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Wild Steves KA-T Coupe
Figured its time to transfer this over to here since ONE is about dead. I'll share some highlights and the current stuff:
(full thread here: http://forums.240sxone.com/showthread.php?t=33905 ) First bought 12/26/2013: http://i.imgur.com/ctHA8v9.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gnZyCaG.png http://i.imgur.com/sqQLhsi.png http://i.imgur.com/cYrZqZC.png http://i.imgur.com/syzmvdM.png http://i.imgur.com/U39GtHL.png http://i.imgur.com/Vll9i3n.png http://i.imgur.com/vjCMXDL.png http://i.imgur.com/Xi1yRHV.png http://i.imgur.com/tqieIcW.png |
2016:
http://i.imgur.com/Ze25VBb.png http://i.imgur.com/iPPaqcW.png http://i.imgur.com/U4qDfTo.png http://i.imgur.com/c28ROp4.png http://i.imgur.com/LXmMejh.png http://i.imgur.com/g1xIs71.png http://i.imgur.com/5PKIyiE.png http://i.imgur.com/uOAx2FS.png http://i.imgur.com/q1rjT9m.png http://i.imgur.com/cVKGyWW.png http://i.imgur.com/XyJhyZO.png http://i.imgur.com/0wgC7SL.png http://i.imgur.com/KpUf7vt.png http://i.imgur.com/MjW0hJp.png http://i.imgur.com/ulZM3GJ.png http://i.imgur.com/YFt5bRl.png http://i.imgur.com/p4EUwtP.png http://i.imgur.com/hTJSZKs.png http://i.imgur.com/Yj2bmpl.png |
Wow looks great! I love nice KA-T builds like this one appears to be heading.
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original 3 posts updated. Again, if you want all the details, click the link in the original post. I'll be more detailed from here going forward.
I'll try to answer a few questions I assume will be asked. -Newest turbo is a GTX3076R .82AR. -The car was never ever on a dyno. Friend street tuned it every time. Ran 18psi out of the Borgwarner S256sx. Shooting for 20 this year. -Running LS2 coilpacks. -Fab guy is Travis (username: flatout) aka wilson speed. -Yes he made a jig for KA manifolds. |
i like what you did with the intake manifold, do you have any comparison/opinion to stock with your setup?
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It makes the car a whole lot easier to work on though, haha. |
Why did you cut off the t3/t4 flange on the CX manifold? I'm assuming it was to go t3 flange only?
How much does your friend charge for those ka t3 manifolds? |
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I can't give an honest number, but if you're really interested you can PM me and I'l give you his number. I'd say around $600. |
Some more stuff:
Fitment of turbo. Waiting on some lines and fittings to re-do my PS lines and clean those up and out of my way. http://i.imgur.com/hray2NL.png http://i.imgur.com/aia56ra.png Figured while I was in the steering stuff, I might as well do a solid steering shaft bushing. Turns out, the 27 year old rubber one was pretty beat up. http://i.imgur.com/cSGb2ZK.png http://i.imgur.com/K1k8PCi.png http://i.imgur.com/pvMamMG.png Took the KF's apart to send the faces to threepiece.us (they're already on their way) for a acid dip and re-chrome. One of them was flaking. I'm going to take the barrels to work and sandblast them and have a friend powdercoat them black. http://i.imgur.com/mdo8s64.png |
those KF's are gonna be the tits :dead:
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You're wild Steve.
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Wow what a turn around, well done!
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looks good man real good
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This looks good, well done.
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Style-y and with a pretty proper setup. You don't find that too often these days. Congrats!
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Small updates. Its been cold here, and we got 2 feet of snow within the last 2 weeks. So, motivation is at a low.
