Kicking off the new year with my own build thread finally.

For those who do not know, my engine gave in the week after sevenstock. Doing a 4th gear WOT run, I peaked at 15 psi and possibly held it for a while till 6000 rpm. I monitored my AFRs visually (which appeared fine) during the run but not the BC. Probably did not help that my tune/scaling was drastically off at the time (logging 500 g/s).
Lessons Learned: Always set a Boost Warning/Drop Feature with the BC. Tune, Tune, Tune. Always run W/M at high boost.

Blew the Front Rotor. Compression in Rotor 1 showed 40-60 psi through all 3 chambers. Car was still drivable, continued to boost 10+ psi just fine. The only symptoms that were shown were at idle: slightly rough, exhaust note sounded off, vacuum reading between 12-14 inHg when warm. Car continued to crank and start up normal most of the time. I continued to drive it up till Dec 31, where it finally hit 50,000 Miles.

Thus, the tear down begins...


Here is a pic of the resting area


Engine bay before overhaul


And a Teaser of what is going in...


The plan is to be all set and back in action for the SoCal Dyno Day 2011 on Feb 26.

 

reserved for updates

 

Good deal and great way to bounce back

 

This thread is going to kick ***! GL with your build Ngo!

 

Can't wait to c some action

 

the details in the new motor are amazing..all that hard work is going to pay off come so. cal dyno day!

 

This build is gonna be epic!

 

 

Looking good so far!

 

dang subscribed..

 

Sub

 

I really need to step up big time to be anywhere near Ngo's engine bay. So sexy...

 

Ngo has the sexiest engine bay out there. Also, I'm digging the mileage on the car.
So when does the tear down begin?

 

haha, Thanks guys! I guess I better not disappoint.

The tear down has already begun as off yesterday.

Starting with the piping


And as of this morning, we are here...


And here...


I also did not have a place for the hood,.. so I decided to hang it next to the engine. lol

 

nice wasting no time..keep us posted

 

You going to have enough time to break in the motor before dyno day?

 

That motor is sexy. For the record.

 

no time to waste with the dyno day less than 2 months away! haha

Hope so. I definitely want to put a good amount of miles on it before then. If I have to, I'll do back and forth trips to gregs' place and Jedi's place.

 

You just raised the bar on one clean engine - nice work man.

 

yeah man

 

Looks great man... subbed.

 

That replacement engine looks very sexy . How about some details of the engine build - stock internals or have you done a few mods ?

 

I know but I'm sworn to secrecy.
Besides, Danny threatened to beat me up if I said anything...

 

Just post it in really fine print so it's hard to see - maybe he wont notice

 

you got off lucky..NGO already gave me some chin music as a warning...