also using new exahust manifold gaskets would help. If you reuse the original exhaust manifold gaskets, youre taking the risk it might leak even easier.

 

wayne brady impersonator...... don mess wit Zero R ;]

 

Mods (ernie t, whoever) can you please delete the last 4 posts? Thanks.

Trying to keep the thread ON TOPIC, I got my turbine housing back from the machine shop today. They faced it, and told me that it was a little uneven, thus most likely the cause of my exhaust leak.

 

nice bro, it's nice being exhaust leak free!

 

Rich,
I look forward to seeing this get back together without a leak. When will it be done?
-Joe

 

good luck

 

Nice! I didn't think you would ever trade up from those bnr's

Good luck with it, that sucka will fly!

 

Hey guys,

the turbo is back together......sweet lord, that turbine is NOT fun to put back together and clock correctly so that you are able to tighten the turbine bolts and then have all the oil/coolant connections in the proper orientation. It was like a jigsaw puzzle, sean wasn't kidding when he said it's difficult with the 1.06. Anyone looking at this turbo in the future, if you have the turbine taken off to be ceramic coated, I recommend having the flange faced before coating, while it's seperated.

The turbo definitely sits on the manifold better, now we just have to get everything hooked up and fire her up. If there's still an exhaust leak I think I may lose my marbles

 

Exhaust leak fixed

 

Good to hear! I was 99% sure ti wasn't the manifold. It just sucks it wound up being the turbo itself.

-S-

 

Once we fired her up, the noise was still there, loud as ever. Of course I was in disbelief. Upon closer inspection, Ihor covered up the open bolt hole on the turbine with his thumb (we managed to lose one of the low-profile allen key bolts, sean was nice enough to ship out some extras which are in transit). The noise pretty much went away, his thumb muffled it. So, I won't know 100% for sure until that bolt is nice and tight in there, but it seems like we fixed the leak.

Sean, I've been told that with a tubular manifold and a v-band on the dp, I will most likely have a bit of a ticking sound under the hood, even under the best circumstances. Any truth to this?

 

Yes you will hear more of a "pinging" through the manifold. The thinner the wall of the tubing the worse it can sound.

-S-

 

Thanks Marshall! So when are you getting back into an FD? It's a buyer's market right now......hell, my old roommate has a badass FD for sale right there in D/FW

 

Hey Rich...

This is a great upgrade and a good documentation of this 500r install and review...

On another note...

How about you post some Christmas pics of your new turbo with some Christmas garland on it or some Christmas lights on the downpipe or something... Better yet, a picture of you kissing the 500r turbo under some mistletoe...

Dwayne

 

Haha I can do it as the car is sitting in my shop.

 

OK, drove the car on the street today for the first time

IC piping and couplers and the damn exhaust leak were the things holding me up. The leak ended up definitely being the turbine flange, so if anybody is at fault on this one it's Garrett. There's still some audible ticking under the hood, but it appears to be coming from the manifold itself, and I've seen this with other single setups as well, mainly due to the v-band dp and tubular manifold.

I'm running a temporary map courtesy of my bud chris carlisi, and the response/boost is pretty good. I'm not driving it hard at all, and am going to avoid really opening her up until JD can tune her. More pics to come soon

 

Good to hear. I can't wait for the dyno sheet. CJ

 

Who's JD?

 

Good to see she's running Rich.

 

Pics! I still need to get the matching ic coupler for the greddy elbow, and I'm not really happy with all the bends on the hot side of the ic. I'll eventually remove the fmic, and have the inlet reclocked to get a straight shot as suggested by chuck and kyle.

 

John Duarte/Boostn7 on here. He's supposed to be a whiz with the Power FC, and he's also very local to me. He's the guy that ran 10s on stock twins, white FD.

 

Local to Jersey, or New York? and BTW that looks awesome. SO much shiny and new.

 

Car is looking very good Rich. Glad it's all getting sorted.

-S-

 

god that thing is so weak! Looks nice, too bad i dont live closer. I want to have another huge rx7 meet!

 

Nice.. Good luck w/ break in and tune. G