So... No new work has occurred on my car yet... However my wife and I just got home from vacation outside of the country and I've got the (bosses) "go ahead" to start fixing up the FD :awesome:

My game plan right now is to:

1 - Pull and rebuild the engine. The extent of the damage will be known once it's apart. I'm planning right now on needing to replace the soft seals, the e-shaft, and all internal bearings that could/would be damaged by an oilless environment. Obviously the rotors/housing/irons will be cleaned and checked for damage. Also I'll be checking on the clearances of the apex, side and corner seals. My last engine had it's unfortunate accident in the 3,000-4,000 mile range, so ideally the clearances that were set then should still be pretty damned close to spot on.

2 - Replace the PFC I've been running for years with a Life Racing F88RS. I picked the new ECU up from Glenn (Mazpower), who is now one of the US's newest Life Racing dealers ;)

3 - Build new wiring harness for the ECU.

4 - Replace my stock coils/HKS Twin Power with 4x IGN-1A coils.

5 - Replace the stock trigger with an FFE Trigger Wheel.

6 - Brew plenty of beer to keep people relaxed and low-stress while this Build v2.0 happens :lol:

First things first though... I gotta clean the SHIT out of my garage (as anybody who's been to my place can attest to, lol) and make some sort of work table/bench in there that I can use to work on. Hopefully I'll be adding more updates, with progress and pictures, in the near future ^_^

Glad to hear you're back at it Levi. :cheers2:

I can overnight some pubes

Thanks Frank :)

I got some building up, think I'll add a little beard hair to the engine as well... Because: Reasons.


But if you wanna send me some anyway... :naughty: :o16: :cuddle:

So... I made a little bit of progress today. With the help of my wife we got the garage pretty much field day'd (clean). I picked up a 3-piece tool chest on Black Friday and I've migrated most of my tools over to that. I'll be getting a decent set of shelves from Home Depot this week, and I'll also draw up plans for my work table (I'm thinking 3'6" tall, 6' long, and 3' deep) then I'll go pick up the wood for it on the weekend.

Car wise, I drained the oil and coolant this afternoon and also removed the oil coolers to drain (SOOO much glitter!!! :() as well. After that I pulled the intake off and removed the UIM/TB. I pulled out (and sold) the HKS Twin Power earlier in the week and I just pulled out the stock ignition this evening (it's up for grabs if anybody wants it).

I'll keep stripping things out of the engine bay in prep for pulling the motor. Hopefully I'll have the motor out and broke down within the next couple weeks!!

hopefully its not a bitch to pull apart due to bearings failing, i wish you luck. a friends engine also died due to oil starvation, im not looking forward to attempting to pull that one apart

I popped an engine on the dyno due to oil starvation... the engine seized @ 7k rpm and the dyno sheet actually went backwards :smilielol5: Which actually makes total sense.... either way.... the amount of oxy/acy heat and pullers that were needed to get this thing apart was ridiculous.... needless to say, the only thing salvageable on the engine were the mani's :rofl:

Ouch... I hadn't really considered that it might be a chore to physically dismantle the engine. I'm hoping mine won't be *too* fucked since it traveled maybe a minute without oil, then less than a mile (keeping below 3krpms) after more oil was added..


Odd as hell though, I kept smelling vinegar while cleaning up the garage today. I'm hoping that was just coming from an old beer that had been left open WAAAYYY too long, which we discovered while cleaning :rofl:

hope the bearings didn't spin

if the engine still ran after adding more oil and didn't smoke like a train then you probably got extremely lucky.

I can only hope... if this motor has turned into a boat anchor I'm gunna be WELL gutted...

unless the irons are majorly scarred up they can be resurfaced and re-nitrided. the rotors normally don't take any major wear to the sides so they should be usable(hopefully, normally i would use a rotor from that scenario to race clearance them but yours already were).

worst case the irons will need replacement or salvaging, bearing seized can be repaired with the oversize goopy rotor bearings, stat gears and e-shaft are cheap enough.

years ago when the parts were more readily available in good condition i would just replace them, now i would try to rehabilitate them.

i have a feeling you got lucky though.

Yeah, I was talking with Brian last night and I'm thinking I'm one lucky SOB on this... I'm thinking I'll just swap to rx-8 eshaft and stat gears, I'll press new bearings in my current gears and sell them asking for around 1/2 cost for new ones (since they've really only got 3,000-4,000 miles on them) and hopefully be able to come just about even (or on top) for the 8 running gear swap..

Here are some random Before/After pics of my garage, and it's clean up :rofl:

Before:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...psihfx7uyr.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...pstpa0renh.jpg

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...pshmivgz2v.jpg


After:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/k...pslslaady4.jpg



Just gotta pick up some storage shelves and make a work table, then I'll be ready to get down and really start!! lol

You sure you have the same place? Let me know when you want to tackle that pig. I need some snuggle time with Brian under a car.