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TBatt

Sweet! Thanks!!

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TBatt

Y pipe has arrived. One more box to go!

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TBatt

Well it's Sunday night and after a couple of very good margarita's I've decided to update the thread.

Lots of interruptions during the build so it isn't going very fast.

Friday was the oil cooler day and it went pretty smooth. The hardest part is getting the sandwich plate on with the hoses attached. You have to be very careful that you don't cross-thread the coupler bolt. Fired the engine up and no leaks. The rest of Friday was taking the intake manifold off before heading out to a concert recording which went off without a single problem.

Saturday morning my buddy Jim came over at 7am (yes, he is that good of a friend!). We started tackling the fuel pump mods. That wasn't fun at all. It is so hard to get to and difficult to maneuver the fuel pump out. The big hold up was getting the saddle tank hose off. The locking clip had rotated around where I could not get to it. I finally got a small screwdriver in there to rotate the clip so I could squeeze it. Wile this was going on gas was dripping on the blue O-ring that you are not supposed to get gas on........ as soon as I got the pump out I quickly washed the O-ring with soap and water. I'm not sure which caused the O-ring to swell but it did and it would not allow the pump to sit down low enough to get the screws back on the retaining ring, of which one of them rolled off into the lost screw void and was never seen again. Working on the fuel pump is best done with two people. There are several three handed moments and even a couple of four handed ones too. Jim and I worked till noon and then had to stop while I went to a another recording job that afternoon. We had gotten all of the fuel system work done including the injectors so it was a good stopping point.

Sunday morning I started back on my own getting the new intake manifold on. I found it very easy to do. I have a inspection camera (Harbor Freight $69.99 and no person working on cars shouldn't have one) and it made the job MUCH easier. All in all, I had the new intake on in about an hour. I would gladly do two, maybe three of those jobs compared to the fuel pump. Maybe it's just me, but the fuel pump was a huge PITA compared to the intake.

Thing progressed right along until I got the air-to-air intercooler. I found that the kit is difficult to figure out without instructions. TopgunZ is sending them to me tomorrow. I just could not figure out what silicone coupler went where. Very confusing even looking at the pictures posted. Me not being able to figure this out lead to the margaritas. I was hungry and had to eat so my wife and I headed to our favorite Mexican restaurant.

Tomorrow I hope to finish everything up except the gauge installation. I'll probably save that for next weekend.

I'll add in pictures later. I just realized that my camera was set to high res and the pictures are too big to upload. Time to do some resizing in Photoshop. Here are some pics from Jim's Iphone.

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TopgunZ

You should have called me earlier to walk through the couplers. Also, I should have sent the work instructions, my apologies.

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TBatt

No problem, I needed a break. Hopefully I'll get her done today.

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TopgunZ

Just sent you the Work Instructions.

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TBatt

Thanks! Working through some of the issues now. I did decide to take the night off after figuring out the solution to the Y-pipe problem. A big old hammer and a wood wedge fixed that SOB.

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EVOHUNTER

Good job TBATT, the hardest part was the fuel pump for me aswell.

Your almost there!

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TBatt

Thanks! I'm looking forward to the engine start. I hope that fuel pump is okay. We had to seal it in with a bead of RTV since the o-ring had swelled up and the local dealer did not have one in stock. Special order that would take 1-2 weeks. I was afraid to ask the price.

I just ordered a oil catch can. I didn't care to have the crankcase being vented by just a filter. I had just a filter on my autoX car and it still got a oil mist on the engine. That was with a NA twin carb setup, with boost I'm expecting even more. Summit Racing had a nice CF one for a reasonable price.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/m...c-cf/overview/

Tonight I hope to have the Y-pipe with the MAFs installed. The fit is really tight the way I ran into the throttle body coolant lines so they are going to go away. I just need to get a barbed fitting to connect the left and right side coolant lines together. I'll pick one up on the way home.

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TBatt

Here is a link to the inspection camera I used.

Digital Inspection Camera

HF puts these on sale regularly for $69.99. You will find so many uses for this camera! The end is small enough to go through the sparkplug hole along with the 90 degree mirror so you can inspect cylinder walls.

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TopgunZ

You can just delete the coolant to the throttle bodies. I mean, you are in Alabama.

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TBatt

Yep, that is what I did last night, removed to TB coolant lines. They had to go as they were in the way of the Y-pipe along with several cables and the windshield washer filler neck. The Y-pipe is finally on but it sure put up a fight. I wound up having to spread the ends further apart in order to get both clamps on. My wood wedge and hammer trick worked out well to spread the ends and did very little springing back.

Getting both of those couplers on at the same time is also a challenge!

Now I need to get the Y-pipe to intercooler coupler on. The 45 degree coupler (short one) is too long and will need to be trimmed. Sliding excess lengths of silicone couplers on to these pipes is not fun. I got the coupler on but it just won't slide any further up the y-pipe so I need to take it back off and trim it a couple of inches. I would have had it done last night but I had to go to a HOA meeting about our 4th of July party.

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TBatt

I did have the carb on my old Honda Civic freeze up once. We have high humidity during the winter. The humidity will cause a carb or throttle body to ice up as the air expands passing the throttle plate. Up North, you guys have dry air winters most of the time but colder temps. At least that has been my experience in Illinois and North Dakota.

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TopgunZ

I am going to put the couplers on for the rest of the guys that get this. They did make them pretty tight.

Heres the best trick in the world for ANY tough coupler. WINDEX!! If you spray some windex on the pipe before sliding it on it will slip on like butter. The methanol in the windex will evaporate it quickly after. This is how i have always done mine.

I should probably put that in the Work Instructions.

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TBatt

Got all of the hoses on!!

I could not get the 45 degree coupler to work coming off of the SC so I used a 90 and it worked perfect. I also managed to get the pinch weld cleared out from under the SC by careful use of my saws-all and dremel tool. Mainly I cut the pinch weld on both sides of the Volute exhaust and then used the dremel tool with a carbide cutting disc to cut partially through the metal so I could grab it with a needle nose vise grip and simply fold the metal over. Took about 15 minutes and I did not have to remove the SC.....again.

You can see my BOV muffler. I hope it works.

I need to get a 3/8 barbed union to connect two water lines together and I think I'm done installing. Far from finished yet though. Tomorrow night will be the ECU reflash and water lines then I'll be ready to fire the beast up.

Time for a tall rum and coke and then a shower.

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