Frontierguy25's quick rebuild, drag strip beware.

[frontierguy25]

Hey guys the last time most of you saw my car it looked like this:

This was at TX2K9 when my motor blew up. I worked my ass off to get it ready to go and have a great event. I almost sold it and parted it out. But the kind words and support from YotaRob, Trent, Dok33 and the rest of you guys made me keep it.

This is how the car sits as of right now Tuesday morning 6/30/09 in my garage waiting to get my bottom end on Thursday:
All dirty and not washed. If you look on the wind sheild you will notice the the markings still on from TX2K9 in March.

I have cleaned the engine bay so far, with a pressure washer and lots of elbow grease still have some more work to do but this will do for now:

I started working on my oil pan getting the pain off of it to repaint silver and noticed a dent in it:

I was going to use this other pan that I have and the inside of the pan looks pretty bad which one should I use? I just didn't want anything to happen to my freshly rebuilt motor.

Will have more updates soon with some more pics as I get more done this week.

Here are the mods that I have and Shooting for 420-430-rwhp daily on pump and 475-500rwhp on race gas:

JE Pistons, .020 Over
Stock rods
Titan MHG w/arp bolts
Stock Flywheel
South Bend Stage 4 clutch
JT58 Turbo (60-1) Bolt on Turbo
3" Turbo back exhaust
580CC PTE Injectors and clips
30x11x3 IC
2.5" Custom IC piping
Tial BOV
Lex AFM
HKS SAFR
Zeitronix Wideband
NGK Plugs and wires
Turbo XS MBC will be replaced soon with EBC
Weld Prostars with MT Radials, 26x11.5x15
5 Zigen wheels for daily wrapped with BFG and Kumho, 17x10, 17x8

I think that's most of it for now

 

[gaboonviper85]

I say either take the dirty pan to the machine shop and have them hot tank it....or take the dented pan to a local body shop and see if they can pull the dent without drilling (welded stud and slide hammer).

Or even better, have a pan modified to hold 3 more quarts of oil and better baffels!

 

[frontierguy25]

I would love to modify my pan just don't have the funds right now. Is there something that I can do to clean it? I planned on stripping the paint off of it as well. I'll see about taking it to a shop tomorrow.

 

[suprahero]

Good luck with the new build...........you've got eight more months to get it finished........:icon_bigg

 

[SURUKO]

nice man always love the racing look of your car... wish all comes to good..


(suscribed)

 

[LilMissMkIII]

*subscribed*

 

[frontierguy25]

Thanks guys for the kind words!

Jay, I'm actually trying to get ready for the IFO this year in November, will do a tranny rebuild before then as well. But yeah going for mid 11's.

 

[Supra_Villan]

good luck man. Car looks good.

 

[Bigzavs]

ryan, call me again so i can get you the alignment tool

updated my phone and lost all numbers and shite

lemme know if you need help on anything

 

[frontierguy25]

Thanks Ben,Trying to get most of it done on Thursday. So I'll give you a call.

 

[frontierguy25]

Well There wasn't all that much that I could do today with out my motor yet. So I just stripped and painted my oil pan and some other parts. Also got my Zeitronix wide band today with my 3.5 bar map sensor too!!!

I didn't have the time or money to have the parts powder coated so I just stripped everything then primered, painted, then clear coated.

Some samco hoses, Koyo rad, Tial Q BOV,

Here are some pics:

 

[frontierguy25]

Going to pick up my motor today!!! I thought that I wasn't going to be able to do this until tomorrow.

How many of you wanna bet that I have it running by tomorrow night?

All I have to do is wire my Zeitronix up and injector clips and that is all the wiring mess I have to do. Other than that everything else is just bolted up.

 

[Supra_Villan]

woot! keep on chuggin.

 

[LilMissMkIII]

*fingers crossed* for an update of it running soon!

 

[empera]

looking good man

 

[frontierguy25]

Well I got most of the motor put together and all the injector clips soldered. Now just have to wire in the Zeitronix. Have to go to the store and get some more wire to extend the Zeitronix harness, get an adapter from serial to usb, have my wide band bung all welded up, pick up my timing belt, and all the oils and filters I'm going to need.

 

[frontierguy25]

Well I got the motor in the car, tranny and driveshaft bolted up, exhaust bolted up, and most of the harness is plugged up. My slave cylinder is broken though, one of the ears that holds it on broke, getting new one!

I think that I should have it all done today! I'll post up some pics later today.

 

[wardog]

Good to hear you didnt sell your car man. Hey did you have your rotating assembly balanced? Im goin with a eagle rod probe piston combo and was wondering if i needed to balance the rotating assembly. Aiming for 500rwhp daily and 600rwhp with race gas etc through a master power t67. Keep us posted Subscribed

 

[Tgood]

looks like I missed the build party. Ryan did you change your number again? I tried to call you. May need your help to get my car ready

 

[frontierguy25]

Well guys, got the motor in and started right up. But a few issues that I have encountered, my speedo doesn't seem to want to work, my Zeitronix gauges doesn't work and my car isn't running correctly.

It was running pretty good but I all of a sudden the car started sputtering like I had a boost leak. I noticed that it was the tps sensor not connected. I pulled the EFI fuse, reconnected the TPS sensor and started up but the problem was still there. I just continued to drive it because I had to get home. It was not fun. But all of a sudden it started working again and was able to boost. I was like WTF!!! It was strange but worked so I just got home and parked it.

Tomorrow I'll be changing the oil in the morning and checking my Zeitronix to see why it doesn't work.