Kane

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Ok; some people have asked me what is the deal with my sweet 3071R.

Given the issues I had with my exhaust heating; I decided to go ahead and break down - take it all off in order to coat everything + ceramic paint etc...

So here you go - enjoy.


My NEW and IMPROVED working area.




Step One - Intake and UIM


Step Two - this little guy...


The nut broke inside the frame..... so we had to get it off and reweld the nut.


ALL The Drivers side suspension has to go to get at the subframe...


And 1.5 days of work for 11 seconds of welding.


So subframe brace is off; suspension is off; fixed the nut; turbo and manifold is out (we dropped both motor mounts and brackets).

ALL to fix THIS!!!!


Turbo in its blanket - so far so good.... but wait there is more.







The downpipe was the culprit - it had burned through the turbo blanket; aluminum shield and was working on the body of the car.

Kane

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Stay tuned for pictures of the rebuild - with improvements!

laythor

wowie kazowie

Kane

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The hardest part of all of this; it to keep from fixing / upgrading everything while the car is up... when I started thinking about acid dipping and powedercoating the PPF and control arms... I knew it was time to slow my roll!

Hopefully; I'll have BHR's ignition; SSV valve fixed; tranny wrapped; body ceramic painted and heat shielded; manifold + hot side + downpipe ceramic coated, painted and wrapped. Tranny flushed along with the rear differential. And a new MAF housing to boot.

Plus whatever else I decide to do while I am down there.

Plus the body work from Faille dropping something on my door!

swoope

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sorry,

if that is ac in the garage.. well. what can i say!

but great shots..

cant wait to see how the story unfolds!!

beers

Kane

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Don't hate on the AC.... a man has to have standards!!!! LOL

swoope

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omg,

it was an ac unit!!!!!!

i guess i am half a man as i have no ac in my garage..

please dont play the geography card on me.. as you will lose to me and others.

i would play the kimi card. it is your only hope!!!!

but thanks for the update!!!! the heat patterns are amazing!

beers

rotarenvy

nasty. did you ever measure the exhaust temperature?

Kane

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I have a pyrometer; it has never gotten any hotter than has been seen here on the forums (1500-1600F) is my max.

But the downpipe was touching the car; so all my heat shielding did not do much.

gregs

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what are you doing to resolve your ssv concern?

Kane

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Step one is to test the actuator and mechanism by hand (done); then the solenoid (swapped with the Air Pump Solenoid) -

Then the vacuum of the lines (once I get my vacuum pump back).

If all of that is good - then I'll start worrying about the EMS issues.

tajabaho1

how the .......... what the............how is this even possible?

Kane

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It is Called - "Hot Metal Pipe (Cast) against other metal / wrapping (not cast)."

Cast Pipe wins.

tajabaho1

so mine is possibly going to end up like this huh?

Psychofox

that's some nasty metal cooking.

Why is your downpipe touching the car frame at the first place?

mysql

mine didn't do this. My down pipe and turbo never touched anything....

Kane

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Could be the mounts; the flange - who knows.

The hot side was clocked correctly - and it cleared everything - only the downpipe got that close to the car.

I'll post more pics tonight so you all can see exactly where it hit (and my repairs); nothing a few raps with a hammer didn't fix.

Taj - like anything; when you drive it around for a few miles upon initial install - take it back home; and check everything out (lather, rinse, repeat).

I had a super small oil leak initially - which I fixed; then I had some other minute issues that I fixed over the next month or two; this one I just got lazy (didn't want to take everything out)/ wanted to be in my new garage before I tackled; so the level of burning is due to it being on there for 200 miles instead of 20 miles.

Kane

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Oh; I should say it was not actually touching normally (or else I wouldn't have been able to get the turbo blanket on); but it was DAMN close (maybe 2mm from the body of the car).

mysql

yeah, the stock heat shield needs to be hammered out of the way.

Kane

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Fixed... LOL

swoope

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kane,

take a close look at you motor mounts.

beers

mysql

This is what was beat on. You can see why.

mysql

different angle.

MazdaManiac

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Step 3-1.2 of the GReddy installation instructions.

I can fit my hand completely around the downpipe, so I don't know what's up over there...

mysql

nothing beats modifying your vehicle, using a hammer, at 4am, at a friend's house. Right Jeff?