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Finally finished assembly on my new engine.

well it has been almost 3 weeks since my car has bene out of commision. last week I got my new engien from RX-7 Specialties. I just spent last wekeend transfering all the shit to it from my old engine. ie. Turbos, piping, slenoids, coils, flywheel, clutch, etc.

So, it is finally sitting there all dressed and ready to be thrown in. I cannot wait. Getting the old flywheel off was pretty fun to say the least (thanks sniper x).

I just have a few concerns maybe some of you can help me with beofre I put it back in.

I noticed some oil around the intake to the second turbo, by intake I mean the lip around the wheel thingy. compressor wheel I guess. there seams to be a seal there in the casing, adn it looks to be leaking. nothing major, and I never blew any smoke with them running. Shoudl I be concerned?

I didn;t resurface the my old pressure plate becaue I forgot too. so I haev new flywheel and 3k old pressur plate. is this okay?

One of the turbo studs was mangled from shiping, so I shaved of the threads on the outer part of it and reused the old turbo housing nuts. I got it to factory torque specs, so I don;t think there will be a porblem.

Thanks Guys

Let me know how this turns out!

Re: Finally finished assembly on my new engine.

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Originally posted by KZ1
well it has been almost 3 weeks since my car has bene out of commision. last week I got my new engien from RX-7 Specialties. I just spent last wekeend transfering all the shit to it from my old engine. ie. Turbos, piping, slenoids, coils, flywheel, clutch, etc.

So, it is finally sitting there all dressed and ready to be thrown in. I cannot wait. Getting the old flywheel off was pretty fun to say the least (thanks sniper x).

I just have a few concerns maybe some of you can help me with beofre I put it back in.

I noticed some oil around the intake to the second turbo, by intake I mean the lip around the wheel thingy. compressor wheel I guess. there seams to be a seal there in the casing, adn it looks to be leaking. nothing major, and I never blew any smoke with them running. Shoudl I be concerned?

I didn;t resurface the my old pressure plate becaue I forgot too. so I haev new flywheel and 3k old pressur plate. is this okay?

One of the turbo studs was mangled from shiping, so I shaved of the threads on the outer part of it and reused the old turbo housing nuts. I got it to factory torque specs, so I don;t think there will be a porblem.

Thanks Guys

My turbos were like that and I worried and said wtf and put them back in - they were fine

The pressure plate will also be fine unless you have huge burn marks on it.

I resused all my nuts and studs with no problem - but I removed them very carefully with a couple of days of liquid wrench on them.

Good Luck!

I ALWAYS wire brush all my bolts.

I chase all high torque bolt holes with a TAP if its handy.

I ALWAYS CHASE THE TENSION BOLTS AND HOLES -ALWAYS- when building an engine.

My engines dont seep!

well, in hindsight I could have used a die on the stud, but didn't hink of it until is was too late. Using a tap on all the holes, etc would have been a good idea, oh well :) but I am sure I would have broken something going through rusted Iron :)