Alberto Chipres

Jebus. Sweet picture of our lord and savior Robo Cop.

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Been waiting to do my VVT & MK swap until I had a reliable daily in the stable. Now it's time!

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OK swappage commencing!

The igniter rewire pic on the VVT swap thread has been wrong forever. Here's what it looks like corrected:


here are the wires spliced:

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Is this the correct pinout for the NB cam sensor (CMP)?

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Bought a FM heat shield & a FM CAI box about a year ago to see if they would fit with my MK kit. It looks like the heat shield fits with a little bit of relief grinding on the upper lip. The CAI box is going to be a little bit trickier. I ordered up a 135° and a 45° elbow. We'll see if that does the trick.

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Don't forget to get a bigger bra after getting a VVT boob job.

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I've just about got the MK turbo to play nice with the FM airbox. I used a 135* and a 45* elbow.



I had to open up the hole a bit to make things fit. Nothing a little speed tape can't class up.



The old exhaust manifold gasket should roughly represent the level of the hood. It's getting just about dialed.

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Intercooler mounted. Shamelessly stole the mount location from Aiden. I think I bent every fin on that thing goofing around with fitment.

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I think I've got my IC fitment sorted out, although I'm a little worried about tire clearance. There's ~2 1/4" clearance between the tires and IC pipes with the car on jacks and the wheels at full lock. Other than that, I think it's just a matter of sealing back up the holes I hacked in the under tray.



passenger side w/wheel @ full lock



driver's side w/wheel @ full lock

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Conti extremecontact sport 205/50 on advanti S2 15x8. ~31.25 lbs without lugs.

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Pretty much buttoned up here. I'm waiting on a couple clamps to put the hot side IC pipes back in, and some fuel hose.



More importantly, stickers:

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Looks good. I like the sticker placement.

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Shiiiiiiit... Coolant reroute spacer is leaking. Guess it's better to find it now before I'm on the road.

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coolant reroute leak patched up. Now I'm loading my map & calibrating sensors. My VVT OCV solenoid is making racket with the key on/engine off and TS VVT output set to off. This seems fishy.

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Unplug it. Get the car working without VVT, then add it back in later.

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Nice work man keep it up. I did the same swap/turbo install as this last year and it was one heck of a project. But definitely learned a lot.

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Sound advice. I'm more worried that I've cross wired it with something else. I have some MM testing in my future.

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Car no start. Here's what the composite log looks like. This looks at least like I'm getting a signal from both the cam & crank, but it looks kinda hosed up. Any intuition as to what I've done wrong?

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tune, log, composite log for ref

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hmmm... RPM in the log never went above 180. I'm used to seeing cranking RPM in the 3-500 RPM range. It sounded like normal cranking speed...