DaveD
Member
- Joined
- Nov 13, 2011
- Location
- New Jersey
Gave up on my thread here and have been keeping a thread on StanceWorks. Bash me if you'd like, it's entertaining. I'm 19, got my 1992 240 LH3.1 M47 shortly after my 17th birthday, and it's taught me everything I know. Oh, and everything I've ever done to this car has been done in the street in front of my house, no garage, no lift, no air tools...Anyways, on to the goodies.
Here's what I started with.
Shortly after I slapped some wheels on off of an SL500 and cut the springs basically in half and it stayed like that for a while.
I don't have any pictures, but I +T'd it with a 90+, 15g, 3" downpipe, orangetops, TLAO chips, etc etc and one day decided I wanted to up the boost, MBC failed and 15g moonboosted, resulting in a blown turbo and severely roasted clutch. Bit the bullet and set out for a T5 swap. Ended up getting scammed for a $500 trans (not WC and was full of teeth...you live and you learn...) got a super nice WC T5 5 minutes from my house, a JVAB steel flywheel, saab 9000 pp, and clutchnet six puck and a yoshifab crossmember.
Went off to college, went to come home, smoke coming from turbo, ended up being ****ty summit an fitting to turbo leaking. First time on a trailer.
Fixed the oil feed elbow and drove it over winter break to work and stuff. Was coming home one night and felt stumbling...car shut off, pouring smoke...get it home and pull head, headgasket was fine but timing was way off...go to pull the engine and realize the drain plug is missing...note to world, keep your oil pressure dummy light...Got a 940 parts car off the local drunk/crackhead for $350. After scrap I paid $25 for a spotless squirter engine and G80.
Had the head decked and cleaned and resealed the entire engine and put a Gates timing belt on. Also tapped the block for oil return but I didn't get a picture of it.
Put the engine/trans back in during a week of whopping 20 degree high temperatures. Drove it a little but left it home while I finished off my second semester at school.
Picked up a Holset HY35 for a whopping $120 shipped. Decided to attempt a header build instead of running an eBay header. Got a stainless flange from RSI, and stainless collecter and t3 flange off eBay. Also ordered 1 1/2" stainless elbows and pipe off Ace Stainless.
A little time and looking at Kyle's RWD Experience thread, my brother and I came up with this.
Was supposed to get it tigged by a friend, but he ended up migging it...I painted it and threw it on and didn't take any pictures. This picture is from when I test fit everything and made the downpipe. I'll get some more pictures of everything. Ignore the injector wiring.
While I was waiting for the header to be welded, I was going to install the G80...I modded it and had it ready to go in with 4.10 gears, but I decided to welded the **** out of the stock diff and leave the 3.31s in. Cry about it.
So as of right now it's running on the Holset with an emusa wastegate, 025 maf, 440cc injectors, and tlao chips. But I have to do some fender work so I can drive it...In the midst of blown engine/new engine/holset stuff I finally got all my wheels on...the wheels are 16x10 all around. I was originally gonna run 205/45s but now they're just in the front and I bought 225/45s off my brother for the rear. And I made a double lip. And washed/polished/waxed it for the first time in forever. Clean black paint is so nice. Here's a bunch of pictures.
If any of you saw my last thread you probably know how far I've come...I'm extremely happy with the car and everything I've learned, and I'm no where near done yet...intercooler upgrade is next, coilovers, roll correctors, sway bars, etc etc...Let me know what you think. I might have a video or two up soon...possibly containing a burnout...
Here's what I started with.
Shortly after I slapped some wheels on off of an SL500 and cut the springs basically in half and it stayed like that for a while.
I don't have any pictures, but I +T'd it with a 90+, 15g, 3" downpipe, orangetops, TLAO chips, etc etc and one day decided I wanted to up the boost, MBC failed and 15g moonboosted, resulting in a blown turbo and severely roasted clutch. Bit the bullet and set out for a T5 swap. Ended up getting scammed for a $500 trans (not WC and was full of teeth...you live and you learn...) got a super nice WC T5 5 minutes from my house, a JVAB steel flywheel, saab 9000 pp, and clutchnet six puck and a yoshifab crossmember.
Went off to college, went to come home, smoke coming from turbo, ended up being ****ty summit an fitting to turbo leaking. First time on a trailer.
Fixed the oil feed elbow and drove it over winter break to work and stuff. Was coming home one night and felt stumbling...car shut off, pouring smoke...get it home and pull head, headgasket was fine but timing was way off...go to pull the engine and realize the drain plug is missing...note to world, keep your oil pressure dummy light...Got a 940 parts car off the local drunk/crackhead for $350. After scrap I paid $25 for a spotless squirter engine and G80.
Had the head decked and cleaned and resealed the entire engine and put a Gates timing belt on. Also tapped the block for oil return but I didn't get a picture of it.
Put the engine/trans back in during a week of whopping 20 degree high temperatures. Drove it a little but left it home while I finished off my second semester at school.
Picked up a Holset HY35 for a whopping $120 shipped. Decided to attempt a header build instead of running an eBay header. Got a stainless flange from RSI, and stainless collecter and t3 flange off eBay. Also ordered 1 1/2" stainless elbows and pipe off Ace Stainless.
A little time and looking at Kyle's RWD Experience thread, my brother and I came up with this.
Was supposed to get it tigged by a friend, but he ended up migging it...I painted it and threw it on and didn't take any pictures. This picture is from when I test fit everything and made the downpipe. I'll get some more pictures of everything. Ignore the injector wiring.
While I was waiting for the header to be welded, I was going to install the G80...I modded it and had it ready to go in with 4.10 gears, but I decided to welded the **** out of the stock diff and leave the 3.31s in. Cry about it.
So as of right now it's running on the Holset with an emusa wastegate, 025 maf, 440cc injectors, and tlao chips. But I have to do some fender work so I can drive it...In the midst of blown engine/new engine/holset stuff I finally got all my wheels on...the wheels are 16x10 all around. I was originally gonna run 205/45s but now they're just in the front and I bought 225/45s off my brother for the rear. And I made a double lip. And washed/polished/waxed it for the first time in forever. Clean black paint is so nice. Here's a bunch of pictures.
If any of you saw my last thread you probably know how far I've come...I'm extremely happy with the car and everything I've learned, and I'm no where near done yet...intercooler upgrade is next, coilovers, roll correctors, sway bars, etc etc...Let me know what you think. I might have a video or two up soon...possibly containing a burnout...