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10-12-2011
10-12-2011
What a Bitch! I ended up pulling the HX and Radiator last night. Today Ill continue by pulling the water pump and inserting the new cam. People keep telling me I have to take the rockers off and pull the valves up? Anything tricky I have to do to get the cam to slide out and in other than careful insertion? I saw a video online about using two sticks. This is the tricky part so I could use some help.
10-13-2011
Got it. Does anyone use the stick technique (as shown in the video link from W4M 8:20) to keep the lifters from falling back down? On another note. I got a spot reserved for my car to be displayed at the London Motor Museum this Sunday. There was a vote thing going on. I didnt get the most votes but the organizer has seen my car in person and wants it to be displayed anyways. After that, were going to cruise down to the ACE CAFE for a cars and coffee meet. Here was a link to the voting. Excuse the the ricer cars....the British youths love their F&F drift theme.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set...5204206&type=3
10-15-2011
Wow...its not an easy job Ill tell ya. Got done about 5 hours ago installing my upgrades. Hard part about it is that the car is untuned and I cant test its abilities until I do so 
. No tuner in a 150 mile radius that can do my car in the next week so that sucks too. I had a scare when I finished putting the balancer on it was wobbling and making noises. I took everything out and tightened the shit out of all the screws around it. Problem fixed! The car stalls when cold if your not careful and is a little jerky but once warm, its basically like stock. IDK if its the fact that i havent driven it in forever but the exhaust seems MUCH throatier and louder. Car takes about 5 seconds to start everytime as well. Im not sure whats causing that but I hope its minor or in the tune. The "gear heads" showed up again and pissed me off this time. They were adamant about the fact that im using the wrong cam sprocket. I just told them to F off and let me work on the damn car before betting 2 cases of cider the car turns on. Sure enough, it did!
Got it...im on the feather foot right now. Looking forward to getting it tuned.
Correct i switched back to the stockers
10-17-2011
Would you pay a grand for a dyno tune? Thats what I was quoted here. American tuners are rare and hard to find but damn. He also asked if I changed my MAP sensor. I told him I have a MAF but he said if I go past 14.7 PSI the ECU will trip pull the boost. Im running a 2.85 upper and 9.55 lower.
OK got it. Since 14.7 is one bar, at 14.7psi (two bar) because of atmospheric pressure I'll hit the two bar limit. Not sure if with my pulley setup Ill hit that. I know I was boosting 12.4 before I added the 2.85 upper.