Russianred
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
Good luck bro, get er done!
Good luck bro, get er done!
UPDATE!!! 3/17/12 x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
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x5carl3tMurd3rx
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
well no luck.
car at least idle's but fuel isn't quite right and its still leaking somewhere. I'm out of time to work on it so I'll be towing the car back to va. where it will most likely sit for a while till I can get a job and get back on my feet and have time to start tinkering with it.
so far this birthday is ****.....
well no luck.
car at least idle's but fuel isn't quite right and its still leaking somewhere. I'm out of time to work on it so I'll be towing the car back to va. where it will most likely sit for a while till I can get a job and get back on my feet and have time to start tinkering with it.
so far this birthday is ****.....
Russianred
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
Don't feel too down man, you're on top of the game. Just take it slow and fix it when you have time, don't rush it. You're almost there. Yeah, this whole past year sucked for me.. I can't believe it's already been almost 8 months since my Accord has been garaged. You will get yours finished in due time and it will be done right. We ain't goin anywhere, you ain't goin anywhere - take your time
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Don't feel too down man, you're on top of the game. Just take it slow and fix it when you have time, don't rush it. You're almost there. Yeah, this whole past year sucked for me.. I can't believe it's already been almost 8 months since my Accord has been garaged. You will get yours finished in due time and it will be done right. We ain't goin anywhere, you ain't goin anywhere - take your time
.x5carl3tMurd3rx
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
haha yeah I know I was really upset when I posted all that. drove the car yesterday. other then the small oil leak and a few other minor things the drove around pretty well under its own power. I'll be speaking with inline pro once I get moved back to va about finishing up the last little things that I can't figure out, then depending on their price to finish it and weather or not I get some sweet graduation gifts I may have them tune it. Otherwise my roomate and I will be street tuning it just get the fuel right and not worry about trying to throw any timing at it this way I can give it a long term boosted break in and when I can afford to I'll pick up a tial wastegate, scrap the internal gate on my turbo and have inline pro tune it all the boost level I built the motor for.
All in all I've learned so much doing this entire build that I'm happy with where I made it in the amount of time I had, and of course building a car during the PA winter in a storage unit with no heat and one light powered by a generator makes me feel pretty accomplished. I'll be sure to get a video up when I go pick up the car from the storage unit on sunday. sounds like a tractor with my hood exit exhaust haha.
I'll keep you guys updated as I make progress but for now....
to be continued........
haha yeah I know I was really upset when I posted all that. drove the car yesterday. other then the small oil leak and a few other minor things the drove around pretty well under its own power. I'll be speaking with inline pro once I get moved back to va about finishing up the last little things that I can't figure out, then depending on their price to finish it and weather or not I get some sweet graduation gifts I may have them tune it. Otherwise my roomate and I will be street tuning it just get the fuel right and not worry about trying to throw any timing at it this way I can give it a long term boosted break in and when I can afford to I'll pick up a tial wastegate, scrap the internal gate on my turbo and have inline pro tune it all the boost level I built the motor for.
All in all I've learned so much doing this entire build that I'm happy with where I made it in the amount of time I had, and of course building a car during the PA winter in a storage unit with no heat and one light powered by a generator makes me feel pretty accomplished. I'll be sure to get a video up when I go pick up the car from the storage unit on sunday. sounds like a tractor with my hood exit exhaust haha.
I'll keep you guys updated as I make progress but for now....
to be continued........
x5carl3tMurd3rx
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
hey where did you guys that are using the AEM FPR that bolts to the rail put your fuel pressure gauge? I used a custom fitting to mount it inline in the return line, but now that I think about it that makes since as to why I can't get a fuel pressure reading since it should be creating the pressure on the feed side of the regulator and not the return.
hey where did you guys that are using the AEM FPR that bolts to the rail put your fuel pressure gauge? I used a custom fitting to mount it inline in the return line, but now that I think about it that makes since as to why I can't get a fuel pressure reading since it should be creating the pressure on the feed side of the regulator and not the return.
Russianred
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
Hmm.. I ended up using a Megan Racing universal FPR with a gauge on it.. To put a gauge on, it would be best to use an AEM fuel rail, onto the end of which the gauge can be installed I guess you can use OEM fuel rail too, but you would need to make a precisely tapped hole for it to thread into. The closer the gauge is to the injectors, the more accurate your fuel pressure reading; this is where mine lacks since it is an inline FPR, not a fuel rail bolt on. The difference is miniscule though.
