About a week ago I picked up a 88 FC. The car, from what I can tell, started out as a 88 SE. I bought the car from the PO as a roller.

Some of the upgrades PO did are 5 lug swap with bbs vert wheels and LSD, and a full body kit painted jet fighter gray (makes up names for colors).

The car also came with 4 piston calipers for the front, and no rotors or pads, and the calipers were not attached to the car.

The engine; supposedly had good compression. The PO bought the engine with a disassembled water pump area. The PPO somehow managed to break the water pump bracket on the front plate. PO had it welded, And never reassembled. Don't kno if I trust it, don't care. I'm planning to swap with a tii engine.

Pics coming soon, iPhone won't let me upload for some reason.

Last Monday I stripped all the bullshit off the top of the engine to get it ready for pulling. Plenums, exhaust, rats nest, everything. Saturday I bought all new brake rotors and pads. Also bought new pin kits for the pads since the PO had lost everything for the calipers. Also had to buy new 12mm bolts for the calipers.

Bled brakes and everything worked properly from what I can tell. I was using a boat anchor and a piece of a bed frame to chock the tires, so being able to use the e brake was a big plus.

So yesterday I pulled the motor. Came out super easy. Love the engine room in these cars. I will probably be parting all the n/a stuff to fund my tii swap, but that's for another thread.

 

One of things I plan on doing are TII engine swap from a s5. After that will be a bigger turbo, fuel control, timing, and bigger injectors. Looking for around the 300-350 hp range.

8lb flywheel and clutch kit would be in the list of things to do next. Also thinking about torsen diff or rebuilding the clutch type on the one I have. Still researching this.

As for suspension, I wanna go with adjustables, like tokiko blues. I used to have tien s type springs. Thinking about goin with them again.

Here's the POs pic of the car.




Here's some of my pics.

On my way home. Hour drive to pick up this beast.






Engine stripped







Car info

 

 

update

received my s5 tII engine

bolted it in

FMIC and greddy rs bov on the way

 

Its an awesome feeling to see the engine and tranny all bolted in and wired up huh?

 

still need to buy a ecu and harness, but yeah, it does feel good to have it bolted in.

 

Been neglecting my build thread so heres an update.

Engine installed and wired with haltech e6x. Base map loaded.

Car starts and idles perfectly.

Fmic installed

Intercooler piping installed

Efan and shroud installed but not wired

Bought 2 front seats and installed since the car had no seats.

Bought tii to n/a dshaft, not installed yet.

 

Update:

dshaft installed.

Tii throttle cable installed.

New clutch slave master flex hose.

So I was like, yay, today I get to drive my car. All excited and ****. Flex hose was the last thing to go on. This was my first time removing the slave from this engine. Pulled it off, and WATER come pouring outta the mother effer. Completely seized and rusted out.

If it's not one thing it's another.

Just ordered one, should be here in a couple hours.

 

Got my ****. Waiting for my buddy to come over to help me bleed it out. Then I'm gonna take her around the block.

 

Drove car. Ran like **** under a load.

 

Mushroom air filter on it's way as well as my new lc1 innovate wideband kit.

After that I'm gonna start the tuning process.

 

Sweet!

 

 

 

Got my wb. The sent me a lc2 kit and I was expecting a lc1. I know that the lc2 replaces the lc1, but the description said lc1 so I figured It was just old stock.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/291065516251?cmd=VIDESC

 

dont go into boost till its tuned. it only takes one bad detonation...

 

Yeah. I'm bout to tune it this weekend. That's Why I bought the wb

 

It's in the air! Getting my 3" Turbo back installed.

 

 

Update.

Fixed the timing issue.

I had originally used a haltech base map from the haltech section. The ignition settings were 65 on the trigger angle, and an 11 tooth offset.

Turns out my setup called for a 5 tooth offset, rather than 11.

timing is now dialed in perfectly. Idle is super smooth. Fires right up cold or hot.

I also added a zero throttle map. Seems like a slight load on the engine calls for a completely different fuel setting than when it's idling.

Still have a little herky jerk when driving. From what I read on my wideband, it's because it's running lean.

I can't get the afr to richen up past 16 when driving. After talking with some buddies and a couple drinks, someone mentioned fuel pump.

Bam it hit me. I'm still running n/a fuel pump like a dummy.

So next step is fuel pump. I was thinking of going with a walboro 255, but somebody told me I have to get a different pressure regulator to run it. So I Did some research, and now in leaning towards an FD fuel pump.

So, fuel pump, fuel tune, and cleaning up the engine bay, and that should be it for the engine side of things.

 

Wheel bearing change

 

How tough was it to change the wheel bearings? And where did you get them from? Expensive job?

 

Funny you should ask.

Taking the hub off was simple.

The bearing needs to be pressed out.

I don't have a press.

Today I'm going to oreilly to see if I can get their bearing removal tool to work.

If not Im off to my local machine shop where they said they would charge me 40 bucks to press out the old one and press in the new one.

The bearing was a master pro. 35 Bucks

 

Thanks for the info lol. Cause I went in to get an alignment and just out of curiosity I tried shaking the wheels and a few of them have some play. I get really bad high speed shaking so all I could do was get a balance. But alright thanks. Gives me a better idea of how much I'll spend.

 

Yeah thankfully only one of mine was bad, so bad I couldn't go faster than 20mph.

The front bearing race came off with the spindle.