My kouki s14 rebuild

[greddy2die]

Most of you already know my car so I won't go through the previous stages it's been in.

Here's how it looked in March of 2016.

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Leaving a Nissan get together my timing chain decided to break (it was an LS2 chain, not stock LS1). Not sure why but, that was the last time I drove the car.

Timing chain broke, bent a ton of valves, hit the pistons & to top it off a lifter turned in the bore, broke & got stuck which ruined the cam.

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I was upset & didn't know what I wanted to do.....until I did, go bigger & badder haha.

I decided that another LS1 with just a set of ported heads wouldn't be enough, after 6 years of a bolt on, cammed LS1 I wanted a lot more power.

It was time to turbo the car. A friend found me a used 5.3 iron short block for what was almost highway robbery ($130).

New setup is gong to be.

gen 3 5.3 iron block
gen 4 5.3 pistons & rods
new rings, bearings etc for the short block
arp head bolts
PRC stage 2.5 ported truck heads
LJMS stage 1 TT cam
Mcleod twin disc
Tial 44mm wastegate
80lb injectors
Walbro 450lph fuel pump
etc
etc


PRC stage 2.5 truck heads
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Mcleod twin disc
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Before I pulled out the old 5.7, I dropped the car off with my fab guy to build the turbo kit while the 5.3 stuff is at the engine shop being rebuilt.

Turbo kit is a forward facing truck manifold on the driver side & an LS2 C6 Corvette manifold on the passenger side in order for the crossover pipe to clear the oem GM a/c compressor in its stock location. I was not going to give up a/c in Florida. Frame had to be notced for downpipe clearance. Turbo is a 7875 ball bearing turbonetics piece.

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The shortblock is still at the machine shop which is upsetting, hes taking forever but i guess it gives me time to save money, ha.

I pulled the old motor out & threw it on the engine stand & then bolted on the turbo kit. I still need to throw on the p/s pump & alternator. I want to make a heat shield for the alternator & measure thermal sleeving for the power lines so I don't cook it instantly.

Also I've got to measure length for oil feed & return lines.

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And that's really it for right now. I'll be sure to update this more as I progress.

[koukizhang]

plz stay usdm front end

also, sell me your wheels

[greddy2die]

Recent pics after working on the new motor.

Got the new rear cover & rear main on, installed my oil pump with an improved racing pickup tube clamp & improved racing oil pan baffle.
New lifters & lifter trays tossed in, got the heads torqued down with the ARP head bolts then started bolting on the front accessories & made a heat shield for the alternator.

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[anthony_240]

Awesome fkn car


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[da_crew10]

Awesome fkn car



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[Will.]

Good luck!

[greddy2die]

Just a bit of an update.

My new -4 a.n. fitting for the hydraulic slave showed up finally so I was able to get my clutch line & tick speed bleeder reinstalled. I didn't want to reuse my old fitting since I originally purchased it in like 2010 lol.

Once I got that on I was finally able to bolt up the transmission, starter etc so now the motor is finally ready to go back into the chassis. I can't wait, there's absolutely no room to work in my bay anymore.

Also, I still need to tighten down the harmonic balancer 100% but cant until the motor is in the car again because I cant lock the flywheel from spinning.

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I also got quoted $700 + to sandblast & ceramic coat the manifolds, crossover pipe, downpipe & turbo exhaust housing. I know it's worth it but I couldn't get myself to spend that money soooooo, I decided to make a cheap sandblast booth with stuff I had laying around. Alot cheaper than a Harbor Freight sandblast booth too.

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I havent finished doing everything but I started my pass. side manifold to check out how it works & it aint too bad if I say so myself. I included a picture of my driver side manifold to give you a reference of what the pass. manifold looked like before.

I'll be coating the manifolds with Cerakote automotive air cure ceramic coating since I dont have an oven to bake the stuff in.

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[greddy2die]

Haven't updated this thread in a while, figured I would. The car is just about ready for me to try & turn it over for the first.