Got my faces back from threepiece.us for chrome. I can't say enough good things about the finish. They did an excellent job. Bought new nuts, and had my friend powder coat the barrels black. http://i.imgur.com/p58Dw0o.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LlK24Kl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3hqMYvk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zrbfSFm.jpg Picked up this pretty rare gem, unfortunately (for me) dizzariot is fiending for it. I also sourced a More Collage grille which should be on its way from japan any day now, which will likely replace my shit ass GTR grille. http://i.imgur.com/2gFKE6H.jpg Had travis cut and weld my fitting on my PS pump from a 90* to a 45* to keep the line away from the new manifold and combat the heat. Also switched to a RHD z32 (or pathfinder) BM50 1" brake master to also keep the lines away from the heat. http://i.imgur.com/Yvqhkzm.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/qpXuSv0.jpg I have a decent list of other stuff that needs to get done, but at this rate...spring isn't coming very fast. Some progress is better than none. |
My morecollage grille came in the mail today. Pretty excited about this piece.
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that grille is gangsta
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Where did you source the steering rack? I think mine is on it's way out. I dig the brick mod for the headlights.
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fresh as fuck my man
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Nice build. Love the polished intake plenum.
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Build quality looks top notch, hope to see this thing when I finally make my way up to Canaan for an event. |
Been plugging away at the turd here and there. Went to Travis' house to finish my fabwork. Weld on the wastegate flange, weld 90* elbow on compressor housing,\ modify my downpipe, dump tube, and intercooler piping to work.
http://i.imgur.com/TJrvEcQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/MjeuOvl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/sOhnuOm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/WpVWfLH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uAMMNYp.jpg The downpipe and dump tube have been since heat wrapped, and i'll be running a turbo blanket as well to combat the heat from the master. Since I had to make all new oil/coolant lines, I took my intake manifold off to make life easier. Figured i'd clean up my engine harness while I was in there. Remove all the OEM emissions garbage and the OEM coil stuff as well. Came out pretty decent looking. http://i.imgur.com/CUAYO8V.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XAqqFJd.jpg |
Small update. Been working on putting the car back together. Whole engine bay is together, wiring harness is finished. Need to replace my battery, change my oil filter and fill all my fluids, put in my new wideband 02 sensor, and plug in my turbo timer.
I aim to drive the car this weekend, as its supposed to be 65 Sunday. I purchased some pre-made LED boards and replaced the hideous LED strips I had in my tail lights previously. Couldn't be happier with the result. http://i.imgur.com/GQanKqS.jpg |
do the circled bolts come out from that side or are they captured in there somehow? tried to replace my steering shaft bushing with an aluminum one and felt like i was gonna break something lol, if not ill just go from the other side once i get my car all torn apart
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They look clean Always wondered about doing that Maybe a write up ;) |
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Took the first ride last night.
Went to the gas station, got some gas, checked under the hood and came home. Noticed some weird noises, so I investigated them tonight. My driver side dust shield was rubbing on the rotor. Not sure how/why it moved, but it did. I bent it out of the way. My power steering felt like garbage. Did some more bleeding, which made things much smoother, but there was still a terrible grinding noise. After some investigation the solid steering bushing was rubbing on the firewall. I refused to take my whole turbo side off, so I jammed a few screw drivers in there, hammered em in, wiggled em around, and nothing rubs anymore. I'll take it for another drive tomorrow night, and if everything feels good, i'll go get an alignment saturday morning. New turbo sounds pretty cool, but definitely need some tuning. I assumed a similarly sized turbo my AFR's would be DECENT, but I was wrong. It'll be fine for cruising, for now. Hopefully next weekend I can talk travis into tuning. http://i.imgur.com/eibbVDd.jpg http://i.imgur.com/j4yfohh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/cwZ4eRy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/00xgWqq.jpg |
Pictures of those led tailights In the dark please :)
Looks clean and fun too |
Not the best picture but you get the idea
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Been chillin. Finally got my turbo timer to work after 3 years of it chillin. Also, figured out why my wipers kept blowing fuses..
http://i.imgur.com/eTIgmNl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RXEJSlU.jpg My homeboy snapped a few shots this past weekend chillin. http://i.imgur.com/0DULjoS.jpg http://i.imgur.com/K2zEEgM.jpg |
Got down with some dynamat this weekend, tryna keep things a bit quieter in the cab.
http://i.imgur.com/TKEnelr.jpg Friend of mine made me a full titanium hood prop. Its awesome. http://i.imgur.com/rjo3dcm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DVE0zMP.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3V5gGwN.jpg Aside from that, been chillin. http://i.imgur.com/O6iHhYf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LxA7mBH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YMyHIuY.jpg For those asking for tail light shots: http://i.imgur.com/jKLaN2x.jpg?1 |
By quiet you mean you're trying to keep that torque monster from pulling a wheelie off the line. I gotcha.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with a sick unique tilted smile intercooler. I even made a nice bracket for mine but it still throws a slanted smirk. |
Nice update, this car is really nice!! Hood prop is too cool haha I would buy one if he'd make some more!!
