yeah t-stat is a bitch, mine went and I just left it for a year or so until I changed motors. was easier

 

temp issue is fixed, guess it was just that air pocket... drove about 1/2 tank of gas and it doens't change more than 10 degrees or so between a run and normal cruising yay

 

jim, find me an lnf turbo mani for 50 bucks and ill buy it, you got a deal sir

 

haha that was just the shipping, i paid 800 for the turbo and manifold

 

oh haha

 

bit since the last update.... machinist is shaving the crank, he was going to contact darton this week and see how far we can bore the sleeves out. right now we're looking at doing an .080 over or 2mm... but may go to a 2.5mm if there will be enough room for another .020 over in case something fails and we have to rebore it.

88mm should take it to 2.09L and 88.5mm should take it to around 2.11L

we're not doing it expecting some major power increase from the volume, but for better flow from moving the cylinder walls away from the valves.

 

Where'd you get that theory? That sounds interesting.

Any other info on that you mind sharing?

 

something about the cylinder wall restricting flow between the valve and seat and also the atomized fuel consolidating into bigger droplets on the wall as it's blown through... he was explaining stuff to me in technical terms way over my head, but i did catch that much of it lol

 

Theory, it has been known that un-shrouding the valves will increase head flow.

 

I know what de-shrouding is. For some reason, I didn't put 2+2 together to figure out that bigger bore means you can deshroud the valves more.

Thanks for the lesson today guys!

 

no prob

 

finally got around to ordering some more parts today, removing the garrett cast elbow (major choke point) and replacing it with an adapter and 3" vband into the downpipe. the cast elbow chokes down the exhaust as bad as the lsj stock manifold does... it's crazy small. anyways, just ordered one of these and supporting hardware





next on the list is to get an LK9 intake and remove the stock system.

 

hopefully you don't have issues with the rear trans mount. with that vband adapter being so far out it might be difficult to make a downpipe

 

i love seeing a build thread where the guy actually has the parts not just a few screws a turbo and a want list a mile long

 

this one actually sticks out less than the stock elbow, add in the downpipe and flanges, it may stick out just a hair more, and for sure he is going to have to move the flexpipe down, this guy builds 8 second turbo cars in his sleep from stock to track ready, so i have absolutely no question, whatever the case, he'll make it work somewhow

here's what the cast elbow looks like (on this one we are going to move the o2 sensor away from the bend

 

i gave up on all the want lists... right now the new engine has just been on hold at the machinist, but now that zzp has released the cheaper rods, we are going to move forward with it and get everything done... hopefully by spring, but not sure. most of my money has been going to vacations this year and i'm about to spend another $4000 on one just this month lol

fun times get preference over the car any day of the week hehe