!!5sfte!!, the second coming! Options

[6strngs]

yep, you heard me. I'm coming back to the 5sfte community. Doing things a little different this time around, here's what I can remember so far that I'm doing differently:

Genuine HKS BOV, the new 2007 design
Got my injectors cleaned and flow tested at witchhunter. They were is poor condition before and are great now!
Going with a SAFCII instead of a neo. I got it for about $75 cheaper, and it measures knock. I was gonna get a greddy emanage ultimate, but I don't have a laptop to tune it with and it just looked too complicated for me to figure out how to tune it by myself, so maybe I'll upgrade later.
Got a custom stailness braided oil feed and drain line kit made specifically for my 5sfte. I just gotta weld a fitting onto my oil pan but I'm having a hard time finding someone willing to do it.
I'm fixing my radiator fan which was broken before. the motor fell out of the blade cause it was hooked up wrong
I'm using a regular sized radiator instead of the koyo, for a little more engine bay room
I'm relocating the battery to the trunk
and I'm cutting my IC piping down a lot for a cleaner install, might even paint them like LewFX

that's all I can think of right now, pictures to come. hope to be running by the end of the week after 6 months of down time!

[OOBE]

Yeah, it's hard, but it's not hard to check the o-ring BEFORE installing the injectors. It's not hard to pull everything apart and give it a through look to make sure it's good to go. You're making too many easily-avoidable mistakes, and i['s costing you money. I'm just trying to understand why didn't you inspect EVERYTHING (meaning each single component that's part of the engine or related) before even starting up the car. I'm not trying to flame. I'm just trying to get you, because I don't.

[6strngs]

Yeah, it's hard, but it's not hard to check the o-ring BEFORE installing the injectors. It's not hard to pull everything apart and give it a through look to make sure it's good to go. You're making too many easily-avoidable mistakes, and i['s costing you money. I'm just trying to understand why didn't you inspect EVERYTHING (meaning each single component that's part of the engine or related) before even starting up the car. I'm not trying to flame. I'm just trying to get you, because I don't.

I did check out all the O-rings and gaskets before installing them. I checked over everything multiple times to be sure I wasn't forgetting anything, I spent a lot of time preparing things so they would be done right the first time. I made sure all bolts were tight, I made sure all electrical connectors were secure and connected correctly.

This is what I'm atalking about. Some of you kids get pissed when I reply to your posts. If you're going to post such non-sense, you need to have the thick skin to take what others have to say instead of getting pissy and smart-ass about it.

"I'm fixing my radiator fan which was broken before. the motor fell out of the blade cause it was hooked up wrong"
How did that happen?

the screws that hold the motor into the shroud were not screwed through the shroud into the motor, just through the motor and thus were not doing anything. the motor was held in place only by the one nut on the other side of the fan blade. And it worked for a long while. It was not broken when I installed my koyo radiator, and was broken before I removed it. Eventually the blade just broke in the center and the motor was not secured by anything. the motor did not actually fall out. I noticed the blade was loose, and was able to pull the motor out without any effort. This is not my fault but the previous owner's/the mechanic of the previous owner for not installing it correctly.

"btw, I got my oil pan back and the drain line did turn out to be about an inch too short"
What's so hard about taking a piece of string and measuring the distance between the two components? I mean, it worked with helicopters I worked on when I was in the Army.

yeah, I did measure it. but did not account for exactly where on the oil pan the bung needed to placed so that it would not interfere with the baffles. therfore the hung needed to be moved over an inch from where I had originally planned to position it, thus making the line too short to reach it.

"I put some heat wrap stuff around my oil cooler lines to keep them from melting again!"
Rubber lines for an oil cooler? Plus, the lines are supposed to be as far from a heat source as possible, so the cooler can effectively do, you know, what it's supposed to do.

uh... yeah... that's what they came with stock! I never touched them, one metled simply because of it's close vicinity to the downpipe. I didn't re-route them or replace metal lines with rubber ones...

"I tee'd off from the throttle body coolant lines."
Aren't those coolant lines supposed to run hot coolant to warm up the throttle body during cold weather? What are you doing feeding hot coolant to your turbo?

hey guess what, that's what everybody else on the forum does. I even asked about how they should be routed and got my information from presure2. so perhaps you should be criticising him too along with everyone else on this website who has a 5sfte.

I'll be back with some more.