just waiting on the clutch. I spent a lot of time sand blasting and glass beading the aluminum. and painted some stuff too...now my turbo looks all dirty! I am going to put a different turbo on soon, so I didnt bother cleaning that one up too much



---Nick

 

looks good

 

you da man nick!

 

come sandblast my engine for me!

 

Sexy, sexy!!! Very nice job man!!

 

Nice!

 

Thanks a lot guys...gotta love positive feedback. Im very proud of this so far, as it's my first real performance minded engine and I've put my own sweat and cash in it. It's been street ported and outfitted with Hurley seals. The turbo is stock for now, however the wastegate has been massively ported and the twin scroll removed. Oh yeah...I'm all proud of the block off plates that I made:



This is all just very exciting for me! Thanks again Bryan and Anthony for all your help thus far

 

looks very nice! what turbo are you going with?

Dan

 

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the idea of the block off plates?

 

Mostly to cover a space when you remove a part that needs to be there. For vacuum purposes.

 

Ya, I got that I am wondering what those particular plates in the pictures are doing away with? I am putting my motor back together as I type... Wondering if thats somthing I might want to do while I got it apart.

 

Okay from what i can tell it looks like the big Plate is the ACV hookup. The smaller one I am not sure yet. What are the Pro's & Cons of removing the ACV? Is that part of the smog pump removal? Or am I on the wrong track.

Throw me a bone!

 

I think the little one is for the split air pipe.
dont remove acv unless you are taking out air pump and removing cats