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Caught a pretty bad case of low oil pressure...nothing detrimental, but I wasn't very happy. Figured i'd change the oil and see what happens, same results. So parked the car, and ordered a new oil pump and front cover, as well as a new oil pan. With a some welding and a little help wrenching from Travis, its back together.
http://i.imgur.com/vKWvPdM.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/YljAzik.jpg http://i.imgur.com/J6jJJ78.jpg http://i.imgur.com/I0NJxbT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/UV6oaUm.jpg Also, made it down to the greatest place on earth this weekend to hangout at ECB and consumed the greatest tacos on earth. http://i.imgur.com/DGaAoLZ.jpg |
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Do yourself a favor and build yourself a trapdoor oil pan. My KA died from oil moving away from the pickup under cornering.
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Will do. Wish that the xcessive pan didn't sit 1/2" lower, otherwise i'd be all over it.
Any pictures of what you did poorman? Also, pulled my engine/trans yesterday. Trans drain plug wasn't very thrilled. https://i.imgur.com/EEgiHiy.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/ZwnISVH.jpg |
yee haww
Not having the upper radiator support is a game changer for pulling/installing engines :) |
how did that dynamat end up working for you?
cool build - subbed |
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Stay tuned for some updates in the next few days/week. |
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I f'n hate the squeak, creeks and rattles in my s14. I assumed a LOW mileage or well built/restored s-chassis would be the answer. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk |
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Sacrifice comfort for style and speed. |
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Damn right! :rawk: |
Welp, heres the big update.
As you can see, my lower radiator support was crooked. Really, fucking crooked. I always did my best to hide it very well, and now im sure you'll all good back and look at how my radiator support was bent, the brackets were angled etc. It always bothered me, and it was time to fix it. Unfortunately don't have pictures, but what Travis and I did was basically drill the spot welds and pull it forward and straight again. There was some yanno, hammering and cutting but it was good enough. I carfaxed the car, and its been in 2 front end collisions, so, No surprise here. I also cut the spot welds out of the sheet metal behind the headlights. Considering my harness doesn't clip there and I don't have pop ups, all I had there was a few grounds and the stuff for my retrofit on them. All that stuff was bent and mangled too, so it was a good time to replace it. https://i.imgur.com/sBTaSA8.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Upev6ql.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/ahxQVPB.jpg I spent the last week doing tons of sanding, cutting, welding and test fitting. Made some replacement panels, bolted in the new upper support and mocked everything up. https://i.imgur.com/z0YzZtc.jpg Finally, today was the day. Travis came back and laid some fresh statutory grape.. This time, as a base/clear with some flake. The first time it was just a single stage urethane. https://i.imgur.com/Fem88Bm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/AOZsDwJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/V4rczcm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nisBrvY.jpg While I was in there, I filled in the stupid triangles where the harness used to run, and always get my bay filthy. Pretty awkward to tack in by yourself. I didn't go overboard making them look pretty cause they're rather hidden anyways. https://i.imgur.com/bwkLKt9.jpg In the mean time, Travis had also made me a aluminum distributor delete cover for my KA to replace my xcessive one that (i'm not going to name names....but) someone dropped and cracked by accident. https://i.imgur.com/sbCIied.jpg Overall, I couldn't be happier with how this turned out. |
Dam dude. That’s a nice looking bay! I really need to decide what ima do with my bay before I drop my ka-t in ... this is tits
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I really like the way the bay turned out with the removable Factory core support!! purlple looks dope too!
