Oh I will, maybe... You still need to fly out here and tune my car on the dyno

 

Excellent thread, definetly archive it when it's all said and done.

 

That's so ******* loud!

Congrats on the build, make a video after its broken in !

 

I definitely will, you'll be hearing it spin to 10k! It'll seem like forever between my 2nd to 3rd shift once I am going to 10k rpms

 

wow, great to see it running finally!
good luck with break in and then i can't wait for after that

 

WOW ... i'm ... WOW ...

i'm in awe of the attention to details, the patience and results so far. i think this may just be my favorite thread on this board now. period.

 

Wow and i thaught mine was loud, lol ill try to get some vids out when i get it running again but yeah that is awesome great work bud.

 

my motor is leaking coolent at front cover; despite of having good compression both front and rear rotor.

should i overhaul the motor in order to get this fixed?

 

Finally got around to watching the videos. Sounds good, and I like the smoke rings from the exhuast. I'm surprised it ran so well on the "base" map. Based on the blurry laptop images, you have EGO correction enabled?

It's so nice when they start up after a long project...

 

I just heard those vids and good job man I can't wait to see it rev to 10k

 

Alright i'm confused... Why is it smoking that much?

 

to my knowledge, all fresh rebuilds smoke like crazy for a little...... i think its all of the assembly lube and other things in the motor burning up...but im not certain

 

oh...and Ddub.....great job on the build up...the attention to detail is incredible....... i see that motor lasting a very long time

 

Now its your turn.

 

coldfire - Thanks, I can't wait to see what this does either

diabolical1 - Much appreciated, I do my best to pay attention to details.

HellPhyre - Thank you much, and like I said, UNFORTUNATELY it is louder in real life The mic on the camera got maxed out and it lost some dB. I've been thinking hard, and I'm going to be redoing the exhaust most likely. Besides, I need 3" exhaust with the porting I have, 2.5" isn't going to cut it.

tekwiz99 - If you're leaking coolant out of the front cover, it's likely not from the front cover... Check your waterpump housing. Probably don't have to overhaul.

Aaron Cake - Thanks man, I appreciate the kind words The base map wasn't really a true base I guess you could say. It was taken from a contact of mine (muythaibxr) that has it on a running s5 currently. After that, I tweaked some things for my purposes and changed a few details, but generally left it normal. I was happy at how well it idled with his map, hopefully this makes the fine tuning even easier EGO correction is enabled, but currently it's set up for ignition pulses, I need to set it up for mSec and tune everything better.

swanton187 - Me either! Of course, if my power goes to hell at like 9500 I will not be going to 10k... Once break-in is done I'll be doing some street tuning to 7k, then street tuning to 8k, then street tuning to 8500, then I'll hit the dyno to finish the rest off. Redline is planned for 10,000 but we'll see what I really land on. The true redline will be the last point less than or equal to 10,000 where useable power is still being made. I may have to go with a better manifold setup, but I'm hoping what I have now will be sufficient.

Parastie - Long answer short, vaseline Vaseline can be substituted for "normal" assembly lube. During the initial idle break-in, and sometimes a few miles afterwards, it'll be burning all of this lube off.

vipers - Thanks, hopefully it'll last long, only time will tell

Thanks to all for the kind words, beginning either tomorrow afternoon or Thursday I'll be trying to work out some of the bugs and get it running better. I still need to clean up the harness and put the passenger side kick panel/wiring back together. For the idle **** was just wherever it was last used, so I have some organizing to do

 

you get it to actually run off fuel yet lol

 

hey dustin... are you a bit jealous that his runs with no problems and on first try?


hahahah just kidding

 

Mon/Wed I leave for campus at 7:20am and get back home at 5:30-6pm, so I usually don't work on the car on those days, I'm a bit tired

Tue afternoon or Thur I'll work on it next most likely. But it's supposed to start snowing, so who knows when I'll actually try to drive it. My tires are Eagel F1 GS-D3's, they don't cooperate with snow very well

 

hey what wheels are those and what exhuast?

 

Hes got a rb header, i dunno if its gutted cats or test pipe corksport power series cat back, and generic 5 spoke wheels i believe he said.

 

Wheels are Primax 684's or something, 16x7 5 spoke with Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 tires.

Exhaust is RB header to borla xr1 midpipe (2.5" in/out) and CS 2.5" to 3" catback.

I need 3" exhaust, though, so I'll have to change it again (even though I just did change it for this setup). I have some ideas in the works for the 3" exhaust, should be neat, but it's going to be performance oriented and not for looks at all.

 

so now that its running how about some pics of those super secret secondary ports?

 

Dyno numbers first

Like I said, I didn't really wanna go fully in depth of the direction I took until break-in was over, the car was tuned, and I could get some dyno numbers.

 

Haha....is that the exhaust I sold you?! Love it.

 

Yes indeedy it is, along with my RB header and borla xr-1. I'm thinking of chopping off the 2.5" taper and welding on 3" pipe/flange so I can keep it with my 3" setup.