Rob88
15+ Year Contributor
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- Jul 1, 2007
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Portland,
Oregon
This is my 1Ga I picked up a while back and it got back burnered when I sent a rod out the side of my Galant VR4.
I picked it up at the end of 2012 for $900 and drove it home. When I got it the engine bay was pretty clean (Main reason for buying it). It already had DSMlink, 680cc injectors, walbro 255, Evo III 16g, ETS Street FMIC Kit, KYB GR2s, Megan Lowering Springs, GM MAF Translator setup. It ran pretty bad and when I got it home found out it had a blown intake manifold gasket. Fixed it and got it running good only to find out ALL of the rod/main bearings were toast.
About 6 weeks ago I decided to take it down to the machine shop had them hone it and check the rod/main clearances for me. I reassembled it with 1G rods/2G Pistons, ACL Bearings and ARP Rod Bolts (Yes, I resized for the ARP fastners). I tore the head completely down and rebuilt it with New Engine Builder valves, Valve stem seals, Manley Springs and titanium retainers. Through in some Comp 101200 cams and some cam gears I got off ebay. They needed the dowel pin hole bored out and had no timing marks. So, I copied my old ones and made them work.
I finally got the engine assembled about 2 weeks ago. Used a SS intake manifold I picked up for cheap 1600cc Precision injectors, Turbonetics T3 Manifold, 38MM External wastegate, Holset HY35, Custom down pipe setup and a Custom intake setup. I will be wiring a Walbro 255 In-Line fuel pump in today or tomorrow. I plan to use Link to turn it on based off RPM, Load and TPS through the Fuel pressure solenoid. I haven't seen anyone do this yet so we will see how well it works. I went with an ETS 3.5" Race intercooler kit to keep the intake temps down and the car will be tuned on SD of course.
Here are a few pictures of the car. I wish I would have documented it better but I've been on a time crunch trying to get it done in time for IFO on 9/1.
I had to rebuild the Clutch pedal assembly. The job isn't to bad actually.
I picked it up at the end of 2012 for $900 and drove it home. When I got it the engine bay was pretty clean (Main reason for buying it). It already had DSMlink, 680cc injectors, walbro 255, Evo III 16g, ETS Street FMIC Kit, KYB GR2s, Megan Lowering Springs, GM MAF Translator setup. It ran pretty bad and when I got it home found out it had a blown intake manifold gasket. Fixed it and got it running good only to find out ALL of the rod/main bearings were toast.
About 6 weeks ago I decided to take it down to the machine shop had them hone it and check the rod/main clearances for me. I reassembled it with 1G rods/2G Pistons, ACL Bearings and ARP Rod Bolts (Yes, I resized for the ARP fastners). I tore the head completely down and rebuilt it with New Engine Builder valves, Valve stem seals, Manley Springs and titanium retainers. Through in some Comp 101200 cams and some cam gears I got off ebay. They needed the dowel pin hole bored out and had no timing marks. So, I copied my old ones and made them work.
I finally got the engine assembled about 2 weeks ago. Used a SS intake manifold I picked up for cheap 1600cc Precision injectors, Turbonetics T3 Manifold, 38MM External wastegate, Holset HY35, Custom down pipe setup and a Custom intake setup. I will be wiring a Walbro 255 In-Line fuel pump in today or tomorrow. I plan to use Link to turn it on based off RPM, Load and TPS through the Fuel pressure solenoid. I haven't seen anyone do this yet so we will see how well it works. I went with an ETS 3.5" Race intercooler kit to keep the intake temps down and the car will be tuned on SD of course.
Here are a few pictures of the car. I wish I would have documented it better but I've been on a time crunch trying to get it done in time for IFO on 9/1.
I had to rebuild the Clutch pedal assembly. The job isn't to bad actually.