I dont drive my car when its wet (obviously when there is a freak storm, shit happens) because there is nothing behind the headlights to stop water from getting to the bay (filter and coil is back there). when time lets me, i might be using your design when i re-do my bay :) |
Just curious, how do you convert a KA on a dizzy to one with coilpacks? How do you handle the distributor assembly?
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It was a bit of a challenge to figure out the settings because all of the old threads on it were for AEM v1 which had a different lay out. However, if anybody needed the settings I could send my map and figure out the changes. Basically the distributor doesn't have a cap and acts more like a CAS (think SR) and tells the computer timing stuff. |
I love that engine bay refresh! Looking good my man!
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Just been poking around a bit, installing the bolt on stuff back into my bay and cleaning up some wiring, i'm sure we're all guilty of doing some ugly wiring that you can't see.
I tapped into the OEM wiring when I put my speedhut gauges in and it was a mess, but it worked. It was always a pain to get the cluster out because everything was hard wired in and I couldn't easily get to the plugs on the chassis harness to unplug the cluster sub harness. So, I pulled that out, gutted the wires I didn't need, added 2 plugs and made it a touch more tidy and easy to remove. The before/after: https://i.imgur.com/Ixkqmmb.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/x4Cs7Ew.jpg Bruno approves. https://i.imgur.com/KEdgPfl.jpg I also wanted to clean up and gut my engine and trans harnesses. The engine harness was just a mess from adding in separate harnesses for the AEM IAT/MAP sensors and LS coils. I wanted it to be one nice and neat harness. Realistically it counts for nothing as the entire harness runs through the trans tunnel and you can't even see it when the engine is in place, but it was just a pain to work with. This will keep everything nice and neat. I'm probably going to get a 5 pin plug for the single wires by the connector for the power/ground to the coils, 2 wires for the wideband, and 1 for the fan trigger. https://i.imgur.com/P6bBtHh.jpg?1 All thats left of the trans harness is starter, alternator, one plug for the speed sensor on the trans (because the plug for the reverse lights is wired into the chassis cause it never worked in the lower harness, and still didn't when I tested it today) and the plugs that go to the fuse box. https://i.imgur.com/SftsY9e.jpg Scooped up these LI Customs radiator brackets, because now that my radiator will sit straight against the support they'll look nice. https://i.imgur.com/3OEOfDJ.jpg Going to start tearing down the KA in the next week or so, three cheers for disappointment |
Hip hip...
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subbed, already found some cool bits for my car :)
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10/10 digging this
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awesome build!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Fuck winter. Its 0 degrees outside. And i'm lucky if I can get the garage to be 40. So instead, i'll just update this from the last month or so.
https://i.imgur.com/5Y97Zks.jpg Ordered a baffled catch can from racecatchcan.com, had it made with 2 -8AN fittings. Very nice piece. Immediately gave it to my buddy to powdercoat black (slacker still hasn't given it back yet...) https://i.imgur.com/hyQ60Ux.jpg?1 Anyways, one day while I was driving home I had an idea. Talked to my machinist at work about it and he made it happen. (the nice part about working at a foundry is having tons of scrap laying around, and when your boss likes you stuff like this happens) I wanted plugs for my firewall for the harness hole & 2 AC holes. I didn't have enough time to shave them before the respray of my bay, so this would have to do. I took measurements, got them made, and brought them back to work and painted them. Sure they're a step below as clean as a smooth shaven firewall, but whatever. Looks better than previously. https://i.imgur.com/4KZUgbU.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/eQ4qplI.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/yYnnVEf.jpg https://i.imgur.com/8VcOdbO.jpg?1 While doing so I obviously had to close off and seal the holes in the condensor box (which is gutted anyways. Wish I could remove this without making the blower motor useless because I still have heat. Thanks Nissan...) So I did some trimming with the dremel, and took a piece of plastic and JB welded it in place. https://i.imgur.com/JOjeSOY.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/MsFZRLC.