Vantucky, WA turbo build.

[JoeC]

Dang, well.. While I was at school Jim put 15 miles on the car. When it's idling now he said it seems like its missing on a cylinder. Not sure if it's the plug wires, or a vacuum leak. It's also leaking a tiny bit of oil, though we believe that is the gasket on the turbo line.

I went out there tonight to take some pics of it and WOW.. this thing is LOW!! I didn't remember it being so low to the ground!

Sorry for the pictures, it is pitch black outside. I know my front bumper is cracked.. Thats from it being too low!.. Also, theres a lot of oil and grease on the front bumper from us :aigo:

 

[Turbo. Targa. Life.]

CLEAN THAT SHIT UP MANG!!!!



Looks good!!! Glad to hear that it's running again, and hopefully you'll find out why it's missing on that cylinder

 

[pimptrizkit]

i think it's missin on a pair.. and runnin on four at idle, but runs fine off idle,

possible a vacume hose could be a culprite?

i figured if i pull each plug and look for what apears to be the dead cylinder then figure it out from there.. compression test.... then check if that cylinder is achive high/low rpm spark..

any ways, im going to see if the oil drain line can be tightened tomorrow on the lift, and also inspect the alignment of the car since i had some rear end parts off..

 

[Turbo. Targa. Life.]

I wish I had a brother like you
Get over here and do my car!!

 

[JoeC]

What can I say? He found the vacuum problem and now it idles perfect. Oil line was tightened today but I think im still leaking a tiny bit of water. Power steering hose is leaking aswell.

Btw TTL, he gets to drive MY car and put the first 500-1000 miles on it.. So... I think its a fair trade off since im driving a beater for the next month or two.

 

[loki2043]

yeah PImP does a good job at what he does on cars. ive had him help me on a couple things including replacing my clutch. what i like about him is he always makes it work! ima get him drunk and lock him in the garage with my car and make him rebuild my engine. lol

 

[pimptrizkit]

beer? :biglaugh:


any ways, yeah i decided to show my shop partner the car after class this smorning, and i poped the hood and show him, and for what ever reason i told him you know i think i have the egr on wrong, let me yank this tube, and connect this one.. bigo~

car started and idled like a Champ!

car now has 100 miles on it! plans for tomorrow is to fix this drip that i have, even if it means the turbo is coming back off..

 

[Allan_MA70]

that throttle cable is not long for this world!
Having it pull on the angle is bad, having it pull on the edge of the cam is worse! pm me ill send you a pic of the JDM throttle body once my motor is back together!

 

[pimptrizkit]

yeah i know it's not the smoothest. but had to get a throttle some how, and using the stock stuff with the n/a valve covers wasn't going to work.

im going to be making a new bracket soon that will put the cable right below the cam and fix the angle it pulls from.

any ways, 130 miles..

 

[pimptrizkit]

well im just about to hit 600 miles, once my brother buys the oil she's getting a oil change.

car seems to have good power, rev' pretty quick, andhooks up decent..

down side the heated springs i belive are causing some decent wheel hop.
and the clutch is chattering a bit. i have gotten used to it to the point i can drive with out and and hardly tell, but my brother has yet get ahang of it with out killing the car or burning out..


~edit;

just did a leak down test and just quickly did it at the end of class when people where leaving. did it on one and six since their the easiest ones to do , and they both read less then 5% loss.

i figure it will be that way across the board, but will check latter this month across all of them.

 

[pimptrizkit]

car now has 1200 miles.

 

[pimptrizkit]

that throttle cable is not long for this world!
Having it pull on the angle is bad, having it pull on the edge of the cam is worse! pm me ill send you a pic of the JDM throttle body once my motor is back together!

that throttle cable has laster almost 10k no problems no signs of wear. :evil2:

 

[pimptrizkit]

New updates:.. Just sent payment for a maft pro, and a FFIM from sethron. Next will be a FFIC with custom pipes, hks ssqv, 550cc injectors, and a BOSS 61 or 67mm turbo.

- joe

 

[pimptrizkit]

omg, jesus joe. and you thought i forgot to tell you what i was doing to my car!, went from wanting these parts to buying these parts huh?


so what throttle body are you going with? size? :biglaugh:

well, were going to need to pull the mig back out of the garage and start layin some beads ..


this completly looked like i just posted whored your build thread lol..

 

[loki2043]

damn! go big or go home!

 

[JoeC]

Small update for those who care :icon_razz

Got the maft pro in, we arent 100% if it works yet.. Should see today as Pimptrizkit is installing it for me while I am at work. Also got a new IAT sensor thanks to dr jonez!

I'm still waiting to hear back from Sethron about the FFIM. I gave him $150 to start it, and he should be done next week! I will update the pics today of my car as the engine pics are a little outdated here. I'm at work though, so no pictures yet till after 5 :cry: