ShadowMan

I've had this car for a few years already. But as you'll see it's still in rough shape. Due to my deployments and obligations to all that, this hog gets pushed to the back burner often. Due to leaving it in the hands of not so knowledgable friends who fiddled with the Power fc settings, cylinder number 4 detonated and destroyed the ring lands. So I broke down and decided to try my hand at rebuilding the motor myself, armed with an FSM and the tools I've acquired over the years, I gave it my best shot. So here goes, didn't take alot of pics, when I get on point I just zone in to the task at hand
how she sat before the rebuild


the tear down



addressing the harnes while rebuild kit from frsport is on order



As I didn't know the cause of why she was burning oil, this was my first clue to the problem

son of a bitch, knew this coming

tear down continues



not good

Pretty happy about how clean this all was after removing the valve cover


And finally the problem rears its ugly head, this is why driving on a shitty tune is bad

pulled it out and little ring land pieces went everywhere



All the pictures of putting it back together got erased so bummer on that. I reused the rods, went with oem pistons and rings, arp hardware, acl bearings, supertech valve seals, new timing kit, new oil pump, apex hg, new rear main seal. I ran into the same problem with a couple of the main studs hitting the oil pan. I initially shaved the oil pan little by little until i thought i had the clearance but ended up cracking it anyway. So I had the pan welded and shaved the excess off the studs. Suggest just trimming the main studs from the get go, as have many others. Got everything back together and reinstalled. Ordered a base map from Steve Shadows, and broke her in nice and easy with conventional oil. Changed after initial startup and 5 min run, 50 miles, 100 miles, 500 miles, 1000 miles and now on regular intervals. Drove it up to canyon racer motorsports for a dyno tune. The motor came with after market injectors and Steve and I could not figure out their size. I havent have them flow tested either. So we played it safe and stopped at around 200 whp until I get my fuel system sorted out. I plan on going with a top feed setup soon so hopefully my fuel setup will be completed soon. I still need to go thru all my sensors to make sure they are getting the right voltage as she still has an irregular idle and wants to sputter when trying to cruise at any steady speed. Acceleration is strong but not quite consistent, so hopefully I'll have all that sorted out. I just need to pick up a reliable multi-meter, and a wideband O2 as well.
S13 blacktop
z32 maf
3" exhaust straight piped
turbonetics t3t4 60 trim
38 mm tial wastegate
open dump pipe
greddy turbo timer and boost controller
Apex power fc
aeromotive fpr with marshall gauge
Battery relocated to trunk
I hope to stay on this steady as I'm done deploying, so hopefully the updates will be steady as well.

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