Evan Purple240zt Posted June 2, 2001 Share Posted June 2, 2001 My motor is almost finished. God, its been cold here but I had no clue hell had frozen over! My motor will be running by next weekend, the machine shop is finishing up balancing, and drilling my pulley for the SDS. The welders are making my external wastegate happen, and I am finishing working under the car (driveshaft and few hose clamps). Looks as If theres finally a light at the end of the tunnel. Anyone have any initial startup tips? My only prep so far has been to pressurize the fuel system to very high levels to check for leaks, after many hours of screwing around, its tight as a drum. Im glad I got that crap outta the way. The block is in the car, and everything has been mocked up and fits like a glove. The only thing not finished is my alternator mount (s10 alternator, i had a spare lying around). I will finish that after initial startup. HAHA, oh yeah, gotta put the windsheld back in also. I have a full array of gauges, so monitioring vital signs will be cake. Hopefully, it will go off without a hitch. Anyways, any other suggestions for my turbo motor would be apreciated. Prime oil pump or something? Lemme know! Evan PS.. scottie whats the deal with our downpipes? If you havent gotten any fitment results back yet for the T5, give me some measurements to work with and destroy the check I sent!! thanks dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimZ Posted June 2, 2001 Share Posted June 2, 2001 Sounds like you are getting close. Here's a suggestion - while you are priming the engine before it's first startup, disconnect the oil line at the turbo, and make sure that it's actually getting oil. Also, if you are using AN-style fittings, make absolutely sure that everything has been tightened. It's hard to tell with these fittings visually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Purple240zt Posted June 2, 2001 Author Share Posted June 2, 2001 Very good point on the oil to the turbo idea. Im sure its fine, because my oil pressure gauge is hooked to the junction block. Ill check it anyways. The only An fittings that are on my car right now are in the fuel system. I may drop some more change and do an AN oiling line to the turbo and into the oil pan before im done though. I had the wastegate pipe welded in and im thinking its too close to the return line (IE, right in the way) so nows a good time to swap over to an AN bulkhead fitting and lines. Cant be too careful with turbos i suppose. Thanks- evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottie-GNZ Posted June 2, 2001 Share Posted June 2, 2001 Evan, I will return your letter unopened. The DP for the T-5 was made and the guy was in town and picked it up but I have not heard back from him to see if it fits. If you are doing an external wastegate, none of my measurements matter anymore. However, I am not sure exactly what you are doing. This last ordeal with the DPs was too damn painful and I am not sure I want to bother with them. Drop me an email and let me know what you are doing exactly and how I can help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted June 2, 2001 Share Posted June 2, 2001 Hey bud, glad to hear you are getting there. Sounds like you might beat me. Just wondering how you hooked up your oil pressure gauge to the junction box, since thats where I had planned to put mine. My gauges of course are UNF thread while the block is about the same size of metric. Did you simply run a tap in there, and not worry about it, or figure out something better? Let me know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Purple240zt Posted June 3, 2001 Author Share Posted June 3, 2001 Scottie, no harm no foul buddy. I understand that doing stuff like that for people can be a royal PITA to deal with. As far as the wasetgate, its incoporated into the stock exhaust manifold by welding some schedule 40 pipe in. I may run a seperate exhaust out the side for the wastegate. Dont know at this point. I am having a 1/2 inch flange made for me by a local shop. Either that, or call turbonetics. You happen to know the price on a mild steel flange by chance?? Drax, actually i found out that the fitting in the junction block was a standard compression fitting thread. So I basically took off the compression part of the fitting and used it as a nipple and then theaded on a short junction piece to adapt the male threads of the autometer compressoin fitting to the junction block. If it doesnt make sense ill try to get ya a picture. It looks kinda halfass so it may get redone in the future.. but for now its cool by me Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Purple240zt Posted June 3, 2001 Author Share Posted June 3, 2001 DUH.. brainfart. I just threaded it into the hole where the stock sender with the aforementioned adapters. That might help clear things up Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted June 3, 2001 Share Posted June 3, 2001 I think I may need a picture. Maybe its just too late at night. Thanks though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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