Finally my 1st (water cooled) turbo build
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I know you're having issues currently, but I've read through your entire build thread over the last week or so. Your metal working skills are ******* fantastic.
Your thread at once makes me excited and terrified to put together one of these cars.
Your thread at once makes me excited and terrified to put together one of these cars.
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So now that it's apart, it seems like a good time to use this EFR I have laying around...Too bad I didn't get to dyno this 2560, I bet it was well overy 300 hp @ 23psi.
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What are your goals for the EFR? Are you going to do the studs this time when you have everything apart? The decision had you contemplating xanax in the past haha.
There are so many brackets etc that you have on that thing that I want so bad. Like the heat shield and the LS coil mount. Really solid work.
There are so many brackets etc that you have on that thing that I want so bad. Like the heat shield and the LS coil mount. Really solid work.
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What are your goals for the EFR? Are you going to do the studs this time when you have everything apart? The decision had you contemplating xanax in the past haha.
There are so many brackets etc that you have on that thing that I want so bad. Like the heat shield and the LS coil mount. Really solid work.
There are so many brackets etc that you have on that thing that I want so bad. Like the heat shield and the LS coil mount. Really solid work.
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I sucked at documenting all the changes . it is currently ARP everything . EFR will be kept below 6 speed crushing numbers. A couple runs in the 350 hp range would be fun though . I really just want to drive this thing for a year without constantly fun king with it. I'm close.
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I have been running a stock flywheel and an FM2 from the beginning . I sold the light one right before the engine went in. I got paranoid after reading about trans destruction .
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Just a theory , but I believe it.
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Its a hidden fastener.
I'll take a pic in a second.
Nvm, no hidden faster. But when I took mine off I just pulled it out with the cam. It holds onto the cam real good for some reason.
You need to take the cam gear off anyways.
I'll take a pic in a second.
Nvm, no hidden faster. But when I took mine off I just pulled it out with the cam. It holds onto the cam real good for some reason.
You need to take the cam gear off anyways.
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1. Thanks for the help, I knew it must have had something holding it on.
2. Thanks previous owner, for stripping the head on one of the torx screws for me already.
3. Glad I stopped hitting it with the hammer.
2. Thanks previous owner, for stripping the head on one of the torx screws for me already.
3. Glad I stopped hitting it with the hammer.
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I buy new screws from Mazda, I think I have about a dozen spares on hand. I do not reuse them at all, brand new ones go in everytime I have to install that cover plate. They are the weakest and stupidest pieces on the vvt motor.