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Hopefully not. The only barrier to getting it running and tuned (so far) is the O2 sensor which gets here today. torsen/axles/dshaft came with the car uninstalled. And I'm planning on spraying the Z in my garage so it might be useful to get a little practice on this thing.
Wideband works. Was ready to button everything up and attempt a start, when I decided I should probably bend the heater pipe away from the downpipe a bit. That was successful, but the turbo-to-downpipe vband looked like this:
Not sure if it was due to the non-MKTurbo TacoTaco manifold sitting the turbo a hair further back or something, but the vband had been clamped down with the two flanges not actually being flush, and there was some soot from an exhaust leak. Despite my best efforts at bending the clamp back into shape, a combination of metal fatigue and bent up threads caused the bolt to snap at low torque. I couldn't find a 2.5" clamp anywhere so I grabbed one on Amazon. One step closer to just parting it out.
05-26-2018, 10:16 AM
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