Hey I'm not dead. Just been busy starting a business, and working on other projects. I got a precision 62/66 installed and started the car again. Of course the power steering leaked everywhere, so that was its own issue. Anyway.The car still runs terribly. Timing is jumping all over the place...

Oh more progress was made with tuning, before the turbo incident. I got the E85 sensor wired properly so it sends the correct information, as well as changed the O2 sensor specs in Megasquirt to align with the correct O2 sensor. Car actually sounded really good for a bit, until the turbo...

Alright, I nearly had a heart attack yesterday when I noticed liquid around the#2-#3 exhaust runners. I got a compression/leakdown tester and all 4 cylinders tested within a couple pounds of each other. That's wehn I noticed that my downpipe wasn't really sealing all that well to my Turbo...

Success! The car finally starts and runs reasonably! The cam timing was off by about 30 degrees, probably caused by backfires while setting up the initial ignition timing. I'm sitting at 0 degrees on the intake and about 2.5 degrees retard on the exhaust cam.I'm waiting for my new IACV to...

OK more problems. Car really won't idle, and runs really rough. So I checked with a vacuum gauge, and I've got something like 5", obviously bad. I replaced the EGR valve and its gasket, then I sprayed some starter fluid around to see if I could find any other leaks. Didn't find any. Went ahead...

Small update. I've been trying to get the car to idle below 2000, and am not having much luck. It runs very rough, and for some reason I'm sitting at 30 degrees timing. I need to figure out how to reduce timing advance in MS2. It also has a lot of misfire/lean when accelerating. Despite sitting...

I really should take some more recent pics. It's roughly like the one in my profile, but red instead of black.Just got some heim-joint tensioners from Amazon today and I plan on using them to support the upper half of the intercooler. Pics tomorrow, weather permitting. I need to get to work...

I fixed it!So previously the alternator was only putting out around 12 volts no matter the rpm. I played around with F and L wires, but that didn't fix anything. Then I stumbled across a post of a suzuki forum mentioning that the CS 120 alts (Saturn alts) required a ground wire to the ground...

A little progress today. I got a NOCO 20, i.e. a lithium battery that's about 2x as big as my old one and now the car idles much better. I'm seeing 12.6 volts at the battery when running and 13.8 when off. This seems wrong. I should be seeing 13-14 volts at the battery when the engine is...

It runs! It actually runs! Poorly, but it's firing and making loud noises.OK here's where I could use a bit of help. I've got a brand new CS120 alt (Saturn alt), and it's not charging my battery. I've got the (L)wire hooked to a switched 12v+ and the sense wire (S) hooked to my distribution...

Just some pics of the fab work I did. You can just about see the throttle cable bracket I made that bolts to the stock coil pack location.

Ok, so it's been a year...wow. Sorry. Life has been busy, between working on a new chassis, the supra, a 47 IH and now 13 hour days at work it's been hard to do anything in the Starion. Yep, I've got a true Starion now. I sold off the old black chassis to get one with a clean interior and title...

Now it actually runs!I found out that there's a seperate VE table for cranking in Tuner Studio. I cut the values to a 1/4 and the flooding went away. It would catch, but not start, but sounded better with opened throttle. My dad mentioned that it needs air, so I unplugged the capped IAC hose...

Hmm, pretty sure any metal moving parts in an engine require a break in period. In my case per the cam card, it's required.So did more reading, and more tuning, and it's almost running again, but I'm getting lost in Dead time and VE tables in Tuner Studio. It's still flooding out the plugs...

So I was kinda dumb and found out I had a huge vacuum leak and that's why the idle was around 1k rpm and the engine died if I touched the throttle. I left out the PCV nipple (1/8" BSPT right?) on the manifold as well as the little one near the rear of the manifold, which is plugged now with a...

Found a bunch of water leaks from pinholes in Rad and the Water diverter I mad e for the back of the head. Took both out and welded the holes up. Tested them this time with some compressed air. Looking good. Man is it hard to get your hands into that space between firewall and motor!Also...

IT RUNS! Yep had the first startup today. Super excited. It sounds like a big block with a cam, which in Mitsubishi terms it is lol.I only ran it for a few seconds, because I don't have coolant in it (pinhole leak in rad welds and in water block in back of head) and I didn't want to damage the...

