Got back in last night from Miami with everything. I don't think I can afford to take a day off to finish the car until next thursday though.

You'll get it. No reason to worry about it.

I dont think I can hold my breath for that long...

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LOL. I got permission to use the work lift saturday after work so I am hoping to get the turbos on and the motor back in then. The rest of the smaller **** will have to wait.

Speaking of small ****. The turbosmart oil pressure regulator is tiny lol.

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I have it mounted up so I can run the new oil feed lines.

So this isn't necessary if you are using the stock height engine mounts. The Z1 mounts I have are cranked up all the way for a little better steering shaft clearance. What this does unfortunately is put the compressor outlet right up next to the frame instead of mostly in the gap between the frame rail and subframe.

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Some 2" welded to the compressor outlet, it also drops the outlet down about a half inch. This get's past the choke point between the frame and the engine mount.

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My new sensor feed block. I will be feeding this from the M8x1.25mm port on the passenger side of the block. I am doing it this way so I have sensors being fed from one location and the turbos being fed from the original oil pressure sensor port.

Installing the aftermarket actuators onto the stock turbos I noticed that the drivers side actuator rod was easy to pull vs the passenger side. Not sure if that has anything to do with the failure but the stock actuators went back on.

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The drivers side requires modification.

Look's like I have all the small stuff out of the way and will just need to redo the lines on the day.

What a long night.

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Pulled the motor, then got to work redoing all the coolant lines and oil feeds for the turbos. Luckily I only had to completely remake one coolant line.

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So I made a miscalculation. I needed to drop the compressor outlet down a full 2". I am trying to find some 2.5" today to make the drop down.

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Everyone in their home

Left to do
Bleed brakes
Fix drivers side hot pipe
Install drivers side cold pipe
Install shifter
Install downpipes & mid pipe

Everything is good to go! Drove it home gently, had a heart attack seeing some smoke but remembered one down pipe was full of oil.

Will get the AC recharged tomorrow and back to enjoying it

Back into tuning and logging, still on wastegate and that is only 9psi. My gosh it feels so slow. Can't wait to get some more boost under it's belt and wake it up

I think I'm just gonna give up on this mod life.

Parked the car to run into somewhere to get some food. Come out and it won't start.

Both key lights are on, stays stuck in the ON position. Battery is tested as good, changed the battery in the keyfob.

Wonder if there is a way to disable the immobilizer.

As usual I am my own worst enemy.

The 12mm nut on the alternator lead by the battery was loose and this caused the the main 140amp fuse to blow.

I have it bridged with an amplifier fuse for the moment until the oem one reaches.

I've found it helpful to print out the diagram pages on the FSM and manually check off every bolt or nut that I've torqued down.

So I am just about at rage quit point. A rod bearing has let go.

I noticed some extra material on the magnetic bung, way more than the first drain. Assumed it was from the destroyed turbo bearing. Looks like it was from that and more I guess. I cannot in good conscience blame the builder as up until the turbo failure it has been a great motor.

Found a stock long block on ebay. Will get that brought in and swap everything over. As time allows next year I'll have the built motor repaired.

Sorry man!!!

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That sucks a bag full of dongs :( Sorry to hear.

Must be one hell of a big "bug."

Also quite sad to hear about this. Like ya said earlier, the moral to this story is "don't buy used turbos."

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yeah I took a big L on this one.

Anyway a nice low milage (39k supposedly) q70 motor was sourced from good old eBay.

I want my ******* horse power back damn it

SOB, man. Sorry to read this news.

The long block is in Miami so hopefully in the next 3 weeks or so it will be here.

In also better news my wheels arrived yesterday

19x10 weighs 28.8lbs
19x12 weighs 30.6lbs

They weigh a little more than I imagined but I guess 6.8lbs heavier for the 12's and 5lbs heavier for the 10's than the Sport 19x10's isn't too bad.

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That's a big chonk

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3.75" of lip in the rear

I didn't take any pics of the front yet. I am gonna do the whole 2x4 test fitment tonight after work and confirm my math was correct

Well I done goofed every so slightly.

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19x12's definitely need 6-8mm less offset than 20mm. Will have to roll the fenders or run a slight bit more negative camber.

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Traction rod clearance is great

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Shock clearance ok as well

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Caliper clearance for days

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That's alot of wheel

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I am officially in love with this wheel :happydance:

Don't blame you, love the new wheels! Look forward to seeing them on the car!! :tup:

Not down and out yet.

