epic build

Thanks man! I got my gears second hand from two different people. The purple one is flyinmiata and the other is fidanza.

Didn't know that. Think I'll be reconsiddering the use of super blue, thanks for the advice. Also thanks for the kind words! My buddy helped me get the lines bent just rite.

Purple! winning!

Thanks, but I don't think my build is on the level that is needed for the E word.

I don't think I am going to keep the purple. That's a junk turbo that I fooled around with the idea of matching the turbo and intake manifold to the cam gears. I don't think I am pulling it off well so for now I am going to coat the turbo (the unmolested t3/t04b) with some silver shit, clean the compressor housing, and run it with the cam gear cover on.


Nobody has input on the amphenol placement? That makes me sad:(

Huh? What turbo is that if it's not the 50 trim?

Ask Sean about the amphenol placement.

If it were me though I would slam that shiz either

close to where most of the wires will go
and/or
out of sight-ish

It is a junk super 60 I bought

That is the plan rite now. I was looking for an argument that would convince me to put it elsewhere but haven't gotten much "don't do that because bla" yet.

Punched a hole in the firewall for the amphenol, loomed the wires to where they need to go and started finishing the looms in the cabin. I want to make sure I have it allfigured out before I wire the amphenol up. I decided to not wire the O2 and the EGT probe in because they may (and most likely will) go bad so rather than have to splice new sensors in I am going to go the rubber doughnut route for those two. I also pulled out the alarm and fixed the hacked up random shit wired into the ignition. Looks better now and most likely won't catch fire :D

Amphenol placement
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New FPR's
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Fixed ignition wires
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Sweet wheel placement!
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Nice MS placement, about a foot forward from mine. Only issue is I can't see when my warm up enrichments are off when datalogging, it blocks the LEDs.

What brand fuel pressure gauge is that? you have the same regulator as me does

Thanks, I have been thinking of relocating it a little farther away from the passenger but it being there makes it way easy to see those leds.

One is an ebay one and the other is an aeromotive 13105.

? What two FPRs?

The ebay one is leaning to the right on the left (with the pressure gauge on it), the aeromotive is on the right leaning to the left.

Er I meant WHY two fprs :(

Oh, well I got the ebay one and the aeromotive one came up for a good price a few days later.

is it crazy that I looked at your MS and thought I remember that one?

Neah, you probably remember it because of the usb thing. How many people get those? I ended up just going with a serial to usb cable.

thats probably the only I built with it.

Finally found time to get shit done. Here is my list o' completed things:
-fuel rail modified so it will actually work with the 99 head and installed
-fuel lines run
-fpr modified and mounted
-valve cover modified and mounted
-iat sensor relocated to the front of the intercooler
-old iat bung plugged
-sheared bolt pulled out of the turbine housing
-cut the support bracket mount off the intake manifold
-scrubbed the intake manifold down

Some less than adequate pics...sorry guys :(

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Up next I am going to por15 all the rusty shit, make the throttle cable work with the 99 junk, sandblast the turbine housing, and paint that beeoch.

Last night I:
removed purple turbo
cleaned the t3/t04b turbine and compressor housings
painted the turbine housing with vht primer and silver
clocked the chra and put the turbo together
mounted that bitch to see how it jived with the rest of the engine
hooked up the oil feed
mocked up the coolant lines
pulled the fuel pump (which had me dremeling the screw because that fucker didn't want to come out)

Here is a shot of it as of this morning:


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