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/OlmOpnV.jpg?1 While I had the engine and trans out, I spent some time scrubbing the trans tunnel and bottom of the firewall, undercoating everything, and then applying some of this heat barrier from thermo-tec. Its real thin and lightweight. I got 2 24x48" sheets, and didn't need all of it. Claims it withstands 400* direct heat, and 2000* ambient. Anybody whos ever owned one of these shitboxes knows what its like on those super hot days. Along with the adhesive backing on this, I riveted it to the floor as well. For those of you who like data, I bought a infrared laser thermometer. On an 84* day, after about 20 minutes of driving home from work my floor was 104* by my feet, and my shift boot was 134*. This is with full interior and OEM sound deadening. https://i.imgur.com/qkefcys.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/4TmizH6.jpg?1 Somewhere in the mix, my block went to Travis' house and got torn down. We were pretty surprised at how everything looked for how bad it smoked and how bad my leakdown results were. So the block and head went to the machine shop. I got a call this morning saying that my cylinders were .002" out of round at the bottom/top and .006" out of round in the middle. So it needs .030" over to be safe. Will likely be getting .040" Wiseco pistons. Oh, and my exhaust valve guides are junk, so new ones will be getting pressed in. While i'm in there BC dual springs and retainers will be installed as well. Ouch. After wiping off the pistons: https://i.imgur.com/2LO5hUO.jpg https://i.imgur.com/0G2phy2.jpg I also acquired some well sought after goodies. https://i.imgur.com/gHCVObp.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/74arAFo.jpg |
Been out in the garage a bit on the days when I can get the garage to be atleast 40 degrees. Put my dash and 90% of my interior back in, wired in the silvia quarter louvers, wired in the proper connectors for the 50/50 markers. Pulled my crossmember out and painted it gloss black, and put in a re-manned rack from rock auto. Thursday I got all my stuff back from the machine shop. Ordered bearings and my buddy at Subimods accidentally pulled the trigger on the headgasket I think I'll need. If it measures up..i'll be ahead of the game. Definitely on track to have this shitbox ready for spring. I'll order up an ATI super damper soon.
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Looking great! love the color/progress. I just ordered DEI trans tunnel as well to lower the temps from the LS. Do you recommend anything for the install as far as the surface it mates to?
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That silvia louver is a really nice touch. This is the first time Ive seen it lit in pictures
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I thought this car looked familiar. Were you on bikeguide back in the day "Tuzzio" ? Car looking so good!
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A bunch of shit happened and not a lot of pictures were taken. Dropped the KA back in the shitbox yesterday.
https://i.imgur.com/YPqjdrc.jpg?1 Current specs: Wiseco Pistons .060 over. (was supposed to be .040 but the wrong pistons got sent to me and yolo) Eagle rods King Main / Rod Bearings Balanced crank ARP Main/Head Studs ARP Rod bolts Cometic Gasket BC264 Cams BC springs and Retainers ATI Super Damper. Manifold and hot side were ceramic coated https://i.imgur.com/GlukCw6.jpg Will be buttoning it up this week and hopefully running by next weekend. Were expecting 5-10" of snow here this week so i'm in no rush anyways. |
I have been debating on the ceramic coating on my headers as the wrap is just so bulky for my tight clearance. Is there different stages of heat containment ? Also if you dont mind roughly how much did you pay? Very interested, looking good man.
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Also, I used a company that my part time job goes through and it was $220 for both pieces. Which seems about average as I did quote it elsewhere. |
So, after a week or so of slowly re-assembling everything. The first start was successful a few weeks ago. Had a few hiccups along the way, but managed to push through it all. The first time I was bleeding the coolant, after I shut the car off...my battery was dead. Alternator wasn't charging it. Long story short, a plug under the dash where my harnesss connects to my fuse box got unplugged (likely when I re-installed the dash). So that was an easy fix. A few days later, I noticed a massive puddle of coolant under the car. For whatever reason, one of my coolant lines for my turbo was leaking. I switched out the fitting with no avail, so I just replaced all the lines and fittings last weekend.
