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Offline upatnight

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rebuild time
« on: December 16, 2010, 04:19:45 PM »
my motor is going under the knife in the next few weeks. hopefully I'll have good news to report about my experience.

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 11:06:46 PM »
What's wrong with it?  Good luck with the repair...
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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2010, 10:51:58 AM »
Hope you have a garage!  Good luck, and take pics!

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 08:06:34 AM »
keep us notified as to what you find out good or bad.  I hope all good.
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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2011, 06:22:51 PM »
sorry i haven't been keeping up on my posts, school is killing me! so i just had both of my motors pulled apart and and was surprised at what i found. the first motor was the motor i was running; it was built by atkins with 3mm seals, and was beat to death by the looks of things. horizontal and vertical groves creating a nice plad pattern made the housings paper weights. the 3mm seals were chipped but the rotors are okay for re-use. the irons look good as well, but if they are? where did the coolant leak come from. motor number two was a jdm swap that came with the car and was belived to have a "stuck seal". the seal was blown and half of it was missing. the irons are a bit more worn then motor 1 but good. i have one good rotor, one housing, and 2 sets of irons. my flywheel was cracked in 3 places so i need to add that to my list of parts. i will be selling some of my nicer upgraded parts to help fund my build. i have a koyo rad for $200 and an apexi front mount with old school style hks ic piping for $500. i will be posting them here first for my local bro's and will work with anyone intrested. people can call me at 248 640 0193     

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2011, 08:15:35 AM »
good luck. how old is the rad mine just started leaking

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2011, 12:47:54 PM »
I'm not sure how old the rad is. its in good condition. i ran it for about 1000 miles.

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2011, 07:49:06 PM »
okay my motors is ported and I'm just waiting for the housings to come back from the machine shop to reassemble. lots of new parts going into this build. I'm most likely going with a garret to4e 60 w/1.0 a/r I'm hoping for high 300's on pump gas. i will also be upgrading to a microtech Lt10 so all my go-fast parts and power adders it replaces will be up for sale soon. i was thinking of doing a vmount setup but I'm not sold the idea. I'll post some pics when i have new turbo in and dyno chart after tuning. so at the rate I'm going the car should be ready by the time we run out of oil.   

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2011, 01:58:19 PM »
motors done and and I'm prepping the car for paint and some upgrades. I'll post progress pic's as soon as i figure out how to get the lens cap off the camera.

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2011, 09:18:25 AM »
3mm is high drag and more weight :( unless you go ceramic :)

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2011, 05:16:49 PM »
call nrs for 3mm ceramics. ;)

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Re: rebuild time
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2011, 06:02:27 AM »
Sounds like it is a little too late, his engine is built.
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