Month: August 2019

Had a few hours in the garage today, and so got some more done on the car.

Relieved the NB front arms as they often foul on the coilover sleeve when using the Bauer extended lower ball joints:

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Can see the difference here:

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Then added a double shear tab to the swaybar mount. NBs only came with a single shear mount, compared to the NA double shear. I just dont like single shear.

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Dug out a fuel filter from the box of bits, its a little large for where the stock one goes but should be ok with some different 6AN fittings:

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Started tacking up the IC piping out of a generic pipe and silicone kit i got for $50 minus a couple of bends:

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Pretty simple and should work well.

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Then ran out of gas… 🙁

Turned my attention to ricing up the car some, and these scratches that have been on the boot since i bought it:

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While clearly the easiest thing to do would be some cut and polish, i figured a ducktail might be more fun:

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Swapped it for some other bits and gave it a clean up before going on

Finally, on the race car i got sick of digging around under the dash to find the USB port on the ECU, and also rigging up a cigarette lighter to the battery for laptop power. So I designed a basic bracket in Fusion, and set it printing for the afternoon. Came out rather well:

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Might just swap it to the left side of the glovebox.

Thats about it for now, need to get fittings for the fuel filter, and pull the hardtop off and cage out so I can fit it and the new fuel pump. Waiting on expandable braid sleeving for the wiring harness and then I can get started on wiring it up. Have a few parcels in the post for engine bay fuel line fittings and some silicone bends, so whenever the various postal and courier services get them to me I can start on the rest of the engine bay stuff.

Had a bit of time this afternoon and a mate came around, so we set about getting the engine in.

First up was getting the flywheel installed:

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Then clutch:

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Then realising I had forgotten the dust cover sandwich plate… and having to pull it all off before the Loctite set up, and reinstalling with sandwich plate in place:

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Wrestled the engine back onto the dolly and then slot the subframe underneath and bolted it in place:

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Slotted the gear bag on, and then popped the new starter motor in… to find out that it must be for a similar but different model:

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Eh, will deal with later, makes a good dust cover for now.

Slid the engine back in the way the B6 came out:

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Suspect the BP is a few mm higher as we had to remove the oil cap to slide it in.

Jack up in place and bingo, one engine installed:

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Finally mocked it up with manifolds and turbo:

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Now that it is in the bay I can start with getting everything else set up. Wiring is up next, along with sorting out the rest of the intake bits, and then IC piping.

Planning on getting the engine in this weekend, so had a bit of work to do in order to get it ready for installation. First up was to get the sump on with plenty of loctite inside:

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Then a new 36-2 timing trigger wheel from Beavis:

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And crank pulley with fresh timing marks:

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Test fit the new injectors for ease of fitment before the engine goes in. Went with Bosch 960cc long nose injectors with adapters for full length, instead of the RX7 injectors i had for it:

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Installed on a nice bit of bling that will be summarily hidden once the intake goes on, a Radium fuel rail:

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I was originally going to use a factory rail, but they were thin on the ground and the few people who had them wanted more for them than the Radium… a bit ridiculous.

Then it was time to add the 1/8 BSPT oil feed fitting which worked perfectly… amazing what 5°of taper difference will do:

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After that I turned to the engine bay, and finished off fitting up the fully depowered NB8B rack, now that the urethane bushings had arrived:

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Afterwards I figured I may as well hack a massive hole in the firewall, freehand using the diegrinder.

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Now enough space for the new wiring loom grommet:

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Also figured out where the Flex Fuel sensor is going to live:

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And the bling catch can arrived. Big enough for CAMS specs:

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Finally, I replaced the input and output seals in the gearbox:

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And cut the expansion joints into the turbo manifold:

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All pretty much ready to get bolted into the car on the weekend, just need to mount the engine to the subframe, attach flywheel, clutch and gearbox and then roll into place.

Oh and as a bonus, this is why cheap eBay parts often bite you in the butt. Oil filter relocation adapter, nice AN10 fittings. Right… wrong:

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They neck down to 3/8″ thread, and internally the wall thickness restricts flow immensely:

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In my case I’ll drill and tap them to full AN10, but if you don’t have the gear, or didn’t check it that would be an immense restriction.