Greddy's build thread!! Better late than never!

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car threw a rod through the block, towed it 3 hours home, motor is out and new one is on the way, will swap my high compression upgraded head over and call it good.

8-17-2012

12-5-2012

Its going well install starts Monday

12-13-2012

ok, car is mainly together, only thing left is injector wiring, ecu install, running the knock sensor, installing a fuel pump and making an oil cooler bracket. Most of that is on hold since I'm waiting for a package from underated that includes my injector clips, resistor box, and ecu in it. Looks pretty OEM to me which was what I was going for.

12-14-2012

I know it sounds weird but this is how they are mounted on stock evo intakes, the blow of valve is by a hose that leads from the IC pipe and then recirculates into the intake pipe, it's the same concept just the bov actually dumps directly into the intake :)

12-17-2012

^yeah, what's wrong with that lol?

Everything, and I mean everything is done other than the injector resistor box wiring and the evo ecu install however I'm waiting on those parts to show up from underrated in vegas, hoping they are here in time to get the car tuned by English Racing on the 28th. In the meantime I'm gonna copy the tow hook design that XD-01 so kindly shared with us and find a nice bronze TOW sticker to place above it.  

12-18-2012

So just to confirm for those who are curious, stock evo downpipe works perfectly if you use the stock evo pan, not cutting or trimming necessary, I retained the stock evo heatshields too so it all looks very OEM once again. Made a test pipe today with the help of a friend, it's exactly 15 and a quarter inches from flange to flange and connects the evo downpipe to the galant catback. I do have a question though, for those of you who are catless or have run catless, is it worth getting the rear O2 sensor spacer (which I have but have not installed) if the car is going to be tuned on the evo ecu to be able to "force pass" emissions?

1-9-2013

car runs and drives on the stock evo 8 ecu, just ran around town for a bit no issues, no leaks, no overheating, only problems are the following: tach signal fluctuates, speedo does not work, and fuel pump relay doesnt flip on by itself so I've jumped it to always be on when the car is running. I blame the boomslang harness for that although I ordered it thursday and got it tuesday so I really can't complain, they had incredible turn around time which helped me out since I got screwed on my other one, car is going to english racing on friday for a much needed tune, currently just running wastegate pressure of 10psi but feels quite nice they will also help me figure out the little bugaboos with the car but overall I'm pleased, car is very quiet now with the turbo, all you can hear is the spool and the little hiss of the diverter valve, I love it. 

don't worry, all the wiring is tucked and wrapped up very neatly now, that was the first successful startup on the evo ecu.

1-10-2013

tach and speedo fixed :) Can't decide if I wanna leave the pre facelift vr4 grill in place or not, I kinda like it