well... friday I removed the TII starter since it was shitty again just to find that the spring-loaded contacts (whatever you call the little bars that replace the brushes) are just about completely worn down, so i steal the top cap and rotating bit (as well as the engaging solenoid) from an NA starter, reinstall, and it works great.



Sunday was putting together new OMP lines and inspecting the OMP itself (damn rain or i would have replaced the rad too)

 

what rpm?

 

That was at 9100.. The peak power was actually higher than that at a lower rpm, but the dyno rpm pickup was very intermittent, the graph disappeared going upward at 220' ish and then reappeard at the 223 going downward... The trailing spark is breaking up, I need 2 msd's on it..

Went to the track with it tonight, it honks pretty good for an N/a FC..

 

Resurfaced brake rotors goign on today, and starting to install the corksport FMIC and swap to a koyo radiator, put the ported WG exhaust housing on a new (to me) turbo after the compressor retaining bolt on my T04 hybrid came off and chewed the crap out of the compressor wheel... and if i have time, swap a FD torsen LSD into the TII diff case. Work's cut out for me the next few days

 

that car seems like its a really fun setup, and its simple too

 

I need a lsd for the rear diff, being a GX(se), it's a peg leg diff.. It roasts the 225/50/16 yoko a 520 pretty damn good.. I have a still way drag shifter in the car, it was cool for the beginning but what annoying on the highway rattling like made..

Yeah, its a really fun car to drive, apparently the Mercedes benz racer was complaing about being behind it at the start line, something about noise and fumes.

 

yesterday, pulled both motors.

one at like 5pm, other at like 4am.



tonight, replaced the injectors on the good block, redid some vacuum lines, swapped the good tranny on the good motor, and dropped it into the car.



tomorrow, hooking all that **** back up and buying some fluids.

 

Last night I wanted to hook up my Lokar stuff to my carb: throttle cable, bracket, and kickdown cable. Instead I spent my time ripping out the stock throttle cable (that little firewall clip was a bitch), and making a small plate to keep the new firewall connector from falling through the square hole.



Then torrential downpours start, while simultaneously we started getting presumably prank calls from someone claiming to be pregnant with my baby, and threatening to bomb our house. Yay!

 

yep, baldy, that was me. Im pregnant with your baby

 

wait, mercedes racer? i feel sorry for him already, he's prolly replaced 90% of the car to make it track worthy....



but yeah, those fart cans are really directional, jacks car was like that, 60db in front 130db in the back