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i bought my sister's exhaust there for her sti

 

awsome...deffinatly a good shop (in my opinion)

but i finally got my new flywheel bolts today...so as soon as i get off work i am headed to the shop to put the rest of the car back together and start prepping for the turbo install this weekend (if i have time)

 

just an update..i got my clutch in...I LOVE IT..its a lil hard to take off without jerking around in first and it chatters ALOT but ill manage...

pics of clutch and flywheel b4 the tranny went on (camera phone)

 

u da man!

 

great work, how tough was it to get at the tranny bolts at the top

 

haha...i guess i shouldhave taken a pic of that...an EXTREAMLY long extention (about a ft longer then the tranny) and a wobly deal on the end with a 1000ftlb gun and it was easy...hahaha...

i LOVE having any tool known to man in that shop hahaha

 

So they have a Thinga-ma-bob and some do-hickies there? I've been looking for those to add to my whatchamajig so I can have a complete set.

 

you know what...i wouldnt be surprized if they did haha

 

trav... if i dont see this thing producing boost when i come home in July ill be greatly dissapointed... =( lol... cool to see progress though!

 

so i got the FMI mounted today...little more work then i thought...

i had to remove the power steering cooler and relocate it...not too bad tho

on to the pics

you can see in this pic how the cooler is just hanging in front of the FMI by those metal tubes...


so i used the new hose's that the kit came with and relocated it into the fender well as you can see in this pic


and just a few random pics...iv been driving around with no front bumper today...but it should be back on tonight

 

looks like it fits =) **** power steering... you have boost now! aha

 

well we started the turbo install on saturday at 11am...and dident finish till 9pm on sunday night..well kinda...

we worked on it for 46 hrs straight...very little food, no sleep, and lots of frustraition!!

this was seriously one of the hardest turbo kits i have ever installed..the directions were very vague and we had to do a little mod on the charge pipe...

anyways here are some pics..im not going to do a step by step because that would just take forever..

ENJOY

































there was ALOT of stuff that we did that you wont see in the pics, but i just couldent get pics of everything...

but as of right now my car will start up, but i have 0 oil pressure and one of the oil pumps is clicking???..we dont know whats wrong with it (thinking maybe its not grounded properly???) and for some reason my clutch pedal is just laying on the ground...we cant bleed it out enough to get pressure to keep the pedal up...wierd...we are thinking something is wrong with the new clutch line that APS gave us...

today we are going to try and do a few things to get the car up and running, then next week we wana get it tuned

WISH US LUCK!!!

P.S. just a pic i like

 

looks like its coming along. What ems are you running the unichip? And who is tuning it?

 

yea it is..and drift office is doing the tuning...if i ever get it running right haha

 

just an update....we worked on the car a lil more lastnight...still cant get the clutch to work...we are thinking maybe the slave cylinder?? we dont have any idea...so im going to order a new clutch slave cylinder today and try that...if that doesent work then looks like i have no choice but to take it to Nissan and have them check it out...

but the good news is that i have oil pressure now!!!

that oil selonoid that was acting up was wired exactly how APS says to do it...BUT it still wasent working so we just ran the power to a switched power and then grounded it out..so now when i start the car, the oil selonoid opens up and everything works perfectly!

so all in all, the car IS running and seems to be running fine...but i just cant get it to move due to the clutch....

ill update ASAP

 

well we got the clutch to work...barely...haha..its enough to be able to drive tho...i just have to take my time between shifts...so i still have some fine tunning to do

but! THE CAR RUNS GREAT! its very smooth!..not like my STI, it was real jumpy and would put your stomach in your mouth...but wasent as fast as this...i like it alot!!

 

congrats! Deffinately gotta make it to one of the meets to check it out! Post a video!!

 

I'm also curious as to how you snapped the flywheel bolt

 

good luck on the build.

 

i was going off a DIY clutch install and it said to torq to 93 ftlbs.....and yea..that dident work out