Project "Rely-on-ability" : 6 bolt rebuild

[romeen]

Wow Bruce, the nursing home finally let you out!?

Seriously, welcome back.

[oldman]

Defiant might hear you.

I don't multi task well and sometimes attention needs to be focused my business and personal life but I will slowly worked my way back in, I always do.

[tqmx1]

Originally Posted by oldman

Dude, I have 20 sets of shaft seals sitting right in front of me.

Is it running yet?

Man thought you fell off the face of the planet.

[RipperXX]

VERY nice.

[blcknspo0ln]

Originally Posted by ludevtec93

nice.. do i hear 11.5's or better this season??

That's exactly the target. If I can click off 11.5 @ 120ish, I'll be a happy camper.

Originally Posted by tqmx1

I know and now your jumping up and down COME ON SPRING!!

I forgot to say, arn't those throttle return springs a real BITCH!

Yea, I'm really hating winter now. I took all this time to get the car running and now it'll just sit in the garage because of the snow/salt. So much for that. As far as the TB springs, next time you do one, try ziptie-ing them together and using the ziptie as your leverage. It works awesome!

Originally Posted by Mikael SS

if you have any issues with the clutch, put the slave back so the bleeder is on top. If you look at all brake calipers, the bleeder is always on top, since you might get an air bubble stuck in there.

Yup, makes sense. I bled the clutch with a buddy yesterday and surprisingly it went into gear just fine

Originally Posted by oldman

Dude, I have 20 sets of shaft seals sitting right in front of me.

Is it running yet?

I hate you. I waited to start the car for 4 days because I didn't have shaft seals. Oh well. As you can see in the video the car definitely starts. I took the car for a drive yesterday for the first time since mid november. The car has a lot of electronic and tuning kinks that I have to work out, but I think everything is going to be OK. Time to do a bit more 'searching' for some answers I have. I've never had to adjust idle on a car without a FIAV and idle goes from 600 to 2000 pretty randomly.

[blcknspo0ln]

UPDATE:
After taking the car for a spin, I'll be changing the oil to 10w50 or a bit heavier oil and a new mobile filter (I'm being cheap and saving my OEM one for the final breakin ). The knock sensor is going berserk, the coolant temperature sensor is reading a healthy 310*F all of the time, idle stinks, and the ECU (along with my damn DSMLink settings) keeps resetting itself because the battery keeps dying.

Yesterday I took it out for a good ol' "moto man" break in. Bruce thinks I'm a pssy for not boosting it, but I only drove out the revs without any boosting in 1st and 2nd and letting it engine brake itself. I'll be doing it again after my oil change tonight and slapping on the compression tester to make sure everything is up to par.

[RipperXX]

Any idea why the knock sensor is going nuts? Over torqued maybe?

[blcknspo0ln]

It must have been a freak thing because I went back and tried everything out and knock count was zero during the entire break in I did tonight. I put about another mile just going WOT in first and letting it engine brake, it felt like the longest drive in the world. Not to mention all of my neighbors thought I was insane. I also did my ignition timing after the drive, wow what a difference.

Changed the oil, anyone ever have green oil before? It was pennzoil 10w30, idled for 15 minutes and driven 1/2 mile with a mobile 1 filter. Disregard the dark oil, that was from the pan.



Oh, about those flare AN fittings, I hate them without teflon I took them off when I changed the oil and retightened them, so hopefully they won't be leaking anymore.


How about this!? Corey helped me out and sold me his hatch struts from the GS he's parting out. WORKING HATCH STRUTS! Get this, the hatch actually lifts ITSELF! I think both corey and I were pretty amazed at this. I took a couple of minutes to let some simple green soak in the hatch area to clean her up nice too.

[blcknspo0ln]

Adjusted ignition timing. Use whiteout on the marks on the crank pulley:


Let the car idle for an entire heat cycle (let the ecu turn the fans off then on) and plug in the timing light.


Loosen the CAS nuts and fire up DSMLink or whatever program you are using to see timing advance. If you are using DSMLink go into Misc and choose 'Ground timing'. This will give you a nice constant advance, in my case it was 5.2.



Now rotate the cas SLOWLY back and forth and watch your mark on the crank pulley versus the dial on the cover. If your program says 5.2, turn your CAS until it the little white out mark hovers around the 5* mark. After you've determined you're good, tighten the CAS down and RECHECK the pulley with the timing light.

After I cleaned up the talon, I decided to pull off the 'mask' and use a bit of mother's on her. Be gentle on the photo comments. I tried using different aperture settings and I realized that I suck.

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[welfle18]

Man love this thread! Wish someone will do this with a 7 bolt. I guess I will be the one who has to do this with my build. Anyways sounds good and hope you reach 11.5 man. Great thread.

[99gst_racer]

Originally Posted by blcknspo0ln

Yesterday I took it out for a good ol' "moto man" break in. Bruce thinks I'm a pssy for not boosting it, but I only drove out the revs without any boosting in 1st and 2nd and letting it engine brake itself. I'll be doing it again after my oil change tonight and slapping on the compression tester to make sure everything is up to par.

Boost it! If it were a factory new engine, Mitsubishi would be beating the shit out of it before it shipped off.

Good luck hitting 11.5 this spring/summer.

[123bobby123]

Hi,

What up man.

Real glad you got it all together finally. I did the bass thing with my speakers when listening to the video but I just dont think its the same, haha. Next time I'm back in the dirty J we will have to take it out.

Bill

[blcknspo0ln]

Originally Posted by 99gst_racer

Boost it! If it were a factory new engine, Mitsubishi would be beating the shit out of it before it shipped off.

Good luck hitting 11.5 this spring/summer.

Took her out for a little more of 1bar tial romping and I must say, this whole "boost your engine" is rather fun I officially have 5 miles on it and some oil leaks are starting to show, mainly the drain bolt from the oil pan Oh well, she runs!

Originally Posted by 123bobby123

Hi,

What up man.

Real glad you got it all together finally. I did the bass thing with my speakers when listening to the video but I just dont think its the same, haha. Next time I'm back in the dirty J we will have to take it out.

Bill

Def bill, I didn't really think the speaker thing would work out too well ahha, I just tried again and it sucks. When you get back here we def need to go for a cruise.

Dialed in my base dsmlink settings and am going to fix the leaks and hopefully I can take her out when the weather gets better. She stays in the garage for now, though.

[matt98eclipse]

Sounds good tom KEEP it comeing!!

Ever find out why the oil looked greenish??

[90laserRSfwd]

yeah whats up with that oil ? looks like your tsi is getting sick.....

[RipperXX]

Coolant....








j/k I have no idea, but that is weird.

[MidShipCivic]

Originally Posted by blcknspo0ln

Head:

New guide pins from JNZ:

What is the part number for the guide pins ? I need those.

[ricktb]

Great thread, much respect. Would you recommend great stuff gasket applied to both sides of an oem oilpan gasket, as opposed to copper rtv? Could I use copper rtv only for a reliable seal?

(7bolt)