Can you paint the intake to turbo and intercooler to engine piping the same purple? I feel like that would really tie it all together nice. maybe someone can photoshop it. Also the purple tubing looks better if you cut off the ends of the zip ties:bigok:

 

Looks good Telion. Just a tip for those digital cameras... Back light with something bright enough and leave the flash off (they always wash everything out) the colors will come out better!

 

Looking very MEAN engine like it and as longest the purple looks good in person is fine, well done Telion.

 

Thanks lol, I have purple zip ties but I also have a feeling that minor adjustments will be made so I don't want to use them. Sorry reboticon and deathred I won't be painting the intake or anything else purple I have achieved a satisfying level of purple balance at this point and it will be staying on for the dynos and vids

 

I'm not feeling the tubing. The valve covers look really good though. Plus, those little holes are going to have purple too.

 

anodize the fuel rails purple!

Anodizing at Home - WARPIG

 

More than 1000 posts in one thread... amazing!

 

this thread is a Legendary inspiration this should be a sticky

 

This thread is us coming together as a family and building my car

 

Yes more than 1000 this is really good! Keep it going till it's complition.

 

You do the same

 

Not sure how or why I overlooked this until now but I figured I would share.

 

Where does it get its air from? On type1 its just got two coolant hoses and holes on the otherside for each part of the plenum?

 

If you look really close at the diagram it gets air from the breather valve and routes it according ly with a plunger that is hot coolant activated that comes from the drivers side head. Lol I actually already had it blocked off because I never switched where it connects to the head over from my TI head. What I am going to do though is leave that part that it connects to on the TII head so I can use that as a T-off line for the drivers side turbo coolant line. I already T'd off the passenger side.

For those that may not know here is a pic of what I am referring to
Rear water outlet that is circled in red

 

Your turbos have coolant running through them? I didn't know that was possible, I thought they were just cooled by oil.

 

Yeah alot of turbos are both water (coolant) and oil cooled. I won't be hooking up the coolant side for a while though.

 

i was gonna ask you about that...

I figured i was jumping the gun...it's not even complete yet, but i was noticing you only ran Oil Lines and no coolant lines...

 

Well about an hour ago while making the final preparations to fire it for the first time I encountered a defining moment one that will certainly prolong the time before my car will be done for who knows how long now.

I always hand turn the crank before firing it up after a in depth build in case there is or was something I had missed and while doing so it locked. I never pulled the timing belt off this time so it is very possible that whatever happened to the tranny was a result of something that happened first to the engine. I am not sure if I am going to tear it down and rebuild as is or go ahead and hold out till I can get the heads and TII manifold redone. I do know though that she will be down for quite some time. I will finish the build though so there is less work to do once I put it back together and here I thought tonight was going to be the night that I would get to fire it up for the first time in 6 months. Well I am going to bed.

 

Well about an hour ago while making the final preparations to fire it for the first time I encountered a defining moment one that will certainly prolong the time before my car will be done for who knows how long now.

I always hand turn the crank before firing it up after a in depth build in case there is or was something I had missed and while doing so it locked. I never pulled the timing belt off this time so it is very possible that whatever happened to the tranny was a result of something that happened first to the engine. I am not sure if I am going to tear it down and rebuild as is or go ahead and hold out till I can get the heads and TII manifold redone. I do know though that she will be down for quite some time. I will finish the build though so there is less work to do once I put it back together and here I thought tonight was going to be the night that I would get to fire it up for the first time in 6 months. Well I am going to bed.

Did you make sure the trannys output shaft is connected to the diff carrier all the way?

 

damn to bad, good luck

 

Damn, that sucks.

 

:grumble: Uh-oh.

 

I had thought that I had but you did give me an idea I am going to disengage it and see if I can free turn the crank as part of the trouble shooting before tearing it down. Keep the ideas coming so far I am going to

remove the intake manifold and plugs to see if there is anything dropped into one of the piston chambers,

check to see if something is locking up my alternator

disengage the tranny from the diff

then attempt to verify timing is still on (doing that last because there is no reason for it not to be.

Anything else reasonable that people come up with I am going to take a couple days off this weekend incase a teardown and rebuild is in order.

 

I must have missed it?whats wrong/not doing? Just not firing?

 

Crank locks as if timing is off and a piston is hitting a valve.

Ok I pulled everything off the face side of the engine and I can only get 2/3's rotation so I can't get enough of a turn to line up the timing marks but they were on before and I was so pleased with it so I don't want to remove the belt and before I remember something similar happening and it was not timing does anyone remember?

I did take the valve covers off to switch and paint them so though the likelihood is rare it is possible that something is preventing the cam from rotating I will check that before timing.

 

Ok I verified the timing by marking it off removing it lining it back up and putting the belt back on and it was spot on. In this process I also hand turned the passenger side cam gear and it is locking up at a certain point so the problem is definitely on the passenger side head. But just in case I also disengaged the drive shaft on the tranny to be sure and all yielded the same result, which is everything locking at exactly a half rotation of the cam gear (noticed this off my taped on markings going from TDC to locking at BDC)

Looks like the heads will be coming off sooner than I thought.

Anybody know a good Cosmetic head gasket thickness to decrease compression while I am at it?

I removed the the valve cover

 

Gawd damn monkey nuts!!! Can't believe it locked up!!! I hope nothing broke when trying to start it (knock on wood).