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oh yea, I have quite a few FFWD parts on this build now!

Right now they have about 5/32 left on the all season Continental's. Those will stay on for the break in/dyno and once they're burned off I'll get something for the street. Once things get serious I plan on getting some M&H Racemaster's for the front.


Brakes, I believe it has 1g big brakes on it right now, so I'll probably just throw some decent pads in there until s1ngletracker finishes his Cobra brake brackets.

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Ok, this one has me overthinking a bit.

The stock coolant return pipe won't work for my setup and it's too close to the turbine housing for me to feel comfortable using rubber so I'm going to do a braided line. I plan on doing a banjo to -6AN to replicate the stock piece and loop it behind to the water pipe.

Anyways, I need a fitting that will work with the water pipe flare. So I'm looking for -6AN to M16x1.5, with the M16 end having a flare like the stock piece so it'll seal.
Looking at
THIS part here, hoping it'll work. Thoughts?

TLDR; Need the correct fitting to go into the water pipe and connect to a 6AN on the other end with the correct flare to seal in the water pipe. (I'm pretty sure they are both 37° flares)


It will be replacing this:
http://www.jnztuning.com/images/MD117764.JPG

Re: Goodhart's budget beater 1g
 

Another deal I couldn't pass up. Still no time to work on anything lately. The wife has me painting the whole upstairs of the house this week.

https://scontent.ffsd1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...fe&oe=57E5449C

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Awesome, and totally feel ya on the whole no time thing!

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Nice pick up. Some day you will get it done. It's been none stop house work over here. No time for any of my projects. Can't wait to see how your car turns out. Should be fun roosting the tires on the highway. Sure miss my old dsms. Well some days.

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Buy my turbos!

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Siiiiick!

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Ugh, I feel ya....painting sucks!!!

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Full day of painting + brakes on the DD. Long day of no Talon progress! haha

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Lol I got off work early, that was poop, random house stuff, sprinkler maintenance, and lawnmower tune up.

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Oldmanstyle.com :blind:

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Well, I got the engine in. Now I wait for more parts. Next I need to put on the flywheel and clutch assembly, but first I need flywheel bolts and the spacer plate for my aluminum flywheel so the bolts don't chew it up. I have a whole list of things I need but I'm not going to write a novel so here it is.

-Axle seals
-A/C delete spacer for axle bracket
-TOB clip
-Axle carrier bolts (to back of block)
-Stake nuts for transmission (still haven't torqued them to spec)
-Pressure plate bolts
-OEM throw out bearing
-Radiator and heater core hoses
-Transmission mounting bolts (because the shell I started with had some hardware store bullshit with wrong length bolts and washers, etc holding the trans on) :nope:


Once I get the trans in, I can run the harness. If everything on the harness reaches and doesn't need any wires lengthened I can start putting the rest of the car together. I do need to re-do the nasty solder job on the 2g maf connector on this harness from the laser partout, other than that it's pretty decent.

The biggest thing that sucks about building a car from basically a bare shell is tracking down all the correct nuts and bolts for everything. It is time consuming and really adds up in the long run cost wise. :violin:


https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...4b&oe=579E1475

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That's easy, Ive got a bucket of nice clean bolts that I have saved at the shop. Come and pick out what you need!

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I'm trying to stick to oem hardware where it matters, is it at least random mitsu stuff?

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Hyundai, Toyota, and Honda mainly. Most of them has the same thread pitch as Mitsubishi. The only Mitsubishi that we have is a galant and an outlander. The galant is a rusty POS while the outlander was already torn apart before I got there. I try to keep all of the rust-free clean metric bolts. I'm sure you can find quite a few bolts in the pile that will work. If you change your mind, let me know.

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Don't forget about www.rockauto.com when it comes to the OEM-replacement stuff like TOB, axle seals, hoses, etc! A quick Google search will always yield a 5% discount code too.

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Iam cleaning the garage and have lots of bolts from my dsms. Your welcome to have.

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Yea shit, that works! I'll hit you guys up when I'm in your respective areas. Hughes, I'm going rockauto with as much stuff as I can! I've found a lot of items are being discontinued though. :(

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I have OEM flywheel bolts if you want them, maybe you can convince Brandon to pick them up on his way back to MN, he's going to drive right by my house.

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Pretty sure I have some bolts lying around here too.

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I use partsgeek.com as well as rockauto.

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That works! I can get them from him some day after work, he's only about 3 miles from work.

I'll take whatever you got!

I've used them as well, another good site.

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Sorry, B just got back to MN. I can box them up and ship in a tiny box? It would prob only be a few bucks, but if you find someone else in MN who has them obviously that's better. Just let me know.

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padded envelope might be cheaper and faster.

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Well, since I haven't ordered any of the little shit I need I figured I might as well get started on the shittiest part of the project. The harness. I really kicked around the idea of getting this but the cost would push back the project into at least fall/winter for completion. I can always do that at a later date. So I'm going to make due with what I have, which isn't too bad considering the age of everything.

Here's the oil pressure/alternator section. All chewed up, needs some new wires.
https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...47&oe=57DED4C3



Here is what I thought was some other hack job, but it seems as if it's factory. the connection seems strong so I'll just throw some better shielding on it and seal it back up.
https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...0e&oe=57C5140F

https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...ee&oe=57DABA84



CAS:

https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...95&oe=57CC3A87

2g MAF solder job. All of it is buried in electrical tape. I'll have Matt D. re-solder and heat shrink it. :(
https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...2a&oe=57E54168

And then I labeled everything. Took me a while to figure it all out since it's been so long, but I found a few very helpful threads on tuners supplemented by the fsm. I will likely do as little as possible to make this work with the previous tuck job because I would like this car on the road. Not going for pretty, as long as everything works I'm happy. :) I have someone who has offered their services in helping me solder things and get good electrical connections in the crappy parts of the harness here since it is not my strong suit.


https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...60&oe=57CE4CB5