Spring Dyno Day Mods! Who's doing what!?!?

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

It's confirmed, my car is pushing coolant. So the car is out, but I'll still dyno the bike if the weather is good enough.

[craig]

thats a whole bunch of gay.

[turbotalon1g]

thats fucked up i feel mad/bad for you.

[Kracka]

Sucks to hear Kevin.

[asshanson]

Took most of the late afternoon/evening, but I got my JMF intake mani installed and a few other things fixed up. I had to relocate the battery about 8" lower so the TB elbow would fit, and it makes the engine bay look even nicer. Got my TPS set correctly now too, all that's really left is my fuel pump and base timing.

Since the TB sits so much lower now, I was able to flip my UICP around the right way so the BOV sits on top instead of on the very bottom where it could suck in water. Happy about that fix. It looks like my piping was actually made to fit a SMIM setup. For once an install went great!

[Kracka]

Originally Posted by slowboy

For once an install went great!

LOL

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

So it turns out my car might not be pushing coolant. I found a little hose coming off the lower thermostat housing that was leaking. I'll fix it tonight and see if that fixes it.

[scheides]

NICE! Time for a tank of 111 and 28psi?

[craig]

go corn

[asshanson]

I had a water leak from the lower thermostat housing, would leak the full coolant overflow bottle in a week, it sucked. Replaced the housing and I haven't lost a single ounce of coolant in a few weeks now. It's amazing what a small leak can really do.

I need to get my oil cap fixed to see if that's the reason I'm losing oil, I've had several bad caps in a row now, even a new seal didn't fix it completely.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

So it really is pushing... pretty bad now... I replaced that hose, did a 3rd gear pull onto the freeway with the overflow going into another bottle so I could confirm if that's where it's coming from... well it prettymuch filled a 20 oz bottle, and blew up another heater hose. So I replaced that hose and I'll limp it through the week till I can replace the head gasket.

[TkrPerformance]

shitty

[craig]

real shitty

[Kracka]

[scheides]

Yesterday was a big day in my garage! Hughes came over at 9:30am and helped me put in my new gauge pod setup into the evo. 10:15 MattD pulled his car in and we started doing a timing belt job. I finished the gauge thing and jacked up the car quick and clearanced my rear crossmember (I think it was rubbing on exhaust at idle). A while later, pull in hughes car, then we got started on short shifter install. I abandoned him at 1:25pm when DoughtCom shows up with a fuel pump that he had just picked up at MAP, and tells us he has to be at DB for a tune at 2pm (20+ minutes from my house). Despite spilling gas everywhere (3/4 full FTL!) I cranked it out and we were putting his rear seat back in at 1:40!



Back to the short shifter, we had to take the thing in and out about 10 times to get it to fit right, but after several tries and several hours, we got everythign clearanced and got it in and rocking! In the meantime we had moved Hughes' car out to my neighbor's place and pulled Kevin's 1G into the garage for a headgasket job. Off came the head while we finished up hughes' short shifter, then up pulled Zac (hellomynameis), fuel pump in hand, and again I dove into a fuel pump install






Hughes giving Zac some man love:

[scheides]

Kevin and Mark (TKR) tearing into his car:





So mattd's car got an extra bit of cleaning, then installed a MBC after timing belt job was buttoned up. About this time I was getting tired, but decided it'd be good to get some work on the blue car in! I got the fender all fixed and am about 99% ready for next weekend. The car still needs some new coolant sensors in the tstat housing.





Why stop there?!?! Craig and his STi buddies showed up, and after we gave them endless flack for having cars that sound like they're misfiring all the time, we began hacking them up too!

Aluminum radiator in this one:




Then a fuel pump install in the other one. This one took about 2 hours, when I did 2 evos in about 35 minutes total Tee Hee!

[scheides]

So in sum, we worked on EIGHT cars yesterday!

Kevin brought over his pup, Titan to play with Jill, Turbo, and Anna the whole day:







They tuckered themselves out!


Anyone that was here yesterday, be sure to thank Anna next time ya see her for taking such awesome care of us through the day! She made us lunch and dinner What a great wife!

More puppy and car modding pics here:
http://www.scheides.com/gallery/springdynodayprep2008

[DSM_421]

Whos black 1g is that, the one you see from behind next to the black evo? Kevins?

[scheides]

Yup, kevin's black 1G.

[DSM_421]

I like that.

By the way, I love the way STIs sound like they are missfiring.