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Spring update:

Last season ended with my turbo blowing up. I managed to scoop a GT2871r and a tube manifold from a couple buddies.

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Decided while I was in there I should upgrade some bits. PBM cobra downpipe will be going in replacing the greddy outlet and downpipe. Also did not want to deal with blowing out turbo gaskets so I drilled out the manifold and turbine flanges to accept M10 hardware. OEM Fd3s hardware to be exact.

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Had my buddy weld up an external wastegate flange.

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While the turbo was out I heat sleeved some bits.

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Finally starting to reassemble everything and found out the manifold moved the turbo forward around an inch. Intake no longer fit, oil drain didn?t line up anymore and there was a gap to the downpipe. No bueno. Luckily my buddy gave me an oem manifold when he sold me the gt2871r so I opted to use that instead to minimize custom fab work.

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EWG mod

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A couple low priority projects I worked on while waiting on fab and parts. Created wheel storage, had AN bungs welded to catch can, started working on a panel to mount power distribution for auxiliary items(gauges, strobes, rgb led?s, etc.)

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Finally got the turbo installed and since the dump pipe has more room for error I decided to take a stab at TIG welding it myself. I still need a lot more practice lol.


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The freddy oil pan that came installed on the engine when I bought leaked like a mofo. I wasn?t sure if maybe the rtv job I did was shit or if it was the actual pan that was junk. Didn?t want to deal with it again so I swooped a Greddy pan from rhdjapan. Cheaper and faster than anything I could?ve found stateside.

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She finally sees daylight for the first time this year. Took her out for a little spin with the boys.

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My wedding is coming up and the want to be able to take pics with the car has been killing me not being able to drive it more. In the meantime I test fitted the used overfenders and wing I had picked up last year.

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Luckily my teammate was having his car sprayed and he was nice enough to let me throw the wing in the booth. Turned out amazing.

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I don?t remember what I was looking for but I noticed that my camber arms were hitting the frame rail and that the hardware was super loose. So happy I found it now instead of later. Check out the gap between the subframe and that eccentric lockout washer. The idiot that installed the arms(me) put them in backwards/upside down.

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My homie hit me up a few days ago and wanted to snap a couple pics of the whip before it gets destroyed so here?s a couple bts shots.

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