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Right now, the engine is in the car and the car is in the driveway at home!! Im excited about that as it has been 30miles away in a shop stored since november. I need a few little parts here and there to get this thing going.
I will get pictures up tomorrow of my progress.
I got the IC mounted with the piping into the engine bay. One of the P&P heads needs to be taken to a machine shop to have a valve guide replaced. Once that is done, I can re install the valves and put the heads on the car.
I had the Ypipe built already, but i misjudged the position of the turbo. So I had to extend it a bit. I did part of that today, but im bad at fabbing the correct turns for the pipe, for some reason I cannot picture it. My gf can actually figure that part out better than me
. She basically designed the IC piping. 
Once I get the Ypipe finished, which should be tomorrow, I will install the radiator and some other parts and start on the down pipe. The head will be going into the machine shop tomorrow, so hopefully I can get it back by friday. Once that is all done, I need to buy the piping for the wastegate and rig that sucker up, do the piping to the intake manifold and start the car!!!
Now that the car is home it will be easier to take pictures and show my progress. I also polished the valves on the heads ill take pictures too, they look really good.
I have one question, my pistons are horribly dirty. They were this way when I pulled the original heads off, what would be a good way to clean them up and get some of that shit out of there?
I will get pictures up tomorrow of my progress.
I got the IC mounted with the piping into the engine bay. One of the P&P heads needs to be taken to a machine shop to have a valve guide replaced. Once that is done, I can re install the valves and put the heads on the car.
I had the Ypipe built already, but i misjudged the position of the turbo. So I had to extend it a bit. I did part of that today, but im bad at fabbing the correct turns for the pipe, for some reason I cannot picture it. My gf can actually figure that part out better than me
. She basically designed the IC piping. Once I get the Ypipe finished, which should be tomorrow, I will install the radiator and some other parts and start on the down pipe. The head will be going into the machine shop tomorrow, so hopefully I can get it back by friday. Once that is all done, I need to buy the piping for the wastegate and rig that sucker up, do the piping to the intake manifold and start the car!!!
Now that the car is home it will be easier to take pictures and show my progress. I also polished the valves on the heads ill take pictures too, they look really good.
I have one question, my pistons are horribly dirty. They were this way when I pulled the original heads off, what would be a good way to clean them up and get some of that shit out of there?
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