2g red gsx

[95weclipse]

Hello every one, I am Don, and would like to post my 2g awd build here, right now my gsx is mostly stock, I bought it bone stock other than rims, tail lights, head lights and exhaust other than that she was completely unmolested, even the stock air box .

Well I have owned it for 5 months now and the first thing I did was I wanted to put my wide band and boost gauges in well, the boost gauge went fine but went to put the wide band in and accidentally nicked the front o2 wire and couldn't fix it, cut it right at the plug well luckily I had a 2g computer with link from my last car. Well I got link hooked up and just simulated the aem wide band to run my front o2, thanks to the help of a good friend.

Next thing I did was blew the t25, great now what am I gonna do, well lucky me being a hoarder, I had a blown 14b so I bought a re build kit, hogged out the exhaust housing and waste gate hole made my own 35 mm flapper sand blasted every thing and painted it and put it on, luckily for my last car I kept the j pipe and oil feed, made my own oil return, and I was on the road again.

I got bored out of my mind one weekend so I did the batt relocation to the trunk, complete egr delete and put my afpr on, and a wally 255, and rewired that bad boy. then I bought a used HUICP so I could run my greddy type s bov, I could only build 12 psi with the stock bov , so now I am running 21 psi consistently and love every bit of.

OH and I for got to mention this is AUTO, for now, well this car has 183k on it and I daily it, WELL the bad news is, the head gasket seeps on the out side, oil that is and a tiny tiny bit of coolant, so I need a motor, lucky me again<<<< hoarder, I have a 6 bolt block hahhahahha this is gonna be fun.


So here's where it gets real peeps, I am going to run a stock bottom end, mainly cause I daily this and have no reason to BUILD the crap out of it yet , lets get started shall we, crank is still sitting at machine shop waiting to be picked up, ran short on money this week, had is micro polished and magnafluxed, so I need to pick that up, stock un cut crank, I got a used set of rods from a friend, with junk 1g pistons, I removed them at work in the press, got luck they came off really really easy, I need to buy pistons yet, I am going to run NPR pistons, I read around and asked a few people if they where ok, every one said they have had and have seen great results with them, I am gonna get the 2g pistons, so I need to drop the rods of at the machine shop to have them machine the little end for the 2g pistons, then I will put the pistons on at work, it'll save me a few bucks any way.


Then my next step is to drop the block off at the machine shop and have it bored 20 over, deck it till its true what ever that might take off its not too bad theres only 2 spots that I can get a .004 feeler gauge under and they are on the back side of the block, then time for more parts, ARP mains, head studs, and rod bolts, yeah buddy, ACL race bearings, felpro graphite head gasket, NPR pistons and probably the rings that come with.


Then while I have all of this out, I am trading all my auto stuff for all 5 speed stuff, yay! the only reason I am doing it is cause I daily it, yes I love the auto but, its a pain in the ass as well, there are pros and cons to both but I like the 5 speed more, so while I have that out I am gonna do a wire tuck, so after I got the trans back in, first thing after I down the car I am sending my 14b to turbo lab to have it converted to a TLB20g afro so with that being said I need injectors, I dont have a set size yet but I think I will just go with 1000cc ptes, I liked the 880s I had but with this 20g Ill need a little more playing room, also I plan on going with speed density, I do not plan on self tuning, nor to I want to , also with my increase in air flow I ll need a fmic so the first thing that I am buying with my taxes is a Punishment racing fmic, there will be pics along the way but this wont start till mid January so bare with me.

 

[idkiliketurbos]

Can't wait for more updates. In the future, you should make a few paragraphs so it is easier to read.

 

[95weclipse]

Thanks, I fixed it, is that better? Pics will come soon! as soon as I start pulling it apart!

 

[95weclipse]

Got my crank back from the machinist yesterday and it looks great, stock uncut 6 bolt 170k original miles

Ok got the pics figured out, I got some of the crank, and of the cylinder head I am going to use, IT IS NOT FINISHED , I got most of it done but it needs more poilshing on the exhaust side, I blended all of the bowls on the intake side, got a little bit of clean up work left on the intake side and alot of polishing to do yet on the exhaust, I should have not ported it but its to late now

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[ChiTownHussla]

what did you pay for her?

 

[95weclipse]

Well lets just say wayyyyyyyyy to much, but it was my dream car and I fell in love with it when I took it for a test drive and I had to have it

 

[ChiTownHussla]

how much ### I have a gsx that I will be selling soon. 112k miles.

 

[95weclipse]

after my loan itll be 6k, it blue booked for 4k so yours can go for ###### around 4500 if its mint like mine was/is

 

[95weclipse]

Well heres a small update, I dropped the rods and pistons off at the machine shop friday to bored honed and decked, rods to get machined for 2g pistons and the bottom ends reconditioned when I get the ARPS, no pics to post yet other than what I already posted, I need to get pistons and the arps first so the machine shop can get the clearances, and the arps so they can recon the bottoms, decided to go with a vrsf FMIC and rc 1000cc injectors....... more to come! stay TUNED!