After doing some more coolant bleeding (lets just say after this I invested in a Lisle funnel kit) I decided I was going to change the oil as it had all the assembly lube in it, and take the car for the shake down drive. Change the oil and filter, start the car..0 oil pressure. So this is where I'm at now. https://i.imgur.com/KsqotaD.jpg I pulled the filter off to confirm if it was the filter or not. No oil is going to the filter. So I pulled the pan off. Figuring that since the pan was dented, if I un-dented it my results would change. Cleaned and inspected the pick up. Re-assembled everything, and still no oil pressure. Pulled the pan off AGAIN, and this time with the front cover as well. Disassemble the pump, pick up, and cannot see anything visual. Drive to the dealer and order a new pick up (s13 is discontinued, so I purchased s14) a new oil pump cover, and a gasket for between the cover and the pick up. While waiting for the parts to come in, I brought my cover and pick up to work and sat with our Level 3 to review the x-ray images. Can't see anything detremental except tons of porosity in the casting and some strange surface cracks. https://i.imgur.com/6MSgAZH.jpg Travis took the pump drive spacer from the crank for my KA coffee table and made me a tool to bench test the new setup with my drill. https://i.imgur.com/X0W3BLi.jpg?1 Last night I got the rest of the parts from the dealer, and assembled my existing (rockauto) front timing cover with gears, and new OEM pump cover, gasket and pick up and stuck it in my oil drain pan. Still did not pump oil. I had already pulled my old cover out of the scrap pile. OEM cover, OEM Pump gears, Rock auto cover, used gasket/o-ring, and s13 pick up. And it fucking pumped oil. By this point, I could narrow it down to the front timing cover or the pump gears. I swapped out the pump gears after extensively cleaning them, and boom. Got the set up for my car to function properly and pump oil. I will be going to the dealer tomorrow to order brand new pump gears, as well as bringing the rock auto ones to work to x-ray and see if we can find anything. |
The car is beautiful. Keep up the great work.
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Ordered pump gears. Put car back together. Pumped oil. Bingo.
A few days later I took the car for its shakedown run. Went about 2 miles down the road, car was getting warm. Sat in the parking lot for a bit then drove home to start bleeding coolant. On my way, the car just shut off. So I coasted into a parking lot about a half mile from my house. After checking fuel pressure, fuses, relays..decided it was time to call Travis up for a tow. https://i.imgur.com/PZEuiuk.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/iZspiGt.jpg We got home, pushed it into the garage. He pulled the oil cap off and we cranked the car..exhaust cam wasn't spinning. Pulled the valve cover off to find the exhaust cam bolt backed itself off enough for the sprocket to wiggle off. Pulled the head off that night to see 2 bent valves on cylinder #2. Over the next week it went to the machine shop, valves got replaced, lash got set and I had it home. While I was putting everything back on, one of the washer from my ARP headstuds fell in the front timing cover and got lodged under the timing chain and sprocket, which resulted in pulling the pan, and front cover to make the project a bit more fun. Once the car was back together and a few shake down runs were done I spent some time polishing and sealing my paint which collected dust all winter. https://i.imgur.com/ECh4zHj.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/ll2ia7O.jpg I always found that everytime I had to remove the eyelet and wire from my speedhut coolant temp gauge, the sending unit never worked after that. Friend gave me the connector from a foxbody mustang, which just slips over the threads. Shouldn't have that issue again. Ended up re-wiring and tidying up my cluster wiring with a spare cluster subharness I had since I was unsatisifed with my results over the winter. https://i.imgur.com/ouFf97D.jpg At one point I was having issues again with my charging system. Turned out, my alternator had shit the best. Warrantied it and re-installed. Bought a sheet of black textured ABS plastic and a $5 amazon volts gauge and made a small piece to fit in the cluster surround. I'm not sure how long it will stay. Its nice to have a diagnostics tool, but it makes the car feel cluttered to me. I might just invest in one of the positive battery terminals that displays voltage. https://i.imgur.com/CRxp9J2.jpg Two fridays ago I was driving home from work and noticed my defi gauges shut off. Then my radio..then my wideband started doing weird shit. As I pushed in the clutch to go into a parking lot the car died. Who would've guessed...more charging system issues. https://i.imgur.com/6zVdvvY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OU1nMGy.jpg When I got the car home and started to test the alternator, when I reached in the positive wire from my lower harness to my alternator fried itself off the connector. After pulling down my lower harness, when I extended the alternator power and ground I used two metal screw in type connectors and wrapped them in electrical tape. For whatever reason, it worked for 3 years and now the electrical tape moved and caused them to arc on eachother. Luckily it burnt the eyelet connector before it hit the fusebox or caught on fire. I had a different connector from over the winter, staggered my connections and shrink wrapped over them so this problem can't ever occur again. Its been a summer of headaches for sure. But I have about 1100 miles on the car and couldn't be happier. Still chasing a weird ignition issue over 15PSI though. 4 brand new coil packs didn't fix it either. Whatever. Homeboy from GRAVECO scooped a cool picture of Travis and I chillin which doesn't feature his outlaw, for once. https://i.imgur.com/A2bbsX3.jpg |
I can't see pics past page 1.5 [that's halfway through page 2 folks]
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Atleast the car is looking good
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This car is fucking nice !!!! Smooth man very smooth !!!! Thumbs up
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Glad to hear that you're working through all of the headaches. We've all been there... This thing looks dope by the way!
