Tom2741
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Hi all,
Been meaning to do this for the past few weeks but keep getting side tracked. I want to get a big 1st post written up before it becomes too big and I forgot more stuff than what I already have.
Ok so here goes.
In 2012 I was deployed over seas with work, I had all good intentions of buying a nice a6 or 5 series with my savings. However, I had a real hankering to try an Evo as a daily driver for a bit.
Whilst I was away I kept looking at various 8's, until 1 day a red tme came up for sale. Seeing the price it was at I promptly sent the mrs and father in law round to check it out. Everything checked out as genuine, mint and completely standard. Seen as pretty much the only Evo seming to be in high demand at the time so I wouldn't lose money on it I transferred the monies and the mrs picked it up.
A month later I came home and fell in love. The car was awesome to drive straight out of the box and felt much tighter and more planted than our 4.
I promptly got a track day booked and loved it even more.
This did throw up 1 immediate problem , in that the standard brembos were far from upto the task of anything other than fast road. Luckily at the same time Ryan! Was selling his k sports.
On the next track day these were a massive improvement. Now all the car needed was a tad more power and some suspension. The tein monofelx and edfc suspension was proptly stollen from out 4 and I decided to do something that I had just spent 7 months away with work reading about. Learning to geek map.
Firstly I installed an aem wideband and made some det cans. Almost as soon as I started I noticed the fueling couldn't get as rich as I wanted so thinking not a lot of it I got a walbro 225. All was well, I installed a 3 port and seemed to be making some good gains whilst remaining very safe with my map.
I then drove to jae and back and the problems started. Having some fun on the way home my cel light flashed. I immediately checked the wideband and noticed it was very lean. I then spent a month or 2 checking everything I could for obstructions, vac leaks, you name it I checked it (this included going back to standard.....but completely forgetting my standard pump had been struggling in the 1st place!!!!)
Finally I remembered and bought a brand new walbro from Rossport. Having fitted it I went out to do a log. Hallelujah!!!! It was rich as hell lol. I pulled over to put a proper map on it but as I pulled away again a built a bit of boost in 2nd....pop tap tap tap. I pulled over to see if it was something daft. I noticed straight away the vac that goes to the fuel pump solenoid had popped off but nothing else. Feeling sick and expecting the worst I limped the few 100m home.
I thought a bearing had gone to start with so checked them. They were fine. Top end was all in order. A few days later I decided to give it a compression test. It was down on cyl 2!!!! I then pulled the hear off expecting to find a valve damaged or cracked piston.....nope. So out came the pistons and I found this.
Spot the odd 1 out
This meant an engine rebuild. At first I was going to do a drop in, so I sent the head away to start with so I know that was all tip top and slimed etc.
This lasted about half hr of laying on my back getting the exhaust etc off I decided the engine would come out lol.
I then then stripped it all down to go away and be machined to 85.5 and decked if needed.
Here you can see where the bent rod was hitting the cyl wall!
Before I sent it away I thought I'd delete the balancer shafts. What a pita!!!
Whilst all this was going on, i had assembled quite a nice collection of parts from Rossport.
Hopefully I'll get the block back this week as the assembly will start.
Now the whole "race car" business will start in the next post as I think I've ran on enough in this 1!!!!!
Tom
Been meaning to do this for the past few weeks but keep getting side tracked. I want to get a big 1st post written up before it becomes too big and I forgot more stuff than what I already have.
Ok so here goes.
In 2012 I was deployed over seas with work, I had all good intentions of buying a nice a6 or 5 series with my savings. However, I had a real hankering to try an Evo as a daily driver for a bit.
Whilst I was away I kept looking at various 8's, until 1 day a red tme came up for sale. Seeing the price it was at I promptly sent the mrs and father in law round to check it out. Everything checked out as genuine, mint and completely standard. Seen as pretty much the only Evo seming to be in high demand at the time so I wouldn't lose money on it I transferred the monies and the mrs picked it up.
A month later I came home and fell in love. The car was awesome to drive straight out of the box and felt much tighter and more planted than our 4.
I promptly got a track day booked and loved it even more.
This did throw up 1 immediate problem , in that the standard brembos were far from upto the task of anything other than fast road. Luckily at the same time Ryan! Was selling his k sports.
On the next track day these were a massive improvement. Now all the car needed was a tad more power and some suspension. The tein monofelx and edfc suspension was proptly stollen from out 4 and I decided to do something that I had just spent 7 months away with work reading about. Learning to geek map.
Firstly I installed an aem wideband and made some det cans. Almost as soon as I started I noticed the fueling couldn't get as rich as I wanted so thinking not a lot of it I got a walbro 225. All was well, I installed a 3 port and seemed to be making some good gains whilst remaining very safe with my map.
I then drove to jae and back and the problems started. Having some fun on the way home my cel light flashed. I immediately checked the wideband and noticed it was very lean. I then spent a month or 2 checking everything I could for obstructions, vac leaks, you name it I checked it (this included going back to standard.....but completely forgetting my standard pump had been struggling in the 1st place!!!!)
Finally I remembered and bought a brand new walbro from Rossport. Having fitted it I went out to do a log. Hallelujah!!!! It was rich as hell lol. I pulled over to put a proper map on it but as I pulled away again a built a bit of boost in 2nd....pop tap tap tap. I pulled over to see if it was something daft. I noticed straight away the vac that goes to the fuel pump solenoid had popped off but nothing else. Feeling sick and expecting the worst I limped the few 100m home.
I thought a bearing had gone to start with so checked them. They were fine. Top end was all in order. A few days later I decided to give it a compression test. It was down on cyl 2!!!! I then pulled the hear off expecting to find a valve damaged or cracked piston.....nope. So out came the pistons and I found this.
Spot the odd 1 out
This meant an engine rebuild. At first I was going to do a drop in, so I sent the head away to start with so I know that was all tip top and slimed etc.
This lasted about half hr of laying on my back getting the exhaust etc off I decided the engine would come out lol.
I then then stripped it all down to go away and be machined to 85.5 and decked if needed.
Here you can see where the bent rod was hitting the cyl wall!
Before I sent it away I thought I'd delete the balancer shafts. What a pita!!!
Whilst all this was going on, i had assembled quite a nice collection of parts from Rossport.
Hopefully I'll get the block back this week as the assembly will start.
Now the whole "race car" business will start in the next post as I think I've ran on enough in this 1!!!!!
Tom
