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Picked up old man Hill's Thermal muffler, a recirc'd fp intake, and a set of clean stock cams last weekend. Now when I have some time, I can install the cams, gears, etc and get the timing belt on. I still need to clean up one of my valve covers too, maybe get it powdercoated and put that on.

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Nice.

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Got the motor timed. I had been having a hell of a time getting it set, the crank kept ending up a tooth off. Took a few days off and gave it another shot and it ended up being perfect. Also got some more crap bolted onto it. I sold the 16g a whole back, so I picked up a turbo that will better suit my needs and bought the hardware and oil feed/return for it this morning. Also having the neighbor guy powdercoat the dipstick tube and water pipe just for shits. He's cheap and does good work. Baby will be here any day now, so it will likely be a while until any more progress is made.

Intake mani, motor mount, pulleys on
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Exhaust mani on
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JMF coil bracket
https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/...39057675_n.jpg

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So clean Goody!!

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Nice.
You might want the pulleys off for installation.
Did you get longer plug wires to reach that bracket? Is that there since you are using a 2g setup?
Looks really good. Just a few mins every day man it's close.

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Nah just got a good deal on it. And it looks nicer imo.

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Well, I got anxious. :D

Got the ARP turbo hardware from FFWD Connection, so it's all mocked up for now until my water pipe and oil/coolant lines get here.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...29321575_n.jpg

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Wham bam! Reminds me of a song. lol

Lookin' pretty ace! Hahaha

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Making good progress man! Can't wait to see more!

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Hasn't been much progress lately with all the house shopping, and the baby and everything. I've slowly been plugging away at ripping stuff out of the white car. The harness is a WHORE btw. Have a pile of parts here that I need powdercoated, and picked up some other random items I've needed.

Got a clutch, it's actually the same one from my green car partout! haha hasn't even been used in the 3 years since I sold it. It's a Comp stage 4, 6 puck. Also got some A1 head studs I'll probably use at some point, and ordered a Turbosmart compgate 40 today. Once we get into the house I can start chipping away at some of this shit.

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Guess it's been a while. I forgot this little bit.

Figured I'd clean up the crusty old thermostat housing I had before I bolted it on the nice clean engine.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...336259311d5ea3

Little bit of wire wheel action
https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/...4e&oe=548D29F2

Going to relocate some of the sensors for a cleaner look and eliminate unneeded holes. I had Camden (Spoolin_Turbo aka Hughes Jr) weld all this stuff up for me. Thanks again Cam!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...d2a1bde378f6f4

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...2bee077ffe72f4


Also had Camden mod the water pipe some since I won't be running coolant to my throttle body, I also decided to keep my heater core in the system because it's honestly simpler/easier just to keep it.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...c0f12e5919ad32

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...a441a4fc4aafd6

I had these powder coated, but I must have forgot to take any pictures of the end result. They are semi gloss black just like the old water pipe:
https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/...7d&oe=548F26CB


I never did post an pics since I got the wastegate either, so here that is. Carey got me a killer deal on it, fit great on their o2 housing.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...182d6a2fa4cbae


One last piece of the engine portion of the build, sweet replacement baffles I got from a guy on t00ners. Have yet to figure out which valve cover I am going to run yet, but when I do these will be going in it along with 2 5/8" barb fittings for my catch car setup. Camden will be welding all this up for me as well. Not using AN fittings, just keepin it simple and easy to work on! I'll get pictures of all that when the time comes.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...b2a75eb0115559



Progress is at a snails pace now with a 6 month old, my oldest starting preschool and the sports he's in along with all of the extra stuff I've been doing at work lately.

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Picked this up Buschnuts FPR quite a while back, forgot to put it on here. It's going on the stock fuel rail I shaved and had coated with the same black as the other parts.

http://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.ne...d38c24465c6641

I also got a sweet deal on some 1450's from DSMDolney for when this thing is ready for some e85. I plan on getting it started on stock 450's just for simplicity. I'll send them to FIC to get cleaned and tested before I put them in, some of the seals are dried out anyways and I think they give you new ones and make them look all purdy when you send them in anyways. ;)

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Looking great so far, great attention to detail with the sensor clean up too! Hey where did you get those baffles from?

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Baffles - http://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/las...affles.479313/

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Looking good! We should do a 1g cruise before the snow flies.

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Frum roll then yes.
Also, same guy I got mine from.

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Holy chit, could eat off that engine! Nice work dude!

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Was going to make an updated post and all the pics are nothing but dead links. wtf.

Anywho, going to do some trans work today with Tachyon, then with any luck I'll be getting the harness situation squared away in the next 2-3 months as well. Once it warms up I'll be putting the engine in the car, then bolt on as many parts as I have and see where I sit. Hoping to have it close to complete by July 4th, all dependent on time and $$$ of course.

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Lol thought it was my phone, refreshed this page like 20 times.

That's a bummer bro, was looking forward to reading this whole build thread.

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Well, I spent the afternoon at Tachyon's having him attempt to show me about 1g gearboxes. The one I've posted about earlier in the thread was not quite what it was supposed to be, a BM trans with billet shift forks and an LSD insert (had neither) but it still looked absolutely mint so I'm very happy with what I got.


Tachyon's Kitchen!

https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...56&oe=57329EBC

Gears and synchros looked great!

https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...f0&oe=574776E4


Here's how clean the inside of it was, Paul figured it must have had very frequent fluid changes - I agree. Even the speedo gear was nice and new looking not all brittle and yellow like another trans we had taken apart had earlier.
https://scontent.ffar1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...6e&oe=573FC70B