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Got my oil pan in...only to find out the dude sent me a LOWER OIL PAN. When I told him he sent me the wrong part his like what is an Upper pan....
I should of asked for pictures but he was so quick to respond never in a million years would I think I would have to ask if they know what part they are sending me.
Yes i did PayPal goods and services and all that. Dude will be sending me back my money.
Drove and hour and a half each way last night and picked up a new to me Upper Oil pan. The weird thing is this upper pan has some sort of baffle built into it. Unfortunately with my oil pan spacer my Pickup will not clear so i'll unmount it and press on with engine assembly hopefully tomorrow.
Drove and hour and a half each way last night and picked up a new to me Upper Oil pan. The weird thing is this upper pan has some sort of baffle built into it. Unfortunately with my oil pan spacer my Pickup will not clear so i'll unmount it and press on with engine assembly hopefully tomorrow.
Sorry this is the only picture I took all weekend. The baffle had to come out since it would not clear my oil pick up. Other than that good weekend.
Basically engine is in and the and mostly wired up. I got the cross over pipe installed but I have no idea where my 2 bolt exhaust gasket it so I was unable to mount up the turbo. I will say installing a PB kit on my back is not fun.
I had hoped to do more but after playing football for a few hours I'm drained.
Any way, hopefully next Saturday I'll finish up the turbo install.
Started the car this weekend and it is immediately jumped to 3.5K and just set there. After a few seconds it would drop down to 2K or so then jump back up to 3.5. Not what I wanted to do on a first start. I will say that car does not sound good with only about 18" of exhaust past the turbo.
In frustration I called it a day to figure out WTF is going on I even called Bealljk to help bounce ideas off of. Fast forward to today I went back to the car with a clear head. The more I thought about it the more it acted liked vacuum leak...so the testing began. I jimmied up my test rig, I took my air compressor and hooked it up to my BOV vacuum line. This and a little soppy water water and I discovered the cork gasket was leaking. Unfortunately I did not have a OEM gasket to see if that can be used instead of making an RTV gasket.
So I ordered my new Exhaust, 8" extension, and OEM gasket. With those final items and my MAC valve that should be here in a day or so i THINK i have the rest of the parts i need for the car.
Welp received wonderful news today, the MAC valve I ordered last Thursday will be here Friday and the stuff I ordered from CZP will be here next week.....I wish Z1 had the stuff I wanted I would of had the car running by now.
My ISR Exhaust and Lower Plenum gasket showed up today. I was not expecting it until Monday so spent the day putting it all together.
I have a few exhaust leaks that I need to get fixed but for now it is fine. Overall the car sounds way better with this exhaust than it ever did with the old OBX HKS replica.
Things left to do...Install the 3 port MAC valve (Who knew there was on million different ways to route the vacuum hoses for three ports), mount intercooler, hook up water/meth, and finally get a tune.
Got the exhaust all tore apart so I could swap out my my back housing and fix exhaust leaks. I also got the MAC valve 100% installed.
As you can see the .81 is not much bigger than the .68. Maybe I should of gone with the .96 depending on how boost reacts later on down the road I may upgrade.
Now in the process of trying to fix the exhaust leak between the header and down pipe I found the gasket is cracked. And just my luck no one carries one so I had to order it from Z1. So maybe later this week I'll have the hot side of the car all finished.
Got the exhaust all tore apart so I could swap out my my back housing and fix exhaust leaks. I also got the MAC valve 100% installed.
As you can see the .81 is not much bigger than the .68. Maybe I should of gone with the .96 depending on how boost reacts later on down the road I may upgrade.
Now in the process of trying to fix the exhaust leak between the header and down pipe I found the gasket is cracked. And just my luck no one carries one so I had to order it from Z1. So maybe later this week I'll have the hot side of the car all finished.
I am running 1.15ar on my BP kit and loving it.
Regarding the exhaust gaskets, Turbo cars are HAARDD on those header to hot side piping gaskets. I would not recommend the Z1 metal gaskets, I blew them out in only a few thousand miles and I am pretty meticulous on install. I would recommend the Zspeed copper gaskets with a liberal coating of copper exhaust rtv on both sides and high temp lock tite on the bolts due to the more extreme thermal changes. Second to those I would look at the FI gaskets or the berk extra thick graphite gaskets from Concept Z. Any sort of metal mixed with graphite gasket will fail.
Regarding the exhaust gaskets, Turbo cars are HAARDD on those header to hot side piping gaskets. I would not recommend the Z1 metal gaskets, I blew them out in only a few thousand miles and I am pretty meticulous on install. I would recommend the Zspeed copper gaskets with a liberal coating of copper exhaust rtv on both sides and high temp lock tite on the bolts due to the more extreme thermal changes. Second to those I would look at the FI gaskets or the berk extra thick graphite gaskets from Concept Z. Any sort of metal mixed with graphite gasket will fail.
You have the twin scroll version, so a much bigger AR doesn't hurt you nearly like it does a single scroll. I have a feeling that I will be getting under the car quite frequently to check the gaskets if that's the case. I have the RTV to put on them to help seal them up. My fear is that the temps will be to high for the RTV.
