Well after a interesting ordeal with my z, its finally getting built. In October I went back to Hawaii and drove my car around when right when i was about to let my girlfriend drive it it felt like dying? . So my friend traced the problem to the fuel system and we discovered my tank was bone dry. My gas gauge was broken . So filled up the tank with gas and it started. Then later in the night going about 20mph cruising there was a popping noise and the motor seized. OBDII scanner reported misfires and knock. So we thought the motor was dead. I started to order parts from Forged Performance. Later in the week he found that the short block was salvageable and that the cylinders where just washed out because one of the injectors got stuck open. But since I already began to order the parts I just decided to go ahead with the build. Heres whats going into the car engine wise..

CP 8.5:1 Pistons
Eagle H Beam Rods
ARP L19 Headstuds
HKS Headgasket
Walbro 255 Fuel Pump
Greddy Twin Turbo(Already on Car)
Greddy Emanage Ultimate(Already on Car)
AAM Basic Fuel Return(Already on Car)

The plans as of now is to stick with the 440cc injectors until later in the year and then upgrade the fuel system and engine management and shoot for some big power with water/meth. Im staying open deck as i want to ship up the car to the mainland and do time attack events with the car.

So now for some pictures..

The Car-




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11/09/07
Here are some pics of the new goodies. Sorry for the Blurry Pics
CP piston 8.5:1

Eagle H-beam Rods

ARP L19 Head studs

Walboro Fuel Pump

Piston and Rod making Love

One big happy family

And my dog


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11/12/07
Progress Made today. Started taking apart the motor. Waiting on HG and new injector from Forged Performance. Hoping itll make it out to Hawaii by Wednesday.




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11/20/07
Finally got the Headgasket and new injector from forged performance. Head is now off of the block. Also just found out today that my pistons are bigger with a .02 overbore. So its off to the machine shop for cleaning, honing, and balancing everything. Heres a nice little picture update. Should get the block back in a week or so. Hopefully the car will be running end of next week. In the last picture you can really see the results of washing out the cylinder. Luckily though no major damage to the cylinder walls. Nothing the honing process wont take care of.





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11/24/07
Motor is down to the bare block. Sent to the machine shop for cleaning honing the cylinder walls polishing the crank and balancing everything. Should get it back in a week and then the car should be running a week after that.


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12/17/07
After finally getting parts back from the machine shop it was time to put everything together. Short block was completed. Hopefully well be able to get the car up and running by the end of the week.



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12/20/07
Heads are on and timming chain is done. Just need to torque down a few things to spec, put on timming cover, upper oil pan, lower oil pan, valve cover, and the long block is done and going on the frame. ill post pics tomorrow.

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12/27/07
After a week of not really being able to work because kamu was moving we got back at it. Today started at 9am and after about 10 hrs of working the long block is complete with all accessories attached and the turbos are back on. Since everything was off we got bored and went to checkers for some high temp paint. The scheme follows the Oahu Automotive 2 tone white and black. I have to say it came out sexy. It probably is gonna look weird on an orange z but i plan to paint the car white later any way. Tomorrow the motor is going back on the frame and its pretty much downhill from there. now for some pics!

 

should be a nice setup, good luck with the build and tune

 

HEY!!! Thats Dizie's hand.

Congrats on finaly getting in a solid direction with your build.

 

I might consider going ahead and biting the bullet on your ems just to protect your investment. Utec's are pretty inexpensive, and they have a lot of people running big reliable power on them.

 

Nice dog!

 

u like pepsi

 

bump for an update. to adress the emu comment. i know that emu is not the greatest engine managment. but for now it will only have to be dealing with mid 400's which im pretty sure its more than capable of sustaining. this summer im going to pick up a utec and water/meth. i just need to get the car running again for now. then in the summer shoot for more power.

my frend's shop has a lot of nice customers that like to donate soda =)

 

which shop is that?

 

oahu automotive specialist. its one of the oahuZ guys dads shop. hes on this forum. his sn is dizie

 

You still have stock rims? Need wider wheels/tyres . . . .

Congrats. Good luck.

 

Is that ems safe for even those power levels?

 

Emanage ultimate is good for those power levels. As long as you realy dont have your ECU reflashed you should be good. If there is an idle issue they have a stabalazation module for your ignition pulses. Over all 450 is a decent goal just dont want to push it TOO hard.

 

i was just planning on maxing out the injectors until this summer. this summer im gonna get 750cc injectors, utec, aam maxflow big pump upgrade, aam fuel rails, water/meth. then after that ill be done with the motor and start messing with the suspension and getting a whole bunch of braces and what not

 

is the shop building the engine?

 

did you get a meth kit yet?

 

yep their building the engine. theyve already built one vq. ill be the second on they build. anyhow i havent got the water/meth kit yet. thats for this summer

 

For some reason i thought it said Emanage Blue

 

He wrote EMU... thats an obscure less used version of writing EManage Ultimate or EU.

Its ok we will forgive you Ryan .

 

fixed it for ya

 

HAH...yeah man new job and 8.5 month prego wife can cause you to see things