Shuiend blows motor #5; Naturally Aspirated Glory Incoming
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It is the built engine. So hopefully we get EBC working at the cabin and do some ALLOFIT runs while there. I am hoping that I can get it on a dyno locally sometime in the next few weeks to see what wastegate does, and then where the turbo maxes out at. After I get some dyno testing on this setup it will come off this car and my absurdflow setup will go back on. Then I will get to working on building some EFR setups. In Decemeber I should hopefully be trying the TSE setup on the car.
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Finally got some 6UL's and 225/45/15 RS3's on the car. Hopefully later this week my Xida's come in and I get them installed before I head up to the MegaSquirt MegaMeet. After the megameet I should be swapping in a NB front subframe, and the rest of the 949Racing BGK. Then all I need will be a BBK and this car will be at about the point I have always wanted it.
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Xida's came in on Wednesday. I start assembling them and then went to install. The install went quickly and easily. I have the rest of the big grip kit on the way. I am also working on getting a NB front sub frame to swap in.
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I need to raise the car just a little bit after this weekend. I believe I am sitting right around 4.5" from ground to pinch welds all around.
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I also installed the best appearance mod ever. Something I have wanted for years, but just never bought.
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I need to raise the car just a little bit after this weekend. I believe I am sitting right around 4.5" from ground to pinch welds all around.
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I also installed the best appearance mod ever. Something I have wanted for years, but just never bought.
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I am going to go find some drifters to beat up and steal their drift charms to put in the front mouth.
When I get back the IC is going to come out and get painted black. Then my silly *** wing will go back on the trunk. With the "NA is best" sticker on the back of the car, the wing, and the teeth, I should be able to successfully troll the **** out of people on the road.
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Car was originally from VA. I spent 5 years with it up in NoVA winters, majority of that time being a DD while I was in college. Rust unfortunately happened, even when I tried cleaning out drain tubes and all. My plan is to keep going on this chassis until it has to much rust, then swap everything to a clean southern 94 chassis. It will be a sad day when I have to do that. Mostly because this was my first car and what got me into cars.
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I should be picking up a stock VVT motor this weekend. I think I might throw that in just to get the car running again.
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^^ This
I feel for you, man. I went through two re-builds before getting one that doesn't spin bearings (yet).
On this last one I pulled out all the plugs on the oil passages and spent a whole day with hot cleaning solution, pipe cleaners and a rifle-bore brush kit making sure the oil passages were spotless. And even then, I changed the oil at 50 miles, 200 miles and 500 miles before I trusted that I wouldn't trash another engine.
Hope you get 'er back running again...soon...
I feel for you, man. I went through two re-builds before getting one that doesn't spin bearings (yet).
On this last one I pulled out all the plugs on the oil passages and spent a whole day with hot cleaning solution, pipe cleaners and a rifle-bore brush kit making sure the oil passages were spotless. And even then, I changed the oil at 50 miles, 200 miles and 500 miles before I trusted that I wouldn't trash another engine.
Hope you get 'er back running again...soon...