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Feel free and hopefully in about a month mine will be fully functional with the turbo setup. I know what you mean im trying to take advantage of the time i have now because in may i will be out of school and working full time. Hopefully you can finish yours up soon.
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Originally Posted by thegreatdane
oh very purty :D
can you mail me a spare set of keys to your car, just incase you lose your main set
Sure....Just send me a large sum of money and i will think about it.....
I think its sad how much i went without for this damn car. I dont buy clothes that often nor sneakers. Fortunately she is almost there so maybe i can get some savings back in the bank (Yeah right).
Well today my tuner came back out and at first we had problems with the JDM B20A distributor so i was able to get a B18A teg dizzy quickly to fix the problem. So the tuning began and then we hit the street with me following in my other car in case. Car was running great worked out a few bugs on the street then hit the highway. They did about 30 miles or more and at the end it started sounding bad. After we got back to the shop it seems like we spun a bearing :sad2: :sad2: . But this is been my luck from the get go. The car seemed fast as hell at 15psi as he blew by me and it sounds pretty sweet.
So my good news seems to bring more bad news but im gonna try to resolve this fast and hopefully get to drive it in the next few weeks. And the bearing is being skeptical but the AEM has very nice data logging with the knock sensor and all the other sensors and we can see where/when it happened so hopefully its not to major.
And i want to thank Steve (88Lxi68) big time for coming on short notice with a friend that had a shit load of distributors and helped us out. I was in a big jam and had to get help fast nevermind being a sunday with not many places open.
wow rob sounds like one problem after another... yikes. Did that machine shop of yours check the clearances and what bearings did they use? Good to hear that you got it running and boosted though finally. It should be fast as hell man
They were supposed to check it all but im skeptical of what they did since this was the 2nd block and they did it very fast. I used ACL B20A5 bearings which should not have been a problem. If it is the bearings then im kinda stumped because i broke them in and it seemed fine n/a. But on the other hand it went from n/a to hard boost but i will find out when i tear it apart.
I guess i have bad luck but im not throwing in the towel yet perhaps if i didnt see her on the road i probably would have more negative feelings but the sound of it spooling up was crazy and the blow off valve was loud considering i heard it driving 70mph next to it on the highway........Nice run on sentence....LOL
ahh man i feel so bad for you rob... your doing everything right and you still run into problems.... its only a matter of time before its perfect and your ripping around in that monster... it will be worth it in the end ... i hope you luck turns around with that thing
the bearings that were bad in my motor we acl bearings too ! hmmm
I had the video camera with me when I came back. I thought Jason was BSing me when he said he spun a bearing.
I wish you stayed to see what i did but hopefully i can get it taken care of fast and i definately have the motivation. On a good note the tune is done so i dont have to wait for my tuner to come back as things didnt look so good earlier this afternoon when my distributor crapped out.
Anyone else have input on bearings? Im considering going with some honda bearings this time around but im not sure how that will work out being a B20A crank and the color coding
I'll have to check what I have for bearings, but I dont think they are anything special.
That's too bad about the bearing Rob. But good to hear you had it running the way you want it! Just a bit more to go til it's all done (sort of).
damn good luck with it rob, hope you get it up and running soon man.
Thanks guys, Sometimes it just gets to you but when you try to do something that has not really been done you run into a lot of hang ups which i can say i have. In a way i can laugh about it cause its just been my luck and possibly all because of the shady machine shop. But all i can do is move on and hope for the best but im thankful it tuned because not having my tuner close by sucks but he certainly was worth the time and money invested.
Hopefully next time will be only good news! So you guys can learn from my mistakes and feel free to ask questions i try to be good about getting back to people. I dont hide anything and figure if someone can save time and money from my mistakes by all means take advantage of it.
Im using honda bearings. Its no biggy. Just let them now the thickness and theyll tell you the color at the dealership. I get a little discount if you want to use it but youd have to pay for shipping anyway. When I called last to checkon prices for the wifeys b20a which is comming around nicely, They said it was like 95 for the set of rings on all 4 cylinders and like 90-105 on all lower bearings. Its like 7 a half or whatever. oh I forget maybe it was 105 total for rings and bearings. Ill call if you want. If you check hondrcarparts.com its like 20-30% off those
What a weekend, Sorry to hear the news, Sounds like your getting close though.
I wish I would have known I would have driven up to see everything in action.
Keep the positive attitude, We do learn from our mistakes.
Mad Props to you my friend. :rockon:
Sorry to hear Rob. I know you've tried really hard to get this thing going and it just seems like everything that can go wrong does. I keep having problems too and I just want to give up cause it's one thing after another and the money is tight so I can't actually fix anything. I know you'll bounce back from this setback just like all the others. Hopefully it's running for the next meet, I want to go for a ride.
Yeah I will come back from it and im grateful the car was in action so I could see it. Phil I didnt really want to make a scene since last time was a disapointment and this time was almost the same with the distributor issue. Im dreading tearing it down again but i can do it in a day although im going to probably have to go to the machine shop and order the bearings.
At least you had it on the road and got to see it action. I feel your pain. Hopefully you'll be all set by the next CT meet, and this time my car will be up and running so we don't have to bring the Olds.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobT5580
damn rob, i dont know what to say but be hopeful and optimistic for you. Even thru all these hurdles, yo keep going and new issues tracked down. I am very sorry for all the bumps you have to go thru, but hopefully they will all be panned out in the near future. Good luck bro.
I cant say i never expected problems but i definately have been discouraged from thinking i was doing it the right way. I have certainly learned a lot and hopefully this can be resolved easily and i can move forward. Sometimes i think i should have done a cheaper setup but there is no turning back now.
You approached it the right way Rob. I would have not done it any other way either. But since the B20A is something no one has ever seen or experienced before. Mike Lee was in your shoes and he gave up for reasons i cannot try and reason with. He pioneered the B20 lineage by bringing it back but it was an uncharted territory, so i guess for you going the same route with the same route, is a hard task none-the-less. i can only wish it was easier and or to say less troublesome. But i guess its expected and the reward is much greater than all this trouble and im sure of it.
damn dude no fun but i have been there where everything you do seems to go bad some how. Just got to keep at it and think about all the V8's you will be able to spank. Go with Honda bearings this time and a different shop ;)
