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Removed the rear bumper to finish painting all the teal underneath and will remove both tail lights and finish blacking out the teal areas.
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Finally got my aspire firing up and running again. Apart from the blown out tranny. Its lookin to be an early christmas.
My engine setup currently
Originally posted by htchbckThe car came with a lot of spare parts, so basically, all the top notch parts will be going into the FestivaLast edited by Glow_Mouse; 05-21-2012, 01:41 PM.
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EGT is here!
This will be the donor for Keith's BP build, more or less. The car came with a lot of spare parts, so basically, all the top notch parts will be going into the Festiva, and I will be building back the escort with the rest of the parts plus a few new parts. So while it IS a donor, its only donating its best pieces, and will be turned back into a reliable daily driver on the flipside!
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Preppes my car for the 3200 mile road trip to go watch charlie race his festiva. Going to see some sights along the way.
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Drove it to work like I do everyday...
In other news... EGT is coming! Keith is on his way down right now with the donor for the EGT swap in his white '89L (the other one, not the other other one :-P). I'll be meeting up with him at the house at lunchtime to unload car and spare parts. Let another swap begin!
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rebuilt 2 sets of hla's! i have a extra set for sale if anyone is looking for a good set.
started assembling top hald, im stuck at the cams. im not sure if they are damaged or not
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Oh, nothing much...
Temporarily mounted a GT1752 (I'm pretty sure that's what it is, but I haven't gotten the numbers off it yet...) to the stock manifold, and checked clearance on the engine with it.
I'm probably going to need to cut off a flange from another manifold to get the extra 12mm or so of clearance to make everything jive correctly, but seems like it'll work fine without re-clocking the housings at all. The oil drain won't be perfectly vertical, but it shouldn't hurt anything at a slight angle (less than 10*) since it's such a large diameter (something like 20mm).
The rear two bolts on the manifold, after removing the studs, accommodate 2 of the studs on the GT28 flange. Knowing this beforehand, I have only mounted the turbo by 2 studs, and plan on welding some material to the remainder of the flange to accommodate the other 2 studs. The turbo sits canted away from the engine on the cold side as a result, but this should not affect anything, since there should be plenty of clearance to the radiator here.
I will not be running an IC for this any time soon, if at all, since I'll only be running it at about 5 PSI on the B3. Later, if I decide to turn the boost up, I'll have a buddy make a PWM circuit based on a pressure switch to control water injection and an auxiliary injector for when the stock ECM can't handle the boost level.
Next things to do are grab a spare oil pan (from the first engine in this car) and get it ready for an oil return plug, figure out where to draw oil from, and pipe it up on the mock-up engine. I'll probably plug the coolant ports on the turbo since they won't be necessary at low boost. Again, if I need them later, they'll still be there.
So... that's what I done tuhday. What'd YOU do?
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Cleared the trash and vacuumed it out. Been a while since I got all the crud out.
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Helped a friend
Found this sweet little 92 GL in Fort Lauderdale on Craigslist......awesome car that is all there, never molested, has rear wiper, spoiler, sporty red stripe interior, 5 speed, air, door pockets, white with gray interior, white factory alloys minor rear end damage but solid and only 76k....two owner Festy.....a friend of mine is buying it but I REALLY wanted it bad. I'm glad its going to a good home.
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Originally posted by mannyd View PostWent to Discount Tires and had two new tires put on rear. In all it came out to $188.23, I think that's kind of high for two little 12's but I needed them so Oh Well!
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Originally posted by fastivaca View PostFinally got around to a custom intake!
I've been collecting bits and pieces over the last year or so. There are some Volvo turbo and Saab turbo parts in there somewhere.
I'm pretty close to figuring out a setup that replaces the stock air filter box with an aftermarket cone filter. I'm trying to see if I can come up with a setup that can be shielded from alot of the hot air under the hood.
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fastivaca, I noticed your headers. What kind of coating was on them? Was it ceramic?
Is your engine a B6?Last edited by bravekozak; 05-20-2012, 07:55 PM.
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