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Who built the turbo? That's an eBay turbine housing on it. I would just run a Walbro 255, that will be plenty for the 18g. That head does indeed look rough as is, will you be sending it out to get cleaned up and checked out? It may be fine underneath all that carbon and rust.

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Why do you say its an ebay turbine housing?

I had the info from the guy on tuners on who had rebuilt it..but i cant find it anywhere..but you saying its an ebay housing kinda makes sense. That would explain why someone welded spacers onto the wastegate bracket.


As far as the head goes...its more than just what i have in the pictures. Cams are rusted, rockers look horrid, and i dont even wanna know what kind shape the lifters are in. But i got a buddy that has a complete 7 bolt head that he was gonna sell me. So i just planed on doing that than eventually completely rebuilding this other one

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I def plan on still getting the 255 and afpr...but its either $200 for a new head or a $300 for a pump and afpr setup. I just cant do both right now. Which sucks.

And i def plan on keeping boost low. I am hoping that the wastegate is around 10 psi. Ive been trying to find out exactly how low the wastegate is set but i get different answers all over the place.

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$200 for a stock head seems a bit much, I sold my stock 2g head for under $50 to Brandon (Halon). It just needed a resurface from a blown headgasket but otherwise fine.

If you have limited funds, find a cheap stock head in good condition and run a smallish fuel pump on whatever injectors you want. The injectors have nothing to do with if you need to run an aftermarket FPR. If you decide to run a 255 right away, the pump could overrun the stock regulator and you'll get a bit of extra fuel at idle, but nothing that will ruin your motor. If you have to decide between a head or regulator, buy the head and just run a stock regulator for now.

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I thought the price might be a bit much on the head but he wont budge on the price. And i havent been able to find one somewhere else. There is a guy on tuners selling some but he wants $150 for them.

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The wastegate arm is round, and where the arm comes out of the housing, it sticks out extra far. On an OEM housing, the flapper arm is square, and it doesn't come out of the housing as far.

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Ah, Got ya. Thanks for that info.


So on the head situation, a guy on tuners has one, $150 plus shipping. And its complete minus valve cover. He sent pics and it looks good.

I found another one, supposedly great shape, $225 shipped.

I dont know what to do cause I dont wanna over pay, but I dont have much time to think on it.

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Well. I found a head for cheaper. Another friend had one laying around as he 6 bolt swapped his 2g.

Also, I finally got rid of my beater civic, and my non running stratus so I was able to order a 255 pump and AFPR. So for now the fuel setup is taken care of.

Now I am just playing the waiting game. Waiting on parts from all over. lol. Hopefully soon I will have something.

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Thats awesome 2 cars for a pump and afpr ahaha i love us car guys

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Yeah. And its not like i got rid of good cars lol. The stratus was the one I posted about not running. The civic was gonna be a fun car. But it had major rust issues. So it had to go lol.

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Well. Started to get some parts at the house so I figured I would get some work done. First I had to go over to my buddy's garage and redo the steering column wiring on his 69 dodge pickup. So once I got that done we pushed the eclipse back in.

I quickly started getting parts off the car. Took both fenders off, hood off, pulled carpet out. I hate seeing that this was a black car and had such a shitty paint job done on it.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps10823ec2.jpg

I also wanted to get one thing done while I had nothing in the way. So I welded up the trans mount I got from Fejery4491..he was awesome enough to go out, cut off the one on his parts car and send it to me.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps1bb7fde2.jpg

So I am gonna let that sit tonight. Than tomorrow I will run the new to me engine bay harness I got. And hopefully get the ecu in and floor pans cleaned up.

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any plans to repaint car? sorry dont know if you've stated that in the thread already lol

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Not right now at this time. I do want to repaint it. But want to get it running and driving first. I work at a body shop so i have the tools and supplies to paint it. But when I do paint it, its gonna be down for a bit. Mainly cause we will be pulling all the windows out and doing it right.

As for right now. we are going to sand down the car and just shoot a quick sealer primer over it. The paint booth at work is tied up for the next couple months. So I gotta wait.

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You're doing an awesome job bringing this car back!

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Nice, it should be badass when all done

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Glad to see that trans mount in there! Glad I was able to help. Car looks great, keep up the good work!

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Thanks for the compliments guys. I only wish I could bring this car to a level of some of the builds I see on here. I envy some of the work you guys do.

But sadly, I still have a lot to learn on some things, so i do what I can. And when I hit a road block, i just get on here to look through the builds to get some more motivation.

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We all can learn more man, if I had a dime for everytime I wanted to throw a wrench at the evo...

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Well..Got the engine and all the parts over to the garage tonight. Now hopefully I will have the energy to get some things together soon. I am probably gonna wait till this weekend to get parts on. But we will see.

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Well..Finally got some time to work on the car a bit today. First off I assembled most of my intake. Still gotta find my throttle body. I know I had one lay with the rest of the parts, but all I can find is my 1g one.

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/v...ps9bddd185.jpg

I think it looks ok.

I also started running the engine bay wiring harness that I got. And I also received my head today. So now I should be starting to get alot done.