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I keep having terrible boost creep issues so I decided to port out my wastegate hole some
Yes, I did vacuum out the shavings before putting the wastegate back on. I vacuumed it out as I went too, but then after pulling out the towels on each side I made sure to get any other shavings out as well
Here you can see where the injector resistor box and power transistor are relocated to
And this is how it looked 2 weeks in...still lol
I was waiting on a missing part from the powder coater before I could put the new water pump on and the timing, so I decided I should just drop my transmission instead and replace my throw out bearing. Obviously, logical alternative.
Had to replace the knock sensor because I had the old one hardwired in because the connector broke
Had an extra one of these so swapped the nicer looking one into the car
Seems like the catch can between my pcv and intake is doing its job, that's a lot of fluid for about a month of driving
I have never had a hood latch for my car and couldn't figure out why I could never get one to bolt up. Well, I noticed I was missing this metal piece. So put it onto the cover in my car and bam, I finally have a hood latch release
The connector for my temp sensor was kind of broken, but some two part epoxy fixed that right up
The saturn alternator swap caused me to have a slightly different alternator tensioner setup, so I always had to grind down a bolt some to get the bolt to fit in this slot
Fixed that problem, no more ground bolts. Just hollowed out the slot some
Picked up a spare 6 bolt motor and a box of parts for very very cheap, couldn't pass up the deal
Got the wiring harness back from Kevin, this thing is great!
And car is back together! Fuse box will be relocated very soon, Kevin just forgot to include the bracket when he shipped the harness. Oh, and I got my other parts back from the powder coater, obviously
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January 26-February 16, 2013 - Headliner work, powder coating, wire tuck, water pump replacement, ebc install
Alrighty, let's see where to start. I guess I can start with the headliner work, although I did it before the dates listed above. I finally got the motivation to cut up a spare headliner I had to see if it would work, and surprisingly I think it is going to.
Some cutting
Filled in some extra holes
And how it looked when I stopped for the day
Unfortunately, that's as far as that project got for now. I located the fabric I will be using and bought the spray adhesive, but I need to fix the small leak I have first and decide if I want to make it power again, which I will likely do since I was only quoted $100 to put a new motor in with switch.
Fast forward to January 26th, this is the day the car started to come apart.
Parts taken off for the powder coater.
The water pump leaked ever since I put it on last fall. I thought it may have been just the gasket leaking or something, but no, the "low mile" oem pump that I bought was leaking through the bottom weep hole, what a rip.
Good thing I bought this stuff though
Took out the baffles again in the valve cover so there would be no chance of sand getting stuck under there
So I got all of the items sent off to the powder coater, which included a hefty amount of brackets and such. So, I took a break with the timing side (sent off parts required to put it back together) and began other endeavors...like my ebc install. I sent off my extra wiring harness to Kevin Beeck to be tucked while I had the car down anyhow. So, I didn't want some tacky ole electronic boost controller wires cluttering up my engine bay. This was my solution...
Ran the wires through this hole
Interior came apart to rip out the old wiring harness
Well this looks like poop, reason for sending off the harness
^^^ As you can see in the pic above, the wiper motor wire isn't there anymore. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the wiper cowl area and ran the wire down through where the wiper hose used to come through since I don't have one. Had to depin the connector and run it through but it is pretty well hidden now. At a later point I will likely just drill a hole on the side and run the wire through the fender and into the cabin through that area.
This is where the wiper motor wires came out, passenger footwell
Got parts back from the coater, satin black
Put a few of them on
Ran a few more wires through that area
Moved my alarm horn as well since the wires were visible in the engine bay, ran them through the fender
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I completely respect your commitment to this build, its been along road for you and you sure are sticking with it, but after going through it, i now want to gouge my eyes out in frustration. Keep going, i know i wouldnt have been able to. But, then again, i dont like eclipses. AWD or not. So... props to you i guess.Leave a comment:
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Nice valve cover, is that one of those new space age cloth like ones that Billy Mays advertised?
Really digging the progress in the engine bay.Leave a comment:
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Car is down for various upgrades/maintenance...more pics to come after it is done. For now, here are a few to give a hint as to what is going on...
Who needs a fender when you have wiring to hide for an electronic boost controller?
This wiring is going bye bye...pretty much all of it
Anndd certain parts may have been sent to the local powdercoaters....
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Undergoing a full GSX swap hahahaha.Originally posted by Miroteknik View PostTHE actual car that was in the movie?! I've seen those cars being sold off on eBay, that would be hilarious to live next to a guy with the car from the movie haha. Does he daily it, or is it a rice-shrine that he worships in his garage?
Everything inside the car is non functional, like those nos buttons on the steering wheel.
From what I understand, this was in the movie.Leave a comment:
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