I got Cerakote's air cure coating since I didnt have an oven to bake everything in. Let me tell you, people weren't lying when they say this stuff smelllllssss. WEAR A MASK!
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My make-shift rack to hold everything & the finished product + some accidental scuffs from my rack falling over....go figure haha.
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As of last night I finally have the turbo kit heat wrapped also & bolted up, injectors in, wiring harness all hooked up, oil feed/ return line routed, waste gate & dump tube in, belts on, radiator back in, power steering cooler installed, water pump heat ports blocked. I also tapped the top of the water pump for the steam vent tube since thatch the highest point in my cooling system.
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I still have a a few little things to do to the car before I try to start it.

Mount my boost controller solenoid, wire up the gauges for the wideband & boost controller, bleed the clutch, make a mount for my dipstick so it doesn't pop out etc.

Hopefully my next update I'll have the car running!

[afishysilvia]

Love the build, what mounts are you using?

[greddy2die]

Love the build, what mounts are you using?

The old Daft Innovations mounting kit from about 8 years ago. Got everything just before his customer service went to complete shit. I wish I would have saved up more & just got the Sikky kit.


Just waiting on a reply from my tuner now to see when he can swing by & get a base map loaded onto my ECU so I can finally start this thing.

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[S14Serge]

Dam deadly looking setting up man!

[afishysilvia]

The old Daft Innovations mounting kit from about 8 years ago. Got everything just before his customer service went to complete shit. I wish I would have saved up more & just got the Sikky kit.


Yea I feel you there...Im running the CX racing kit since I got it for a huge steal. I've redesigned the engine mounts and had to modify some other items for fitment. Saying its "tight" is a complete understatement lol. Yours on the other hand looks like it fits nice. If I get the pleasure of building another S14/LSx swap I will be using Sikky all the way. Love the AC set up! are those Sikky as well?

[greddy2die]

Yea I feel you there...Im running the CX racing kit since I got it for a huge steal. I've redesigned the engine mounts and had to modify some other items for fitment. Saying its "tight" is a complete understatement lol. Yours on the other hand looks like it fits nice. If I get the pleasure of building another S14/LSx swap I will be using Sikky all the way. Love the AC set up! are those Sikky as well?

The only things Sikky on my car is their sway bar & the wiring harness back when they offered that service before they started selling the Wiring Specialties harness. If that harness was available when I started my car I would have also gone that route. Nothing wrong with my harness from Sikky, its just ugly lol. I'll eventually redo my entire engine harness.

AC wise its a mixture of the Nissan & GM a/c lines all customized to fit. OEM Nissan condenser & drier.

[tjcbar]

kouki looking like a snack

[greddy2die]

I guess 8 months later an update is warranted

moved out of my old warehouse & into a new one. So much more room to work on the cars & finally have a lift.

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Finally fitting my garage defend style cooling panel I've had laying around for years
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This past week since the car finally had a few things sorted out, I decided to finally tackle upgrading the fuel system.

dual Walbro 450 e85 pumps, new rails, FPR, inline fuel filter w/ a 6 micron ethanol filter, e85 fuel lines etc.

I didnt feel like spending $400+ on the PHR fuel hat which doesnt have a hanger or the $850+ setup from this shop in Australia so I decided to make the dual pump setup myself with -8 feed & -6 return. I also ordered the Radium venturi valve so I didnt have any pressure build up modding the old crappy plastic valve we have in our cars stock.

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Today i'm going to be finishing up the wiring for the new relays. Going to be wiring in a 4psi pressure switch for the 2nd pump that way they both aren't running constantly.

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[greddy2die]

I went Saturday morning to get tuned finally, couldnt figure out how to embed a video from my IG account so the link is below.

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I really need to add a resonator though because now it sounds like I drive a Silverado with a 40 series flowmaster muffler haha

Also need bigger injectors if I want to get more power too.

675whp on 15psi isnt too bad though. We ended up turning the boost down just a bit so I wasnt maxxing out the injectors.

Also went out to Cars n Coffee WPB Sunday with some people.

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**wow, sorry about the image sized, used a different site because Imgur was giving me issues & it didnt have a resize option**