rallyst165
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Ok I decided too jump on the bandwagon and start a project thread. A little history first.
I bought the car in 2003 from some scumbag used car lot. It had 170k and the engine was really tired and leaking oil everywhere. I drove it off the lot with smoke pouring out of the hood, but I didn't care I was in love. I was putting in about a quart a day. I replaced a bunch of stuff, turbo and oil lines, valve cover gasket, cam and crank seals, oil cooler o rings, blah blah blah. I had the oil leak down too about a quart an week. better, but still not good. It eventually spun a rod bearing.
I then swapped in a 185 motor. It was great, almost like a whole new car. It had a 2.5" exhaust (no mufflers or stock gutted cat), intake and a
mbc set at 15psi, act stage one clutch and an hks flywheel. I did some rallycross in it and it was really competitive with rally tires, I finished top 3 at all the races I made it too. I did a few autocrosses as well, which it didn't go too well with the stock suspension. I went too the drags once and ran a 14.1 at like 97mph. Anyway I had lot's of fun with the car, but eventually got bored. I started messing with a jdm 185 ecu and more boost, with toluene in the tank, and detonated it. Thats was in '06.
Heres a few pics of the car when it ran.
I recently Picked up another 185 motor of some guy on craigslist. It was a pretty good deal. $600 for a complete motor, transmission, uncut harness, ecu, front axles and a 185 radiator and fans. I got it too my shop and start ed messing around with it. I checked the timing belt which looked new as well as the water pump, then I tried too turn it over and it was seized up. Not that big of a deal, it had supposedly been sitting for about 2 years. I filled the cylinders with deep creep and let it sit for a while. It freed up eventually. I figured it might need rings, but I decided too just see what it did.
So I take my car down too my work.
Clean and paint the engine bay
Mount the intercooler
Put my st205 transmission on it with a competition clutch stage 4 unsprung and My HKS fly wheel.
Get the motor in the car
Mock up the intercooler piping.
I get everything buttoned up and go too try and fire the car, it turns over twice and then stops. I then try and turn the motor over and it's seized again. So it comes back out of the car and I tear it down too find this...
Apparently it hydro locked, I'm not sure when though, I don't think the started could exert enough force too do that, I guess it's possible though. About a week after that I had the car sitting out side of the shop and a usf reddway driver backed into it when he was delivering a 2jzgte for my buddies IS300.
Heres a couple pics of the IS, we just got the motor in a couple days ago.
But back too my car. Heres the damage.
I got a decent check out of them too cover it, so it wasn't too bad and I have a parts car. So thats kinda were I'm at now. More on my plans later.
I bought the car in 2003 from some scumbag used car lot. It had 170k and the engine was really tired and leaking oil everywhere. I drove it off the lot with smoke pouring out of the hood, but I didn't care I was in love. I was putting in about a quart a day. I replaced a bunch of stuff, turbo and oil lines, valve cover gasket, cam and crank seals, oil cooler o rings, blah blah blah. I had the oil leak down too about a quart an week. better, but still not good. It eventually spun a rod bearing.
I then swapped in a 185 motor. It was great, almost like a whole new car. It had a 2.5" exhaust (no mufflers or stock gutted cat), intake and a
mbc set at 15psi, act stage one clutch and an hks flywheel. I did some rallycross in it and it was really competitive with rally tires, I finished top 3 at all the races I made it too. I did a few autocrosses as well, which it didn't go too well with the stock suspension. I went too the drags once and ran a 14.1 at like 97mph. Anyway I had lot's of fun with the car, but eventually got bored. I started messing with a jdm 185 ecu and more boost, with toluene in the tank, and detonated it. Thats was in '06.
Heres a few pics of the car when it ran.
I recently Picked up another 185 motor of some guy on craigslist. It was a pretty good deal. $600 for a complete motor, transmission, uncut harness, ecu, front axles and a 185 radiator and fans. I got it too my shop and start ed messing around with it. I checked the timing belt which looked new as well as the water pump, then I tried too turn it over and it was seized up. Not that big of a deal, it had supposedly been sitting for about 2 years. I filled the cylinders with deep creep and let it sit for a while. It freed up eventually. I figured it might need rings, but I decided too just see what it did.
So I take my car down too my work.
Clean and paint the engine bay
Mount the intercooler
Put my st205 transmission on it with a competition clutch stage 4 unsprung and My HKS fly wheel.
Get the motor in the car
Mock up the intercooler piping.
I get everything buttoned up and go too try and fire the car, it turns over twice and then stops. I then try and turn the motor over and it's seized again. So it comes back out of the car and I tear it down too find this...
Apparently it hydro locked, I'm not sure when though, I don't think the started could exert enough force too do that, I guess it's possible though. About a week after that I had the car sitting out side of the shop and a usf reddway driver backed into it when he was delivering a 2jzgte for my buddies IS300.
Heres a couple pics of the IS, we just got the motor in a couple days ago.
But back too my car. Heres the damage.
I got a decent check out of them too cover it, so it wasn't too bad and I have a parts car. So thats kinda were I'm at now. More on my plans later.
