ITS ALIVE!!!!

[ca18det240hatch]

Well....got it all together and dropped in.....started right up first crank (with teh cas hooked up that is..had to prime it of course)

got the timing set at 14 degrees, purrs like a kitten. Only thing left to fix is that i have an oil leak coming off the bottom of the turbo, pretty sure its the return....stupid gasket.

oil pressure is at 35 psi at idle, operating temp, then as soon as i touch the throttle it climbs to 80 psi very fast. Sound good?

Thank you float, Dee, r34 for your advice and help thru the whole process.

pics will be up once i get my powdercoated upper mani....it wasnt done so i had to use my old crappy upper manifold.


Modified by ca18det240hatch at 7:11 PM 4/16/2007

[ca18det240hatch]

Oh and another thing...my ignitor....does it need to be grounded? I notice the mount has rubber isolators on it....so im assuming no? In the position its in at the moment, grounding it would be very hard....stupid a.b.s.

[r34 gtr]

hotness! pics or ban!!!

you are welcome, i dont know what help i may have given but apparently it worked! oh, and your oil pressure is way better than mine.

[boost_boy]

Congrats! Now get some photos up so we can see the beast.

Dee

[RS12Turbo]

sweet............yeah, thats about what my oil pressure is at cruising speeds......seems high to me, but maybe not.As far as the ignitor.....when I pulled mine out of the clip, it had a ground wire with a ring terminal mounted between one of the isolators and sheet metal......I just transfered it the same way into my engine bay.

[Bwana]

Congrats! Now get some photos up so we can see the beast.

[ca18det240hatch]

http://s163.photobucket.com/al...240sx/

thats my photobucket...pics are all in there, including my friends sr20 we just finished.

his sr20 raped a srt8 lastnite on 15 psi

and btw, i know that upper intake is ugly, my good one is still being powdercoated, gunmetal to match the valve covers

[r34 gtr]

that sr looks clean as hell. i like your valve covers, but you need to get that upper manifold on there so it can be really hotness. well crap, you delivered! guess we can't ban you! haha.

[ca18det240hatch]

yep...i didnt wanna use that mani, but i wasnt gonna waste this weekend...and i really wanted to hear it run....badly. Now i cant wait to drive it...still got alotta **** to finish, gauge wiring, swapping over my coilovers from my old car to my new one, putting my leather interior from my old car to my new one, and gotta get tires on my advans (=

[ca18det240hatch]

heres some pics of the upper mani now that its done. The lower mani is the same color.

[ca18det240hatch]

Oh, and my spec Stage 3 clutch