Yeah, I am terrible at keeping this thread up to date. The engine is in and running, still gaining compression. as of today has 600miles and I finally took it to redline a few times.
Here is the trashed rear rotor housing. the irons were all good.
Trashed Rear rotor. Sadly this was a "B" rotor.
Put the ported engine together that I had purchased and dropped it in the car early October. Fired it up and was not satisfied. I'm just not ready to deal with a ported motor yet. So I pulled it back out and tore it down and assembled with the non ported irons. And since it was too cold and snowy to do anything I decided to paint it all silly.
Waited until I had some good weather to start and leak check so it sat assembled until mid Feb when I dropped it in and then it froze again. So I waited for some nicer days as I wanted to run it with just water first to flush out the coolant system of any crud and assembly goo.
Fired right up off the key and was rattling and banging (I forgot to engage the clutch pull thingy) so I shut it off and popped it together and then it would not restart as all the assembly lube was now in the muffler.
A buddy came over and we pull started it behind his truck and let it run in for a good hour and smoked out the neighborhood and then shut it down and leak checked.
All seems to be good. it left a few little oil spots early on. On my driveway and on Eric's street, but it must have just been left over from what leaked out of the oil coolers and onto the chassis as it no longer is making puddles.
Still smokes pretty good on startup and cranks a little longer then I like when starting hot but it seems to be getting better as it goes. Some of the smoke could be from leaky turbos as well. I have some oil in all of my intake tubes.
Current project for it is getting this AEM Water/Methanol kit installed. The tank is really bugging me. It doesn't fit anywhere. Best option is to remove the spare and drive without it, but I don't feel great about that either.
