Quite the fun last few weeks with this thing.
Before the cruise, I did a boost leak test and found a few cracks in my POS UICP. It came on the car, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did...I patched it up with some coupler material and clamps and frankly I'm surprised it didn't break in half on the cruise.
Instead, the car ran 110% perfect for the first 175 miles or so and while passing a car from a stop sign (legally!) I grabbed second gear and thought I hit a bunch of gravel....turns out it was my accessory belt eating itself!
I shoved my wife into another car and then buckled down and with the help of my friends put that shredded belt back on! Limped the car 30 miles to Ashland and found a belt that was 103 5/8" (stock is 103 7/8"...that's like 8.5 feet, 1/4" should be fine eh?) and put it on in the hotel parking lot. Note to self emergency kit in my trunk does not have a 16mm wrench needed for actuating the tensioner. I did a few rips after and the car ran great!
Next morning the new belt ate itself after 40 miles but in a delightfully awesome way...one of the six ribs shredded off, leaving 5 full ribs. I actually drove the car for about 450 miles like this:
When I got back, I ordered up the Hyundai 4b11 pulleys that apparently fit....and are METAL NOT PLASTIC! Effing plastic pulleys, seriously mitsubishi? Reading online, it seems everyone commenting on these things failing is right around 40k miles, just like me. Effing silly.
Look how freaking worn those pulleys are! The one actually had a goddamn groove in it. No wonder the belt was walking off! So I put these on with some spacer washers as Shawn (simulatedwoodgrain) suggested per Murlo's car, but the belt was hanging off the inside edge...so I removed the spacers and left them as they came out of the box (but with the mitsu bolts) and swapped pulleys around to put the best plastic one on the tensioner. I'd love to put a metal one there, but I don't think it'll fit...will order up a new plastic one sometime here and have it handy.
Work has been extra-insane the last week but I managed to stumble across this deal on evoM:
http://forums.evolutionm.net/evox-sa...5-shipped.html
I LOL'd and brushed it off, but then thought to myself, fuk it! Easy fix for my UICP...instead of just welding mine and getting it re-powdercoated, I'd get a new one! So a few bucks later this is at my door:
Came with t-bolt clamps and nice couplers, even a nice long reducer for the turbo outlet:
Dyno day saturday so no time to get this thing powdercoated...slapped it in tonight:
(note, after taking this pic I got the pipe to sit lower and closer to the radiator support by pushing it down into the hump coupler more, fits perfect!)
I must say, the old pipe must have been leaking a LOT because the car feels freaking awesome! I'm excited to see what she puts down on Saturday!
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