Project Lex

[Halon]

Well one last glitch I've been trying to work out is cranking. Sometimes it starts a little rough. While troubleshooting last night, the car just shut off and wouldn't restart. Narrowed it down to loss of spark.
Shane was nice enough to lend me the coil and ignitor off his SC300. Turns out my ignitor died. New one from a parts store is 300-400 bucks :( So looks like I'll be checking the local junk yards :D
Big thanks to Shane for lending me the stuff!

Also, it looks like DB's dyno schedule is a bit busy, so I may opt to not get it tuned before doing the turbo, since it does seem to be running fairly well overall as-is. Bolted the turbo up to the mani today just to see if there is any clearance issues with the compressor housing hitting the manifold. It clears like this, so this is prolly how it will end up being aimed. I also put one picture showing it clocked to the point that it hits the #1 runner.

http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11395&stc=1&d=1301527070
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11396&stc=1&d=1301527070
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[95talonracer]

Looking sweet. Are you going to ceramic coat the mani? Or have the welds reinforced by someone at all? Polish the compressor cover? Turbo blanket? Since you have to take the cams out to put the new head studs in anyways, are you doing cams or just leaving stock ones? NOZZZ?

[19TsiAwd90]

Looking sweet. Are you going to ceramic coat the mani? Or have the welds reinforced by someone at all? Polish the compressor cover? Turbo blanket? Since you have to take the cams out to put the new head studs in anyways, are you doing cams or just leaving stock ones?
took all the questions i was gonna ask, i would really like a ride in this thing when its done =)

[A//// Guy]

Bling bling mutafuka!

[awd-drifter]

snaps brandon! that a t88!! lolol. lookin' and soundin' good man.

[Halon]

Looking sweet. Are you going to ceramic coat the mani? Or have the welds reinforced by someone at all? Polish the compressor cover? Turbo blanket? Since you have to take the cams out to put the new head studs in anyways, are you doing cams or just leaving stock ones? NOZZZ?

Yeah I plan on having Primo coat the manifold black eventually. Have been waiting though until I figure out the wastegate situation. It's currently flanged for a ballin HKS wastegate which I more than likely won't be buying. So I was either going to chop it off and have a different flange welded on, or just make an adapter flange. If I end up chopping it, I want to wait until I do that before coating it.

The welds, I was planning on leaving it as-is. Might be a good idea to have a local shop look it over quick though just to see what they think. Compressor cover, I think I'll be leaving it as-is for now. But it'd be nice to get it polished in the future. Turbo blanket is definately something I've been considering. It's already coated from Primo, but having a blanket as well wouldn't hurt I'd think. And knowing me, I'll probably go find the cheapest one that can be over-nighted from Chiiiyynahh.

Cams, I'm staying stock for now. Reason being is I really like a nice idle now a days. So I want to change as little is possible. Once I get it running good turboed on stock cams, then I'll consider dropping in some better cams. I haven't even researched them yet so no clue what I'll get at this point.

And definately no Naaawwwsss :) I'm scared of that sh!t.

snaps brandon! that a t88!! lolol. lookin' and soundin' good man.
Borg Warner baybay :D

[Halon]

Worked on the cranking issue I had today. I changed some of my noise filtering settings and hopefully everything will work a little better now. For fun, here's a couple screen shots from my new USB O'scope. I tried using the logic analyzer but wasn't succeeding. But this is the O-Scope signal. Kinda cool :)

While Cranking, you can see everything increase as you crank and it starts up.
http://msextra.com/forums/download/file.php?id=17986


Close up of the first crank pulse upon cranking. You can see I measured it's time and it measured 11us.
http://msextra.com/forums/download/file.php?id=17987

[Halon]

Well, the time has come... Turbo Time !!

I parked her in the driveway. Cleaned out the garage where she'll be parked for the next couple months. Jacked her up and gave her a good underbody cleaning/degreasing before starting work.

http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11412&stc=1&d=1301777105
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Parked and up on jack stands
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11418&stc=1&d=1301777105

The parts stash that I've been slowly accumulating over the past few months. Finally get to put them to use :)
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11413&stc=1&d=1301777105
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11415&stc=1&d=1301777105

[Halon]

Got to spend a couple hours on her this evening. Here's where she sits today. TB is almost off, but there's one coolant hose on the IM side still hooked to it that seems to be a little tricky...

http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=11420&stc=1&d=1301800319

[b00sted_spyder]

Looks good. Any plans on swapping out to the newer bumpers?