Pictures of my year long overhaul by LarsV8

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Fired her up today for the first time! Sounds great with open headers but I am looking forward to hearing it once the Y pipe is installed and it feeds through the Borla catback.

Items of concern:
1.) Car won't go into gear while running. I started a thread in tranny section, working on that.
2.) Looks like I might have a leak somewhere. Could be just spills from coolant filling and trying to bleed hydraulics. I'll look into this later.
3.) Check gauges light is on, I am guessing oil pressure might be high. What is normal? Mine looks to be reading 70+.

Well I had the oil pressure sensor and low oil sensor backwards, when I fixed it, thats when the check gauges light came on, so I dunno, I assumed it was because oil pressure was high.

With the tranny, the car will go into gear when it is off, but will not when the car is running. When I try to put the car into gear it will start to move the car forward and then kill the motor. I picked up a mity vac from autozone and used a method that someone made a writeup for on this forum, but still had no luck.

12-15-2010

So I ended up taking the car to the tranny shop, since I don't have room to drop a tranny. The problem ended up being a bad clutch fork. Fixed and finally got to drive her! She rides very rough, probably because of the poly motor mounts and open headers. I will get a video up this weekend!

In the meantime, more goodies in the mail:




Things left to do:
-Find out why the oil pressure is so high
-fix oil leak at low pressure sensor
-reroute and shorten spark plug wires
-find a more permanent solution to the caps (I need a breather)
-paint the engine pay
-add some wire looms
-install y-pipe
-get insurance
-get inspection
-get registration
-DYNO TUNE