Operation Get Out of its Own Way

[draggin50]

^^^ WHOA!!! HOLD ON THERE!! You have a garage the size of three of my houses. I've seen the photos. There's no way you filled that thing already. NO WAY!

Haha my boy has took over the back half and has it full. I meant I was to busy or to lazy!!

[PKFIRE]

I always heard if you buy a bigger house you end up filling it up. I guess the same thing happens with a huge garage.

[draggin50]

That's the truth! 30x69 garage, 24x10 lean too, and 12x16 shed and its all full! I don't know how I got it to fit in a 24x30 garage and the shed before.

[PKFIRE]

I spent part of the day cleaning all the caked on grease on the intake. Glad that is over.

[PKFIRE]

I made some more progress last night. I hope to have it running this weekend.

[draggin50]

Moving along nice! Looks pretty good!

[PKFIRE]

Got the turbo and timing belt on today. I would like to get the rest done tomorrow but I'm not sure if I have time. It will be soon though.

[PKFIRE]

One more day of working on it I should be ready to start. I should have it running by the weekend.

[PKFIRE]

It's finally back together. I'll try starting it later this week.

[redfirepearlgt]

Looks good. Sure are a lot of hoses on that thing.

[PKFIRE]

Looks good. Sure are a lot of hoses on that thing.

I'm just glad I remembered where they all went. The biggest problem is making sure they don't pop off during boost.

[2Fast4You]

Looking good Joe!

[PKFIRE]

Thanks guys! I just hope it runs tomorrow.

[NXcoupe]

Looking great! I need to get mine running again. Maybe we can run em next year?

[PKFIRE]

That would be cool! I tried starting it over the weekend and I either have the timing off or the couple gallons of E85 sucked up too much moisture in the last 3 1/2 months. I'll check the timing again this week.

[PKFIRE]

Figures, there are different flex plates that have different sensor positioning. I think I got mine right. If not I'm going to have to pull the transmission to correct it. It's a 8 hole pattern and can be rotated in 8 different ways since the hole spacing is even and there is no only one way locating pin.

[PKFIRE]

Pulled the starter tonight and found out I did indeed mount the flex plate correctly. Apparently you can see the gap for the crank position sensor line up with the starter opening at TDC 1st cylinder. I'm so glad too since I didn't feel like pulling the transmission. I got a new coolant tube and crank sensor coming. I hope I can drive this thing soon.

[PKFIRE]

I finally got a new crank position sensor and coolant tube. I hope both fix my issues. My car was creating spark and causing all the injectors to fire during rotation while rotating the motor with a ratchet with the ignition on after I replaced the frayed crank sensor that still ohms well but possibly was grounding out somewhere. I'm really confused about timing of spark verses the location of the rotor on the distributor. I was also weirded out that all the injectors fire as a batch. That seems inefficient to me.

[PKFIRE]

It's alive!!!

[SN95N/A]

Nice!