Busted butt getting the engine primed yesterday. Honestly, it was a pivotal moment to the path of near term success. The engine was extremally tight, to the point I needed a breaker bar to get the engine to turn over. My suspicion was that the engine had either spun a rod bearing OR that the engine was dry. Thankfully, it was just dry and pressurizing the whole system with oil made it smooth as butter. The engine was triple checked at every step of the way during engine assembly so I would have been crushed if it was something I missed.
After the engine was primed the engine was rolled over by the starter. The push to start, brake press, and key fob all work together like OEM with the MS3Pro standalone after a bit of wiring, VERY cool that it's working like that. Unfortunately I found out that the Braille battery is flat so I need a new battery.
After pressurizing and rolling the system over we noticed some oil seeping from an oil return and a small pool under the car. I think that the small pool was from the oil filter because that wasn't even hand tight. As for the fitting.... I'm shocked that any of them would even leak because I put those on with beast strength... oh well. Guess I get to do it again. I REALLY hope that the oil cooler and accusump don't leak because that's under a rats nest.
MS3Pro came through with REALLY fast shipping for the coil bracket and plug and play coil wiring. The new coil bracket location drops the coils down away from the throttle body so wiring was able to be plugged in. Bummer that I paid for the Motion Raceworks brackets and powder coated them... but the new billet brackets look REALLY nice.
Last thought...
I spilled 1qt minimum on the floor trying to fill the pressurizing tool... the inlet was small and then it burped oil all over.
