges are both AEM, and match each other well.
How do you know the driver's handle is pre-89? The car is a 1990...
From the information I've gathered so far, it seems that the story goes...
When I bought it, it was "rebuilt", but actually just disassembled and then put back together, so the piston rings were shot, as well as a few other problems. I thought it was the turbo, so I got it rebuilt by MDC.
After I discovered it wasn't the turbo's fault, the engine was rebuilt, with new rings and head and the whole shee-bang, and the rebuilt turbo put back on.
I think that's when things get crummy...
After the block was rebuilt, head bolted back on, and the engine installed, it was running very rich, and generally not running well. After a few days of troubleshooting, Jim found an animal inside the intercooler piping with a nest that was blocking intake airflow, hence the rich condition.
I think this caused two (very major) problems.
1. Particles may have entered the turbo, and torn the insides to bits, and wrecked my new turbo. (MDC: Now that I know this, I'm not sure I'm not very entitled to the free rebuild you so kindly did for me, since I thought it was just a fluke...PM me and we can discuss)
2. The rich condition caused the cylinder walls to glaze over, and the piston rings to not seat properly at the beginning of their life, so it was a double whammy of bad luck!
All in all, this is not going to well...but it looks like it will shape up to be functional sometime this summer, it's certainly testing my patience though...
The one bit of good news is that Jim has agreed to re-hone and ring the engine for free, and the turbo should be good now, so I'm on the right course.