Thanks for all the useful comments guys. It's a very slow build due to me working on too many cars, and the weather not cooperating at all recently. Got the timing corrected, and everything looks good. Busy putting all the stuff attached to the head back onto it. I ran into a problem, yes I...

Yep got it all sorted out, thanks a ton guys! Rotated engine 6+ times and everything lined up like it's supposed to. Need to double check the t-belt tension, but I think it's close when checking with 3mm drill bit.Sorry for the long delays, I'm doing body work on a second mostly stock Starion...

Yep, I have the 64 belt, for the 1994 Galant. I'm using adjustable AEM's, I thin they're for a 63, so that would explain them not working exactly, I think. Also it's possible the cam dowels were not exactly 90 degrees, which would throw things off. It's not easy to eyeball this stuff really...

So I had some time to mess with the car this afternoon. I ended up with 3 degrees retarded on the exhaust and 2 degrees advanced on the intake. This seemed to be the only way to have the belt fit as well as the cam marks line up with eachother.I did a compression test, cold, with both...

I posted a 'Help' type post elsewhere, but I tho0ught I should follow up here. the valves were all trashed on the exhaust side. head had sime very minor damage. sanded off the little burrs and put in new lifters, and valves. Bled the lifters before install. reassembled the motor and when turning...

Ah hey guys, so thought I'd follow up. Luckily the engine didn't run, and I think I actually bent the valves, by hand of course! When I first assembles the motor I noticed it was hard ot turn over, assuming it was the 80 lb springs, I forced it and that is where it went wrong now that I think...

Got the head off today. The valves had a little meeting with the pistons, all 8 exhausts did at least. New +1mm valves and Cometic headgasket ordered. Pistons have some very minor bumps, nothing to be worried about I think. But on the plus side, I can remove that casting flash in the oil return...

I thought bent valves too, at first, but what was stopping it was the rocker had fallen off and was jammed between the camshaft and the head, thankfully not a lobe area. Now with the exhaust rockers out, it spins easily. I may end up pulling the head this weekend to check though. A compression...

OK I'm not sure this is really a bolt-on but it's not hyper technical either. So here's the deal, I have a 1g big port head, and sent it off to a shop back in early 2019, for them to check it out and assemble it. It has GSC 280 cams, 2g hydraulic lifters, GSC beehive springs and retainers, GSC...

Inspected the exhaust camshaft today. No obvious damage. But every single rocker fell out! There's something like 3mm clearance between the rocker and the camshaft. I had the shop install the GSC Beehive Valvesprings Retainers Eclipse DSM Evo1-8 4G63T. So I assume that's correct for a 1g dsm...

That was an in-progress! Didn't even notice that until you mentioned it. I removed the idler pulley so it was easier to mess with the components with the belt slack. Yeah these cars are awesome. I also happen to really like the 3rd gen Celicas, which have a similar shape. And FC's...Oddly...

So I totally forgot about this thread. Sorry guys. I still own the car, and for the first time today I had spark and fuel form the MS2 I finished.Heard a strange noise, while cranking the engine. Put a wrench on the cranks and noticed a ton of resistance. Pulled the cam cover, found out 2...

Now that the engine and trans are in I had to do some firewall surgery, it's not the greatest, but it will work. I've only got 1/2 inch or so between the back of my water block and the firewall. Plan B will be to get some Montero Mounts that will me move the engine forward 2.5 inches. Of course...

Well it's winter! But progress is being made. Slowly.I pulled the engine, and after fighting with it for a day, got the trans attached! Dang friction plate wasn't aligned...took a while to figure it out.Welded up some of the intercooler pipes, less couplings this way.Went ahead and...

I guess it's not tomorrow is it? Anyway, Progress. I thought I had the Clutch TOB clips thing figured out, i was wrong. I contracted 3SX, and they claimed to have them, and were ready to accept payment, until radio silence, I'm not sure what happened. But there's no response from their...

Ah wow, it's been a while. Again, sorry.I ditched the whole sheetmetal intake and Hydroboost idea..for now. I'd rather just get the dam car running!So I bught a 1g dsm style manifold from CXracing. The welds look ok, and the flange thing is thick, so that's good. Unfortunately, the turbo...

