Another Engine Clean up Project/Fusebox Relocation

[gsxAWDdsm692]

Super Mod Defiant almighty, clean this thread up for DSM PWR please, pretty please

 

[DSM_PWR]

oh man... how many DSMers does it take to figure out something soooo simple as reflection?!?!

In the picture im holding the camera with my RIGHT hand

Now. Richard you need to get your powder coat and chrome guy busy, because you need to have this thing together and rough tuned for our meet.

I picked up some parts from ct78155 and the chrome shop today, ill take pics tommorrow in the daylight because right now my camera just isnt doing justice to the sick a$$ work with house lamps.

I picked up about 2/3 of the powder coat
and 1/3 of the chrome
I was too excited to wait till thursday when everything should be done and the motor should be back in and ready to fire up!!!!

 

[DSM_PWR]

With horrible pics.

are you talking about the quality of the pics??

Sorry the camera im using doesnt do any justice to what everything looks like

 

[DSM_PWR]

DAY 40
K so i started bolting up the exhaust manifold and decided to try some red loctite to see if it will work under high temps, doubt it but worth a shot...

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I also ran a tap through all the threads to ensure proper seal

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New hardware

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Started doing some work on the 1g TB, i hated seeing those coolant lines so decided to grind them off since i was putting in a FIAV Bypass plate anyways..

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After

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And as promised.. i picked up some of the stuff i got chromed/powdercoated and check em out!!
ct78155 did some awsome work on powdercoating and C&D Plating in San Antonio did some sick work on the Polishing, cant wait to get the rest of the stuff from both places...

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[DSM_PWR]

Installed

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Last thing is i ported to Oil Filter Housing to relief some oil pressure since i removed the balance shafts, i searched the forums and this was the most common and successfull

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After

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[Project2G]

Any idea on the amount of $ this project has taken out of your deep pockets?

 

[DSM_PWR]

Ive learned loooong ago to NEVER keep reciepts

But to give an estimate... around $3k more or less

Funny thing is this is my daily driver.. luckily i live about at 10min walk from work so i walk to work both ways and even for lunch..

 

[DSM_PWR]

Just after estimating that ...

 

[boostedt28]

I will now be getting rid of the purple valve cover and brackets. Thx.

 

[Flash]

It's coming together nicely! I like the powder coating, I think you powder coated all the right parts, looks nice.

 

[EDM95]

x2 looks nice.

 

[92_75i]

wow awesome build man... must be nice to be able to take apart n put together an engine!!! someday I'll get around to knowin it haha

 

[DSM_PWR]

I will now be getting rid of the purple valve cover and brackets. Thx.

It's coming together nicely! I like the powder coating, I think you powder coated all the right parts, looks nice.

Thanks, glad to hear because i thought i went a little overboard with it

x2 looks nice.

Thanks

wow awesome build man... must be nice to be able to take apart n put together an engine!!! someday I'll get around to knowin it haha

Its fun and rewarding, Not to say i was ready for it since this is my daily driver but now i definetly am looking into getting a second car for this occasion

 

[DSM_PWR]

DAY 43
So last night i took a trip to the Powdercoat Man

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Yay! The last of the Powdercoating is done Now all thats left is chroming

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So this is what i started with Wed Morning...

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[DSM_PWR]

And this is what i ended with this Morning...

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And boy was i disapointed when i realized i gave myself too much slack on the ECU Harness

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Today i hope to finish re-doing the wiring so i can have barely there slack on the harness, and bolt up the tranny and getting one step closer to finally being done

 

[crazy_quick]

Didn't think your lazy ass would do it without daddy there...

 

[DSM_PWR]

I dont need my hand held all the time

 

[BuiltTalon]

Looks good!

 

[T is for TURBO]

Looks great as it sits! Fire it up!

 

[soccerplayaz16]

awesome work with the harness....im too scared to attempt that with mine

 

[DSM_PWR]

your scared but im tired of messing with it

 

[soccerplayaz16]

i can understand that amazing work though....good luck with the rest of the build

 

[mgsx98]

inspiring man...

hopefully i do that some day, when my car doesnt overheat, burn oil, and so many other stuff.

keep it up

 

[DSM_PWR]

WTFWhat a tough Weekend...
Friday i got the last few items from the chrome shop

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The brackets could have DEFINETLY came out better WTF

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So heres where i begin to shorten some wires in the bay since i gave myself tooo much slack.

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Finishing Up

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[DSM_PWR]

We finally finished up about 7am Saturday Morning and boy were we tired Especially since later on that day was the Texas MOD that i had planned out and i was ina really time crunch to get this POS running to the meet.. but oh little did i know..

After we timed the car we primed it to get everything flowing...
1st few cranks.. nothing. Fixed a few errors here and there,
Next few cranks we were finally able to get the car on but only while pressing the gas and as soon as we let off it died.

By 9am we gave up because of the fact that we were waaay to tired and needed to catch some zzzz for the meet ina few hours.

But FINALLY Last night i got her runnin on her own to feet she idles great and sounds mean, ill post a vid of her idle during lunch.

I wasn't able to get DSMLink runnin because of the fact that the adapter i bought for the D9 port wasn't the recommended Keyspan adapter that i didn't find out about till now.

Now im only left with a few problems...
1. Coolant leak, since powdercoating made the water pipe thicker i couldn't get the oring to sit flush against the water housing so ill have to strip the powdercoat off.
2. New Clutch slave cylinder, the pedal keeps sticking to the floor
3. Keyspan adapter to hook up DSMlink
4. Also the RPM Tach seems to be off, at idle it stays at 0rpm but once you give it a little gas it moves up but definetly not where it should be. Anyone have any ideas on that?

But i definelty wanna thank!
crazy_quick for helping me out with everything and loaning the tools
ct78155 for all the powdercoating
hdoerr for the knocking out those motor mounts and helping but back the tranny(and sticking his thumb in the clutch )
turbosax2 for all my questions about the harness and HIS Thread for which i would never have had the inspiration to do this..
And for everyone who replied to this thread