Turbo 3g lude

[phattzy]

just bought some BLING for the lude . got x2 tow hooks delivered to my door for $25 brand new , cant complain with that as at the moment its near impossible for any type of towing with the height and front bar . couldnt find any cheap orange hooks , and have plan on mounting these as i'll need to make acouple of extention brakets . no biggy tho .

[phattzy]

well i flew home this morning from night shift and still havent had a sleep since 3pm yesterday arvo , to many exciting things happening . well looks like i will def be down in brissy in 2 and abit weeks time as i got a heap of work done today and im hoping to have the gearbox done by lunch time tomorrow and maybe the engine/gearbox back in the lude late tomorrow arvo . i now have all my parts i need and bosch 044 pump is installed and plumbed in to the surge tank and all lines are connected but the main feed line has failed so i'll be replacing it tomorrow .

[phattzy]

im now officially LSD equipped !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WATAJK]

Very very impressive, keep it up mate,
been following this since day 1

[phattzy]

yeah !!!!!!!!! im back in the game , started first try again this morning after a retime and change of battery . have slight tuning issues as the wideband is alot further away from the turbine then before , but the LSD is AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wish i got it done years ago and the more i drive it the better (worse) the clutch gets which is a good thing for when we turn up the boost . limiters are set to 3500-3600 rpm and work great .

[Jccck]

I'm a bit sus on that Tow Hook.
Is it rated? Is it a good brand?
And i've seen the 'no name eBay' ones bend before, they are not to be trusted.

Also that strikes me as a very odd way to run in a high performance Motor, and you shouldn't require limiters.. Get the thing on the dyno straight away and avoid all the hassle of run-in.

[Jasemas]

You gotta seat in those piston rings

[phattzy]

sorry fella's , been abit slack in reply'n . i spun a big end last wed and its dead again , im going all out this time as i have a spare block thats going into the engine builder for a over bore from 81mm to 83.5mm , new 83.5mm weisco pistons with a static CR of 8.0:1 , CP ring kit and eagle h-beam rods . should take me to just under 2.2ltrs and a brand new crank / oil pump / water pump and new rod and main bearings (ACL race series) new cometic 84mm 5 layer 0.050" MLS head gasket to top everything off . its a pain this has happened but im better to get this done and pay the engine builder to assemble and get all my bearing clearence's perfect and to honda's specs so i get no more fails . just waiting to hear back from the bank tomorrow if there going to lend me another $4500 . we'll see what happens i guess ? i should be all good and back on the road by christmas tho .

[Jasemas]

Sorry i didnt get much of that
How'd you blow your motor?

[phattzy]

unsure as i havnt pulled it down yet but im thinking a big end bearing has spun , and i have a funny feeling that the oil pump had failed to provide enough oil for the rod bearing and spun it . i have just gave the cross member a slight grind so the dump pipe flange had clearence and gave a few small rev's to 3000rpm on the driveway and it just locked up and stopped instantly at 3000rpm , i then unlocked it with my breaker bar and dropped the oil and there is slight fines in the oil so im guessing its a big end . no biggy mate as i'll pay a engine builder to assemble the bottom end and line bore the main's if needed and get all the bearings to the right clearence's that honda recommend in there workshop manual . will be pulling the engine back out next week and pulling down to see what has failed .

[Jasemas]

Didnt you do the oil pump and bottom end when you did the car?
Did you rev it to 3000rpm when it was cold? with boost?

[phattzy]

na the oil and water pumps were never changed , the engine was at operating temp (83°) . should here back from the bank tomorrow and then i can start organising the rebuild of the new bottom end , should have the engine out and pulled down by this weekend and find out where it failed .