GUZZLE7

So I signed up for a track day at Thunderhill and i had two weeks to get my motor tuned and all ready to go. I plugged in the apexi and wired everything in then brought it down. They pulled 300 Hp and 295 Tq out of it and finally got it running smooth.



The weekend of the event came and i Got all my tires together and bought some spare rims. Picked up my trailer and i wanted to take it out for one last run up and down the street before i put it on the trailer. Then BOOM! I lose all my power and smoke starts dumping out the tailpipe. Motors toast oil all over my engine bay. The night before the track day.

Hole in the Piston, cylinder 1. Tell me what you think this looks like it has no signs of detonation or running lean. it literally looks like the piston flakes off.









So time to rebuild. Safe to say ive learned my lesson, no more buying used motors from across the world where some japanese man has already drifted the sh*t out of it. Any used motor i buy im just going to rebuild from the get go. So i just got some sleaves and ARP studs and im going to get send it off to the machine shop to get started. hopefully it will be done before next season.

Well in the meantime i need something to satisfy my vice so i picked up this s14 for $1000 from by buddy nick. hooked it up. it needs some work but the important part is the motor runs decent. im going to clean everything and make it a good running daily that i can get a little silly in the rain.









So i didnt plan on doing that much work i just wanted to do the 5 speed swap and maybe paint it but then my OCD kicked in and i started going crazy.

I bought all the stuff for the 5 speed swap. Bought coilovers and Energy bushings and the engine gasket rebuild kit.