Heres a little plot twist, woke up this morning to find 3 broken FAB9 headstuds and a shit load of broken glass around my engine, looks like a glass tube light fell off the ceiling in my garage and hit my engine....not sure how this broke THREE torqued down headstuds. Ive already ordered ARP hardware and extracted the two bolts which were protruding once I pulled the head, unfortunately one is buried about 1cm deep in the block and I am completely lost on my next steps.

That is nuts man. I assume you are talking about ARP studs from FAB9? I'm running the same kit, no issues with mine. That must have been a hell of a hit, or they were overtorqued/fatigued and just waiting to snap. Weird.

Nah it was actually the FAB9 brand ultra duty headstuds which I bought over ARPs because of availability and because Greg@thecarpassionchannel chose to use them over arps in his latest build. The one stud broken in the head luckily wasn’t too hard to get out and my ARPs are supposed to come today with my supermiata trigger wheel.

engines assembled and timed, anyone got any good EFR sources before I hand FAB9 more money?

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can anyone confirm if these two will work as water feed/return (respectively)

Very nice to see somebody doing it the right way and actually doing their homework for once, keep it up.

looks awesome!

I'm a BMW guy and the Getrags blow up with 300-400whp and a good bit of low end torque.

Fuck off and die, spammer.

He’s not wrong though…luckily we’re not gonna have the low end torque of a turbo 3L.

im back... going home from college in late May, and i have until the end of September to get this car sorted because I really fckn want to take it down to santa barbara next year. Currently: engines in, all lines are run apart from turbo oil drain, 5 speed trans still in there with an ACT 4 puck + lightweight flywheel and a custom 3 inch exhaust has been run with the big ass magnaflow. didn't get a chance to touch any electrical before I left for college. Want to get this thing geared to get 'decent' freeway mileage - anyone have experience with 6spd + 3.3 at around ~300whp? if the best move at this point is to go getrag, I want to get a headstart on ordering parts soon.

other option - keep the 5 speed + 4.1, drive/tune the car like it doesnt have a built engine, and work on a 8hp swap once i take it down to college since i can basically build/fab anything with the tools i have access to down here compared to what i have at home.