Molesting the 7A-FTE..., NEW UPDATES |
Molesting the 7A-FTE..., NEW UPDATES |
Oct 10, 2009 - 12:17 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 30, '02 From San Juan, PR Currently Offline Reputation: 4 (100%) |
New update: Been working on an intake manifold for the last two days...just experimenting and stuff. I'm not sure if it's gonna work good or not, but whatever...I've been guinea-pigging for too long to even care about the wasted money so I'm going crazy and reckless with it, LOL.
It's cool how everything starts with a bare aluminum pipe. I'm installing ARP head studs tomorrow for extra safety and hopefully break-in the engine this week to take it to the dyno. A few pics, since I never provide visual stuff. The weapon. Bye-bye, EGR. Welding the pipe to the stock manifold. Not aiming for prettiness. My hands are too small for belonging to a male...I know. A teaser. When it's properly polished, it'll look awesome. We had to fabricate a piece to be able to secure the transmission cable to the throttle body. The engineering was tricky but we achieved it. More later. -------------------- |
Nov 6, 2009 - 1:32 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 30, '02 From San Juan, PR Currently Offline Reputation: 4 (100%) |
If it's your only car, don't boost it. You'll always end up breaking something. Anyway, my car is hurt. The temperature guauge wasn't working, and the radiator fan's positive cable unsoldered from inside, so the car overheated and it's messed up now. I was going to an appointment at the VA hospital and BOOM...coolant and steam everywhere. I left it in a parking lot and went to my appointment, then came back an hour later and called a tow truck. $100 to tow it back home. I think the head warped, because it won't even idle, and it misfires like crazy. I asked for it. Should've gotten the gauge working and a better fan. It was a cheap $35 fan from Pep Boys. Another lesson on why not to cheap out on a car.
Today I ordered Spool forged rods from Australia and tomorrow I'll talk to my tuner to see what we're going to do piston-wise in terms of compression, etc. I'll give CP a call to see what they can do for me. I dig their pistons. A guy from the local forums wants my e-Manage so I'll let it go for $250 with everything. -------------------- |
Nov 7, 2009 - 10:37 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Jun 18, '09 From Orlando Currently Offline Reputation: 8 (100%) |
If it's your only car, don't boost it. I wish you hadn't said that. -------------------- '97 ST \ Eibach \ KYB \ Kenwood \ Alpine \ Cusco \ OEM+ [sold 10/18]
'93 MX-5 LE |
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