Finally got the stock long block and stripped it of the wiring harness, manifolds and oil pan. I will be getting the car towed back to work some time this week and get started on the swap saturday afternoon and driving sunday.

I have a new oil cooler core I need to get from Fedex and thanks to Husam for shipping a pilot bearing and clutch alignment tool to my brother to bring back this weekend.

Tire rack had a special on Cooper Zeon RS3-S tires, $583 for the set in 275/35R19 and 325/30R19 so they should get here in ~2 weeks.

Should have some reliable hp for christmas

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Almost got it all back together yesterday, didn't bring my torque wrench from home so I couldn't torque the flywheel bolts. I should at least have the motor and transmission mated up tonight. Borrowing the space/lift from a sister company and I know my boss will be less than amused it's there during the week.

Almost there! I don't know if it's the fear of defeat again but I could have finished it last night but didn't.

I've got the rad support and all associated stuff, intercooler, piping and fluids to install. The alternator connector clip was broken so I need to depin the one that came on the donor motor and swap over so I wont have issues with voltage.

Coolant is bled, no leaks, ac is cold and most importantly the oil pressure is good.

This motor is really really quiet. I couldn't mess with it too long earlier but all that's left is to put the front wheels back on and the headlights & bumper. Hmm I have some stoptech braided rear lines I could do while it's in the air

That is good news to read. Might as well toss on the lines while everything is out of the way.

Confirmed all is well with Husam doing some data logging and he has now cleared me for wot pulls.

Currently chasing a breaking up issue. Changed the plugs and gapped them down to 0.7mm. Fuel pressure is good when it happens so I will try changing the fuel.

Looks like it was a coil. But now I still have a misfire on cyl4. Swapped coils but the problem stayed with cyl 4, use a spare coil and plug to confirm the connector was getting signal and the plug fires.

I will be checking the fuel injector tonight and swapping that to another cyl and see if the problem follows.

Turns out I didn't seat the injector connector on cyl 4 properly.

All is going well now and I will be getting the car on the scales to get some "accurate" virtual dyno numbers after all is said and done

Got the tires finally. Cooper Zeon RS3-S in 285/35 and 325/30.

I had to raise the front of the car up which was expected and something I needed to do anyway. While I was concerned about the rear fitment earlier, it actually worked perfectly with the 325's.

Initially after a day of rolling the mold release out of them and only being on wastegate boost (9-10psi) they are impressing me so far.

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Lookin good man!

Looks like I have run out of MAF since I used 2.75" intercooler piping and not 3" so Husam is doing hybrid MAF and Speed density.

Pretty happy with the progress so far :tup:

Should be ready to empty the tank and fill up with VP X98 on the weekend. We don't get pump E85 here so the flex fuel stuff is mainly for race day since it still ends up cheaper than MS109 with better results

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Got the car on the scales finally. This is with a full tank of gas, no spare tire stuff in the trunk, drivers seat swapped out for a Bride Vios3 and sparco seat base.

Not TOO bad but I do need to make some adjustments to even out the diagonal weights

Pretty close to what my Nismo was when weighed it a couple years ago. It was 3450 with me in it and a full tank of gas. I still had the factory passenger seat and Sparco race seat. Everything else was the same as yours.:tup:

I'm not sure what I can even do about weight loss since most of the panels are aluminum, 2 piece rotors are pretty much it? I don't think I will worry about it too much since the car is awesome at this power level and I can turn on the AC and cruise.

One thing you can do but is get a lightweight battery. That will knock about 25 or better pounds out of the front end.

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I didn't even think of that for some reason.

https://antigravitybatteries.com/pro...-oem/atx30-rs/

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Pump gas tune is sorted and I gotta say I'm pretty ******* happy

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Grain of salt and what have you with virtual dyno but there aren't any dyno's on the island so this will have to do. It's damned fast and 3rd is the only time i see traction.

We have moved on to an ethanol map today, currently the innovate content gauge says 80% content. I drained the tank by disconnecting the line at the filter under the car and tried to start the car so it would run out what was left but the car would not start after the drain.

Poured in 15gals of VP X98 so there was still some pump gas left so once I top it up with some more hopefully it will rise above the 80%.

I bet this thing is a riot to drive.
Are you going to run a boost by gear tune?