6266 Build or Bust

[1cleangsx]

Today’s the day! I finally have a “built” motor , can’t wait to get this thing in the car with the new trans.

 

[1cleangsx]

Also got the wiring on my doublepumper buttoned up last weekend

 

[AWD-Tony]

Nice J! Can’t wait till she’s all together

 

[Vegas Smith]

You're going to have a shitload of leaks with only 3 exhaust studs but whatever

 

[1cleangsx]

You're going to have a shitload of leaks with only 3 exhaust studs but whatever

Dude that explains soo much

 

[1cleangsx]

Moving right along, yesterday I finished up the balance shaft delete, got my ole trusty special tool out I used a few years ago on stock rebuild for the balancer bearings.

Makes installation pretty simple.

Also installed the front cover, and “modified” my brand new oil pan by beating it with a hammer to fit with the kiggly girdle.

Next up I grabbed the “right stuff” and went to town!

Boom.

 

[1cleangsx]

Finally got my fancy pants Athena HG, basically identical to the SCE Vulcan gasket.

Feels good to get the head on and see this motor coming together

Next I bolted on my used fidanza cam gears, along with my valve cover.

 

[1cleangsx]

Hey guys little Sunday update! I re sprayed my water pipe and got in on

Then I bolted on the jmf smim, the GEM.

Next I bolted on the motor mounts but no pics, my new timing belt tensioner/idler pulley show up Tuesday, then I’ll get her all timed up and get the timing cover on, after that I’m just waiting on my clutch kit and the motor/trans goes back in the car!

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

What cams are we running in this bad boy???

 

[1cleangsx]

Hey Marty! GSC s3’s.

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

There ya go. That will make her "purrrrrrr"

 

[1cleangsx]

There ya go. That will make her "purrrrrrr"

Ha we’ll see! I bet she won’t purr as nice as your old Camaro

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

That old car does purr. All stock, hit the key once and she fires right up. Very special car. Gets all kinds of attention when she is out!

 

[1cleangsx]

I bet! There’s something about those cars from era, my brother has a 69 cutlass convertible, I feel like I’m in a movie when we’re cruising in that thing with the top down

 

[1cleangsx]

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[1cleangsx]

Time for a “boring” yet exciting update. I’ve officially purchased a turbo after almost 2 years and as you can see from the build thread title it’s obvious . I went with a much smaller turbo than what I thought I originally wanted, I don’t want a gutted “strace” car dsm. I want a clean, well rounded powerful street car. This is my first fully built set up and after lusting after COUNTLESS turbo set ups I settled on what I think is still a potent street combo. There’s a lot of 6266/s3 evo’s that jive very well together. I’m pretty excited about it, and for an added cherry on top, it’s not just an average gen 2dbb 6266, it’ll be a ocdworks T51r modded SS V band 6266 with a polished compressor housing, because Cars and Coffee . I also purchased a SouthBend clutch kit from TMZ with no ETA in sight, Tim said from a supply chain issue, which includes ACT and Competition Clutch, as I noticed my ACT flywheel hasn’t shipped yet either, I told Tim I’m in no rush and appreciate the update.Anyways hope you guys have a great weekend, I can’t wait to post pictures of the turbo, stay TUNED

 

[Vegas Smith]

Damn, t51r mod. Good taste. I'll be doing that eventually.

 

[We're on Boost]

I also purchased a SouthBend clutch kit from TMZ with no ETA in sight, Tim said from a supply chain issue, which includes ACT and Competition Clutch, as I noticed my ACT flywheel hasn’t shipped yet either, I told Tim I’m in no rush and appreciate the update.Anyways hope you guys have a great weekend, I can’t wait to post pictures of the turbo, stay TUNED

I've been wondering about this for months. Kept noticing that the ACT web pages for DSM clutches were saying "out of stock".
Yeah, way back in April of 2020 I sent an email to Eric Weatherwax at ACT about it and he said "These should be back in stock in the next few days. I am showing a work order for 4/30/20."
Pretty funny.
So I may have missed a few months there but I'm thinking this has been a problem for a while. Wonder if they are sending limited stock to certain dealers or something like that.

I think some night when I'm too tired to do anything but watch vids on YouTube, I'm going to browse through T51R mod videos and hope to find one where the guy was using a good microphone!

 

[1cleangsx]

Yeah I think it sounds pretty rad! I hope the clutch/flywheel doesn’t take too long , but I’m over a year and a half into this build so another month or so won’t kill me, and there’s still plenty of other parts I can buy

 

[1cleangsx]

View attachment 633020Got my flywheel! I’m actually posting this to give a shout-out to stmtuned.com. I ordered this on Thursday night! I live in Wyoming and they’re in New York! This is the fastest I’ve ever gotten anything from them but they always deliver within 4-5 days after I order, unless it’s out of stock. I know a lot of people use extreme psi and that’s awesome, I just had to brag on my long time source

 

[AWD-Tony]

Looking good man What oil pan is that? And did you have to massage it to fit over the arp main studs?

 

[1cleangsx]

Looking good man What oil pan is that? And did you have to massage it to fit over the arp main studs?

Spectra I think? It’s for the 6 bolt from stmtuned , and yes I had to hammer it a bit to fit with the girdle but it wasn’t too bad

 

[AWD-Tony]

Mines leaking so I picked up a felpro pan gasket. Hopefully that’ll fix it.

 

[Vegas Smith]

Looking good man What oil pan is that? And did you have to massage it to fit over the arp main studs?

Is that a thing that you have to do with arp mains?

 

[AWD-Tony]

Is that a thing that you have to do with arp mains?

Yup. About 1-2 mm on the timing side iirc