My 3sgte swap thread, The diary begins TODAY! Options

[brianforster]

well, shes all tarped up and ready for inclement weather (stupid rain) i go back to school early tomorrow morning, so this concludes my auto extravaganza. you all were right, 9 days wasnt enough! but one more weekend should do it (well, maybe not be ready to daily drive, but shell be able to make it to my driveway and look like a car again! haha.

im hoping to convince dan to come down next weekend and help me, 1 or 2 more full days of having someone who knows more than i do should get this baby ready.

if anyone else wants to come down to southern maryland, you know, all you big pimpin swappers, let me know, id greatly appreciate it

[snapshotgt]

Cool pics...what are your plans for exterior clean-up etc...? Are you going to have it painted/new wheels?

great pics.

~snap

[brianforster]

hopefully gonna go with an earl scheibs paint job, based on pics ive seen (jfrost9 had his painted there) i think it would be a decent paint job for a non show vehicle.

hopefully gonna get some gt rims soon too, its all in the works, long term plans are bigger wheels though, but need more $$$$

[lagos]

dont forget to paypal 5bucks to me an tweak...and i get to keep my car...woot... hahaha

all kidding aside, you got a lot of work done in a short time. its very good for somone who never worked on a car before. few more weeks and youll be good to go. congrads.

[playr158]

LOOKs good

shouldn't be too much longer

[brianforster]

that mean you can come down 1 or 2 days next weekend dan? help me finish it up! but ill talk to you more on aim

[brianforster]

where did you guys mount your injector resistor pack?
ignitor?

does anyone have a coolant hose diagram for the 3sgte? (my friend told me to ask)

dan i also need to know how you wnated to route the intercooler, you had me buy these bends and we couldnt really figure it out. i know you wanted to run straight pipe over the manifold, but the tubular design would not give me enough clearance to close the hood.

[lagos]

the ignitor and coil mount to your fire wall

i mounted my resistor pack to a bracket that was on the front of the tranny, seemed like a perfect place for it

there are only really 4 coolant hoses that you should worry about. on the front of the motor you have to upper and lower radiator hoses. those are easy to spot. then you have 2 hoses from the back that go to your heater core on the firewall. besides that, there are 2 that go to the throttle body, and thats about it.

for you intercooler setup... you probably want to run something similar to BBoys setup, since u have that manifold on there and a stock hood.

[brianforster]

there seemed to be a lot more around the throttle body area, a couple my friends couldnt place. and the lines in/around the turbo are a little messy too, ill have to get pics of that for you all, im not sure what all is sposed to go down with the vacuum lines and pcv lines around the wastegate.

[lagos]

not all of them are for coolant. the rest are vac, pcv and fuel. take lots of detailed pics and we can tell you were it all goes.

[brianforster]

SHE CRANKS.

we didnt let her fire up because of radiator hose compatibility issues, chucky and dan both left and should be posting pics/vids soon, but next time i go to autozone it should be ready to be fired up!

then its just putting stuff back together

[playr158]

THIS MADA FUGA RUNNSSS I JUST HEARD IT START

[brianforster]

it wont idle though lagos is helping me fix the problem, says its a leak between the throttle body and the intake

[bojangles_8686]

OK got a few vids here, she sounds a bit rough but like forster said she will be fixed soon!

Startup 1
Startup 2
Startup 3

[lagos]

ummm brian, why didnt you tell me you guys had vids?

[BBoYRuGGeD]

aright aright she starts sweeeeeeet congrats on the startup man! now straighten everything up and get it road worthy!

bboy

[brianforster]

i totally forgot about them art

[bojangles_8686]

ummm brian, why didnt you tell me you guys had vids?

We also didnt have the transfer cable to put them on his computer so we couldnt send them to anybody

This post has been edited by bojangles_8686: Apr 2, 2006 - 10:30 AM

[snapshotgt]

Sweet! ...i never knew a 3sgte sounded that deep

~snap

[brianforster]

SHE IDLES! it was something so small and stupid that i dont even want to admit it..


the nipple on the back of the intake manifold was not capped, i had never seen it untill today

capping that off made it idle.. it idles high at 1800-2000 rpms, but there are plenty of threads about high idle at my fingertips so i will spend the night searching as usual