I’ll be fixing them shortly… but for now sit tight! (Update June 16: All pics should be working again now!)
Here is a pic of Daniels EVO8 in the mean time, just finished cleaning up the dyno tune from late last year with some street tuning. What a beast!
A quick vid of my buddy pulling the car into the shop, gives a good idea of what the exhaust setup sounds like
Welp…. tuning got put off… after the entire issue of the fan destroying everything around it and having a hell of a time trying to bleed the system, yesterday I pulled out the WP (brand new Bosch) on after the motor wanted to constantly over heat and lack of coolant flow…. I figure something happened to it when the manual fan destroyed itself and shocked it or something.
so in the mean time I put on my wheels… 255/35′s in the back 
Got a pic a few hours ago from the shop.. an awesome friend of mine stopped by and he and the shop owner decided to swap in the new parts for me… only thing left to do is connect my SPAL fan and finish bleeding the system again.
Big thanks to Gary Gray (MadTech) and Robbie @ RS Autosports
Well with all good things come some bad things…
Yesterday a good buddy of mine helped me get my exhaust system finished.. really happy with the way it turned out and more happy how it sounds… sounds really really good and aggressive which is what I was going for… yet a clean sound.
Today I finished up all the misc VAC lines to the WG/boost controller and lines to the VAC block and BOV.
Bled the cooling system (that was a PITA because everything was bone dry)… and took the car for it’s maiden voyage around the complex a few times.. All felt well and I needed gas so I put in the old headlights and just as I was pulling out of the complex I hear a bunch of noise from the front end.. looking back I was loosing coolant and the motor was vibrating like crazy. Pulled over popped the hood and found that the overflow hose was wrapped around the fan blade, multiple blades were missing and the brand new rad had major dents in the a few spots…
No idea what caused this. My guess is that the overflow hose that runs between the top of the rad and the fan shroud drooped down or something… the fan caught it and the rest is history.
Kinda bummed about it since the car was running/driving so well… tomorrow the new fan and expansion tank is going to be at the shop…
Anywho moving forward has been a little slow… I’ve been very busy with other things recently, and had few things that set me back on my car so.
First I finished off the SS hard line that will supply the boost reference to the boost controller/WG:
Then when I was ready to prime the motor with fluids and load a config on the ECU I connected the power wires incorrectly @ the front distribution block… that ended up in a blown fusible link (didn’t remember how to properly connect the front distribution block 
):
I replaced it with a replaceable car audio fuse (also 80A)…
Then when it came time to start the car, everything seemed to be working except for spark. Going over everything I couldn’t find anything else wrong.
So I contact VEMS and after some testing and back and forth it seems like the ECU had a short somewhere in the voltage supply line from a regulator to the ignition chip. I asked that they send out one asap as a replacement, sure enough 2 days later I had my replacement ECU.
And then happiness ensued!
So pretty large update I’m going to try to condense here from the past few days…
First of all went and did some shopping…
Then had a really good buddy of mine come by the shop and do the piping for me…
took them out to clean and wrap..
Modified the fuel rail to have two -6 AN fittings on either end, and gave it a fresh coat of paint…
Fitted the fuel lines…
Rail installed for a test fit..
Return
Feed
Regulator
ID1000′s installed…
Temporary fuel pressure gauge installed so I can set the base pressure (going to go electric, but don’t have the gauge yet)…
Modified the AC line so it will clear the IC
General overview of where I’m at.. piping installed, fueling done, wiring cleaned up.
Tranny is in! Along with all new UUC mounts, SS clutch line for the slave, new Guibo, rebuilt shifter, etc…
I bent the A/C line straighter so that it had enough length to attach to the compressors new location.
Re-wrapped the ugly mild steel DP lol
And mounted the DP and connected the wastegate! And boy was that wastegate a bitch to connect… that’s why you’re supposed to put flexes in the WG dump. But ti’s all on and looks pretty nice installed if I say so myself :redspot
And to finish off the night I connected the ground strap to the motor
Hoping today that we can start of my IC piping now that I will have all the couplers, etc which should pretty much be the end of the fabrication and allow to wrap up the small things like fuel system (lines), oil drain, WBO2 wiring, and FP wiring.
The end is near!
Got the IC mounted yesterday…
Some veldings…
Fitted:
Also did the fuel pump install… I had gotten a whole “thing” from Bob but didn’t like it at all… it was not something I could put in my tank and feel good about so I took the Walbro 255 out of his basket and threw that away and took apart my stock pump basket and modified it until I was happy.
Soldered on the wiring from the Walbro to the stock pins/connector on the basket:
Using a die grinder I removed all the ridges in the original pump holder and made it larger:
Pump with some rubber coolant hose around it to make it snug in the holder:
Pump in the holder:
Back together again:
Just waiting on some Vibrant silicon couplers to continue with the IC and then it’s just minimal things to get this car up and running!
so pushing forward… spent some time cleaning up the tranny, rebuilding the shifter linkage with new parts to get rid of the slop from 228k km on the car..
new parts!
shifter assembly taken apart and cleaned:
old worn out parts:
back together again with new parts!
and filled the tranny with some fresh Motul 300 fluid to finish it off..
time to get to work on prepping the intake manifold to be permanently mounted to the motor in the car.
First task was getting the IAC from the OBD2 mani to be mounted on the OBD1 mani… first attempt:
the above IAC position didn’t work out, it was hitting the AN fitting for turbo cooling on the side of the head (originally the TB coolant port) so had to change it up by making a bracket to center the IAC under the manifold. My buddy Robbie from RS Autosports (the shop where I’m using the hoist and doing this build) quickly welded up something that worked out perfectly!
OBD2 TB on the OBD1 manifold:
Old O2 sensor harness reused for the MAP sensor connection:
Intake mani complete:
Wiring under the manifold all cleaned up and properly routed:
Intake installed and driver side wiring cleaned up and connected:
VEMS ECU in it’s new home:
Plugged in the ECU and test fit the cover…
Wiring from the VEMS to the inside of the car for serial com port, and misc inputs for PID boost control changes and flat shift/2-step limiter, etc.
Through firewall into the ECU box behind the airbag:
10-ping connector for easy access and modifications:
Inside harness w/ COM port finished. The aux inputs will be hooked up at a later time…
What’s next?
Tranny needs to go back in, finish wideband O2 wiring to the VEMS, connect EGT, and main power wires to distribution block in engine bay. Figure out how much -6 hose and what fitting I require to finish the fueling system and get the front end on to mount the cooler and fabricate the IC piping.
I can almost hear the car starting
