beaterX project thread

[Murlo26]

Originally Posted by asshanson

Are you talking about a surge tank or catch can here? Murlo says surge tank and website says catch can.

I was just researching surge tanks, that was when I say the catch can, the link was for a catch can.

[scheides]

Only 3 weeks later, Mr. Saiku emailed me back and I have an S0-OCC on order! Yay!

[goodhart]

haha nice!

[scheides]

Got the pistons/rods out of the old motor last night. Here's a look at the piston from cyl1:





Rings seem smooth but the crown (?) of the piston obviously has some damage around it. The marks on the piston line up with the marks on the cylinder wall, so that piece fo spark plug obviously got stuck alongside the edge of the piston/wall, did some damage and then either disintegrated or flew out the exhaust.

[scheides]

Got the pistons/rods out of the old motor last night. Here's a look at the piston from cyl1:





Rings seem smooth but the crown (?) of the piston obviously has some damage around it. The marks on the piston line up with the marks on the cylinder wall, so that piece fo spark plug obviously got stuck alongside the edge of the piston/wall, did some damage and then either disintegrated or flew out the exhaust.

Little scuffing around the skirt, all cylinders have this but this one is about 10x worse than the others (due to the scraped cyl walls I'm sure):


Rod bearing on #1, a few others have small wear marks like this and the black around the one edge but for 25k miles of 550-600whp I'm thinking they are not too shabby!






Here's cyl 4 for comparison, smoove as buttah







These rods are just manly (not Manley, but MAP Ultimate Duty!):




Next to a 2G DSM rod for beef comparison. These rods are built for doing some epic power!

[scheides]

Added more pics

[goodhart]

Damn those are huge rods! (twss)

[Murlo26]

Damn it, my stupid work sonicwall blocks your site scheides, use photobucket or something

[scheides]

Originally Posted by Murlo26

Damn it, my stupid work sonicwall blocks your site scheides, use photobucket or something

No Fix your 'stupid sonicwall' I have an ASA I'd gladly swap in for ya

[Murlo26]

haha, I don't control it, damn IT nubs do

I guess I will have to wait until I get home...sigh.

[Mark Leasure]

Nice work Scheides! Man the 4b is so much different than the 4g.

[scheides]

Well just like I thought, work owned me most of the rest of the week. Finally got into the garage today and cranked in one bolt after the other for a couple hours...made some progress despite several 'ghey bolts' and my own stumbles :P

Wiring harness ready to string up:



all accessories, pullies, IM, fuel rail, harness, and turbo system bolted up and ready to go back in the...wait what the....



I forgot to bolt up the m-f'ing xfer case! I had left it on the trans jack in the corner of the garage since I was sick of tripping over it....



Gah! I ended up trying to bolt it up through the bottom but the dang thing is so huge even with the downpipe off there's no chance of getting it up through the bottom. So, off with the turbo system again, on with the xfer case, and on with the turbo/mani/downpipe. Since I had the downpipe off I inspected the ef4 again and it's looking ready to rip!



Axles took about 30 seconds to put back in and suddenly I was ready to do the deed.



bolted up the chains, up with the chassis, and yoink in goes the motor/trans/subframe:



Fiddled with the motor mounts for a few minutes and decided it was enough for the day:


So, a few more hours of work and she'll be ready to fire up...hopefully next weekend I'm ripping around in this thing and breaking in the motor/clutch...Proving Grounds I see you coming!

[evotuner]

Youre a freak!!

[scheides]

Originally Posted by evotuner

Youre a freak!!

I just work here

Spent about 2 hours last night with the help of Rosey, Spaz, Murlo, and my 4-year-old neighbor kid. Motor is back home. 2 motor mounts, 6 frame bolts, , 6 little chassis-stiffening bolts, 4 driveshaft, 2 downpipe, 1 ACD line, and some Grain-Belt Nordeast done....

[goodhart]

How's it feel having a DD other than your Evo so you can work on it at your own pace?

[rose0529]

woot that was like clock work last night!

[scheides]

Originally Posted by goodhart

How's it feel having a DD other than your Evo so you can work on it at your own pace?

Fantastic. I wish I could do it forever. DD is pretty fun too so that helps

Originally Posted by rose0529

woot that was like clock work last night!

Hell yea! Even Anna commented on how smooth things were going compared to last time.

[Mark Leasure]

Originally Posted by scheides

Fantastic. I wish I could do it forever. DD is pretty fun too so that helps



Hell yea! Even Anna commented on how smooth things were going compared to last time.

DD other than the beast evo is the only way to go! And again nice work, by the looks of it you will be on the road soon!

[scheides]

Memorial day weekend, I got a few hours here and there to work on the car! I was gunning to fire it up but as I went to button up everything I found a bit of a roadblock...nothing to screw the oil filter into!



The missing fitting is on the old block which is sold and out of state already...sigh. I got some seriously mixed info from a few Mitsubishi dealer parts counters, but I believe what I'm looking for is part MN163825 and I heard everything from it being on backorder/discontinued to 'I can't find it on the parts diagram.' So, anyone that could verify it, I appreciate the help! blackrosenova pulled apart his 1G oil filter housings and they do not appear to be close, way too long.

But, I forged on! All accessories are bolted up and belt is on, power steering is plumbed and filled, radiator hoses and all coolant lines hooked up and coolant is filled.

Filled the trans and xfer case in floppy sandals w/o getting my hands dirty:



Disassembled my Cobb BOV for its yearly lube-up:



Struts are back in, shifter cables and clutch slave done, FMIC mounted back up, UICP, LICP, and intake back on, ECU is in, all wiring connected (except for the battery):


Brakes are apart, I need some brake cleaner then I'll be installing my Girodisc SS pads and some freshly turned evoX MR 2-piece rotors. So close!

Oh, and gotta bleed the ACD line...I got a copy of tephra's tool for doing that, hopefully it works!

[scheides]

Just talked to the parts department at WhiteBear Mitsubishi...they tracked down another dealer with the part, its getting shipped this way....ETA Next Tuesday so now I'm officially going to be waiting on a $3 part....sigh.