Nice

 

Read your whole thread, sorry what happened to your motor. Great to see you went for it all yourself and although had some hiccups your back on the horse

 

First build thread where I get to see what the man eats to keep chugging along!

 

Thanks for the kind words. It was cold this weekend so I didnt really touch the car. I've been looking for new housings and hope to strike a good deal with AGreen.

Girlfriend is getting me a nice gift for christmas, but you guys will have to wait to see it

 

I'm guessing either a restraining order or a tribal tramp stamp.

 

Nope! she semi-supports the whole car idea and even lends a hand when we are baby free for a few hours.

 

Can someone tell me what kind of studs these are? I got em for free.

 

Can anyone tell me what causes the black marks by the spark plug area? I also see that its cracked...no bueno...



missing chrome all the way up there?????



Missing all along the bottom and side as well.

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"ported" exhaust...



What causes those markings?



Then I took a minute and took a wire wheel to the front cover - need a smaller one since the bench grinder couldnt get into the tight crevices.

 

The missing chrome on the top of the housings is in the compression area it'll likely affected ur compression #s if u use those housings

 

There is some grooving in the chrome surface. I cant decide if I should piece together an engine or pick up an FD block and refresh it. I'm not looking to make a ton of power...

 

Looking for turbo rotors and turbo side plates if anyone has any. Preferably local so I can save $$ and pick em up.

 

looks like mild detonation problems on the housings. As far as the gouges, I wouldnt know where to start but Id say the apex seal spring locked or something. I am more familiar with piston motors and those marks woulda been from the ring lands. if you can hone or machine them out and go with longer apex seals than it might not be an issue. good luck man. let me know when we are having a meet to work on your car I dont have any major work that is needed so it would be mostly your car

 

There aren't any gouges though! its just dark marks. I'll let you know when things get going. I'm sourcing parts and trying to make some extra income so I can build this thing right!

 

christmas gift from the girlfriend! Thanks Circuit Theory!

 

I thought about picking up that steering wheel! I fell for the white one though.

 

It's a very nice upgrade compared to the stock rubber or whatever wheel. damn base models..

Please check out my for sale thread in the 2nd gen section and North East section as well! Need to fund this rebuild.

 

I feel like a bit of a tard. I picked up some irons and rotors without even thinking about this. I got some FD rotors (how can i verify?) and what flywheel do I need to use? remember this is an NA drivetrain. S4...

 

I gave a buddy of mine a buddy of mine my new center iron to glass blast. I'd say it came out pretty nice! Now I dont have to scrub it to clean it and I have a nice clean surface for painting. I'm gonna give him the rest of the parts and clean em up as well...

 

Found this crack...hope it isnt too serious. I've never seen it crack there. Can someone chime in?

 

The porting looks shoddy. I dont really see a bevel on the upper edge? Hard to tell. Hell it really doesnt even look ported. haha

Loving the steering wheel!

 

Nice progress, real nice rx

 

Thanks!

Can anyone chime in about the crack in the iron?

 

Tough to say. But... cracks only get bigger, they don't get smaller. And that one running through the water seal area could get iffy.

 

That crack is definitely bad business.

 

Trying to source a good set of irons....No one local seems to have anything decent.

Probably going to end up borrowing some money from my dad so I can get this project moving and out of his garage so he stops complaining

Still undecided on apex seals... Leaning towards ALS or Goopy...with an OEM rebuild kit to go with that.