Finally got my Evo

[LingLing]

Very nice Mike! You're definitely taking the smart route with your modifications. Can't wait to see this thing rip this year!

[scheides]

Sweet man! Did you yank the radiator or the turbine housing? Just curious which route you ended up taking :D

[goodhart]

haha, neither. I was going to do the turbine housing route, but the clamp that holds the turbo together was in THE WRONG position to be able to do that (nut on clamp was facing the block). Didn't have any coolant and it was getting late to make a run to the store, so I just did the knuckle busting method and took it out the bottom. Thank god I had a lift to work on it, Dan with the Blue mk3 Supra let me use his shop to do the work which was kick ass. He's a really cool old guy

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, lift FTW!

[scheides]

Wow. Even with a lift I don't know how its possible, so mad props goodhart!

[goodhart]

Well, the heat shields stayed off, the only one still on is the manifold heat shield. I unplugged the front o2 sensor from on top of the valve cover, then took that out on the bench. I just trimmed some of the heat shield off where there is just a hole for the o2 sensor and made it a notch so if I ever do put the shield back on I don't have to remove the o2.

The o2 sensor was an absolute twat to get out also. Used a TON of PB blaster, heat, etc and it still did not want to come out. The vice I had it in was welded to the table it was on and I actually broke the welds before the o2 came out! Got the vice clamped back down, got 2 people to hold onto it while another cranked and it finally came out. I actually had to un-pin the connector on it so we could slide a box end wrench over the wire to get on there, the o2 socket I was using was looking like it was going to break. So other than the hour spent on that, it went decently smooth :)

[cmspaz]

LOL, ask Scheides or Rosey about getting the sensor out of the housing on my old Talon... We ended up giving up.

[Matt D.]

I think I'm the only one around here who had the O2 sensor come out of the stock housing with very little effort.

[goodhart]

Yea, there was a short while where I wanted to give up, then the $376.70 price of a new front o2 sensor crossed my mind O_o

[LingLing]

Yea, there was a short while where I wanted to give up, then the $376.70 price of a new front o2 sensor crossed my mind O_o

The cost of replacing parts is always a good motivator. lol