GunMetalGrey

Went to the junkyard yesterday after I remembered that I had pulled a M50NV valve cover from what appeared to be a good motor.
I was hoping that the cam was in good shape, or there at all. 
I got lucky, the cam was there, untouched, with the cam cover over it. It took me about 20 minutes to tear the top end down and remove the cam, tray, lifters, and bearing caps. All of the parts are in better condition than what was in my motor. 
Went up to the counter to pay for it, having no idea what they would ask for it. Ended up paying $50 for all of it. 
Ordered the gaskets and timing chain guide and a few other little bits for the motor to be put back together.
Helicoiled the front timing cover, I started with the stripped hole, then decided to do all of them because chances are they would all strip anyway. I will be starting with those bolts first anyway

Went to the junkyard yesterday after I remembered that I had pulled a M50NV valve cover from what appeared to be a good motor.
I was hoping that the cam was in good shape, or there at all. 
I got lucky, the cam was there, untouched, with the cam cover over it. It took me about 20 minutes to tear the top end down and remove the cam, tray, lifters, and bearing caps. All of the parts are in better condition than what was in my motor. 
Went up to the counter to pay for it, having no idea what they would ask for it. Ended up paying $50 for all of it. 
Ordered the gaskets and timing chain guide and a few other little bits for the motor to be put back together.
Helicoiled the front timing cover, I started with the stripped hole, then decided to do all of them because chances are they would all strip anyway. I will be starting with those bolts first anyway

Except Brian (Snap) he is a madman, and returned parts in less than 48 hours. 

pretty engine bay.  jealous of how much room you have.

Left my sunroof vented last night like an idiot.... Needed to clean the cabin anyway...

According to Jeff Elkhorn had sirens and was told to head to the basement, new germany had some power flickering and bits of tree limb blow off but otherwise my car still isnt done and thats what really matters

Good news, there are some manifolds in stock!

Good news, there are some manifolds in stock!

Good news, there are some manifolds in stock!

Form follows function. Increasing thermal efficiency in the name of broken axles is the name of the game

They have been the same with me the past 2 years at the former American Lemans series and now Tudor series.  The guys go out of their way to make talk to you about your car and show you around and take pictures.  They always have some kind of poster to give away or license plate holder or something.  I have no issues supporting them.
 
ECS better not fuck this up.

As long as no one leaks any coolant. We should be fine

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=259051
All of the options a man could want

We've got EAA coming up real quick here in Oshkosh.... I'm almost directly inline with the east/west runway.
THE. PLANES. NEVER. STOP.

Good news, everything appears to be kosher. 
Fired it up last night and it ran fine, no missing like it did last time, and nothing weird going on. 
Couldn't run it long because I had a huge air bubble in the radiator again lol. Got that taken care of though. 
More on this story tonight when I can drive for a bit!

Good news, everything appears to be kosher. 
Fired it up last night and it ran fine, no missing like it did last time, and nothing weird going on. 
Couldn't run it long because I had a huge air bubble in the radiator again lol. Got that taken care of though. 
More on this story tonight when I can drive for a bit!

I am assuming that it is. Will find out tonight I guess. 

I am assuming that it is. Will find out tonight I guess. 

Pulled the cams out last night to see how loose the headstuds were. Each nut took kat least another 1/4 turn to get to their torque spec. Going to see if that was the issue! 
The cooling system held a lot of pressure overnight, and was still overflowing when I took the expansion tank cap off, so the gasket seals well enough for that. As stated, going to test the re-torqued head. 

For those of you that are not on facebook
Last night I loaded  up a modified tune from our lovely Mr. Snap and went for a drive having done some motor work the other day, including sealing the compressor housing to the turbo (it had a huge leak) I drove around for a while staying out of boost and enjoying he non hunting idle and the greatly increased driveability. My new bypass valves were working great and everything felt great about the car. I was happier than I have been in a while, knowing that a few settings were holding me back from having a car that was great. Towards the end of my drive I decided to get into boost a bit to see how it felt with the updated settings, I rolled on the throttle a little bit and the car sucked to the ground and just started going like a bat out of hell. I couldn't believe how much difference a tune could make! I let off quickly due to being in a slightly residential area and rolled over to a better street for playing. I turned onto the street and cruised to second gear (which the ecu now recognizes from VSS input and RPM) and rolled on the gas again, the turbo spooled and hit like a freight train, tires spun and I rocketed forward. Wow. This was amazing. I short shifted into third and gave it some more gas, at a 45 roll the rear tires lit up like a christmas tree and it once again launched forward. Something was wrong, something didn't seem right. The turbo had never screamed like it did those last two gears like it ever has, the bypass valves were never that loud. I tapped the peak button on my boost gauge to show the highest recorded boost pressure. It showed 20psi. Shit. When I put the face of the turbo back on I completely forgot to put the wastegate vacuum line back on. Then the car started to run weird, it was missing, it was hanging on rpms after shifts. I rolled back over to the shop and started being not too happy. I had looked at setting overboost protection in Megasquirt the day before, and did, but when I loaded the new tune it wasn't on there and I forgot to go back and enable it, I didn't have my boost gauge set up to warn me when I went over 10psi... Damn. Not good. 
I pulled plugs and saw extremely obvious signs of some detonation on the pistons, but it didn't look too terrible. The plugs looked a little bit worse than they did the day before when I checked them. I started it back  up again and it seemed to be okay, but the expansion tank on the radiator was REALLY bulged. I hooked the boost leak tester back up to it for kicks and instead of leaking all of the air out of the seal between the compressor housing and the CHRA it just went no where. I couldn't hear the air escape, but it wasn't holding pressure. I waited a second and heard a nice "blub blub blub" coming from the engine... damn again. The headgasket wasn't sealing. I don't think this was brought on by the overboost though. I had issues with coolant dissapearing and doing other weird things earlier so I am uncertain if it just wasn't sealing right the whole time. 
The biggest question I have now is, what to do? If I need to get the head decked I will have to take the motor 100% apart again, which means new bolts and bearings in the bottom end, which would cost a fair chunk of change. 
If I find an m52 (motor I want anyway) I would spend that money towards getting it rebuilt, and throw a set of rods and pistons in it for a long term motor that could handle many much powers. 
I am pulling the motor tonight to asses the situation. 

TL;DR? 
cliffs
New tune rocks
PSHHHHHHHHHHHH
SqUALLLLL
HOLY CRAP! 
Oh Crap!
Shit
Damn
blub blub blub
Crap


 

I can help with ms3 where needed, though I still think you should make a harness instead of using the old one  
How much did the new housing run ya if you don't mind sharing?
I assume you got ms3x ?
Yay for more tuning goodness!

geriatric...they are a combo of most of them. They think they are driving a semi and need more room than they really do, too slow on merge ramps(timid), they are as responsive as a drunk driver or texter, drive as slow as machinery, constant braking is almost as bad the school bus strobe...i could prolly go on... lol

I get bad at updating this thread in summer. 
Things I have done recently:
Installed Rad Fan (so little room!)
Finished the interior
Added rear plate filler
Put the front of the car together
Made/got new charge pipe for the intake side
Moved to a new shop

I shall have to get some pictures and post them soon!

I get bad at updating this thread in summer. 
Things I have done recently:
Installed Rad Fan (so little room!)
Finished the interior
Added rear plate filler
Put the front of the car together
Made/got new charge pipe for the intake side
Moved to a new shop

I shall have to get some pictures and post them soon!

Looks like I will be buying a Xbox One for "winter sports" as I like to call it. Forza 6 looks amazing!