stage 8

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Screw yo logic. I want to try at least two more wrong ways.

 

Stage 8 is awesome. Their fasteners work well. And their customer service is unbelievable. They have sent me new nuts when I rounded some off, new retainer clips when I destroyed em taking it off, new locking bits. Basically new kits, all for free. And they are helpful, and found me a kit for my downpipe too.

 

I honestly don't know why I didn't do that from the beginning. I mean, I used them on the hot side.

 

Everyone makes mistakes.

 

The intake scavenger venturi thing. Mine.

 

**** I wish you lived close. I would build you all sorts of megasquirts to get some of your welding on my car.

 

Me too, I'm going to have all these nice parts and a car that still won't start. Hahaha

 

My ultimate downpipe transmission heat deflector. I stole this idea from someone else on here, I forget who but I liked it. 22 gauge stainless, by far the most difficult thing I've ever welded. Also going to wrap the downpipe with that heat wrap tape stuff.

 

God damn dude. I blow through 16 gauge SS, cant imagine 22 gauge.

 

Like I said it was not easy, but I start to get the hang of it. I only tried it for about 10 minutes, I was getting super tired and shaky. I got up at 4:45 a.m. and it's 9 o'clock now motor skills are dwindling

 

Good news, the hose clamp fits.
Wishing now, that I had put six bends with 7 flats. Then my mounts could be center and sides. Could probably just rivet the mounts on too.

 

All back together again. As suggested, I had definitely over tightened the oil pan bolts. They need like, nothing plus 1/4 of a turn. Finished all of the breather lines, and installed my sucker intake thing. After experimenting with it, I'm concerned that it might make TOO much vacuum.
Chickened out, and went with -8 lines to the valve cover, but I figure it has two so....

 

The inlet and outlet on my intercooler always bothered me. Nuclear pipe wall thickness, and a crap transition into the cooler itself. So I cut these turds off.



Replaced them with ones like this.





You can kind of see, before I cleaned up the inside edge, how much of a bottleneck those other things were.

I like it a lot more.

 

It runs! Really well too. Well, sitting in the driveway. Still not nearly road worthy. I'm positive that I had a bad ground, on the last go around. It idles now, and I have good signals all around. MT.NET is a real place to learn TURBO.

Still trippin on the turbo though. It spins for like a minute and a half after I shut down the engine.

 

The downpipe head deflector. I was positive that 1/2" was enough clearance. Next time will be 3/4" I think.

 

Those pictures seriously suck. I'll get more another time. It's 24°f outside. I'm cold and going back inside.

 

I know who.

Looks really nice!

 

So what was the cause of all of the rough idling/engine not running worth a damn problems that you were having?

BTW... great fab skills! I can do an "ok" job with MIG, but really want to buy a TIG machine and learn to weld aluminum, thin gauge stainless steel, etc.

 

It was the main ground, from the block to the chassis. I found it to be loose when I was pulling the engine. Facepalm. My new rule is: if you attach it, it gets tightened. Period. Not, I'll tighten it when I find the socket.