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12 minute(s) of a 64 minute read
4-10-2013
engine number 2
Removing THe turbos For waste gate porting ,
I took alot of pictures to make sure i knew where to put everything back .
Dad giving me a hand literally
Off they go!
PB blaster attack .
the Y pipe cleaning it a bit
First peek of the rats nest ..
Engine fitting snug in its new home
And first night with the engine in its home .
I couple videos LOL I dont remember what I was saying as my speakers are broken
http://s233.photobucket.com/user/Tem...02066.mp4.html
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addition of hte wideband
and adding the meth injection kit
Installing the apexi intakes .
First start up MOV02114.mp4 Video by Tem120 | Photobucket
progress kind of
engine bay
ok so a few things are missing I forget ot take pictures , Hah ..
If you noticed on some of the earlier videos / pictures
I had 1 JDM fender , and 1 USDM fender
So we measured and well cut the USDM fender to fit the JDM side marker lights .
Look at hte picture above . and Now
Also ... OH WINDSHIELD when did you get there..
after breaking my radiator .. thankfully a friend of a friend of a friend had a used koyo , which he sold me
subtle things... 1 doing a foamectomy on my seat and washing the seat covers .
and 2 painting the front wiper cover thing .
some interrior pictures
from the start I had a friend who works at a muffler shop . and he had wanted to do my exhaust since I started the car . I figured hey . what the hell if I dont like it I can always change it later.
But honestly It came out great.. sounds great I have no regrets doing a custom exhaust .
ok well maybe they didnt have a big selection of 3 inch mufflers ...
But the car sounds so damn good I'm afraid to touch anything
Thanks alot to nick @ American mufflers in Hollywood Florida
The big day.. So this is the day I'd been waiting for .. the day The car goes in to get its inspection for hte road.
As the car was pretty crispy it was totaled , and now it was its day to be legal again .
or not...
I actually failed the inspection ...... BECAUSE..... I needed more chicken wire .....
so off to homedepot I went and chicken wire .. I found
and I passed ..
P.S. different bumpers I know Haha
I had to replace the old fiberglass one after it cracked.. alot .
FINALLY NEW WHEEELLSS
Yeah it was getting tiring having mis matched wheels .. and I was Dailying it by then so . i got some cheapo rotas , with Hankook R-S3 's in 17x9 , 17x9.5
on the way to get an alignment the next day.. I couldnt resist.
there's frank getting aligned last alignment was poop ..
Apex Alignment in Homestead . Best alignments in south FL .
after This I had some fuel issues .. My walbro 255 wasnt doing enough ..
I redid my fuel pump wiring .. it worked fine for one day , But the next it was doing hte same thing ...
I replaced the injectors with 1300's ...
replaced my fuel pump with a sard 290
Nothing added an aftermarket fuel pressure regulator .. Nothing .. still going lean
One day out of random curiosity I decide to check the wiring again maybe something's loose . and I found a melted fuse... it was a 20 amp fuse . the fuse holder had melted as well but it hadn't blown .. so Idecided to redo the whole wiring . this time I put hte fuse in a more accesible location.. 20 amp fuse I took the car for a quick drive .. and stranded...
replaced it with a 25 amp .. as thats all I had at the time.. drove it back home. and I start to think .. MAYBE Just maybe the fuse... Was what was restricting the power. . so I went to radio shack bought a 40 amp fuse and holder put it in .. and
IT WORKED . after months of not being able to go into boost because the car would go lean .. the car finally had fuel.. and lots .... of it ... Retuned the car all over.
And frank was alive again ...
frank's enginebay sure it wasnt exactly pretty but it worked...
Frank Finally Gets a SHINY
Abusing of frank
New Steering wheel quick release Hub .
so after a few auto-x events I realized my intake temps get pretty high after a couple runs . and being stopped in grid .
and a friend of mine gave me an intercooler as a present .. so.. I decided to go for it ...
the reason I got hte vented hood was for extra cooling for the FMIC
A couple of pictures of the last auto-x event putting hte new interfooler to good use
4-15-2013
So , I missed alot of stuff it wasnt as easy as I made it seem haha
but I wanted to make a thankyou post to everyonewho helped out
My Dad for helping me build the thing , and lending me his tools & driveway for the 6months
it took to get it on the road
Chibi for encouraging me to make the plunge onto something better and convincing me it would be worth the wait.
Kiba for all the advice and encouragement and making me jealous of your car ofcourse ...
Deliverence on the forums for all the help i've gotten from you in the past , present , and probably the future to hah . Thanks man
Fritz Flynn Half my car came from your parts garage man , great customer service and one of the most knowledgable people on these forums plus one hell of a driver that well lets face it . every time I see your videos man It makes me want to get the car on track.
ARGHX if it wasnt for this guy car would not be running i'd of probably blown it up by now no doubt Thanks for all the tunning advice .
And ofcourse everyone else who lent a hand , specially in no small part to this forum When I jumped into this project I had no knowledge of the rotary well no real knowledge of it.
nor the FD thanks alot to this forum The car is running
Ofcourse ... This isn't the end I still got a lot to do to it.
But just decided I needed to say some thanks
So this weekend , getting hte car ready for the rotary Rally did some minor bodywork . ground down some bondo that was on a fender and re sprayed it..
Primer is awesome..
hah , and fixed my wipers and adding my wiper fluid system onto the car so I have some defence agaisnt the bugs on the 800 mile trip .