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Hopped on the ganador bandwagon a few weeks ago.
https://i.imgur.com/EnZmFW9.jpg?1 Was having some issues rubbing up front, like, rubbed through the lip of the fender and put a small crack in the outside of the fender. It was time to raise the car, so I raised it about 9MM up front, and 12MM in the rear. While I was in there, I installed my gktech grip knuckles that have been sitting on the shelf since this winter. I got an alignment this morning, and overall the car feels really good, much more responsive. However, With the geometry correction obviously the wheels don't camber in as much during suspension compression, which kind've sucks and now I have to run about 4.5* of camber up front to make the wheels fit. Oh well. https://i.imgur.com/OseEGca.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/sUkfmI2.jpg And heres a picture of my dirty bay. https://i.imgur.com/yVHPBb5.jpg?1 |
Congrats on getting this thing back together and sorted man! Looks awesome and I'm sure feels awesome to drive again.
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I cant get over the purple it blows my mind
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Didn't touch the car all winter. Some personal issues going on lately, so fuck my bank account, and I ruined BNIB bronze TE's. Sorry Damon!
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Damn! i think the bronze would've looked ok :-/ but polished/chrome is DEFINITELY more your style!! :naughty:
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Chrome TEs! Good stuff m8
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Paint color and chrome combination is tits. Love it
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Not much happened this year. Early in the spring we put a muffler by the diff, as I get older im over the super loud car. I wish it was still a bit quieter, but its much, much better. With the sunroof and windows closed, its almost as quiet as the average stock car. Unfortunately, I have no photos of it.
One of the next comfort mods I did was switch from a solid AVID trans mount to a generic poly trans mount. For $10, well worth the investment. Quieted things down a bit and I couldn't be happier https://i.imgur.com/k30NGUd.jpg?2 A few weeks ago on my way to work, I lost my brakes. Pedal was super stiff, and I had assumed that the booster had gone out. Sourced one locally from Jesse from Drift Faction. Brought it to work, blasted it, painted it, and baked it in our FPI dryer, brought it home and installed it. Brakes have been fine ever since. Luckily, going to work early in the morning I didn't have a risk of hitting anything or anyone, but I did have to limp it home using only the e-brake. Old booster: https://i.imgur.com/hI1MTUK.jpg?1 New booster: https://i.imgur.com/0fvxD7D.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/yqsJtci.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/2rHx7UW.jpg?1 |
Aside from that, I've just been driving the car as much as possible before the sand/salt and snow hits the roads here in MA. A few weeks ago Travis and I made the trip to NHMS to check out one of the NEDCO drift events.
https://i.imgur.com/UoYbCVF.jpg?1 Shortly after, the odometer rolled over 10K since the KA rebuilt in the winter of 2017/2018. Putting me between 6-7,000 miles on the car this season. I'm happy. https://i.imgur.com/aN3pnDG.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/vquFtnt.jpg?1 https://i.imgur.com/FD3DVs1.jpg?1 Recently my friend Matt stopped by to film a short video of the car. I couldn't be happier with how it came out: |
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