your n/a exhaust was stock with the re amemiya replica correct? will that can be up for grabs or are you keeping it when you go turbo?

what did you paint the bay with? I did mine with rustoleum 7777 satin black paint shot through a gun.

Might as well take the wheels off and spray the wells while your at it.

I actually had it on a 2.5" catback. Sorry but I'll be running it on my turbo setup, I haven't grown tired of it yet haha.

I used rustoleum textured black rattle can. I can spray the wheel wells later on even if the fenders are on so I'm not too worried about that right now.
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Got alot done last night and today, completed:
-Oil Thermal Bypass Shim whatevers
-Flywheel and clutch torqued down
-Dropped motor in with sold mounts
-Redid OMP lines
-Primary Injectors in
-Alternator freshened up
-blah blah blah

Dont have any pics of the motor in the car yet since it got dark.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...c/Turbo016.jpg

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Still can't decide between a front mount and vmount, trying to see which will be more worth my time without spending too much money.

Looking good so far. How much power do you want to push?

I'd honestly be happy with anything over 210hp, that should be enough to keep me happy for little.

vmount

sweet build mac! if you want to save money go fmic cause if you get a vmount you would need a hood lol seems like you and i went from n/a to turbo at the same time. hmu if you need help with the swap you have my number peace

I know i know I've been lagging it with updates, but motor is for the most part done. I usually don't find time to update when being productive. Tomorrow I just need to finish vmounting the radiator, hook up the intake piping, and drop in some fluids. Start up tomorrow for sure! Crossing fingers!

Yes! Vmount for the win...if you haven't already bought a hood look at 9k racing. They have a vent cut out that you can put on you stock hood. Look at buckeys car in the drifting section. Can wait to see it running dude!

Damn that alternator looks hot

I've contacted Joey at 9k before but they said they are sold out and currently making more. Just waiting on 9k to have them in stock again.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy how it turned out especially on the car.

Sadly, I couldn't get it running right last night so no sevenstock for me. The motor cranks and everything it just doesn't want to keep itself alive. I'm pretty sure I have a vac leak somewhere, going back out to keep on looking. Really trying to get it fired up so I can take it to JDMsport and piece together my ic setup.

Is the alt pulley a SuperNow item? Looks like the same annodized purple they use. Looks awesome, and even if i didn't take a RX7 I'd still go to sevenstock haha

sweet bro can't wait to see it done....man i need more money to make my car pimp like yours :-(

wow this thread is the f***ing s**t. Everything that you do is golden.

The pulley came from japan2la here on the forums. I planned on still going to sevenstock, but I woke up way too late and just decided to get some downtime with the car. I'm tired of driving my toyota sienna van everywhere so this car needs to get finished haha. Definitely turned out to be a productive day.

Forgot I took a few pics with my phone. My buddy came over today to help me a bit with working out the bugs. Fixed most if not all the vacuum leaks and got it to stay on. Sadly my omp lines that I just put in are still leaking a bit so those need to get redone with better quality lines. Decided to drive it around to get a feel of it and it wouldn't rev pass 3000rpms. Need to see if its throwing any codes and putting me into limp mode.

Drove it around like this with open downpipe...I love seeing ppls reactions hahah
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Its messy I know.
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I love how that ugly powersteering sits now, cant really see it now. Vmount rad mocked up, still playing with angles/clearance and all that.
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QUESTION: Where does the brake booster vac line hook up to on the uim? Theres three different nipples that can fit it.

clean! limp mode is only for s5's

test all your electrical for the hesitation including the grounds

Also, at least in my case. My car would drive fine for 2 minutes, then switch to limp mode. I could then turn the car off, and back on, and drive for another two minutes... rinse and repeat. Only did that a couple times to get the car from one house to another.

Mac,

Your look when you had your crown vic wheels is my inspiration for when I get an s4.
What lug nuts were those that you had, the blue ones. They were sick.

You've brought this car to a whole notha level man! :icon_tup:
Keep up the good work and good luck with that swap :nod:

looking good mac.. ima have to stop by one day

Yup, it wasn't limp mode. But I did redo all my grounds and its muchhh better. No more hesitation. It still has a little trouble boosting though, going to check for leaks again.

