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So, I was going to sell my car (because I am broke) and then the turbo died (sounded like a supercharger).

So, until everything is back together, my car really isn't "for sale"

Well, first things first, here is the manifold on the car.

#1 shouldn't be that hard to take care of, however #2 is hidden from view and is completely gone.

Well, in order to remove stud #1 I had to weld a nut onto what is left of the stud, I had tried the multi-nut-on-stud trick, and it just didnt budge.

Now the advantage of superheating the stud is it expands and "breaks free" making it easier to twist out.

Thankfully, the #2 stud that I was trying to remove was just GONE, it had vanished, and it took the threads too

So, I drilled her out to 21/64ths

Get the helicoil kit out

carefully tap the hole

Hand-thread the insert in to make sure it doesn't cross-thread.

rachet the helicoil insert until it is past flush with the head.

Done

OK, now that both studs are removed/repaired, I had to make a decision on the rest of the studs....they are all rusty and I cannot get any of them to move, I really don't want to sell this car to someone just to have another stud break on them down the road, so I think replacing ALL of the studs is a good idea.

So, since the studs will not back out using the normal 2x nut trick, I break out the welder and some americanized M8x1.25 nuts (the 13mm wrench type)

Since I don't ever want to use a 13mm wrench on any DSM's I own/work on, I will sacrifice these nuts to the better cause.

As you can see, the nut is glowing cherry red, I can hear the metal change shape as it cools.

So, Julian rebuilt my Evo3 turbo, and I took some time to clean it up, look how nice it looks!

Look at my 2G manifold!

So, lets look at the old, broken, NON-ported stock manifold next to the new one I just got! The port job matches up with the ported turbo perfectly!

Ok, so when I got the car, the stereo kinda worked, the volume was very intermittant.

I don't have the pictures of what it looks like inside the factory head unit, but basically I took it all apart, de-soldered the volume thingie from the logic board, cleaned the contacts, re-soldered, and now the volume works perfectly!