Past few Days.. Good/Bad
 

Well it started off good.. Past week I've been getting my car setup for the new cage. Its a Kirk Racing 6pt Road Racing Cage (thanks jim) its "bolt in & weld in" So I got most of it all ready and my buddy lionel welded it in for me.

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/cage1.jpg

Huge X brace in the back

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/cage2.jpg

Still got some more work with the cage, I need to finish up the door bars, Install some gussets and paint the entire thing. I'm thinking a dark grey, gunmetal will look pretty good. I dont want it to stand out to much. (I already got pulled over and a cop was like WTF is this ----) It really stiffened the hell out of the car, So I'm pleased with that. Plan is to put all the interior back in too. Plus I gotta fill my sunroof hole with something, thinking a piece of tinted lexan will be good.

Now onto the bad... >:( Last night we had a Draglab meet, BBKA showed up so I wanted to race him =) first race I smoked them pretty good in first and completely missed 2nd twice, lol.. But I still beat him pretty good ;) I come back around and noticed a little smoke, and was just about to line up and race my buddy in a TT 300zx. But I knew it was smoking a tad bit more than it should heh. Plus It had that good ol "Subaru sound" hahah, so now not only am I running subaru turbos my car sounds like one now! So its pretty obvious the engine is missing so I split.

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/broke1.jpg

Driving home I kept thinking to myself... "God damnit if I broke a sleeve I'm gonna be pissed" Did a quick compresson test 185/115/185/190. So I put a little oil in the cylinder and it jumped up, so I figured it was going to be ring lands. Ripped the engine apart (had to anyways since the thing had a blown head gasket since day 1) And yes.. broken ring lands on cylinder #2. I pulled all the other pistons to check and they were fine. So I started to think about it, these pistons came from my first ls/vtec turbo that I blew up and cracked the sleeve. Which sleeve? #2, and this was the piston from that sleeve that cracked. So maybe this piston was a little weak, because I've never broken ring lands on 8psi. Plus my ignition timing was a little on the "jeff frank timing madness" side.

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/broke2.jpg

I think I need to get dave down here to help me tune this thing because I just get all ------- timing happy.

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/broke3.jpg

Easy fix or not? now I'm thinking again.. ---- I dont have any LS pistons laying around. How about using the B16a pistons in this thing! ya... same bore.. should be fine, Wait a sec...... How high is my compression going to be? (double checks on cspeed) 11.3 hmm, holy ---- (ass puckers)
This should be interesting, a High compresson ls/vtec twin turbo setup!! yaya, I'm down for a challenge. Looks like I will be installing my 950cc injectors at the same time too.

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/broke4.jpg

So this gives me a bit of time to go over my turbo setup a bit closer, the thing was slapped together so fast it needed some attention, I used no gaskets between the turbo and manifold and was leaking, so I got some of those, and I couldnt stand how the manifold changed to a gold color, so I polished it up a bit, hopefully it wont change back to gold again. God.. I'm sick of the gold, fixing the valve cover too.

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/broke5.jpg

Closer look at the Downpipes

http://www.nw1320.com/hmt/broke6.jpg

Ya, still no exhaust hooked up, just open DP. This also gives me time to put the o2 bungs in.

http://nw1320.com/hmt/leia1.jpg

My very kind girlfriend Princess (leia) :-* is letting me drive her backup car while all this ---- is going on. Because the "Orange Crush" 76civic project has been put on the back burner.

This is also going to be some damn good competition for me too.

http://nw1320.com/hmt/leia2.jpg

The EK Built H22 Has begun

http://nw1320.com/hmt/leia3.jpg

Endyn Roller Wave Pistons (FI) on Eagle H Beam Rods.

http://nw1320.com/hmt/leia4.jpg

Sleeved with Darton Sleeves by Action Machine.

Should be quite the setup when done, I just cant have my girl faster than me! ;)

Jeff

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Well, fucken shitballs. That cage is one bad mofo. Hows the weight on that? It looks sick as hell.
Yet again it seems like you have way too much ---- going on at once, but just like Jeff Frank to always know what he's gonna do next. 8)

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Hot Dam! Thats one sexy set of pistons/rods !!!

#2? how freakin wierd is that, wtf?
I have nightmares about pinging and Subaru sounds....prolly why I could never own one.

A friends LS is running 10.8ish:1 on 8-10psi variable w/ TE2.0. So far so good.

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With the sunroof removed the weight offset should be about a gain of 35lbs, not to bad.


---- lord, I need your help, I got 5 days off and I should get this thing back together by Mon or Tue and if I head up to bellingham I need to get this thing dialed in, theres a RL meet coming up and I need this thing to be somewhat tuned good. I'll tie my hands up behind my back as you edit my spark map ;)

Jeff

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Put a O2 bung on your DP before you put it back in. Then we can give it some WB love when your up here. :)

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Yeah, I had a shitty launch against you Jeff and I am blaming that on the fact that I couldn't hear ---- over your open downpipe. I didn't know what the hell was going on next to me, but it sure was ------- loud lol.

I think I spun through 1st gear and maybe had some wheel hop in there too. Once I hit second I actually started to pull ahead a little bit and I was like oh ---- yeah! Shifted into third gear and I think I was still ahead for a little bit and then you went flying by me. I kinda just watched the smoke show for the rest of the race. I had to follow your tail lights because I couldn't see ---- through all that smoke lol. ;)

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You never stop the progress ..... nice Roll Cage....so Sexy. ;D
Damnn Build H22....

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looking good man

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damn Jeff its just one thing after another. the roll cage looks sweet. so whats the deal with the H22? what size turbo is goin on that bad boy, whats the setup gona be?
your always amazing me.
your my hero ;D

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nice cage man, nicer than those ring land's anyways :P. princess' car is going to be nasty too, it might be faster and look better, what will you do then? ;)