Not sure what brand but I paid around $60 for them. I still have them laying around, I'm not going to use them anytime soon if you want them for cheap. Shoot me a pm if anything.

Sure man, could always use some company while trying to get this thing running right haha. I was actually going to head out to your meet the other night but my alternator took a crap on me :(


Update...ish

Neighbors were getting mad about me trying to fix my idling problem with an open downpipe so I took it to the exhaust shop.
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After getting gas my car didn't want to start up, got some passerby to help me push start. Drove it down the block and my car died while rolling and it wouldn't start up by rolling. My car left me stuck on the side of the road with a dead battery and dead alternator. Chillin in the red zone waiting for my uncle to bring the van and strap my car home.
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Time to recheck the wiring on my alt, but instead of another fd alt I think I'm just going to go with the Taurus alt.

Any chance you could tell me how much further forward the Taurus alt is from an FC alt? I want to do the Taurus alt but I'm worried about clearance with my strut tower bar... and I'm NOT getting rid of that strut bar.

Team Nuisance always break necks when they arrive to meets.
Your car is one of the main reason.
Super clean, original, and just beyond jaw dropping.
I barely got my 7 couple weeks ago, and before I got it I use to always watch your videos on Youtube and think to myself, damn.
One day.
Lmfao.
Stanced but functional, all day, errrday.

So much happened this weekend with the car. So much troubleshooting and trial and error.

Friday, went to fill up gas so I could take the car to my buddies house for a compression test. I noticed the my fd alternator wasn't charging at idle. So I tried revving it and at about 6000rpms my alternator starting charging the battery at 13-14v. Now every time I started my car and it isnt charging, I rev it up to 6k and it starts charging. It like I have to rev my car high to "activate" or "turn on" my alternator. Any idea?

Did the compression test and all the bumps on all six faces were well within spec. Also final compression on both rotors were at 108-110. Very happy with this but still couldn't figure out why the car was sooo sluggish. Got home and the car flooded, which pointed me in the right direction.

Saturday, check the rear spark plugs and they were drenched in fuel. Unflooded the motor first time around using atf. Thought I'd switch around the injectors from rears to fronts to see if they would leak and would cover the front plugs with fuel. After that I checked timing and it was wayyy off. The 1st and 2nd leading wires weren't even firing the same. The trailing wires were twitchy. Changed the wires to the ones I ran on my n/a and the trailing plugs were firing correctly via timing light but the leadings were still off. the 2nd leading wire wasn't even firing, which explains the flooding on the rear rotor. Called it a night, put it off till the morning.

Sunday: Pulled out the cas and saw the the bottom was not even on the right mark. Whoever installed it before used the allen key screw as a marker. I restabbed the cas correctly and set timing exactly and the car idled amazingly. Even still with my exhaust manifold leak it sounded less like a lawnmower and more like a rotary. Throttle response was MUCH better but vacuum still wasn't up to par. My vac on the boost gauge read 11. Put some rtv on the throttle body sandwich gasket and compression tube, also replaced a few emission delete nipples. Started up the car and it got even better, vacuum is now at 17 which I believe is good to go?

Results:
Finally went for a drive and ohhhh mannnn. Coming from an n/a dropping to a turbo motor running on one rotor to a properly running turbo is amazing! Probably nothing to you turbo guys but its a pretty big deal for me haha. Being able to spin sticky Advan 245/40/18s from 1st to 2nd gear is such a crazy feeling. Nothing but a HUGE smile on my face and a scared passenger. Such a productive weekend. :icon_tup:

Great to hear man! Enjoy that turbo, one day when I will be able to just afford a turbo setup, I'm sure I will be just as happy too. Lol

Mac congrats on the T2 swap and after reviewing the whole thread how many sets of wheels do you have?! LOL

U got mádd hops MAC!!!lol
Im glad the dp worked out for u.:icon_tup:

Thanks! I never saw myself going t2 this year but everything fell into place sooner than I thought.

