Well I guess I can make the official announcement finally. As of 8:32 on Saturday, June 17, 2006 Project Orange Illusions is dead. Not officially sure what happened yet but I should know before the end of next week. The best guesses we have right now are 1) Snapped rod 2) Cracked piston 3) Spun the rod bearing. Got BIG plans for the car now. I only have one part in my hands so far, my new clutch, but as parts come in and progress is made I will continue to update this thread. Stay tuned for updates and other cool stuff.

Well now on to the pictures I've taken over the last two days....


This was the sign that something was wrong. Even my girlfriend knew when she saw them and she ain't a car person YET. This is the #3 cylinder.


#4 cylinder sparkplug.


Car on lift after 2 days of working to disconnect harnesses and other crap prepping for open heart surgery.


2.5 inch long ARP lug studs!


Motor coming out finally. We chose to pull it out the bottom after removing the subframe.


Motor sitting on the lift table.


Motor and transmission seperated.


Pressure plate and motor.


Flywheel contact side of the clutch disc. Still has life in it too.


Close-up of the contact surface. You can see signs of minor slippage but nothing amazingly unusual for a car running 300HP, 57000 miles and daily driven.


Pressure plate contact surface.


Flywheel contact surface.


First package of new parts. What could it be?


It's a SPEC Stage 3+ clutch with their lightweight option. Ordered the setup on WEDNESDAY and got it TODAY. Didn't even pay for faster shipping or anything. AMAZING SERVICE. The whole assembly weighs under 15lbs. Chose not to get their lightweight flywheel though because as you other turbo Eco guys know...first gear is hard enough to keep off the limiter with the stock flywheel. Don't need it going and kissing the limiter even faster.

So I've ordered over $2500 in parts in the last two days for Project Orange Illusions. Man the money goes out fast.
Parts include....Wiseco 8.9:1 compression .020 overbore pistons (Thanks Clayton), Eagle connecting rods (thanks Paco Loco), Innovate LM1 RPM kit and window mount, Level Zero Motorsports balance shaft delete kit, MSD DIS-2 Plus HO, MSD coils, MSD wires, Super 20G turbo from Hahn Racecraft, SPEC Stage 3+ clutch with their lightweight option (whole kit weighs about 15 pounds), Cometic .030 thickness headgasket, new exhaust gasket from SCE, Sparco Mugello steering wheel, Momo hub (thanks APlus!), 8 point rollcage from S&W Race Cars made from mild steel, and OF COURSE.....HP TUNERS!!! (Thanks Ron for convincing me LOL). I think that's the full list but if I remember anything else I bought I'll make sure and add it to this post.

Like I said I will have TONS of pictures and How-Tos as we go along with the rebuild.

One final picture of how the car is sitting right now.....

 

Sorry to hear that. Hope things get better & faster!

 

I'll be watching this thread!

 

yeah same here

 

Well instead of retyping the same post I just made on JBO I'll just link to that post....

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.ph...34421&t=234421

I'll keep updating that link every day if I can.

 

HP Tuners finally came oput with a turbo mod for our ecu?!?!? holy shnikes, I need to get their website.

 

Pay Attention It's A Cavy

 

oh snap, someone stole part of your ringlands

hope the rebuild goes smooth, you doing the cage yourself or having someone build for you?

 

You guys are in the dark ages. HP Tuners for the LSJ has been out for some time. There is a 12.86 sec cobalt with intake, exhaust, 60lbs injectors, 2.5" pulley, HP tuned.

If you get a turbo it's no problem. there are people who are going twin charged and doing pistons.

just thought you should know - HP tuners is 500 or 650 for the advanced version. you can tune three cars with that and buy more credits to tune others. you can email the tune between people to tune with and you can extract the GM stage 2 reflash from a car and use it as a base start point or copy to another car. It is a super tool.

 

they're not discussing the LSJ/2.0, he was referring to the 2.2 which does not have HP Tuners support at the moment, but will soon hopefully.

 

oh my bad,lol. Thought it was a Cobalt, I got too excited and jumped at the keyboard.

 

The cage is a 8 point mild steel system from S & W Race Cars. The main hoop is prewelded but we gotta do the rest.

 

so this is the car that was running 13psi on stock bottom end?

 

This is the car that was running 15PSI on a completely stock 2.2L Ecotec That includes the head, bottom end, trans, clutch, and axles.

 

*note to self not to do that

so how long was it running at unsafe amounts of boost before it went down? i've heard of guys running 10psi daily but never more than that.

 

The car surived over a year at 10PSI+. It made it this far into the year at 12PSI+ every track day....which at the start of the season was almost every weekend, as proven by going to this link http://www.ryne.com/schedule.htm. That's my schedule for the year....as you can see...I gotta get the car running again ASAP.

 

wow looks like a very busy schedule

do you think you could've kept goin on 12+psi with a better tune?

 

hope everything goes smoothly for you...looking forward to seeing that beast after you're done too.

 

I think it would've kept going if the damn ringlands weren't so weak. Don't know though. Past is done. Now we move to the future...and the 11s.

 

I got today's update posted. Take a look at page 2. Removed another 40 pounds or so today!