wow this is a major tease, pressure is on 9krpm, over 1,100+ replies already :P

edit* i just made your 1,200 reply :P

 

Did you get a new housing with the wheel, or did you port it out to accept the new wheel?

 

AFAIK I am available on Saturday...

 

The more the merrier, so far Grungepup, shady, and 8 maniac are going to come help. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

It's a stock Greddy housing machined out to fit . Turbine was clipped also .

 

nom nom nom....

I think this might be the route I am going.

getting the water/oil cooled chra, then getting a 57 trim machine out the housing send off the turbo to get balanced. all in all should cost me $600

 

This is not true at all

We had about 5 guys trying to work on my car at once. Made me very uncomfortable.

 

Too many swords and not enough scabbards?

 

my turbo is honed out but I still have the stock greddy wheel on it. It sounds different compared to a stock greddy turbo. Cant explain why

 

This is true . Best bet is ... one guy who knows what he is doing to do all the wrenching and one helper . The others can bring food and have a party

 

I work better with an audience and usually half of the people there will just be standing around talking shop or doing other small mods. I like to talk shop and wrench at the same time. Usually if I screw something up it is when I am alone.

Besides Cornholio135 just needs to be there to make his spicy queso dip If he does that I won't make him get his hands dirty

 

Even if we're not all lending a hand, extra sets of eyes can be helpful. And if a problem arises, more people can work on figuring it out or running to pick up a part etc. I definitely get the point though... I can't imagine more than 2 or 3 people actively working on it at any given time.

Also, I think you left out shady from your list, unless I'm mistaken.

 

so I take it you got the thing picked up?

 

Shady is on the list and since he has don this before, his help will be critical I think. Pulling stuff out and taking it apart is easy, putting it all back the way it is supposed to be is the hard part I definitely have to get some mosquito repellant though, those damn things lynched me.

How's the AC working? All good?

Yes sir, company minivan and a buddy here at work. We manged to do it and still catch lunch in an hour. You busy this weekend?

 

When I was in SoCal I usually was the one doing all the work while everyone else got drunk and BBQ'd...

I think it was becuase I was the only white guy.

 

Atilla told me in Vegas that you woudl be wrenching til the early morning while everyone else got **** faced

 

LOL yea...

I like working on other peoples problems just not my own.

I should have been a lawyer...

Sigh...

 

^

Question. I don't have my engine in front of me (or little baggie of EM studs) and the guy at the parts counter just confused me. Is it six exhaust manifold studs that hold the manifold on? He says two and that the other four are bolts? I thought it was six studs, all the same size.

This diagram doesn't show.

 

No there are 2 studs and 5 bolts I believe.

 

not that I know of I need to put my endlinks on but other than that I am open; may swing by if thats cool.

 

I found this pic of mine and zoomed in, I guess it is six studs. It looks like I sent them with the old motor, I guess I need some new ones. I was wondering because I have everything bagged and labeled and I could only find one stud.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9krpmrx8/6277612661/

 

When in doubt look at shady's rebuild picture album!!



6 studs... Sometimes the nut gets seized on the stud turning it into a bolt.

 

so much rotary engine my head is gonna explode!

P.S. you should be able to find the studs at any auto shop.

 

the exhaust manifold to engine connection is 6 studs and 6 nuts.

studs are SL50-13-708A from mazda

nuts are JE10-40-355 from mazda

 

Thanks guys!! I looked at the engine tear down thread at first but there were no studs in the pics.