TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[WE3RX7]

That was quick...

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by need RX7

Damn son, that was fast.

I have shiny parts, I need to do something with them

Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

THAT was fast! I hate you so much right now

You'll be there soon enough...... ok not soon enough but you know what I mean

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

That was quick...

I don't fuck around. I also have no patience. I'm also thinking about offering rebuilds seeing as how once I have the parts I can turn them around in a day........ actually giving ALOT of consideration to it, like I probably would.

[project86]

so i just took a closer look at the picture of you bumper installed... it looks like the shine bumber you have is made to go over the bottom half of the stock fenders so you dont have to cut them?

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by project86

so i just took a closer look at the picture of you bumper installed... it looks like the shine bumber you have is made to go over the bottom half of the stock fenders so you dont have to cut them?

Yeah, that's right. That's why I welded the brackets on the bottom of my fenders, to keep the bumper in place. No cutting required, but there is a lot of creative mounting that needs to be addressed

[FC3S Murray]

Whats the status on your build bro?

[TitaniumTT]

Should be stabbing the engine tomorrow, driving by Friday, on the dyno 8/01

Keep looking at the hood in disbelief that I took a Jigsaw to it

[TitaniumTT]

So I FINALLY got the engine in tonight. My original mani was toast, or so I thought. I asked a buddy to send his old one to me so I could use it. He had some family problems so he never sent it and I was kinda forced to get mine back up to snuff. When she went lean on the dyno the mani got so damn hot that every single stud warped. The three fittings that I had installed for the EMAP, and the EGT's were basically welded to the mani. Took the machine shop three days to get all the fittings out, redrill and retap, and pull out two busted studs and heli-coil them. I strait edged the mani and the turbo's and then seemed fine so we'll see what happens when she fires....... hopefully tuesday at this point. Still planning on being on the dyno late saturday the first......... hint hint Bill

[MaczPayne]

Yeesh, now that's a quick tear-down and assembly.

[TitaniumTT]

It would've been quicker if I wasn't waiting a week doing nothing but touching myself staring out the window waiting for a part that I still haven't seen yet. Oh well, my mani is back on and she should fire tomorrow night.

[EJayCe996]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

It would've been quicker if I wasn't waiting a week doing nothing but touching myself staring out the window waiting for a part that I still haven't seen yet.

fvking the story of my life with this goddamn swap myself.. my injectors come tomorrow at least so after that, all i need is a down pipe and some various lines/fittings

[Phoenix7]

man, a little too much info on the last one but I'm still jealous of your garage and end results with the FC. Keep it up man, love the amount of work that went into the actual engine/accessories to ensure you know what's happening at all times.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by Phoenix7

man, a little too much info on the last one but I'm still jealous of your garage and end results with the FC. Keep it up man, love the amount of work that went into the actual engine/accessories to ensure you know what's happening at all times.

Thanks man. The sensors are great to have. For example, when engine #4 lost a rotor all I had to do is look at the EGT's to find the dead soldier.

So ah................. what's up with the new sig?

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by EJayCe996

fvking the story of my life with this goddamn swap myself.. my injectors come tomorrow at least so after that, all i need is a down pipe and some various lines/fittings

I have no patience, when something breaks and I don't have a back-up, people fear for thier lives

Fittings suck, I keep one of each of every angle of every so I don't have to guess. Instant blood pressure increase when I spend a few $100 on fittings and line and then shit doesn't fit.

For example, I found out I burned out a few coils, and I spent an hour or so calling every single GM dealer and autoparts store in a hundred mile radius looking for them. They were 90 miles away and I actually had to think about spending 3 hours in the truck to get up there to get them as opposed to waiting till tomorrow. People say I'm impatient, I don't think so. I just think they're lazy

[TitaniumTT]

So I figure it's about time for an update. Got the engine in all checked out. Comp was 145F & 150R - high from all the assembly goo. So I triple checked the timing, primed the fuel system, made sure there was oil pressure and hit the Start button. She fired on the first crank in less than 5 seconds. WOOT! She ran for 15 minutes before I lost the front rotor..... a sound I know all to well. So I looked at the EGT's, found out it was the front and shut her down.

Pulled the plugs and, of course they were wet, stuffed the comp tested in there and found ~120F and 130R.... OK........ that's good but WTF?

So started checking all the normal things which is actually retardedly easy with the Motec. There is a function called output test. I found out that the trailing plugs and the #1 Leading weren't firing...... mmmmmmmmkay. Checked all the electrical going to them, checked the leads, checked everything except the coils themselves becuase there is no data on how to manually check them, they're all on OBDII cars so they just plug the tester into the port and they know all they need to know.

So I switched some wiring around and found out that, yup, they're dead. Went into the Motec and found out that they're all being slightly overdwelled. In talking with Motec (again, the support with them is ridiculous, absolutely top notch and couldn't ask for anything better) I discovered that something that they consider to be common knowledge is to unplug the coils when doing firmware updates and it's kind of a good ideal to do it if there are a lot of ECU resets that need to happen. I was changing a bunch of things in the 3 maps that I use and the ECU was reset probably about 20 times in the course of a few minutes. That could've caused it too. Either way, I killed $260 worth of coils. Something thatI won't soon forget. So now I have to wait for napa to get me some new coils and hopefully we'll be back on track tomorrow.

BTW Bill, new Dyno Day is 08/10. I'll be there ~ 10, just sayin'

[EJayCe996]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

She ran for 15 minutes before I lost the front rotor..... a sound I know all to well. So I looked at the EGT's, found out it was the front and shut her down.

Pulled the plugs and, of course they were wet, stuffed the comp tested in there and found ~120F and 130R.... OK........ that's good but WTF?

Your wording sooooooo fcuking had me for a min and had me about to do a tactical facepalm until I kept reading and found out it was just the coils. Seriously.... YOU'RE stressing ME out over YOUR car