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i love rebuilds
Pointless thread here, but oh well...
So I rebuilt and ported my first motor recently. Got it in and all hooked up tonight and checked everything, did the rebuild startup procedures with priming the oil and fuel, moment of truth came and it fired right up on the first try! I was very happy with that since I used RA seals in my used housings. No leaks, no problems, held its idle pretty well after about 20 minutes or so of idling in my driveway, and amazingly the smoke pretty much disappeared after about 15 minutes and is almost non-existent now after about 30 minutes of idle and 20 minutes of driving.
Just so happy about this, had to post
Anyways... coolest thing was when it was first idling at 2k I was cleaning up the garage and look over and noticed tiny flames way back inside the exhaust, never had flames before at all with no emissions, TB mod, etc. Was confused to see this, but then again it was also kinda cool. The exhaust porting with no diffusers and ported intakes probably helped it a bit
So I rebuilt and ported my first motor recently. Got it in and all hooked up tonight and checked everything, did the rebuild startup procedures with priming the oil and fuel, moment of truth came and it fired right up on the first try! I was very happy with that since I used RA seals in my used housings. No leaks, no problems, held its idle pretty well after about 20 minutes or so of idling in my driveway, and amazingly the smoke pretty much disappeared after about 15 minutes and is almost non-existent now after about 30 minutes of idle and 20 minutes of driving.
Just so happy about this, had to post
Anyways... coolest thing was when it was first idling at 2k I was cleaning up the garage and look over and noticed tiny flames way back inside the exhaust, never had flames before at all with no emissions, TB mod, etc. Was confused to see this, but then again it was also kinda cool. The exhaust porting with no diffusers and ported intakes probably helped it a bit
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Originally Posted by koukifc3s
awesome! so how hard was it? Im thinking of doing it too!
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Honestly, not a problem at all! So far I don't notice a difference while driving from stock, weird? Also, I discovered that one of my stock motor mounts was broken when I was putting the engine back in haha. But yah, not a big deal at all. Soon I'll be putting in my solid tranny mounts too to go along with the solid diff/motor ones.
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Originally Posted by eriksseven
that's awesome. I might need your local experience sometime, I'll be ripping into my TII to rebuild it in the next week or so... Congratulations!
It was a great learning experience, not as bad as I thought it'd be at all either.
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Yea that is good to hear. If I did the same thing I'd share my success with the forum! The real question is how well you did the job tho we'll see in the next 5000km's heh..
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