Hmm.. I ended up using a Megan Racing universal FPR with a gauge on it.. To put a gauge on, it would be best to use an AEM fuel rail, onto the end of which the gauge can be installed I guess you can use OEM fuel rail too, but you would need to make a precisely tapped hole for it to thread into. The closer the gauge is to the injectors, the more accurate your fuel pressure reading; this is where mine lacks since it is an inline FPR, not a fuel rail bolt on. The difference is miniscule though.
x5carl3tMurd3rx
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
thanks nikita!
thanks nikita!
x5carl3tMurd3rx
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
well I found my oil and coolant leaks.......its the headgasket after all like I was afraid of. Possibility that the head may be warped cause the block was checked for deck flatness and the head gasket was a new OEM gasket so the heads the only thing we didn't check.
For now the car will be parked and hopefully by next week I'll have the 240 running and tagged so I'll have that as a DD. Then depending on time and money constraints when I find a job I'll either finish the car or Paul (NVA-AV6 from v6p) will finish it for around a grand for parts and labor which maybe be better cause there were so many things that we had already done that were done wrong or could be done much better that he knew of just cause he has much experience with this engine then I do. Also he has lots of other small suggestions that would make the car perform a little better and would also be fabbing my downpipe and the rest of my charge piping for that price. so other then a tune it would be 100% done.
only time will tell with what I decide. Cause as easy as it would be to have paul finish it knowing everything would be done right by him I still don't want to just give up on the car. I went in to this build wanting to come out of it being able to tell everyone that 100% every thing done to the car was done by me personally.......
what do you guys think?
well I found my oil and coolant leaks.......its the headgasket after all like I was afraid of. Possibility that the head may be warped cause the block was checked for deck flatness and the head gasket was a new OEM gasket so the heads the only thing we didn't check.
For now the car will be parked and hopefully by next week I'll have the 240 running and tagged so I'll have that as a DD. Then depending on time and money constraints when I find a job I'll either finish the car or Paul (NVA-AV6 from v6p) will finish it for around a grand for parts and labor which maybe be better cause there were so many things that we had already done that were done wrong or could be done much better that he knew of just cause he has much experience with this engine then I do. Also he has lots of other small suggestions that would make the car perform a little better and would also be fabbing my downpipe and the rest of my charge piping for that price. so other then a tune it would be 100% done.
only time will tell with what I decide. Cause as easy as it would be to have paul finish it knowing everything would be done right by him I still don't want to just give up on the car. I went in to this build wanting to come out of it being able to tell everyone that 100% every thing done to the car was done by me personally.......
what do you guys think?
Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
patrick do you think you have the ability to finish the project yourself? i mean i think that either way you will be happy to be boosting. nothing wrong with having some help, you already have done it yourself you can still say that you built it yourself, then had it rebuilt by the other guy lol
patrick do you think you have the ability to finish the project yourself? i mean i think that either way you will be happy to be boosting. nothing wrong with having some help, you already have done it yourself you can still say that you built it yourself, then had it rebuilt by the other guy lol
x5carl3tMurd3rx
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Re: UPDATE!!! [3-21-11] x5carl3tmurd3rx's Turbo build
I feel confident that I can do it but he also knows lots of things that were done wrong already simple little things that I over looked that make some big problems. Plus with me graduating and having to get a full time job I won't have the time to work on the car. Both ways i feel it could be done and done properly but having him do it will most likely make it happen sooner. Like you said though I already built it and it started on the second crank so I'm pretty proud of my work thus far, its just stupid little mistakes like not checking to make sure the head is flat that come with the fact that other then school I have no experience working on cars other then what I've done to the accord before school.
My engine was the first engine i've ever torn apart and the first I've ever built, and it ran.
I can live with that. I mean even if it didn't turn out quit how I planned I've learned so much doing it.
I feel confident that I can do it but he also knows lots of things that were done wrong already simple little things that I over looked that make some big problems. Plus with me graduating and having to get a full time job I won't have the time to work on the car. Both ways i feel it could be done and done properly but having him do it will most likely make it happen sooner. Like you said though I already built it and it started on the second crank so I'm pretty proud of my work thus far, its just stupid little mistakes like not checking to make sure the head is flat that come with the fact that other then school I have no experience working on cars other then what I've done to the accord before school.
My engine was the first engine i've ever torn apart and the first I've ever built, and it ran.
I can live with that. I mean even if it didn't turn out quit how I planned I've learned so much doing it.