I actually don't even own wheels at the moment, sold everything to finish my t2 swap. My buddy let me borrow his Evo X stock wheels. 18x8.5 +35 245/40/18. Currently trying to go back to crown vics, I don't care if they "look small" on my car. :nod:

I had another one where I got over the roof line, can't seem to find it lol. But yah, thanks again for the downpipe and clutch/flywheel. Both work beautifully!

Picked up an fcd to run temporarily until I get Rtek 1.7 and 720s. The car boosts so much smoother now. Just need to replace the engine to manifold gasket and replace the water jacket o-rings on the uim.

Boost I saw today:
1st-2nd gear: 9psi
2nd-3rd gear:11psi
3rd-4th gear: 12psi and climbing, I got scared and let off haha.

Careful with 550s

Do you have a wideband on yet?

Yah, really trying hard to stay away from beating on the car still. I just wanted to see where I sit. And no wideband yet. What setup are you running again?

thats one fine looking ride

Finally felt confident the car would make it on a semi long drive. I rolled with Nuisance to Chino for the Royal Origin car meet. Got there and back with ease! Definitely have a lot of boost creep in those higher gears though. Rocking my buddies Evo X wheels for now.

Some pics from the that night:
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6213/6...c567379b_z.jpg

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Little out of place with all those hondas.

Did you happen to port the wastegate? Or are you saving up for a Tial :fingersx:

I swear, you're car looks good with any wheels on it.

All good, besides, there's no rotary heads around my area that roll out to meets/events and such.

Wastegate is ported but I didn't increase the flapper diameter. I just bored the wastegate opening for the stock sized flapper.

Thanks, but I feel like these wheels don't really suit the car well so I'm hoping to change that up soon. Its hard to be slammed on 245/40/18 in the front.

Ah I see. Well I'm sure there's plans in the works for a nice setup with it all. Hell my whole problem with going turbo is I wouldn't want anything less than the best, which kills me on a lot of things money wise.

Yah I know what you mean. My idea was to just dive into it, hope for the best, and get a running t2 motor. 3 weeks of my car being down It's pretty close to where I want it to be, just got to keep at it.

Thanks! Me too, sometimes lol.



Instead of going Black friday shopping at the malls and outlets, I made a few visits to the local junkyards for 50% off discount weekend.

First yard I couldn't find any fc's and felt like walking out with something so I picked up a Ford Taurus alternator. Going to autozone to test it out tomorrow.

Second yard I figured I'd go to the ford/mercury section to see if I could come up on some crown vic wheels. After walking around a few isles I saw a mesh wheel face down, got excited and sure enough I got me a stepped lip crown vic. Went on the other side of the car and found the other wheel also face down. Happy as hell I rushed towards the exit to go pay for them haha. Then came back to look for the other pair but couldn't find them. Can't complain though, a pair of vics with crap tires for dirt cheap is enough to make me happy. :)

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Just like the engine bay, I didn't want any thing flashy but still wanted it to look fresh. Ended up with this...
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Installed pics soon to come :)

Installed the crown vics, check it out on my team's facebook page in my sig. There's a few pics on the wall, just scroll down a bit. :)

God I cannot wait to pick up a pair of crown vics... What color did you use on them? I'm thinking of doing them with that color lip (although probably a bit darker and with a tint of something else) and a flat white center.

I just went to Lowes and found the best gray. DO NOT get Valspar paint, the paint quality is pretty nice but the cans are terrible. It spits and drip out of the nozzle. Other than that I love how it dries and came out. Its like a primer gray but glossy.

Nice! Looks really good. I really want to get another FC and keep my C.V's. They are so light and just dope looking wheels on stock body!

Mac sorry if this a stupid question or any body who can answer this but with the crown Vic can you run standard suspension like kyb struts or do you gotta run coilovers indefinite?

airquin: Agreed, crown vics are too awesome for what they are.

Jcre8te: Not 100% sure but I'm 99% sure you wont have any issues with hitting your struts.

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Yep I went there, reppin hard whether you like it or not haha.

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With my buddies s2k.
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Damn, do have such great taste. Saving that pic.

Thank you sir!

your tires remind me of nascar tires for some reason lol car is lookin very sexy! I need to stroll around my local junkards for some CVs.

:icon_tup: I totally agree haha