Why on earth are you using an undivided HKS log manifold with a divided turbine housing?

 

looks great, ill be turboing my vert here soon too. good luck!

 

Wow, very nice... got a question for you... what's that container that you are attaching on the radiator?

 

the contanier is for 2 stroke oil, my builder runs a rotary aviation adaptor on his so that it allows for 2 stroke oil injection to run off throttle linkage rather then premixing, I will be running the same set up so that I can eliminate puffing excessive smoke at idle and in traffic.

the container itself is a drive fluid bottle for a boat.

 

well we had some set backs between schedules and some part tracking down.
Ends up someone along the lines changed the front cover on my transmission, which we did
not realize until we went to put the throw-out bearing and fork on.
was a little bit of a bummer because I have this custom clutch set up and did not want to change it.
So a quick $45 part and some aggrevation over the way Mazda sells thier **** and the problem was solved.

Funny how they list ONE front cover for all transmissions, but they list 2 different bearings and forks hmm?
Luckily everything is interchangable beacuse it turns out I had a s4 front cover, and the trans is s5, so the mounts
are all s5 and what not, but man when it came time for that bearing it threw us for a loop!

My theory is that because this transmission came from one of the j-spec packages I sold a few years ago that someone
in japan must have blown thier transmission in thier s4 car, went and got a used s5 trans, and to eliminate having
to change thier stock clutch set up they swapped front covers, who knows- maybe they had a brand new clutch they did not
want to replace?

anyhow- here are the pictures.
Motor is in, wiring for the wolf has begun. Radiator is not in yet because we are going to change the ac condensor, its pretty ratty looking
and I MUST have my A/C!
We are also going to change some of the fuel fittings as the red and blue dont go, so we are going with all stainless and black AN fittings.

Also going to swap out the engine hook, I have one that matches the brackets and the intake manifold

I know there is some talk about a manual rack swap for a PS car, I had a brand new, never installed manual rack that went
into this car, I had no brackets with it- it dropped right in.
So I believe the issue is putting a manual rack in a S5 car- so if thats the case you dont need the manual brackets- you can go with
any s4 brackets.

If you peek by the OMP you can see the aviation adaptor that meters 2 stroke oil into the motor via throttle linkage.

 

Looks great. Will be nice to see the finished product. What rims are those and offsets? Nice car.

 

I got those rims years ago, they are enkei RPOM with the clear stripped from the lips and the lips polished, nothing crazy 17x7.

Im actually going to be changing wheels pretty soon.

 

started the fuel system, put radiator, fan, and shroud on, along with the 2 stroke oil canister.

 

just waiting to finish up the exaust and last of the wiring
hopefully in the next week or two.
then when I get some time I have a aluminum hood to go back on there, and full S5 conversion parts for the body, brand new odura lip for the front as well.
Black couplers for the IC are on thier way as well.

 

i got a quick question for you i am in the process of swapping a turbo II in my vert. i noticed when i started putting the motor back together that the air conditioning compressor and power steering pump on the turbo engine are different then the ones on my NA vert and had extra connectors for the wiring harness that arnt in mine. I am guessing but do i have to use the air conditioning compressor and power steering pump from the vert?

 

exhaust will be done tomorow Rob.

 

Looks great man cant wait to see some #s!! How exactly does the RA omp part work?

 

I figure the exaust to be done, but the last few items and start up to be at least a week away.

ricky- I am not using PS, I have a manual steering bracket on the car.
I believe the AC wiring should be in the body harness, not the engine harness so the wires should not be a problem.
I am using the original compressor from the car, the bracket is from a S4 car, and my motor is S5 so I think you just have to go double check your car. Only other thing I can possibly think of is they did have 2 compressors back in the day, but I dont know if that would be an issue.

The RA adaptor works by allowing you to use 2 cycle oil and a OMP adaptor, it operates off throttle linkage which we are still trying to figure out because I am using a S5 throttle body and trying to get S4 linkage to work with it.
It allows you to run 2 cycle but not just as premix where it will always be dumping oil- which can be messy when your in traffic.

 

thanks
Ricky

 

ITS ALIVE!

details to come later, so far so good

 

forgive the small picture, need to get some better ones with better lighting

Car is running great!

The entire rebuilt driveline is so smooth, and for a large street port motor it idles very smooth and tame. Not a noise or whine from the transmission or rear end.

The RB mufflers and presilencer really quiet the car down and keep people from giving me dirty looks.

We took some great pics of the car outside, but I have to get them out of the camera.

Now time to put 500 miles on the car, in the meantime I have to have someone modify the AC bracket so I can use the cosmo pulleys, it needs to come forward about 3/4"- I must keep the AC.

 

Suhweeeeet! Can't wait to see it IRL.

 

Very clean swap. Congrats on being nearly finished.

 

187 miles down, 313 to go!

 

Gave it a quick wash today, put it head to head with my V8 car.
Im looking forward to putting some miles on it this holiday weekend.
Going to take it down by the beach tonight with the top down.

The car has not been waxed in 2-3 years, not since the last time I took to rotorfest.
It really needs a good detailing and carpet shampoo to get that sitting smell out of it.
I borrowed the bumper off my other car because it was already cut for a intercooler, now I can put a stock S5 bumper on that car.
I also have a new Odura lip for it, but I have to paint it.

 

great setup!!
your only going to 500 miles before boosting that motor?

 

500 seems good, not like they break them in when they were new off the lot

 

Which ones gonna be faster....

 

Looks awesome for not being waxed in so long. I love the black, wish mine was. Hopefully the rotary is faster. LOL. Looks great and nice and clean. More pics are definitly needed. Those are cosmo pulleys?

 

it really looks great