Kornmanz's build. Finally.

[White Comet]

drill out the stripped screw and use a small nut and bolt, thats what i did on my last 2 s13s

[kornmanz]

just drill all the way through it basically?

[S133P3R]

looks f***ing good man! just grab the "ASIAN" bolt it at autozone/kragen/ whatever, i got one a while back, and boy i tell you i never new assortment of ASIAN NUTS would work out so well for me. oh and there are bolts and washers in the kits too. be sure to repaint those headlight shroud things while theyre out... maybe flat black will work with your skeme?

keep it going man!

[kornmanz]

Thanks.

Definitely going to re-paint the shroud and other random spots that need it. I also plan on trying to patch up my front bumper as much as I can and get it back on there so I'm not just rocking no front bumper.

Does anyone know how to connect oil pressure and oil temp gauges? I have two of them but have no idea how or where to hook them up to.

According to the previous owner there was a greddy sandwhich plate to hook them up to. But the previous owner has proven to be a total idiot so I dont trust what he says anymore.

[White Comet]

just drill all the way through it basically?

yep

[kornmanz]

Sounds like a good idea I dont know why I didnt think of that sooner. ha.

[kornmanz]

And sorry everyone for the 1st page pictures not working. My photobucket isnt premium and I have no money to upgrade so its staying as is. I took off my pics from places that were taking up the most bandwith though so next month this thread should stay up.

[S133P3R]

what tailights are thosE? ebays or dmaxs?

[kornmanz]

honestly, I dont know. Came with the car.

[kornmanz]

So I didnt get to do s*** today. lol found another surprise when I took apart the turbo from the manifold to replace the bolts.



oohh sexy..

Then as I tried taking off the other bolts to replace them with the new ones one broke and one is stuck.

[mRodiek]

Ouch^^ that sucks, bad luck is a b**** aint it? Ive been having some of that lately, well I like your car man & lookin forward to seein more updates

[kornmanz]

Thanks man. I also found another few awesome surprises while trying to hook up the power steering. The previous owner decided to cut the high pressure lines associated with the power steering. I guess he really didnt want power steering because now I have to order all new everything and re-run all the lines.

I'll get a pic up later to show the damage he did.

NEVER and I repeat NEVER buy anything off of a guy named Dino Crnkic

[kornmanz]

oh yeah and if anyone is wondering why my manifold is so dirty its because there was some heat wrap on it when I got the car. As I go to take the manifold off the heat wrap turns into dust and leaves behind nastry residue on the manifold. I'll clean it up nice and good along with the turbo before I put it back together.

[gregfarz78]

Never understood why people spend so much money on engine mods then rattle can primer their car thats actually worse for it than just leaving it multi color, primer retains moisture which will all know is bad for our 240s. I'd rather leave it looking like crap till I was ready for real paint or at least do the rust-oleum paint job anything is better than primer. Nice car otherwise thats just a pet peeve of mine

[kornmanz]

it is a rust-oleum flat black paint job not primer.

[S133P3R]

[kornmanz]

[kornmanz]

Massive update incoming! Got her runnin today.

[kornmanz]

so I got some tools I would need:

using the penetrating oil I was able to get those stubborn bolts off easily. Was a peace of cake with vice grips.

After getting them off the thread was f'd inside the manifold. Went and got a thread chaser. Wanted to get some machine oil too but I didnt have the money to afford it. The guy at the hardware store said wd40 would work the same so I got that. 2 bucks.



Then i cleaned up the manifold.

If you ever have to do this MAKE SURE you clean the threader as it goes through. Cause if you dont when you bring the threader back through the thread it just leaves the gunk inside and makes putting in the bolts hard.



Followed your guys' advice with threadlocker. got the strongest s*** there was.

Put the bolts in by hand. Was easy after a good cleaning

cleaned up the turbo best as I could

bolted this s*** up sick. Thread locker on the locking nuts too. This b**** aint coming off.



My homie trying his hardest to get that damn oil line onto that side of the turbo. If that is indeed an oil line.

bolted it up.

Then noticed the washers werent on the bolts. So I went back and re-did that.

She's comin back together:

Plugged back in the battery, got the fuel and other fluids pumping through the car. Fixed a fuel leak I had from putting on one of the tubes too far up the piping. Then cranked it, started right up. After the sound from the dying starter.

She was spitting, misfiring a bit and was bogging a bit when i came to a stop.

In the next few days I'll get footage of the tuning process. From cleaning the injectors, spark plugs and tuning the safc2 tuner and adjusting the boost.

[safin]

cool build

[kornmanz]

thanks man

[Brycicles]

Nice build. Jerks for leaving bolts and nuts off, that could have been bad..

[kornmanz]

oh yeah I've found alot of small problems with this car. The previous owner really built this like crap and I'm working to fix that.

whenever I find my digital camera I'll update this thread. I've been doing some work to this beast.

for being at 6 pounds of boost this car RIPS it.

[kornmanz]

So I had to take the intake mani/throttle body off to get to a tube that leaked all my anti-freeze out of the car.



You can see it sticking out right here:

Fuel rail off:

Damn that is dirty:

[kornmanz]

got it fixed then started driving it and the car was hissing again. I think its the thermostat thats bad and isnt allowing coolant through.

Probably got seized up when my car had no fluids the other day.

[mzeo]

update?

[breadbox]

He needs a new diff, to diagnose a weird noise, and fix some hacked wiring.

But hopefully he will get everything fixed soon. Low funds too. Like us all it seems.

[SirSilvia]

schweet. hope you get this "finished" since everyone knows you're never finished

[kornmanz]

Yeah basically what happened is shortly after getting it running again I drove it for about a month and started hearing bad grinding from the rear of the vehicle and had some serious vibration. Some people were telling me it was my u-joints on the driveshaft and most likely the differential.

I had no money for a loooong time as you can see its been almost a year since anyone has posted in this thread.

I recently got money. So here's the continuation of this thread:

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[OM3GA]

Nice progress.