Picked up a rebuilt street ported engine from Rotary Resurrection and wanted to share some pics of the install. Kevin Landers was a great person to work with and helped me get this engine shipped to NorCal.


A few pics of the engine build

























Picked up at a near by port

 

Old engine pulled







Bay before I started to clean it up a bit.



Started to clean it up a bit



Primed



Sent the injectors out to Witchhunter.com to get serviced.





Finishmaster a local auto paint supllier hooked me up with some basecoat and clearcoat with the harderner and thinner.

 

Had the alternator apart to throw on the rear powder coated cover that I've had forever.



Put it back together and had it tested at Autozone and passed without any problems


Clutch had a bunch of hair line cracks in it. Old ACT HD setup that I've had for about 4 years.



Replaced it with a Sachs unit for the time being. See how long this one last. Pedal effort is lighter. If I don't like it then I might just pick up another ACT pressure plate.






New flywheel as well. Replaced an older SRmotorsports aluminum flywheel that has been beat down. Didn't want to go through SR to get a new friction disk. Just ordered a new steel ACT instead.




New water pump. The impeller is made of aluminum instead of plastic and looks to have a deeper housing.

 

Bay painted

Basecoat



With clear

 

In the bay




And everything thrown back in

 

I made the mistake of putting the upper intake manifold back on before testing the fuel system for leaks and sure enough I had a leak when I turned the fuel pump online by one of my hose clamps. Pulled the mani off and just had to tighten the hose clamp. Found that I had a leak on the coolant line to the throttle body as well.


After cranking to engine over without any fuel or ignition or about a minute just to verify that oil pressure was building on my gauge. I started it for the first time and fired right up!

 

Niiiiice.

 

Awesome!

I want that RE reverse hood scoop.

 

You're not going to drive the car and get the engine dirty are you?

 

Super clean engine bay!

 

real damn clean work man

 

Very nice car and setup. do you run a standalone?

 

Love the attention to detail! Can't wait to see what the new Rtek record will be once you get this thing on the dyno.

 

REfresh done!

 

I wipe the engine bay down everytime I wash the car. So it stays fairly clean.


Using an Rtek 2.1 with a palm zire 71 with the stock afm. Have been running some form of Rtek for around 7 to 8 years now.

The last motor was a used JDM motor that I just dropped in without a rebuild in Feb 2003. Who knows how many miles it had on it before hand. Started to eat coolant.

I only have 320 miles on the new engine now. Hopefully when I get it broken in with a decent tune I will head up to a dyno and see what it pulls. If I get the same numbers I did before than I will be happy



Thanks for the comments!

 

Is that copper sealant on the exhaust flange to the engine? If so, do you think it will do the trick?

 

That sounds amazing!

 

It's... It's so beautiful.

 

Nice to have you back in the states!

 

Great to be back in the good ol US. Nice to be able to go down the street to get parts you need and not pay for international shipping and wait for a week plus for them. I do miss Europe though and will be trying to go back.

 

Nice!

 

I love this car

 

Beautiful Car and build. I love the old 60-1 Turbonetics. If you ever look to upgrade, get the Precision billet 6265. Very similar, yet much more efficient.

I love the color too.