I'm not dead! Just been busy. Did a bunch of stuff.I've finished the brake reservoir system, and am waiting on the -3 AN line to start plumbing that . Oh and a prop valve, as I don't think the stocker will work.I also go the pressureplate, clutch and flywheel installed. It was a bit...

Oh wow, meant to post some updates earlier, but I've been busy trying to help my dad out and progress has been slow.So this is what the plenum will look like, and its rough position:Here's the same plenum after I realized I needed 2 pieces at 30 degrees, rather than 1 large piece at...

This is a 2.25 inch pipe I put in the press, it comes out like this:It's not perfect, but pretty damn close to the shape needed for the 1g manifoldFill the gaps with weld, and then dremel smooth the excess material/overlap. It's basically going to 90 right out of the head downward, and...

Ok so the manifold looked like a great idea, until I realized it wouldn't really fit, not with studs in the head! And it was still crowding the brake booster. I did have fun making and welding it up though.Getting better at this Aluminum thing. Anyway, onto plan B, I've ordered some prebent...

I scienced out the manifold today. It's going to be a 1/2 circle, i.e. hemispherical, because it saves space, and makes an easy mounting situation.I started off with this cast/spun aluminum cylinder I picked up for scrap value;It's 6 inches in diameter, too big, hits the steering box! So...

I just cut up a 1g dsm manifold tonight, and this is the result:I will have clearance to just about everything, with a 3 inch plenum welded on the end. I'd like to go 4 inch, but that would require cutting the manifold back another 2 inches, to the EGR passage, to make clearance with the...

Engine is in the car, along with the first coolant hose. I learned a ton about gas coverage and welding aluminum. I may redo some of the welds...but if they hold, they hold.I figured out the hydroboost mounting, but just need some M10x1.5 JIS buts to hold it to the firewall. There's no...

Well it's the end of a long weekend. I uh mostly worked on the Mitsu, as well as the Supra. I think there was something about fireworks, maybe?The brake booster situation took me about 2 days and 3 iterations to figure out. Turns out simple angle iron was the best solution. I had to dent the...

Thanks for the kind words guys. Figured it was time for more updates, I won't be sleeping tonight.So I've made a good bit of progress, I know it seems slow, but I'm trying lol.I had a bit of a problem fitting the Kiggly wheel and the ATI damper hub. Both of them required some...

Sorry for the delay, I've been working on and off on this car, as well as the Supra, weather and time permitting.Here's the 1/2 way done water block, the black stuff is paint I used to make a mark on the block as to where the stud was going to go through:There's 4 holes because I forgot...

By front, you mean towards the cam gears? The MM pan has the deepest part towards the gears, which in my case is the front. I assume this was so Mitsu wouldn't have to make different pans for the longitudinal engines vs transverse.The alloy is for the water outlet at the back of the head. I...

Hmm, I was thinking about the pump gears as I was putting it together. I've always used a thin layer of RTV with paper gaskets to hold them in place. Of course only on one side so that they're easy to remove later. Everything on the Rotary was done this way, with paper and RTV, and it was ok...

Thanks for the positive comments! Ah and I remember playing MK3 Ultimate on the genesis, good times man...Alright, got the oil pump figured out. It turns out that the pump doesn't like to rotate without proper support, that is all it was.I LIGHTLY rtv'd the oil pump plate, and set the bolts...

Got a bunch done over the weekend so far! I did plan to have the engine in the car, for fitment purposes, but cest la vie...OK short story time! I noticed a very odd vibration in my daily this morning, so I jacked it up, and checked all around, figuring ti was the rear bushings going, or the...

Hah yeah it was just upside down, I posted the wrong picture.I meant to post this one, which shows the tiny holes that aren't in my block, but are in the gasket.Oh and yes I was talking about the BS bearings, they're tricky to align and I was really tired.I think 'm going to talk to OS...

Bearings showed up today. Which was kinda anti-climatic, as apparently the machine shop had already left the old ones inside! I may have just forgot. Anyway, I pounded out the old 2-piece ones, and went to install the new ones. I can't seem to get the alignment right, augh! I watched a video...

Hey my new head gasket showed up! It wasn't supposed to be here until the 11th. Cometic sent it inside of a 3 foot long box and I was wondering WTF I'd bought from Mishimoto.I guess they learned their lesson about shipping in tiny boxes :DGot the Intercooler hung today, and will have the top...