WOW I have not updated this in a very long time and for good/bad reasons. Work has taken a lot of my time and then the car didn't want to play ball at all. I can tell you it almost came down to a part out, Idin and Chris from Touge made a good effort to keep me in the game.
I will start off from where I ended,
Once the motor was in and things we getting sorted out I asked my buddy Brandon to make a divider plate between the Rad and IC. It turned out better than expected, now the air will be pushed threw the respected cooler.
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After that was done we moved onto the wiring and to start getting the car ready to run. Well some where along the way I missed a connector under the dash, that took a few hours to figure out what it was as it really just presented itself as a bad ground. almost ended up pulling the harness out again FML. Once that was fixed we thought we were ready to fire up and we were, she too a little longer than I would have wanted to build oil pressure but it came up and then we fired her up.... MY GOD it didnt like that, she was running rough as all hell. after working on her so much and late nights every night we also missed the coil packs on the passenger side, can't blame anyone but myself for not checking. So I drove the car home that night.
Next day was Dyno day and of course this bitch didnt want to play, it started of with the WG not opening up until 26psi (should have been 19psi) so we checked to see if the arm was jammed but it looked good, then we took it out and tested it with compressed air slowly going up in pressure until we started to see it move. We decided to take it apart and remove one of the springs and go from there. Luckily it worked but it left us with a very low spring and just cranked up the preload to get her to where we needed it. We started doing pulls and then something very weird started happening, it was acting like a slipping clutch but things werent adding up as we were on a lot lower boost, but I almost threw-up as I had spent a good amount of money on the OS Giken clutch. Turned everything off rest the dyno and bam back up and running. But I can tell you I was extremely disappointed in the numbers and I will not post them.
SO what happens when you don't make the power you wanted with a set turbo? you go bigger, now we have a Twin Scroll EFR 7670 ewg'ed.
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now that we have the new turbo in it was time to get a real alignment done as I missed my appointment last time before the last dyno day, was able to drive the car there and when they went to put it onto the rack the rear diff blew as you can here in the video below it did not sound good at all.
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SO with this mess I had the car towed home and started looking for a new diff, found out the the east coast values used diffs a lot higher than we did in the west. I sent a message to Ryan at vex to see if they had anything instock, he was quick to help me out. First we went over what was wrong and to double check that it wasn't just an axel that popped out, but everything felt and looked good. So he said we could drop ship a OS Giken diff right to my house but then I would need someone to install it and that would have been impossible on the time line I was on. He then told me that hey have a rebuilt OS Giken super lock installed into a 04 rear housing and sitting on the shelf which was waiting to be put on their rally car but he would be willing to send it out to me, I had it at the house in less then 15hrs from Calgary to Kingston (pretty much the other side of the country) and installed in under 30min. NOW filling the damn diff without a fluid gun killed me LOL that took like an hour FML
Old diff out which was made quick and painless due to the MSI rear frame and t-bar delete
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new diff
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SO that's all back in and back to the alignment shop, for another round of BS. Car went onto the rack no problem, but barely came off the rack, thought for sure now the transmission was toast and jumped way to far ahead of myself without thinking as I was stressed out and just getting fedup with the car. I ripped the transmission out and apart to see what I could find.
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ALL THIS WAS FOR NOTHING FUCK!!! after finding nothing wrong with it I looked at the back of the car and the driver side rear axel was out about 1.5-2 INCHS and the passenger side was just about to pop out, since I didn't have the dccd hooked up she wouldn't move. I was SOOO MAD with myself and the Shop, needless to say I am not going back there again.
I then had to take a long break due to work, but when I came home I went to work on mounting the splitter, since WASP again screwed me some more by failing to send a chassis mounting bracket. Once that was done I sent the car out to get the wing installed. I am pretty happy with it but there will be some tweeks made to make it even more stable and move it back a few inchs.
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While I was testing the car out I noticed that we started getting lower than ideal oil pressure, after double and triple checking with different senders and gauges it was found to be true. To fix this I went back to the 11mm pump I had on before I swapped to the cosworth 10mm, not sure what was going on but this might be a sign of something worse I might just be doing a patch job, or there is something going on the with oiling within the 7670 as that is the only thing that has changed.
Final F U from the car was while it was performing some HARD PARKING booth duty during a CSCS event the PS shit the bed, almost burnt threw the belt. it was not safe to dive home, now Chris stayed up till midnight to wait for me at at the touge shop while it was towed there where it sat until I had time to go get it. Testing at home so far seems to point to the rack as I had a rebuilt pump replace the pump that was on the car and the problem is still there. I grabbed a old wrx rack from a local guy to test when I get back from my vacation.
Hope you all enjoy that updated.