 

[95weclipse]

Well got my arp rod bolts and NPR pistons ordered from BUILT4G63.COM yesterday, just need to get bearings and an oil pump and my bottom end will be complete, after I get the pistons and rod bolts Ill go to the machine shop and talk to him about the block and what not, I would like to get the beams of the rods polished and hes going to shave the wrist pin end to fit 2g pistons thats why he need the pistons so he can set the press fit something or other, did hear what exactly he said, then going to see if he can polish up the oil galleys on the front, hes also going to recondition the journal end of the rod because the arps are different so Ill have a completely fresh block and rotating assembly will get pics of every thing when it comes next week

Well due to my girlfriends battery going bad I had to put the optima in her car and stop driving my car, so starts the dis-assembly

 

[95weclipse]

today got alot done, got the engine harness pulled, got the drives side knuckle/axle and what not, off.

Got the bumper and head lights off

took the down pipe off

I decided to delete A/C and P/S so I got the P/S pump and reservoir off and all of the lines except the ones from the rack.


Got the A/C compressor, condenser, and lines off,

Ran into a few tiny snags, of course why not, just my luck,

the bolts that hold the cross member on the front the two 17mm bolts that go into the radiator core support, are fuuuuuuked that bottom "bar" is rusted pretty bad and the "nuts" inside, are spinning, soooooo, I am going to "rebuild" it Ill cut it off right before it makes the bend and weld some flat stock on the bottoms and weld a bar across the bottom and re weld some tabs for the radiator.


then my next snag, I dont know if any one else has had this problem buuuuuuuuut the two bolts that hold the lateral arm or the rear bottom control arm one on each side broke


I dont know how I am going to get these out but Ill figure it out when time comes I guess


more to come!

 

[richard33]

Looks like you got a lot of work left ! Nice car though. Why did you take the entire suspension out?

 

[sypherzero]

Looks like you got a lot of work left ! Nice car though. Why did you take the entire suspension out?

Because racecar, haha.

Build is looking good man! Hopefully I'll make some progress on mine in the next 1-2 months.

 

[952g63t]

Looks like a solid shell.

 

[CountryDSM]

Very nice body, good luck with the build!

 

[95weclipse]

Thanks guys for reading and commenting, yes I have a TON of work to do, tonight I ant feeling so hot, stomachache and a real bad headache, but I took the whole left suspension out just to make every thing easier when I go to do every thing, I might drop the front sub frame I havent decided

 

[95weclipse]

I got my arp rod bolts yesterday and NPR pistons today, I found out I am only getting 575$ back from my taxes so thats a difference from the 3700 I thought I was getting, sooooo this is going to take alot longer than I thought, well Ill be bringing the rod bolts and pistons to the machine shop tomorrow and to talk to my guy about some stuff Ill update tomorrow

Here is the pic, finally it wouldn't go through

 

[Red 98 Gsx]

Looks good man, hope she runs forever

 

[95weclipse]

I just got back from the machine shop, I dropped off the pistons and arps, asked if he polishes rod beams, and he does he'll be calling me sometime today with an estiment with to bore, hone, deck, clean, machine the 1g rods for the 2g pistons and re do the bottom ends because you have to re hone them when you put arps in, then to polish the rod beams, he told me the bore, hone and deck will cost 190, then to rebuild the bottom end of the rods will cost 60 and to polish the rod beams could cost any where from 30 to 60 so I am ###### looking at 400 out the door

Alright got a call from the guy itll be 500 out the door, bore hone deck clean, re do the bottom end on the rods with arps, modify the pin end to except the 2g pistons polish the rod beams hang the pistons on the rods and put them in a jig to make sure the rods are true

 

[95weclipse]

Got these from a friend off face book for 115 shipped! been torqued once

 

[Guitarthrash3r]

Oh you will love the studs, I do. Makes mess ups a lot less expensive. Ha

 

[95weclipse]

So I got the arps in the mail, block, rods, pistons are still at the machine shop, I got acl aluglide bearings from BUILT4G63 pretty cheap, did a little more port work on the head, need to badly polish the exhaust so I can get it put back together, trying to buy a cyclone intake but not really having any luck just yet have one pending waiting on pics tomorrow before I buy it, the vrsf is going to take longer than I would like but thats what happens when you get screwed on taxes , so my plans have changed, a tiny bit, I am going to still get the vrsf fmic, but for right now Ill run the stock injectors, and get a base tune done, but first things first I have to get the 5 speed stuff, when I get that I will go ahead and start on the wire tuck which I have no Idea how long that will take, then I need to get the car to work to sand blast/paint the engine bay and fix the radiator support, then hopefully the motor will be done by then, I still dont know what I am going to do about a clutch I got a free fidinza fly wheel the ring gear was broke off I got that fixed at work and it needs a new surface area but no biggie

 

[95weclipse]

OHHHHHHHHHHH I got alot of goodies yesterday!

 

[2g tuned]

looks like you did get a lot of goodies the other day! makes me jelous!!! what an inspiration

 

[95weclipse]

thanks, Its been a ride so far