No i mean they're shitty quality construction and seep.

I've had this set on the car since I think 2010 and they aren't seeping, but I agree, most if not all Mishimoto stuff is eBay grade with a logo and HUUUUUUGE markup. Alibaba will put any logo you want on a product for free if you buy enough of them :giggle:

Just a couple small things.

The garage of plenty has spewed forth some ignition components, so I will dutifully adapt and install them.

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The plug wires are original and aren't in great shape so I went ahead and order some blue NGKs to replace them. Harness section turns out to be very handy, as I used it to whip up an an adapter.

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I used the weird Ballenger CONN-100937 to adapt between the NB1 and NB2 harnesses because I didn't want to cut up my factory harness, which is ironic because I cut up my factory harness and extended it about 8" on each of the ignition coil plugs some years ago, at the same time I extended the harness for the temp harness for the M-t00ned reroute back in the day. Ahh, memories.

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It may be that my coil plugs are just worn out, or maybe the Ballenger connectors are meh, but I couldn't get them to stay plugged in. The locking tabs on my connectors are pretty beat so I threw a zip tie around them to keep them from wandering off. Again, this is just proof of concept for now. If it turns out this works well I'll order connectors and build a complete ignition harness from scratch.

I put the gear oil I saved from the transmission back in the transmission and reinstalled the shifter, and also tossed some oil in the engine.

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4 quarts of O'Reilly's finest 5W-30 F U L L S Y N T H E T I C motorb oil.

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FOUR GODDAMN QUARTS!

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As soon as my replacement heater hoses get here I can fill the coolant system and fire this bad boy up. Though I guess I should also finish installing the exhaust, I doubt the neighbors enjoy BP open header bovine flatulence much at this point.

You're mistaken... There are Five!

How about you fuck off back to Cardassia, eh? :giggle:

:rofl:
Quiet hue mon. But those cardassian chicks are pretty scantily dressed, I ain't really into high maintenance ones.

Besides, I don't know how the hell you hacked my phone camera, everything is orange now, like scary orange man.

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Aren't they all tho? 🤔
It makes it look like you are using a filter, right? It throws off the color levels in my phone camera something fierce, really makes the QMAX reroute and Xida coaxials POP! I didn't realize exactly how bad it was until I couldn't figure out the difference between a black with yellow stripe wire and a black with white stripe while doing ignition wiring things. Super white LED flashlight resolved the issue but still, it's really gross. It was worse during the Camp Fire but having 604,000 acres of forest burning ~20-30mi from the house for the last month has been pretty damn lame. I feel super bad even complaining about it because there are a lot of people much worse off than I am. :sad2:

Dixie is hitting the burn scar from Camp in the southwestern edge of it's advance, which should slow it considerably in that direction. There hasn't been a ton of growth since 2018.

Yay kitty! My first cat was a tuxedo, very handsome one you have there 😺

What the hell happened to RockAuto? Lol. I bought 6 items and they shipped from 5 different warehouses! Add to that Corsa Technic, Priority Mazda, and Napa and I've got an inbox full of tracking number bukkake this afternoon. Lordamighty!

I don't think I'm going to be around this weekend so updates might be sparse for a week or so, unless I want to post whore progress like installing my exhaust again :giggle:

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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What am I even doing with my life?

I believe I told you just to throw in new oil and send it. You did not want to listen.

Where did you come from?! You aren't one of the voices in my head!

If it makes you feel any happier, your moly count looks low ...

Yeah, but look at that Boron!
I'm actually really glad to see the silicon as low as it is, my understanding is that means good air filtration. The K&N with with pre-filter is obviously working.

The cams are out of that block and I didn't see any damage to the head, so it's got to be something in the bottom end. That leaves me main and rod bearings, or the oil pump. So, I'll probably do some basic teardown to check things, REEEEEEEE some more, repair/replace as necessary, reassemble, then that motor will go in the corner.

I mean the 6D is already in, might as well run it.
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Well at least your T level isn't low.

Lol.
I need to poke around on BITOG and see if I can find a recent VOA for 15w40 T6 as I'm curious how the numbers compare. I'm no tribologist so I don't know what most of this means, but I'm curious how those viscosity numbers might have changed after some heat and abuse.

Very surprised the wear metals aren't off the charts. How do you get metal flake without putting a shitpile of metal in the oil? To my untrained monkey brain a flake would be from something scraping away chunks or slivers, like a carving. If it was a bearing I'd expect something akin to grinding swarf, and that would show up in the oil.

The mind boggles.

ITT: Gordon stays true to his sig and over thinks things

Metal scrubby sponges? :)

--Ian

Shower thought from this morning: oil pump fretting against the aluminum pump housing?

Anyone have any pictures of what that damage actually looks like? I haven't pushed a BP with a stock oil pump and damper that hard in probably ever. 3.6+6 while NA just makes you want to get it to the limiter and hold it there, so I spent a lot of time flirting with the limiter. 🤔

:fawk:

probably a few boundary failure threads with swarf caught in the relief valve.