Make slowboy not so slow

[asshanson]

Just rod bearings. I'm not taking the crank out or anything.

[v8klla]

OK cool yeah that pricing sounds right.

[asshanson]

Got the turbo and related parts all coated and picked them up. Also got the turbo rebuilt because it was apparently leaking/burning a decent amount of oil.

Tonight I got the xfer case and oil pan off, and it turns out my motor has a crank scraper. Should I keep this in there or get rid of it? I called the motor builder and he verified he installed one several years back.

E-PSI has been super dumb about shipping me new rings, so I'm calling Magnus first thing tomorrow and ordering directly from them since they had Ross make them originally. They couldn't tell me what rings were necessary until I had the exact piston numbers scratched onto the bottom, which is why I delved into it tonight.

Oil pan was super clean, and from what I've seen so far from the bottom of the motor the cylinder walls look really good still. I should have the head off tomorrow, hopefully I'll get some pics posted up.

[Febo]

My vote is keep the crank scraper. If your worried about oil leaking just make sure to RTV it right nice and proper.

[asshanson]

Got the head and intake manifold off tonight, took me about 3 hours. Not too bad considering it's my my first time doing the timing belt stuff with the motor in the car.

This also exposed all the brake lines in the engine bay so I decided to start on the ABS delete. I got the lines off the master, and removed all the lines to the proportioning valve. Now I just need to get to the store and get a 10mm flare wrench so I can remove the rusty front brake lines from the SS lines in the wheel wells. Should have that done tomorrow, and install the new non-ABS lines I got from Mitsu.

How do I get the ABS unit out of the fender area? Do I have to remove the bumper cover to get to all the bolts?

Anyone else care to comment on the crank scraper? I'm not really sure what it's benefits are, and if I'll actually need one making around 400-450 hp.

[turbotalon1g]

You will make more than that.
Good luck.

[asshanson]

I hate e85 right now. Bought some really clean used BlueMax 1350s about two months ago, put around 600 miles on them. And I get this shit, even though they are e85 "safe".

I'm going to do a tank of pump gas during motor break in and see if they clean up. Apparently people on the dsmlink forum have had good success with that cleaning them up. I'll also clean them up best I can with some carb cleaner.

I never had a huge issue with the 1600s building up goop, maybe it's the Iowa stations that have this junk in them, I always go to the same one here.

[scheides]

Ghey.

[Halon]

That is ghey. I'm really glad I haven't run into that yet. Yet another set of FIC's with the same issue. I swear 90% of the people having this issue are using those FIC injectors with the "belled" tip on them.

Are you in Iowa or MN? If you're here, I can lend you my flare wrench set.

[TkrPerformance]

I would call fic and talk to them about it.